Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• VicTree Solutions is dedicated to sourcing top-tier talent for high-growth technology brands. Whether you're an innovative startup or an established company, our goal is to connect exceptional candidates with outstanding organizations, empowering their careers.
• We assist our partners in building teams and scaling organizations with world-class talent. As a boutique agency, we firmly believe that you should never have to choose between the quality of candidates and time-to-hire. Our expertise in identifying and recruiting high-performing talent is invaluable to technology businesses in their growth phase.
• We accomplish this by developing a variety of tailored, feature-rich, and scalable talent solutions that closely align with your unique business requirements, mission, and values. Our goal is to add more value than your existing talent partners by integrating the best combination of features into your recruitment processes.
• Our advisory board members and investors bring over 15 years of extensive experience in the IT industry. Their expertise will be instrumental in driving our growth and shaping the future of VicTree Solutions.
• Our Vision -
• To be the leading IT consulting and services provider, recognized for our innovation, expertise, and commitment to client success.
• Our Mission -
• To empower businesses with state-of-the-art technology solutions that drive growth, efficiency, and innovation.
• To empower individuals with best-of-best career opportunities to be part of their victory journeys.
• Our Values -
• Integrity: We uphold the highest standards of integrity in all our actions.
• Excellence: We strive for excellence in everything we do.
• Innovation: We embrace innovation to deliver the best solutions.
• Collaboration: We believe in the power of teamwork and collaboration.

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Kudos EduSports is an initiative aimed at providing children and parents with a well-rounded educational experience that goes beyond the traditional school curriculum.
• By introducing various in-trend educational and technical topics, as well as sports activities and competitions, Kudos EduSports aims at fostering holistic development in children.
• With the ever growing technologies & competitions, our mission is to introduce & train various technologies & sports that will help them grow holistically, convert their hobbies into skills and have an even brighter future.

Jul 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Led Cloud SRE team with 12 members
• Worked with team on setting up Zabbix observability tool ensuring no impact to production & business
• Reduced Cloud components cost saving approx 14k USD per month
• Monthly SecOps Audit, Internal & External Audits, ITGC Audit
• Guided internal automations team for various automations and solutions ensuring daily and project work are achieved in a more efficient manner
• Followed ITIL standards for all changes and incidents
• Initiated discussion with new-age monitoring applications – ITRS Geneos, DataDog, Ruambot
• Technologies / Tools Used: Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (K8S), Zabbix, Grafana, Jira

May 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Client: Credit Suisse
• Provided Level 1 and Level 2 support for OneTick application used by multiple teams for data analytics and reporting globally
• Configured all components on Geneos to move away from mail monitoring for better alerting and production stability
• Worked with dev team to standardize applications scripts and process thereby looking for better resiliency
• Actively participated in weekly change management call giving valuable suggestions/inputs
• Technologies, Shell scripting, ITRS Geneos, OneTick GUI

Sep 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Redesigned multiple scripts to ease application monitoring and start/stop for support teams
• Performed application upgrades, migrations and other infrastructure events along with multiple stake holders
• Automated application start/stop saving multiple man hours with minimal manual intervention
• Standardized & streamlined regular tasks/activities and events
• Technologies / Tools Used: Unix, Shell scripting, Python, Jira, GitHub, Control-M

Sep 2013 – Aug 2019 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Led a team of 6 people to implement deep understanding of highly complex application
• Chaired the weekly change & incident management calls with various stakeholders
• Followed ITIL standards for all changes & incidents
• Provided Level 2 support for multiple trade and risk applications used by traders/users globally
• Managed multiple infrastructure events like DR/SR/HA tests, server/datacenter migrations, etc
• Managed filer space remediation project thereby saving USD 0.5 million
• Standardized and redesigned monitoring setup on Geneos
• Technologies / Tools Used: Unix, Shell scripting, Control-M, ITRS Geneos, Sybase

Nov 2009 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Provided Level 2 and Level 3 support for around 5000 Unix (Solaris/Linux) servers
• Led the Global Application Release & Decommission teams
• Application release script - Helped improve the efficiency of team to perform releases by 50%
• Decommissioned about 800 Unix servers in a span of 10 months saving approx $0.5 million

Jul 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Client: Level 3 Communications
• Provided Level 2 and Level 3 support of about 1500 Unix servers
• Led team to handle and manage hardware related issues and migrations
• Worked with client to have process in place for hardware fault replacement activities

Feb 2005 – Jun 2008 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Client: British Telecom
• Provided Level 2 and Level 3 support of 180 Solaris servers
• Automated manual monitoring of hosts saving daily man hours