Manoj Saddanapu

About

Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Built Python ETL pipelines for high-volume Kafka streaming telemetry into S3 and Cosmos DB
• Reduced transformation/serialization bottlenecks using batching + asyncio and Avro (~30% throughput improvement)
• Optimized real-time delivery and transformations to cut latency by 35%
• Implemented real-time Kafka-to-API pipeline (FastAPI consumers + WebSockets) reducing latency to under 2 seconds
• Kubernetes production deployment experience across EKS and AKS with Helm, HPA, probes, and zero-downtime rolling updates
• CI/CD and GitOps implementation with Jenkins/GitLab and ArgoCD, reducing deployment time from days to hours
• Planned/executed on-prem to cloud migration for financial microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS DMS; achieved ~30% infra cost reduction
• Designed solutions for exactly-once processing and out-of-order events using offsets and timestamp windowing
• Established observability with Prometheus/Grafana and ELK for metrics, alerting, and centralized logging