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Shishir A.

CTO

Delhi, India15 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps.
  • Expert in building automation-first, self-healing systems.
  • Strong focus on mentoring and team collaboration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Site Reliability Engineering expert in the Fintech industry with a strong DevOps background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDevopsRelease ManagementAutomationCloud MigrationConfiguration ManagementContinuous IntegrationDeployment Planning

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleAutomated DeploymentsBashBuild ToolsCI CDChange ProcessCloud EnvironmentsCloud-native environmentsContainerizationContinuous BuildContinuous Improvement

About

I am an Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and Infrastructure — building and leading high-performing teams that deliver resilient, scalable, and business-critical platforms. My background spans both hands-on technical expertise and strategic leadership, enabling me to translate reliability goals into measurable business outcomes. As an SRE Manager, I specialize in defining and executing strategies that improve availability, scalability, and operational excellence across cloud-native and hybrid environments. I have led teams through modernization journeys — from monolithic deployments to Kubernetes-based microservices, from manual provisioning to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and from reactive monitoring to AI-driven observability and automation. I bring strong experience in CI/CD, release management, and large-scale platform reliability, ensuring faster delivery cycles without compromising stability. With expertise in tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, Splunk, and AppDynamics, I guide teams in building automation-first, self-healing systems that reduce downtime and improve customer trust. Beyond technology, I focus on people and culture: mentoring engineers, driving incident response excellence, embedding SRE principles across organizations, and fostering collaboration between development and operations. I believe in empowering teams to experiment, learn, and continuously improve, while aligning with frameworks such as NIST 800-34, ISO 22301, and Google’s SRE best practices. My mission: to build resilient systems and resilient teams that keep businesses always available, customers always confident, and innovation always moving forward.

Experience

Expedia

2 roles

Engineering Leader driving SRE & Platform Reliability across multi-region systems

Promoted

Oct 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · .

Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform ReliabilityCloud-native environmentsKubernetesDevOps

Build Release and Configuration Engineer

Jul 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · .

  • Responsible for access control and source code management using Perforce / Github
  • Managing Continuous Integration using Jenkins ( Included Jenkins Adminstration)
  • Managing and supporting various Environments ( End2End, Test, PreProd)
  • Handling manual and automated deployments throughout the lab
  • Migrating existing manual deployments to Automated deployments using Tools and scripts
  • Handling Windows patching within Lab servers
  • Managing Netscalers and IP assignment
  • Provisioning and managing VMs using VMware
  • Handling Cloud environments ( AWS and OpenStack)
  • Configuration Management with Chef
  • Managing Netscalers and Load balancing
  • VM provsioning using VMware
  • Managing application deployment on AWS and Open Stack clouds
  • Ensuring access to AWS VPC using authorized keys ( Keys generation using Chef and user management).
  • Managing monitoring on lab servers using SCOM MP packs and NAGIOS
  • Automating existing manual deployments using Jenkins, TFS, Orchestrator.
  • Managing Access using LDAP integration to Jenkins, Perforce, TFS.
Continuous IntegrationSource Code ManagementAutomated DeploymentsConfiguration ManagementCloud Environments

Paypal

Release Engineer

Nov 2014 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · .

  • Part of the Release engineering and management team.
  • Automating tasks.
  • Creating Pipelines for build and deployment
  • Configuration Management
  • Migration of application/Tools to Cloud from Data Centers
  • Creating monitoring and Alerts for applications and infrastructure.
  • POC on new tools to be incorporated.
  • Designing a release platform for onboarding applications as they are created.
  • Followup with business and tech teams, Triage issues
  • Track progress of big projects/Releases
  • Agile project management from inceptions to retrospective, continuously keeping stakeholders informed
  • Owning team meetings and team output.
  • Creating and sharing Performance metrics
  • Responsible for Release Management operations.
  • Performing Release Project Management tasks.
  • Maintain the CI builds and pipeline
  • Planing, Scheduling the releases, the teams involved, estimating, ensuring timely sign offs from QA teams
  • Creating user stories from business requirements, prioritizing the task and scheduling deliveries.
  • Coordination of multiple application release simultaneously.
  • Managing Production releases
  • Engaging all stake holders for a success plan and execution of a release
  • Managing CAB meetings
  • Performing Production releases, live site support and related production tasks.
Release EngineeringAutomationPipelinesConfiguration ManagementMonitoringAgile Project Management+1

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

Build and Release Engineer

Jan 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Manage all aspects of the end to end release process
  • Update service knowledge management system
  • Signing off the release package for implementation
  • handled service roll out planning including method of deployment
  • Building the final release delivery
  • Managing successful deployment to weekly release to Lab, UAT, Prod servers
  • Representing Release team in CAB meetings
  • Provide feedback and corrective actions after every release
  • Record metrics for deployment to ensure within agreed SLAs
  • User documentation
  • Support documentation, including service desk scripts
  • Data management, including archiving
  • Build, deliver and maintain required testing environments
Release Process ManagementService Knowledge ManagementDeployment PlanningUser DocumentationRelease Management

Release Environment Engineer Trainee

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

  • Manage all aspects of the end to end release process
  • Update service knowledge management system
  • Signing off the release package for implementation
  • handled service roll out planning including method of deployment
  • Building the final release delivery
  • Managing successful deployment to weekly release to Lab, UAT, Prod servers
  • Representing Release team in CAB meetings
  • Provide feedback and corrective actions after every release
  • Record metrics for deployment to ensure within agreed SLAs
  • User documentation
  • Support documentation, including service desk scripts
  • Data management, including archiving
  • Build, deliver and maintain required testing environments
Release Process ManagementService Knowledge ManagementDeployment PlanningRelease Management

Education

IEC College of Engineering & Technology

Master of Computer Applications — Computer Science

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

Institute of Technology & Science

Bachelor of Computer Applications — Computer Science

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007

St. Joseph’s school

Higher Secondary — Science

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004

st josephs school

high school — science

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002

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