Prakash Ganeshan Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

United States

Client: Ford MotorsOnboard new teams from Quality teams to Jira to streamline their ticketing process. As part of it define end to end process with respect to people, process and tools. Design a self service model to onboard the projects, provide training, build dashboards and reports using JQL. Evaluate the add-ons required for new requirements and provide recommendations about the addon. Defining SLA for each administrative tasks and ensure it is met.

San Francisco Bay Area

Client: Blue Shield of California - Managed team on the various projects like establishing self service for onboarding an application to devops world.- Managed team to work on generating the various customized metrics from the tools which helped to monitor, gave insights of tools usage, helped in capacity planning.- Managed team to work on data extraction from jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins to build the metrics which gave insights about the release cycle.- Defining SRE guidelines, setup industry standard SLAs for applications, monitoring of applications and infrastructure, incident management and best practices to design/improve the product deployment flow and ensure maximum service availability when customer needs it

San Francisco Bay Area

Client: Blue Shield of California - Bridge the gap between the Development team and Operations team and reduce the friction between the applications, processes and teams involved, bring the product to the market soon. - Migrated all Jenkins jobs to Jenkins pipelines that uses groovy and python - Migrated on premise infrastructure to Azure cloud - Auto provision of infrastructure using ARM templates and Terraform enabling Infrastructure as Code. - Configuration management post infrastructure provision using Ansible. - Defined and managed the framework to extract Data from different tools for building executive reports. - Implemented Blue Green deployment model to reduce the downtime during production upgrade using Kubernetes and Docker - Added Code Quality scanning, vulnerability scanning to CI process using SonarQube. - Monitor the Azure resources, applications using Azure Monitor Metrics, Log Analytics and Application insights. - Implement strict ITSM process like change management, incident management in the fast paced DevOps and Agile (scrum and SAFe) models.

San Francisco Bay Area

Client: Blue Shield of California - Orchestrated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins - Schedule jobs to start compilation and package the compiled source code and push it to Nexus. - Integrate the Veracode scanning of binaries as part of release process - Work with multiple teams right from the Agile team, Developers, Testers, change management, Release management teams to deploy application to Production. Follow the exact same CD steps followed in lower environments to Prod. - Troubleshooting performance, reliability, and stability issues and ensure continuous improvement. - Secure all applications by mandating SSL communication between applications and usersimplementing and maintaining the branching strategies (master, feature and Release branches) for application, infrastructure, build and release strategies using SCM tools like SVN and Bitbucket. - Technical documentation of standard operating procedures, FAQs, self-service documentation, installation, upgrade and configuration steps of all the tools and process. - Provide trainings to the teams on the best practices of DevOps model, put the best process to use an application or process and enforce them.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Client: Blue Shield of California - Administration/Engineering of SCM tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket(GIT), Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, ALM, etc. and it's addons. - Responsible for every aspect of these tools like maintenance, administration, integration, consultation, operations, access provision, customization, upgrade, security patching, backup, replication, DR, monitoring, house keeping, refresh lower environments, certificate management, License management, technical documentation, trainings, etc. - Jira as centralized Development/QA team’s work management tool, extensive experience in integration and enabling the sync of data between jira and tools like Confluence, Bitbucket, FishEye, Crucible, Veracode, SD Elements, Data Theorem, Contrast Security, Planview, Pega, Aha!, Stormboard, Digital AI Lens, eazyBI, Tableau and Plutora. - Administration of all Atlassian toolset like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Crowd, Fisheye/Crucible - Automate wherever possible and enable self service is key to the job. - Define end to end process of effective use of tools around CI and CD and enforce them. - Secure all applications by mandating SSL communication between applications and users

Chennai Area, India

Client: National Health Service (NHS) UKProject: Lorenzo ProductManage continuous build and continuous deployment, release management, create branches and baselines, support operations, technical documentation, training, monitoring CI/CD tools.Here are the major tools I used in my role CMSynergy, Change Synergy, Cruise Control.Net, MS Visual Safe Source, MSbuild, Nant, Fxcop.Key Responsibilities on high level:====================== - Administration of CI /CD applications. - Chart the release plan and communicate, collaborate with all the teams. - Creating source code branches, baselines after release for the release - Schedule CI/CD as per the release plan - Collaborate with release stakeholders on the build deployment, generate release notes, checklist for release, - Deliver the build with all the release notes, install guide, checklist, reports. - Technical documentation and provide training to the teams.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Science, 75%

Intermediate, Mpc, 92.7%

10Th Standard, Sslc, 86%