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Palo Alto, California , Us

- Architect and lead Cloud infra and DevOps initiatives that are rolled out to highly secured environments.

Palo Alto, California, Us

- Led a distributed team to build tools and processes to onboard microservices to CI/CD pipeline, on AWS using GitHub, Jenkins and Nexus and native AWS services such as ECS and Elastic Beanstalk.- Streamlined the release process of mobile apps, iOS and Android.

Fremont, California, Us

Headed AWS Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Cyber Security and IT Operations for the fintech startup reporting into CEO.

- Independent consultant who can architect, implement and direct/mentor teams to roll out DevOps automation projects and processes, especially in startup environments. Specifically, projects around the following DevOps tool-chain: AWS, Git, Jenkins, Jira/Confluence, Ansible, Artifactory, DataDog/Nagios/Zabbix for monitoring, Hashicorop products: Vagrant, Nomad, Consul and Vault

Waldorf, De

- Consultant/SME for monitoring, specifically Datadog.- Maintained Cobalt, an in-house CI/CD platform built using Jenkins, Artifactory and Hashicorp suite of products.- Supported Docker/microservices based application environments and provisioned related infra in AWS.- Rolled out Ansible as a general purpose tool for the team. Evangelized it and trained team members.

New York, Ny, Us

- Roll out comprehensive monitoring solutions based on Zabbix and Sumo Logic.- Develop infrastructure provisioning and deployment automation tools and processes using Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible.

San Jose, California, Us

- Member of DevOps team that managed build & release platform that used git and multiple instances of Jenkins and Artifactory, on AWS. - Evaluated cloud hosted monitoring app Datadog and did a POC to generate and report custom operational metrics using Python scripts, for charting and alerting.- Working on a project to fully automate the operational aspects of an app stack, from AWS infrastructure provisioning through code deployment, using Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, OpsWorks and CodeDeploy.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Implemented/enhanced DevOps tools and processes in a startup environment with multiple application stacks running in production on AWS - git, Jenkins, Puppet, Nagios, MediaWiki. - Rolled out a comprehensive monitoring system on Nagios platform with custom plugins developed in Perl and Python.- Worked with development team and built a CI pipeline using Jenkins that automated unit and integrations tests.- Developed a build & deployment tool in Python to build artifacts for deployment and orchestrate code push. The tool was integrated with git and AWS S3, and, could work with Puppet for code deployment in both manual and auto-scaled environments.

Newark, California, Us

Working on rolling out RMS(one), RMS's SaaS offering on the cloud. Also help with supporting and fine-tuning the operational side of legacy products in hosted environments.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Managed the release and stabilization of advertising data analytics platform AIY (Advertising Insights from Yahoo) from operations side: planned and secured hardware and cloud resources for the project; overseen the creation of run books, monitoring scripts, dashboards and toolkits, and deployments of the product into multiple environments through GA.- Led the rewiring of UAD (Unified Advertising Datamart), a display advertising data mart and reporting system, into new data centers. The effort also included migrating ETL jobs to Hadoop based grid computing environment, and involved in sizing and architecting the data pipelines with system components running in multiple data centers with BCP (Business Continuity Plan) configuration.- Supported 4 large scale/Big Data advertising data analytics products for site availability: hands-on involvement in triaging site-up issues, monitoring, 24x7 on-call support, product deployment following change management processes, incident management, and continuous improvement of operational processes with an emphasis on automation.- Hired, on-boarded, trained and mentored full-time employees, contractors and interns. Worked with direct reports in setting up goals and evaluated their performance. - Managed on-call calendars and assignments, and worked with partnering teams in multiple geographical locations to ensure 24x7 availability of products, and meeting of various SLAs.- Worked in MObStor/Cloud Storage team: automated operational and release engineering tasks, and developed tools, mainly the storage provisioning app.- Setup build/release infrastructure for MObStor and setup automated builds and nightly regressions.- Developed and deployed the infrastructure for Yahoo! Photos migration. This involved building UI for migration; changing existing API’s; localization of UI; and regular deployments. Also, designed and developed a reporting system to track user migration to Flickr and partnering sites.

Puzha.com has been a pioneering web magazine in Malayalam language. With other technologists, founded the company and architected and implemented the first web magazine and self publishing platform in Malayalam on LAMP stack. The company also launched the largest online book store in Malayalam in association with major publishing houses. Coverage by The Hindu on puzha.com's 10th anniversary: http://www.hindu.com/mp/2010/05/06/stories/2010050651800400.htm

- Member of the Advocacy (Maintenance) Engineering group that looked at engineering problems escalated by customer support.- My main responsibility was to investigate and fix escalated problems; and issue patches to customers. - I led an offshore development team in India that helped to fix software bugs. - Involved in setting up the India offshore team for the Advocacy Engineering group and trained the offshore team regularly, at offshore center and remotely.- Worked with software localization partners to get translation issues resolved.- Technologies and tools used on a regular basis, on this job are: C/C++ and Java/J2EE on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows, with database systems such as Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.

Reston, Va, Us

Techspan did multiple projects for Clarify that ported the ClarifyCRM suite to various non-developmental platforms. The work was done at their offshore development center in India and I was the onsite technical manager.Involved in setting up the development and QA infrastructure for the offshore teams. Managed the train-the-trainer program for offshore team conducted at client site.Worked with third-party software and hardware vendors to resolve engineering issues and to get their tools and platforms certified.Worked with client managers to arrange support for offshore teams and to get the deliverables verified by client.Did hands-on development work at critical junctures when my technical expertise was needed. Technologies and tools used in this project are: C/C++ and Java/J2EE on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows, with databases such as Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2. Team size: 8 (Average

Reston, Va, Us

I worked with Avolent's PSO team to customize their BillCast system for American Family, and led Techspan's server-side development team there.Mainly did hands-on development by using XML and Java/JDBC to synchronize BillCast Oracle database repository with American Family databases systems on mainframe and coordinated with the client.The technologies and tools used in this project are: Java and XML on Solaris with database Oracle. Perl scripts were written for testing the integration and automating the command-line invocations. Team Size: 3

- Architected and developed a web app that linked the machine tools to the company network, for file transfer and control. The front-end was generated by CGI/Perl programs that communicated with an Oracle database repository and a Java service that handled the file-transfer between machine controllers and file server. Software was developed and tested to meet FDA requirements for software systems used in healthcare industry.- Developed a toolkit in C, Perl and DCL to migrate the Sherpa PDM system on VMS to new eMatrix system on Windows NT and led the team that did the data migration.- Maintained the Sherpa based PDM system in production that serviced multiple groups in the company like product design, shop floor, purchase and R&D. Also, administered few Digital UNIX workstations used by the R&D group.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Coded Tuxedo services that facilitated (3-tier) communication between Oracle database and clients on different platforms for a "Receive Order" module in Pro*C; mainly on HP-UX. Managed a small offshore development team and mentored its junior members. (Client - Transcendent Technologies).For various customers of Sherpa Corporation (client) such as Otis Elevators, Northup Grumman and McDonnell Douglas, did small system integration and maintenance projects. The work mainly involved coding in C using Sherpa DMS API on different flavors of UNIX like Solaris, HP-UX and OSF to extend features of Sherpa PDM product and integrate it with third-party products.

Developer and later team lead of a group that developed and maintained Computervision's Optegra PDM suite of products.Worked on Solaris and Windows, with Oracle as the database, and used C and Visual Basic for development work.

Coordinated a DoE funded project (CAFIMS) to develop an ERP software prototype meant for small businesses.Led the database schema design efforts for various modules like Materials Management and Bill-of-Material.Setup the development infrastructure, planned and executed trainings for the developers.Conducted technical reviews of the project with other participating institutions and companies like IIT Delhi and ECIL, Hyderabad. The development environment was on SCO UNIX, DOS/Windows, C, Oracle and Ingress.

Managed raw material transportation section at company's MGCC plant. Was responsible for scheduling and planning raw material movement and coordinating tasks related to issuance of transportation contracts.

M.Tech., Industrial Management

B.Tech., Production Engineering

High School