Harikrishna Yanamadala
About Harikrishna Yanamadala
Harikrishna Yanamadala is a Sr Middleware Lead/Openshift Engineer at Ally, with extensive experience in system administration and technical project leadership.
Current Role at Ally Financial
Harikrishna Yanamadala currently holds the position of Sr Middleware Lead/Openshift Engineer at Ally Financial, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been part of the organization since 2018. In this role, he oversees middleware functions and manages Openshift engineering tasks. His responsibilities include implementing monitoring solutions and deploying various agents and sensors for the Openshift environment.
Previous Positions at Ally Financial
Before his current role, Harikrishna worked in different capacities at Ally Financial. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Lead System Administrator. Between 2013 and 2015, he held the position of System Administrator. Throughout these roles, he demonstrated his expertise in system administration and project management, contributing to various initiatives within the organization.
Earlier Career Experience
Before joining Ally Financial, Harikrishna held several positions in different organizations. In 2013, he briefly worked as a System Administrator at Deloitte in Pennsylvania. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Technical Specialist for IDM suite Products at Capital Group in Irvine, California. Prior to that, he had another tenure at Deloitte as a System Administrator from 2010 to 2012, also based in Irvine, California.
Educational Background in Engineering
Harikrishna earned his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Silicon Valley University, where he studied from 2008 to 2010. Prior to that, he completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Sri YPR College of Engineering & Technology, from 2003 to 2007.
Key Projects and Initiatives
At Ally Financial, Harikrishna has led significant projects including the AIASA effort (Ally Invest Alternative Site Access) and NGA Project (NextGen Authentication). Additionally, he was instrumental in the automation migration from Udeploy to Ansible. His technical expertise also extended to deploying App Dynamics machine agents as daemonsets in Openshift, implementing monitoring solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager, and working closely with the satellite server team for RPM version management.