Sandeep Madamanchi - Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

A practical guide to SRE and achieving Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Sandeep Madamanchi

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To my wonderful daughter Adwita. As I see you grow every day, you motivate me to learn and inspire me to be a better person. Thank You!!

Sandeep Madamanchi works at a company called Variant that re-engineers trucking through technology, acting as the Head of Cloud Infrastructure and Data Engineering. He is a continuous learner, focused on building highly resilient, secure, and self-healing cloud infrastructure. He advocates SRE and its practices to achieve reliability and operational stability. His vision is to provide infrastructure as a service to core engineering, analytics, and ML specialized teams through DevOps, DataOps, and MLOps practices.

Prior to Variant, he was Director of R&D at Manhattan Associates; a leader in supply chain software and worked there for over 14 years. He holds certifications across AWS and GCP; which includes the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification.

I want to thank my family, friends, and mentors. A big shout out to the Packt team (Neil, Nihar, Rahul, Riyan) led by Vijin Boricha for their professionalism, and to the technical reviewers for their constructive feedback. A big "thank you" to my best friend Mridula, who kickstarted my cloud journey. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents (both of whom are educators) and to my grandparents for their support during my learning phase.

Richard Rose has worked in IT for over 20 years and holds many industry certifications. He is the author of Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud. As someone who works with the cloud every day, Rich is a strong proponent of cloud certifications. For him, gaining expertise in an area is not the end of the journey. It is the start of realizing your potential.

In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing the guitar. Recently, he has updated his blog to include his development-side projects and general computing tips.

I would like to acknowledge the time, support, and energy of Dawn, Bailey, Elliot, Noah, and Amelia. Without your assistance, it would be impossible to achieve the possible.

Vaibhav Chopra has extensive experience in the fields of DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infra, and NFV. He currently works as a senior engineering manager for Orange, and prior to that, he worked with Ericsson, Amdocs, and Netcracker over a period of 11 years.

He is an open source enthusiast and is passionate about the latest technologies, as well as being a multi-cloud expert and a seasoned blogger.

LFN has awarded him for his contribution in open source projects and he has participated as a trainer and speaker at multiple conferences. In his current role, he drives the team in relation to various CNCF projects, largely revolving around container security, resiliency, and benchmarking, to build a production-grade hybrid cloud (GCP Anthos and Openstack) solution.

I would like to thank 3 ladies, my mother Anu, my wife, Swati, my daughter, Saanvika, who have supported me to contribute extra time towards this and to my friends, who continuously motivate and inspire me to learn new things.

Bruno S. Brasil is a cloud engineer who has always used Linux and then started working in on-premises environments, participating in the modernization and migration to cloud solutions. After working with several cloud providers, he chose Google Cloud as his focus of expertise. Since then, he has worked on projects of this type as a consultant and engineer, for several types of businesses, ranging from digital banks and marketplaces to start-ups. He has always focused on implementing best practices in the development of infrastructure as code, disseminating the DevOps culture and implementing SRE strategies. He is enthusiastic about the open source community and believes that this is the most important path in terms of the growth of new professionals.

I would like to thank my family and friends who have always supported me since I chose to follow the path of technology. It was difficult to begin with, but the fact that I am here today is because of the support I have received from them. I would also like to thank the open source community, everyone who shares their experiences, solutions, and time, for organizing events of all kinds. This is essential to making knowledge accessible and democratic.