Kumar Anand Email & Phone Number

United States

Mclean, Va, Us

Leading a high-impact initiative to integrate generative AI tools into software development workflow, significantly enhancing productivity and reducing time to market.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Lead product, technology roadmap, and architecture for Zillow developer experience teams.• Responsible for planning and managing the budget for Developer Experience teams which includes K8s platform, CICD, pipeline, archetypes, observability tools.• Responsible for evaluating new products, managing the relationship with external vendors, taking products through the risks processes, and negotiating the contract terms and pricing for Developer Experience tools and technologies.• Evaluated multiple tools in Generative AI space to identify the right solution for AI assisted coding (Codeium) and AI assisted enterprise search (Glean) along with slack chatbot experience for developers. • Implemented and integrated Slack Chatbot using AI platform and reduced the sustaining load of developer experience support questions by ~40%.• Implemented a customer facing documentation portal for end to end self service for developers using Docusaurus open source technology and improved customer satisfaction.• Evaluated multiple tools to measure developer productivity along with build vs buy analysis and implemented DORA metrics in pipeline to measure developers productivity.• Designed and Implemented abstraction layer using open source technologies to enable vendor neutral solution and avoided vendor lock-in with Datadog, Splunk and other external monitoring tools.• Reduced Observability spend for the company by ~30% by consolidation of duplicate tools, standardization and centralization of observability solutions and turning on the lights on the usage by self service cost showback.• Implemented Single pane of glass to visualize Metrics, Logs, Traces, Events at one place and helped with improving the troubleshooting and restoration time.• Introduced SLO based culture. Implemented SLO framework which was easy to onboard with templated insights/reporting, and alerting/definition as code for service teams.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Lead architect and software engineer responsible for overall architecture and solution for Site Reliability Engineering software products in Cloud and On Prem, and Operational Excellence at Capital One Auto Finance.• Responsible for building Observability platform and developers experience in YBYO by enabling self service and automation in CICD pipeline and Training developers.• Responsible for building cloud native Cyber Monitoring to secure the Infrastructure and application stack end to end.• Co-presented in AWS Re:invent 2020 for Modernizing Log Analytics with AWS ElasticSearch.• Implemented strategies, technologies, and processes to operate well in the cloud, reduce critical incidents, effective resource utilization, audit, governance, saving millions.• Implemented automation framework using StackStorm to automate run/play books and day to day manual tasks to bring efficiency and reduce toil.• Implemented streamalert framework for real-time data analysis and alert on data from anyenvironment, using data sources and alerting logic defined. It is used to scan terabytes of log data every day for incident detection and response.• Implemented slack bot which can respond to questions and do the work using natural language processing and custom integrations.• Implemented Machine learning for Anomaly Detection (Patent Approved), ProActive scaling of infrastructure, and Transaction volume predictions (Patent Approved).• Implemented Auto-discovery and monitoring for AWS Relational Database Services using Serverless architecture and Time series metrics (Patent Approved)• Developed Applications and APIs to enable self-service in order to improve speed and quality for Monitoring, Incident management, Change Management, Capacity Management, and Knowledge Management

Mclean, Va, Us

• Responsible for Site Reliability Engineering, Technology Operations in Cloud and On Prem, and Operational Excellence at Capital One Auto Finance.• Overall responsibility for monitoring, uptime, performance, incident management, change management, customer transaction availability, and service level objectives (SLO) of all services, whether managed internally or through service providers.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Improved Resiliency and Recovery. RPO and RTO Gaps are reduced drastically. Implemented automation for rapid technical recovery / disaster recovery exercises to ensure continuous validation of resiliency implementations.• Implemented best in class monitoring/observability infrastructure using Prometheus, cAdvisor, Grafana, InfluxDB, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK.• Implemented monitoring (Metrics, Logging, Distributed Tracing, Alerting, Visualization) as a code in CI/CD pipeline. Shifted monitoring to left so every application goes in production with monitoring by default. • Implemented automation framework using StackStorm to automate run/play books and day to day manual tasks to bring efficiency and reduce toil.• Implemented slack bot which can respond to questions and do the work using natural language processing and custom integrations.• Implemented of Machine learning for Anomaly Detection (Patent Pending), ProActive scaling of infrastructure, and Transaction volume predictions.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Worked as a service manager in application value management and responsible for Technology Operations for multiple services, scope management, change management, Resource management etc. worked on outcome based managed services framework for portfolio of 600 applications.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Worked as project lead in application value management/production management and was responsible for multiple applications maintenance including incident management, service management, problem management and problem remediation and continuous improvement.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Worked as team lead in online application development in Java and .net, microstrategy BI implementation for reporting application.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us