o9 Solutions Inc

Shankara Krishna Teja Arra is an accomplished DevOps, Cloud, and AI Enthusiast Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, automating, and managing large-scale, hybrid cloud infrastructures. With deep expertise across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack, he has led complex transformations in enterprise environments, consistently delivering high availability, resilience, and efficiency. Krishna specializes in Kubernetes, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code, leveraging tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Jenkins to streamline deployments and accelerate software delivery pipelines. At o9 Solutions, Krishna pioneered AI-driven DevOps workflows integrating LLMs, vector databases, and conversational AI to enhance troubleshooting, automate root cause analysis, and optimize multi-cloud support operations. At Matterport, he led cloud-native architecture and CI/CD automation initiatives to improve reliability and meet demanding SLAs/SLOs. A hackathon winner, Krishna received the o9 Hackathon Appreciation Award from Royal for an AI-driven solution, and at Ericsson he won a hackathon for simulating 5G networks on a Raspberry Pi stack. As an open-source contributor to OpenInfra projects (including OpenStack and Airship) and to cloud-native tools such as Helm, Krishna has shared knowledge widely. He conducted a hands-on workshop on Kubernetes Operators at the annual OpenStack Summit in Shanghai, and delivered three workshops at the Dallas Cloud Computing and Kubernetes meetups one on Ansible, one on Kubernetes, and another on Terraform, Terragrunt, and Atlantis. Known as a lifelong student, Krishna combines technical depth with curiosity, continuously exploring how AI and DevOps intersect to deliver smarter, faster, and more resilient solutions. His credentials include CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, GCP Associate Engineer, and AWS Developer certifications, underscoring his commitment to continuous learning and modern engineering excellence. In his free time, Krishna enjoys experimenting with his Raspberry Pi stack building creative solutions, simulating cloud-native environments, and pushing the boundaries of edge computing for fun and learning.