Aug 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Summary: Architecting couple of product's AI, automation, delivery and new initiatives for IBM/Red Hat Ceph Storage and delivery to enterprise customers.
• (1)Impact: Architected a custom LLM for the CEPH product, a
• fine tuned LLMops using IBM Research's InstructLab framework -
• https://github.com/pavankumarag/ceph-instructlab-taxonomy
• (2)Impact: Architected a multiagentic solution involving 6 individual agents for
• CICD(Jenkins, secure pipeline), Bugzilla, Performance, observability, multi cluster
• management and troubleshooting bots using streamlit, langchain agent framework,
• ollama, watsonx, llama3 - Internal github.ibm.com
• (3)Impact: Architected an UI automation framework for a legacy team -
• https://github.com/red-hat-storage/ceph-ui-test
• (4)Impact: Speaker at "Ceph Days India 2025" on "Ceph-LLM: Unlocking the Power of
• Community driven and Open Source AI(LLM)"
• https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2025/ceph-days-india/
• (5)Impact: Architected a cloud resource monitoring tool for IBM Cloud and AWS -
• Internal github.ibm.com
• (6)Impact: Recipient of "IBM Entrepreneur Award" for architecting and building new
• tools/solutions as part of new initiatives.
• (7)Impact: In short time, built great expertise in OCP(enterprise kubernetes platform),
• kubernetes storage(ODF from RedHat) and Ceph storage(Software defined unified
• storage offering) and gave demos to many stakeholders.
• (8)Impact: Generic existing automation framework related open source contribution
• https://github.com/red-hat-storage/cephci/commits/master/?author=pavankumarag
• Tech stack and Products worked on
• (1) Ceph storage - Software defined unified storage
• (2) Openshift Data Foundation(ODF) - in general kubernetes storage
• (3) RHCOS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) represents the next
• generation of single-purpose container operating system technology for ODF
• workloads.
• (4) LLM, InstructLab, RAG, Ollama, Huggingface, Streamlit, Langachain agentic
• framework

Dec 2020 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Hands on and highly motived gatekeeper for the quality of our cloud security based SaaS product. Leading delivery from (release payload planning, work allocation, team management) -> (deployment to production, proactive production monitoring, facilitate hot fix delivery).
• Enable my team by having very frequent interactions with different stakeholders like PMO, upper management, product managers, SRE, Support, Other team managers.
• Technical leadership to the team on new features, test plan review, propose new testing tools and methodology like AVT, chaos testing etc.
• I also run a 2 week sprint internally with my QA team to prioritise important deliverables.
• Passionate about people and their growth.
• My close friends: ELK, Sumologic, openstack, jenkins, jira, graphana, python, pytest, selenium, kubernetes

Dec 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• cloud security, CASB(SASE), SaaS API protection
• Skills & Tools: Python, pytest, REST API, automation framework, selenium, kafka, redis, openstack, ansible, kubernetes, sumologic, ELK, Jira, Graphana, Jenkins

Apr 2020 – Dec 2020 · 8 mos

• First SDET of the company, building all things from scratch like functional testing framework/activities, non functional testing, tools(test management portal etc) and people. Built a team of 5 SDETs for lending and insurance products.
• Flipkart cofounder Sachin Bansal's second venture to take on BFSI industry.

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aug 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Calm.io gets acquired by Nutanix. Working on Quality and Automation aspects of integrating Calm product to Nutanix family.

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked as SDET on a DevOps automation enterprise product at Calm.
• Skills and Technologies working on
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• Virtualization/cloud provider : AWS,Docker, Openstack, Xenserver, Nutanix, vCenter, Azure
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• Deployment Tools : Chef, Puppet, Salt
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• Build tools : Jenkins
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• Test framework : Python pytest, Selenium with python
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• Operating systems : Ubuntu, Debian, Mac os
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• Languages : Python, Shell scripting
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• VCS/SCM : github
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• Calm.io is a complete DevOps Automation Platform for modern environments comprised of containers, clouds and microservices.
• More info at https://calm.io/

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos

• Product :Media Streaming product division, MCDN servers.
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• Primary Technologies and Skills : Distributed systems, Perl, http, SSL/TLS, Python, ========================= agile,networks, DNS, Selenium with pyunit.
• Tools : Jira, bugzilla, perforce, confluence, wireshark, charles proxy, firefox plugins(>Fire bug >Fire ===== path >HttpFox >ModifyHeaders >toggle cipher suites plugin)
• DB : Postgresql , mysql, sqlite
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• Operating Systems : Linux, Ubuntu, mac os x
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• Secondary Skills : PHP, mysql, apache,html,website development for internal team
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• http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/media-delivery-solutions.html
• http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/media-delivery.html

Aug 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr

Dec 2011 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Worked on Server Virtualization aspect of Power server product called PowerVM Virtual I/O Server(VIOS).
• Specifically worked on
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• > Storage Virtualization : VSCSI, NPIV, USB Virtualization, SAS, clustering, Shared Storage Pools(SSP)
• > Network Virtualization : VLANs, Shared Ethernet Adapter(SEA), EtherChannel
• > Application of Virtualization : Live partition Mobility(LPM), hibernation, Remote Restart
• > Working knowledge on security product of Power server , PowerSC.
• Languges : C, shell scripting(KSH),Expect
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• Tools : Tcpdump, CMVC
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• Operating Systems : Linux, AIX, IBM i , Windows
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Dec 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr

• Software Labs,
• Sytem & Technology Group (STG)
• AIX Development,
• Virtualization, VIOS

Nov 2010 – Dec 2010 · 1 mo · Bangalore

• In Tribyte i worked on Java, Groovy, Hibernate, NetBeans IDE, XML and parsing, Log4J, Lucene search engine, apache and tomcat server in a pumped up start up enviroment.

Aug 2010 – Nov 2010 · 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• I was working as a System Admin Trainee at prestigious Indian Institute of Science(IISc) , Supercomputer Education Research Centre(SERC) department , where i was involved in administration of super computers and many critical servers.