• Leading the management of CI/CD tools and processes to ensure efficient and secure delivery of Vocera's enterprise software products across various deployment models (Part of the whole DevSecOps group)• Support the Dev Product Team of size is 300+ (the entire Vocera Business Unit part of the Stryker Corporation)• Working also as part of AI capability building team for the whole Bangalore site. Leading AI& ML projects.• Migration of existing CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub with latest platform engineering practices• Automation of entire DevSecOps pipelines with various SDLC tools for fully automated agile development

* Ensured that all projects have well-maintained CI/CD pipelines with the latest suitable tools and processes for all products handled by the product development team, comprising 300+ developers.• Supported all On-prem(vmware, Hyper-V) and Cloud Gold images(Azure, AWS) deliverables of platform• Ensure that all Infra and Tools such as Jfrog Artifactory HA and Jenkins are meeting the developer needs. • Establish smooth QA process & promote and tag approved builds for GA and make it available for customers.• Develop advanced tools for monitoring and analysis of the build and release process.• Handle smooth delivery of the Vocera products to external on-site teams, automated using tools such as Ansible• Supported the delivery of the Firmware, Analytics team, support for mobile application deployment• Creation and Maintenance of the Linux packages (rpm, docker)• Handling security patching and third-party software updates, mainly RHEL packages part of Vocera product• Three Recent Achievements: Porting platform to Azure, Coverity implementation, KPI/Observability Dashboard

Managed CI/CD, IT & Cloud Ops TeamsHandled CI/CD for the whole companyHandled Compliance and Policy Enforcement, Vendor Management, Capacity Planning, IT Budgeting, IT operations

• Worked on Implementation of new tools and related processes suitable for the organization• Integrated tools such as Blackduck, Kibana, Coverity, Klocwork, Kubernetes, JIRA, mediawiki, ELK suite, etc.

• Brought up complete Software Development Environment Infra, Tools and Process from ground zero.• Headed the team responsible for implementation of Tools and Process like DevOps.• Responsible for all Software Configuration Management and System Integration activities • Implemented Openstack in-house Cloud and Docker for the internal development and to use for the build infra• Lead a team to ensure 100% uptime for the CM and IT infrastructure at entire Bangalore• Handed end to end automation of the CM tools, process related requirements on daily basis.• Works on the Open Networking/Disaggregated Ethernet switches for broadcom ASIC software integration• Handling Linux patches, kernel upgrades, Linux Kernel rpm, deb releases etc on x86 and arm architectures.• Developed ONIE based packaging solution and FlexNet based License Management solutions for new product• Implemented & supported for the build & Zebra OS creation tools such as Yocto, gnumake, etc• Implemented on-prem Cloud infrastructure at Bangalore center for the ZebOS development

• Responsible for all Release Engineering activities for the whole Nokia Life Services product team• Implement and support the whole SCM, CI, Build and Release, Packaging and related Infra & Tools for the whole R&D team to develop product following the agile principles• Development and maintenance of Release (DevOps) process and tools for Continuous Deployment & Delivery• Responsible also to deliver the client to the Nokia Mobile phone software• Responsible for taking decisions on technical areas being part of Delivery excellence team• Implemented so many enhancements in Release Engineering(RE) tools and practices to smoothen the development & release process such as SVN to Git SCM & Gerrit Code Review tools• Provided coaching and mentoring the R&D team on Release Engineering process and R&D tools related areas

• Developed new system & process to improve the releasing of software packages/projects part of Symbian OS and facilitating the daily faster integration of bsp and device drivers. • Acted as single point of contact to resolve escalated issues on the activities related to scm, build, integration, and release activities by acting as a coach for the whole Bangalore site R&D teams.• Implemented & driven many improvements/changes in entire organization wide and across various development teams. • Worked on one highly confidential and sensitive projects on organizational restructuring.• Part of the core team which drives the changes related improvements the software development practices, tools to make the development cycle faster in Symbian development for betterment of time to market.• Conducted various global meetings and info sessions and providing consultation on technical as well as process related activities

Line manager (Continuous Integration team) for 2+ years with people management responsibilities for 15+ engineers with delivery responsibilities to handle all SCM, build, integration and releases• Handled Team leader/manager activities includes all people management activities such as interviewing, Team building, motivating, coaching & mentoring, performance management, coordination, situation management, persuasion & influencing.• Dealt with many tough decision makings and quality gating for major product releases• Handled negotiations & Conflict resolution among team members on need basis.• Handled project management responsibilities for the development of new build and release automation tools and process enhancements.• Handled rewarding, compensation and performance reviews for team.• Handled a few subcontracting coordination and supplier management with a few outsourced companies.• Worked as a trainer/presenter for many technical and nontechnical topics and changes.• Built and maintained a high performing team and made error free deliveries.• Worked on change management for the team to move to other teams for a technical role.

• Handled SCM, build & Release Management for two major teams which included: Build Automation, Setting up and maintain build environment, Software builds, using higher end tools and infrastructures like Electric Cloud• Developed first Continuous Integration system from scratch.• Handing various build manager activities in Synergy/CM• Development of distributed and automatic build and package facilities for projects and configuration management activities using PHP, Shell and Perl Scripts; Participate the CI tool development on need basis.• Release Management: Check and verify software packages to production release, Prepare release notes, etc.• Helped in ramping up new teams by being part of interview/hiring team.

• Handled Release Management and Production Support: Check and verify software packages to production release, prepare release notes, Deliver Software to implementation team, etc.• Handled all types of SCM administration of Perforce SCM• Worked on Build Management: Build Automation, Setting up and maintain build environment, Software builds, etc.; Administration of Confluence knowledgebase and Jira bug tracking tools were done• Developed distributed and automatic build and package facilities for projects and configuration management activities using PHP, bash, and Perl Scripts• Handled automation/Scripting for build tools: Maven and Ant, Perl• Taken up Java development activities in build and integration areas.

• Handled Administration activities of ClearCase in Multisite environment• Linux Server administration for servers being using for network applications as well as database.• Supported users for day to day activities in ClearCase, Clearcase VOB Server Monitoring and maintenance.• Build Management of 3 projects, Performance tuning and benchmark of build setups• Writing scripts Unix shell, Perl• Administration of Windows NT/2000 servers• Support LAN/WAN Network infrastructure and NAS• Support other Unix flavors on demand (Linux, Solaris, AIX).• Administration of Application servers: sendmail, postfix, squid, openwebmail, openldap, bind, apache tomcat, dhcp, weblogic, htdig, vsftpd, postgresql, amavis, iplanet messaging server & web server, ismss antivirus, MacAfee epolicy orchester, Spectrum NMS server, sonicwall firewalls.• Handled Enterprise-wide network implementation and hardware support for a big establishment.