Vijayaprasuna Kodisharapu

Senior Infrastructure & Automation Engineering Leader with 20 years of experience designing, automating, securing, and operating enterprise infrastructure across mission-critical environments. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Linux and Windows server engineering, cloud and virtualization platforms, automation strategy, and operational excellence. Proven success leading global engineering teams, delivering large-scale infrastructure modernization initiatives, improving operational SLAs from 20% to 100%, and establishing enterprise automation frameworks that reduce deployment times, improve compliance, and enhance platform reliability.

Adept at collaborating with engineering, product, security, and operations teams to build scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions.

Lead – Infrastructure Automation at Wells Fargo (2023-01 – Present)

Lead enterprise-wide infrastructure automation initiatives supporting large-scale banking platforms and mission-critical services.

• Architected and implemented enterprise automation solutions using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).
• Successfully migrated automation services from Ansible Tower to Red Hat AAP with minimal operational disruption.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning, patching, upgrades, compliance validation, and operational workflows.
• Led and developed a global automation engineering team of 14 engineers.
• Established coding standards, automation governance, and enterprise documentation practices.
• Improved deployment consistency, operational efficiency, and infrastructure reliability through automation.
• Partnered with engineering and operations teams to drive DevOps adoption and automation best practices.
• Developed reusable automation frameworks that accelerated infrastructure delivery across multiple environments.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Server Provisioning at Wells Fargo (2015-01 – 2023-12)

Managed large-scale server provisioning and lifecycle management operations across Windows and Linux environments.

• Delivered automated VM provisioning, OS deployment, filesystem configuration, and server onboarding.
• Transformed manual infrastructure provisioning into fully automated Ansible-driven workflows.
• Led a team of 5 infrastructure engineers supporting enterprise provisioning operations.
• Improved SLA performance from 20% to 100% through process optimization and automation.
• Implemented operational controls that improved reliability, quality, and service delivery.
• Provided support for patching, upgrades, compliance initiatives, and production platform maintenance.
• Collaborated with application teams to ensure seamless infrastructure delivery and deployment readiness.
• Participated in major incident response and root cause investigations for critical systems.

Technology Specialist at Wells Fargo (2010-01 – 2015-12)

Provided infrastructure support for enterprise Windows and Linux server environments.

• Managed patching, upgrades, troubleshooting, and production support activities.
• Coordinated major incident management efforts for critical infrastructure services.
• Supported server security remediation and compliance initiatives.
• Monitored platform health and performance using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Authored operational documentation, procedures, and support runbooks.

Associate Engineer at Genpact (2006-01 – 2010-12)

Supported enterprise infrastructure operations, maintenance, and backup administration.

• Increased backup success rates from 10% to 100% through process improvements and proactive monitoring.
• Performed server maintenance, patching, troubleshooting, and incident management activities.
• Supported infrastructure reliability initiatives and operational excellence programs.
• Assisted in disaster recovery preparedness and system availability improvements.