Nov 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

May 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr

• Served as a SME/architect to understand the infrastructure requirements for healthcare products. Identified gaps in implementation and proposed changes to make products scalable, secure & highly available.
• Member of the global DevOps Architectural council, responsible for defining the overall architectural vision and the roadmap. Was responsible for setting up the overall architectural vision for the DevOps teams, Driving the teams towards a common platform architecture which enabled better code quality & faster delivery cycles. Streamlined Planning, Roadmaps, Groomed backlogs and helped prioritize tasks and deliverables.
• Instrumental in setting up automation and onboarding processes for CI/CD. Worked closely with IT team to implement resilient and scalable infrastructure both on premise and in the cloud(AWS)
• Lead the Platform and Productive tools team to develop a portal aimed at self service provisioning of projects, pipelines and environments.
• Working with multiple DevOps teams in India, US, China & France. Advised teams on best practices, technology stacks etc for new and existing products. Mentored junior engineers & Interns from the Edison program

Mar 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Managing a team of 9 engineers working on DevOps/CloudOps/SecOps tasks.
• Responsible for the planning, task allocation as well as delivery of milestones on the roadmap.
• Managing automation/monitoring & releases of Internal products to various environments.
• Responsible for DevOps transformation at BHGE in order to achieve Continuous integration as well as continuous delivery.
• Served as a SME/architect to understand the infrastructure requirements for products. Identified gaps in implementation and proposed changes to make products secure & highly available.
• Interfaced with recruitment team to triage, shortlist and interview candidates for the DevOps, CloudOps and SecOps teams.
• Audited Infrastructure and setup Encryption of data at rest and transit such that everything is encrypted by default.
• Onboard extended DevOps teams in Mumbai and Kochi, held regular 1-on-1s with team members (14 members across India) to understand their needs and resolve dependencies/blockers.
• Evangelized open source software & tools.
• Mentored and coached the DevOps/CloudOps team members on best practices, Latest technologies, Certifications etc.
• evaluated technology stacks evaluated tools and products for ROI, Maintainability, learning curve as well as long term support.
• Managed sprints & task allocation via JIRA, maintained extensive documentation on work being done in confluence.
• Worked with diverse set of teams (Dev, QA, Architects, PMs & analytics teams) to obtain technical requirements, create POC's and then implement the same.
• Proposed significant cost reduction/saving by identifying infrastructure components that were not utilized /underutilized.
• Wearing multiple hats of People Leader, Project manager, Scrum master, DevOps engineer, Security engineer, Architect/SME.
• Working with the data science and analytics teams to implement Analytics operations at BHGE.

May 2017 – Mar 2018 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead a team of 3 DevOps engineers & 3 site reliability engineers.
• Responsible for quarterly DevOps roadmap, execution & on time delivery of the same.
• Transitioned applications to container based architecture and subsequently to Rancher 2.0/Kubernetes.
• Provided architectural direction as well as best practices as part of the architecture review board.
• Owned the overall security in AWS & ensured that any security issues found are tracked to resolution in the shortest time possible.
• Log aggregation & unified search via ELK stack. Architecture is able to scale & handle 120 GB worth of logs everyday.
• Responsible for costing & budgeting of cloud infrastructure for the entire organization. Achieved considerable cost savings by reserving nodes & moving workload onto Kubernetes.
• Mentored team members & provided guidance on best practices as well as timely training to prepare them for issues in production environments.
• Instrumental in setting up the CI/CD process as well as streamlining of deployments to all environments.
• Worked with a cross functional team of Devs, QAs and Tech Leads to create a common developer environment setup script which enabled on demand provisioning and deployment of code to test environments.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

• Leading a team of DevOps engineers, Security engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Responsible for Hiring, Reviews/Appraisals and management of the teams.
• Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to effectively scale micro services deployed on AWS.
• Delivery of complex solutions to issues dealing with Architecture, Configuration, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Reliability
• Responsible for Sensu monitoring system and integrated with JIRA, Grafana, Slack and Custom Oncall applications. Over 200 Sensu checks written deployed.
• Implement log aggregation and unified search via ELK stack. Architecture was able to scale and handle Several GBs worth of logs everyday.
• Responsible for cloud costing and budgeting for the entire engineering organisation. Achieved considerable cost savings by using reserved instances as well as time scaling / autoscaling of nodes.
• Created Automation to setup and upgrade UAT environments, Working On demand provisioning and tear down of developer environments.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of Ansible automation, packer images etc to provision and maintain AWS infrastructure
• CI/CD setup and automation to continuously deliver releases UAT and production environments via Jenkins.
• Mentoring senior engineers as well as Junior engineers to provide guidance on best practices as well as smart timely training to prepare them for issues in production environments.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Wrote automation to orchestrate and deploy CloudMunch application onto High availability infrastructure on RedHat/CentOS nodes via Ansible.
• Wrote pre and post deployment tests using ServerSpec to test infrastructure. Setup CI pipelines and RPM repos to continuously deploy and test on every git commit.
• Created and maintained virtual development environment with Shell scripting, Homebrew and Vagrant such that local developer environments mirror production setup.
• Setup monitoring and self healing of critical CloudMunch infrastructure using Sensu and Monit. Setup log forwarding and aggregation using rsyslog, Redis and ELK.
• Wrote scripts in Ruby and Shell to integrate CloudMunch with Slack, JIRA, Ansible and ZenDesk APIs.
• Wrote extensive documentation detailing infrastructure, Deployment methods, support policies, runbooks etc.
• Performed root cause analysis on complex issues. Analyzed and tuned critical infrastructure like Tomcat, Jenkins and web servers to increase performance.
• Performed periodic audits/security scans and patching of any vulnerabilities as well as controlled upgrade of critical resources.
• Mentored teammates, junior engineers and developers on best practices and agile development practices.

Oct 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Migrate projects hosted in internal datacenter to AWS.
• Automate orchestration of AWS based cloud environments using Chef and Ansible. Speed up deployment of applications using Docker.
• Develop custom automation and scripts to generate RPMs and DEBs and sync them to S3 buckets.
• Setup monitoring of cloud environments using Sensu, Cloudwatch and keynote. Setup dashboards using Graphite and Dashing. Setup and maintain log aggregators for internally hosted environments using ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana.
• Manage (Setup, upgrade, migrate) Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines using tools like Jenkins and Go CD. Setup and maintain a local Nexus repository to host Maven artifacts as well as mirror artefacts from other teams in Nokia this reduced build times on developer machines as well as on build server.
• Automate installation and setup of developer environment and tools using Vagrant.

Jul 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked on a testing framework in Java, Groovy and Jbehave (Behavior driven test tool) to test Nokia’s Content moderation REST API. The API makes extensive use of Amazon EC2, SQS & RDS.
• Created Smoke & Integration and end-to-end acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria defined in JIRA stories.
• Triaged incoming bugs and verified bug fixes as well as tracked defect rates, resolution rates and regressions.
• Helped enforced code quality using code reviews & code coverage (Checkstyle, PMD and Cobertura).
• Maintained the teams Dev and Release pipelines on Jenkins
• Helped the team migrate from a local data center to an cloud based setup.

Feb 2011 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Wrote vulnerability signatures / system checks for Windows & UNIX using Java and JESS.
• Researched vulnerability data and created automation using Ruby & Perl to parse and import security advisories in HTML, XML and TXT for BIND9, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash and RHEL.
• Developed, tested and delivered patch Tuesday checks (Microsoft’s monthly patch cycle) each month within the 24 hour SLA
• Triaged bug reports and feature enhancements and tracked them through the complete defect lifecycle.

Nov 2010 – Sep 2011 · 10 mos

• Created automated and manual tests using JUnit, Robot framework, Selenium IDE and other testing tools to test and verify functional and business requirements provided in JIRA stories.
• Maintained documents and reports on tests executed using QMetry and reported on defect rate, regressions & Performance to the QA manager.
• Researched, evaluated and produced cross platform installers to package various distributions of NeXpose (vulnerability assessment suite) using Install4J

Feb 2010 – Nov 2010 · 9 mos

• Created reports for customers using open source reporting software BIRT, Java and NeXpose API.
• Setup and maintained a continuous build system using Apache ANT, Maven, Jenkins and other Continuous integration tools & plugins.
• Performed integration testing of reporting software based on JapserSoft, Apache tomcat & JSP.

May 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Triaged phone calls and emails involving both hardware and software issues and provided technical support to Harvard faculty, staff and students with a resolution rate of 95%.
• Analyzed historical data on support calls from Remedy (Customer management system) and performed root cause analysis to uncover Issues where staff needed to be retrained, support processes improved and self service tools deployed to increase resolution rates and decrease wait times for end users.
• Transitioned about 7000 support documents from an unstructured Wiki (TWiki) to a structured Knowledgebase (Interspire).
• Implemented and maintained an open source groupware server for the SSG group to track shift assignments, tasks and attendance.

Jan 2003 – Aug 2006 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Lead a team of 4 programmers in designing & implementing Customer management system. Warehouse & Supply Chain management system and knowledge management system using Java and PHP.
• Designed and implemented test plans using JUnit & PHPUnit.
• Installed and Maintained Windows 2003 & Red Hat servers. managed and deployed webservers,
• version control, SMTP and Backup services.
• Setup and administered Network switches and hubs.
• Member of a cross-functional team created to test SCSI testing tools in Python and Perl.