Versatile, Dynamic, Goal-Oriented Technophile with unparalleled expertise in IT and Operations, IT networks, Security, Compliance, DevSecOps, Project Management, and IT management. Carry more than 13 years of experience! Revel in being abreast with the trends transforming the business and IT landscape!Career SnapshotStarted my career as a Technician Apprentice Trainee with Bharath Electronics Limited (Bangalore, Aug 2009) where I worked for a year, and then served for three years (Aug 2011- Aug 2013) as a project engineer at Wipro Technologies (EMC Data Storage).Have been working with VMware for over 10 years. Though joined as a Technical Support Engineer (Level 2), I moved to the next big role of a technical staff member (site reliability). Currently working as a senior security compliance engineer.Love taking on challenges that come my way! Since they make me stronger and provide me with an opportunity to prove my adaptability, analytical intelligence, critical thinking, creativity, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. Inexplicably adept at protecting information systems, business data, and resources from unauthorised access, modification, use, disclosure, disruption, and destruction.Responsible for smartly embedding a high level of security in development workflow, fostering collaboration among teams of developers, automation management experts, IT operators, and security practitioners. Work with senior team leaders, decision-makers, and IT managers in deploying cybersecurity frameworks, conducting security audits, evaluating and managing security processes, and implementing smart and robust measures to prevent security breaches which include but are just limited to encryption, access controls, and firewalls. Assisting team in building and operating smart, scalable, and intuitive applications by incorporating security thinking, ingenuity, and technology in all stages of DevOps engineering, software, and business application development lifecycles, right from planning to development, deployment, integration, migration, support, and management. Versatile in a wide gamut of DevOps tools which include but are not just limited to Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Git, Kubernetes, Nagios, Terraform, and other tools. Highly expert in all DevOps automation processes (from Build, Deployment, Test, and Infrastructure) making it easy for organizations to enhance their overall IT processes.