RDRajkumar Devaraveni
Open to new opportunities · relocation or remote

Rajkumar Devaraveni

Senior Build & Release · DevOps · SRE Engineer

I also enjoy playing ping pong

I design and run the platforms that take code from a developer’s commit to a shipped product — for embedded Linux devices, in-vehicle systems and cloud services — so engineering teams ship faster and releases don’t break.

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11years of experience
6companies
4industries
20platforms operated
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Core competencies
CI/CD Pipeline DesignBuild & Release EngineeringEmbedded Linux (Yocto)Infrastructure as CodeSite Reliability (SLI/SLO)DevSecOps & ComplianceContainers & KubernetesDeveloper ProductivityAI-Assisted Development
at a glance

The short version

Everything a hiring manager usually asks in the first call.

Currently

Senior Embedded DevOps/Build Engineer at Motorola Solutions

Own the R&D lab and CI/CD platform for body-worn camera and in-car video products, supporting 200+ development and QA engineers.

Allen, TX · open to relocation or remote
500+

engineers supported at Sonos as one of a five-person build team

99%+

uptime across a 500+ server fleet at Stratus Technologies

Newest work

AI in the developer loop

Containerized Claude Code CLI in sandboxes for AI refactoring and pre-PR reviews.

$ claude review✔ ready for PR
80%

of manual release work eliminated with Jenkins pipelines at Transamerica

Core stack
GitHub

github.com

See my code and projects
01 · about

Engineer behind the pipeline

RD

I make it easy for engineers to ship — and hard for broken builds to reach customers.

For more than eleven years I’ve owned the path from source to production: build systems, CI/CD, release automation, on-premises R&D labs and cloud infrastructure, security and compliance, and the monitoring that keeps it all reliable.

I’ve supported engineering organizations of hundreds of developers and QA engineers across public safety, consumer electronics, enterprise computing and financial services. Lately I’ve been bringing AI into the developer workflow, so engineers can refactor and review code with AI before they open a pull request.

Hobbies & interests

  • Ping pong
  • Raspberry Pi projects
  • Listening to music
  • YouTube podcasts
  • Learning new skills
Datasheet RD-11
RolesBuild & Release · DevOps · SRE · Platform
Experience11+ years
EnvironmentsOn-premises labs, AWS, GCP, Azure
TargetsEmbedded Linux, IoT, in-vehicle, cloud apps
ComplianceISO/IEC 27001
EducationM.S. Computer Engineering
LocationAllen, TX · open to relocation & remote
02 · how I work

The full DevOps lifecycle, end to end

I don’t just own one step. Select any stage to see what I do there and the tools I use.

DEV OPS
Stage 1 of 8

Plan

03 · capabilities

What I bring to your team

One engineer who covers build and release, platform, reliability and security — from the embedded device to the cloud.

Build & release

Fast, reproducible builds and releases that don’t depend on one person’s laptop.

  • Yocto CI/CD and SDK containers
  • Factory and golden images
  • Release automation for product launches

DevOps & platform

CI/CD platforms that scale with the team and are defined as code.

  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins on Kubernetes
  • Gerrit and PR pre-merge gating
  • Terraform and Packer on AWS/GCP

Site reliability

Measured reliability for the systems engineers depend on every day.

  • SLIs and SLOs for build infrastructure
  • ELK, Datadog, Grafana, Zabbix
  • On-call and incident response

Security & AI tooling

Secure, compliant pipelines — and AI that makes developers faster.

  • SAST across Yocto recipes
  • YubiHSM and ISO/IEC 27001
  • Claude Code in developer sandboxes
04 · tech stack

Tools I use in production

Grouped by the job each one does.

05 · architecture

A build platform I run

A simplified view of the build and release platform I own today, from developer commit to device and monitoring.

1 · Source

Developer sandboxesClaude Code CLI, SDK containers
Code reviewGerrit, GitLab, GitHub

2 · Gate & CI

Pre-merge gatingEvery change verified
CI orchestrationJenkins, GitLab CI

3 · Build

Yocto buildsReproducible, containerized
Factory imagesManufacturing-ready

4 · Store

ArtifactoryVersioned artifacts
Ceph clusterShared build storage

5 · Ship

ReleasesBody-worn camera & in-car video
200+ engineersDevelopment and QA
Observe
Secure

Scroll sideways on small screens. Infrastructure managed as code; lab runs 20+ services including LDAP, OpenGrok, Nginx, TestRail and license servers.

06 · projects

Selected work

Filter by the kind of role you’re hiring for.

try it

Ask my terminal

Type a command — or tap one below. Try help, skills or sudo hire-me.

 rajkumar@portfolio: ~● connected
rajkumar@portfolio:~$
07 · open source

On GitHub

My latest public repositories, loaded live from GitHub.

@rdevaraveni

Build, release and DevOps tooling

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08 · career

Career

Select a role to see details.

    09 · industries

    Industries I’ve delivered in

    The same discipline — reliable builds and releases — applied to very different products and regulations.

    Public safety

    Body-worn cameras and in-car video for first responders.

    Motorola Solutions

    Consumer electronics

    Connected speakers and home audio shipped to millions of homes.

    Sonos

    Enterprise computing

    Fault-tolerant servers, edge and IoT platforms, and industrial systems.

    Stratus Technologies · General Electric

    Financial services

    Insurance and financial applications with weekly release cycles.

    Transamerica
    10 · education

    Education

    Master of Science, Computer Engineering

    Oklahoma Christian University · Edmond, OK

    2013 – 2015

    Bachelor of Technology, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    Princeton College of Engineering · Hyderabad, India

    2008 – 2012
    11 · next role

    What I’m looking for

    Roles

    Senior or Staff Build & Release, DevOps, SRE, Platform or Embedded Linux Build Engineer.

    Problems

    Scaling CI/CD and build infrastructure, developer productivity, reliability and secure software delivery.

    Location

    Based in Allen, TX. Open to relocation anywhere in the U.S., hybrid or remote.

    12 · contact

    Hiring for build, DevOps or SRE?

    Send me a message with the role and I’ll get back to you within one business day.

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