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San Francisco, California, US

• Software Architect and Product Owner for Okta's Internal Build and Test systems for their core products.
• Work with teams across the company to design, build and optimize Okta's Build and Test systems ensuring high quality continuous releases on a weekly, or faster cadence.
• Helped design and implement system level changes that reduced AWS spend by $10K+/mo reducing overall spend targets by 20%
• Worked with the teams to build and deploy an IaaS/PaaS platform that made service delivery possible on a daily cadence
• Developed and Deployed a platform for automatically building, testing, and scaling Kubernetes Cluster infrastructure from the ground up, including intention based application deployment. The clusters are full featured.
• Implemented procedural and process changes to standardize the teams efforts and provide a consistent delivery process that reduced manual operations and allowed the team to deploy more rapidly with less intervention.

• Designed and delivered a scalable automation platform for deploying Nutanix's cloud offering including support for ad-hoc developer workflows and a system for external SaaS services to be plugged into workflows
• Architected and delivered a platform for deploying and scaling datacenter SaaS platforms which leveraged kubernetes and automated build to provide a delivery pipeline which can be deployed on multiple clouds and on.
• Redesigned the companies technical training program for new developers to include expanded content on how to work with internal systems and how to leverage Nutanix systems and technologies. Average satisfaction scores.
• Work as a senior member of the Security Incident Response team on company impacting security events, specifically focused on source control management, build system exploits and forensic investigation of breaches and.
• Helped develop the companies standards for SaaS service delivery and monitoring. Provided the key process metrics for good data collection and system monitoring
• Built and delivered a system for automatically creating, scaling and deploying SaaS based monitoring solutions which integrated with existing tooling (Jira, internal monitoring dashboards) to provide real time metrics.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Worked on core architecture for Rackspace's Managed Hosting of Cloud Native Software. Including designing, building and testing automatic packaging and deployment of third party software (Adobe AEM) to multiple cloud.
• Architected and built a tool-set for automatic configuration and deployment of AWS infrastructure from intention based configuration in GitHub. Managed the delivery pipeline that allowed developers to check in generic.
• Designed a nested deployment description language with async future implementations to allow operations teams to describe using intention notation a set of deployment steps to be executed on install, update or removal.
• Designed a set of core docker templates that provided a layered image to handle most third party software vendors non-cloud native software infrastructure in isolated containers. Provided ongoing consultation to the.
• Mentored team members and other teams on software best practices, as well as how to automate best practices into the delivery pipeline such that common tedious tasks (like code formatting) could be done natively by the.

Seattle, WA, US

• Work with a small team of developers to design, build, test and deliver improvements to Amazons internal development processes
• Work with cross functional teams in Build, Source Management, and Deployment systems to implement process improvements and new features related to emerging technologies
• Designed and Implemented infrastructure to support the internal use of Docker for building containerized services. This included building common infrastructure containers for logging, auditing, and process management
• Designed and built scalable infrastructure for managing the distribution and tracking of Docker Images, including securing images against unauthorized access and distribution
• Provide DevOps style support for various systems which support Amazons internal developers. This includes monitoring production systems for errors and changes in performance, performing routine systems management.
• Work with Security, Legal and Compliance teams to implement auditing systems for production servers to track Amazon owned IP and prevent the deployment of unauthorized, or unapproved software onto critical production.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led a team of 10 developers in the development and support of Amazon’s internal deployment systems which is responsible for deploying Amazon’s software and services thousands of times a day
• Work with numerous technology teams within Amazon including S3, Dynamo, Retail Website platform and others to implement critical features to ensure 99.999% or higher availability of critical Amazon systems
• Work closely with internal hardware, networking and security teams to ensure that critical infrastructure systems are always available and secure from threats and malicious software
• Work with Director, VP and SVP level management teams to design multi-year technology roadmaps to enhance, extend and grow Amazon’s internal build and deployment tools
• Designed enhancements to the package transport system to add additional encryption support to meet internal ”encryption at rest” standards
• Actively participate in the internal Security review process for applications which handle sensitive and confidential customer data. This process reviews and analyzes applications for security threats and design issues.

Portland, OR, US

• Led a development team of 9 developers and 1 QA in enhancing Smarsh’s Industry recognized platform for message archiving and compliance
• Primarily responsible for development and execution of next generation Software as a Service (SaaS) products
• Work with developers, managers and QA staff on designing and implementing department wide processes for the Software Development Lifecycle, to improve delivery and eliminate highly repetitive and error prone processes
• Instrument and automate a majority of the software delivery process, allowing the development team and management to construct processes which works for internal, and external controls and ensure a smooth and seamless.
• Work with the QA team to establish guidelines for testing and delivery ensuring that production services meet the customers and businesses expectations
• Work with all parts of the organization to develop processes which quickly and efficiently gather requirements and ensure that those requirements are tracked through delivery and customer sign-off

San Jose, California, US

Worked as part of the Advanced Research Team designing, prototyping and testing Malware Analysis tools and processes.

San Jose, California, US

• Managed a team of 6 Engineers and 1 Senior QA Engineer as well as a remote team of QA Engineers.
• Responsible for 24x7 management of internal automation systems
• Lead the design efforts for developing new automation systems as well as customer specific implementations of existing tools and processes
• Worked with customers, internal and external to address specific requirements and to deliver new tools and processes as needed
• Provided Architectural guidance for implementation and delivery of new systems

• Responsible for the design, execution and monitoring of internal IT development projects, including planning for training and knowledge transfer.
• Software architect responsible for setting the overall vision for internally developed software to ensure that it has a supportable lifecycle during development, testing and production.
• Designed an End-To-End automated build and test process that utilizes a variety of open source, commercial and intenally developed applications to perform the software build process, including automated unit test.
• Responsible for implementing and enforcing internal coding standards to ensure that internally developed software is designed in a consistent manor that promotes reuse and maintainability.
• Responsible for providing in-depth technical consultation for other divisions within ODFW. This involves analyzing new and existing projects and determining the most appropriate technologies to implement for the.
• Provide guidance and basic oversight on both internal and external audit and security systems implemented by the agency. This includes providing support for audit systems, adding or extended capabilities with custom.

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

• Responsible for designing project plans to meet design requirements
• Responsible for overall design of software components and systems
• Managed the development and production of technical documentation
• Responsible for interacting with current and prospective clients
• Managed the internal IT infrastructure
• Responsible for the development of long term direction for IT systems, planning and strategy for internal development as well as external product development.

Houston, Texas, US

• Designed advanced software utilizing current trends in software development.
• Responsible for bringing performance level of team above industry standards.
• Responsible for routine maintenance of large scale business and inventory tracking systems.
• Primary responder for “fab-down” incidents when recovery of IT systems was critical.
• Lead Developer and Team Leader for integrating software into existing systems
• Trained teams on maintenance of information tracking systems, software development and business continuity.

Education record

Computer Engineering