Vikash Kumar

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Expertise in cloud technologies and site reliability engineering.
  • Proven track record in driving organizational change.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps expert in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSite Reliability EngineeringDevops

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAnsibleAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)CCloud ApplicationsCode CoverageData StructuresDistributed SystemsDocker ProductsElastic Stack (ELK)GitGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

About

Seasoned engineering leader having 18 + years of total experience with over 9 years of experience in leading engineering teams in designing ,building and maintaining highly available, scalable, and reliable Infrastructure and Cloud Platform to support modern application architecture. Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps practices, and cloud technologies. Proven track record of driving organizational change, fostering a culture of collaboration, and delivering business value through technology. Strong business and financial acumen with a hands-on approach to solving problems and providing valuable solutions.Have good exposure and understanding of the fintech industry and how the diverse regulatory environment around the world affect the operating landscape of the companies. I am AWS and GCP certified in following areas Solution architect - Professional, Advanced Networking- Speciality Security - Speciality Tools: AWS, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, New Relic, Ansible, Puppet, Loggly, ,zabbix, grafana, ELK,Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Language: Java ,Python,Perl, Database: MySql,Redis,Influx db Web Server: Apache, Node.JS, Nginix,Haproxy

Experience

Fivetran

Senior Engineering Manager, SRE

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)ScalabilityGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Microsoft AzureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon EKS+4

Grab

Senior Engineering Manager- SRE

Jan 2021May 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)ScalabilityAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon EKSLinuxElastic Stack (ELK)+3

Paytm

Engineering Manager - Devops/SRE

Jun 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Noida Area, India

  • I am handling the development of visualisation frameworks for various data points being generated in the system so that better business insights and be derived. Apart from this I am managing the end to end infra platform to take care of different scaling and design challenges in the country's largest payments player
ScalabilityAmazon Web Services (AWS)LinuxElastic Stack (ELK)Network DesignCloud Computing+1

Trulymadly.com

Engineering Manager- DevOps

Jun 2015Jun 2018 · 3 yrs · New Delhi

  • TrulyMadly is a dating app meant for singles to discover like minded singles of opposite sex. It guarantees verified profiles and ensures complete privacy so that 2 persons can’t exchange messages unless both of them has mutually liked each other.
  • The app has around 2 million active users
  • 1 million messages exchanged daily between its matches.
  • My role and contributions:
  • Responsible for developing cloud based solutions for scaling requirements as well as owning the infrastructure deployed on AWS
  • Set up the team and release processes from scratch
  • Was responsible for designing and developing a High Availability architecture for our WebSocket based chat
  • Was instrumental in setting up HA systems with load balancers and auto scaling to meet the scaling challenges for backend
  • Hired, mentored and developed a high performing team
ScalabilityAmazon Web Services (AWS)LinuxCloud ComputingDevOps

Adobe

3 roles

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Feb 2013May 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Was owning the complete build and deployment process for Adobe Document cloud
  • Led the infrastructure migration to AWS
  • Instrumental in building a reporting dashboard for performance parameters of API's upto a very granular level .
  • Played a key part in developing a high performing website
Amazon Web Services (AWS)LinuxCloud Computing

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2009Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Handled the end to end release management of Java Script (ExtendScript) based Software Development Kit which was exposed in Adobe FrameMaker. ExtendScript was the Adobe version of java script developed for exposing Adobe product's functionality through java script API's.
  • Was complete owner for build pipeline management
  • Developed several plugins in ExtrendScript for the customized needs of FrameMaker's customers spanning across geographies
  • Closely worked with product management and various other stakeholders in finalizing and fine tuning the requirements of various features delivered as part of Adobe FrameMaker release
Linux

Senior Software Engineer

May 2006Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Handled the end to end automation of several important features like XML and DITA in multiple releases of Adobe Technical Communication suite and Adobe FrameMaker
  • Integrated the existing automation architecture to daily build environment so that every build automatically gets subjected to an automated sanity test before coming to QA
  • Improved the code coverage of existing regression suite by selectively targeting automation in those areas which lacked automated coverage. The results were analyzed by running a tool "BullsEye" on the instrumented build
Linux

Wipro technologies

Software Engineer

Aug 2004Apr 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked in the Telecom domain as a automation engineer responsible for automating the existing and legacy test cases
  • Was responsible for running and managing the regression suite for testing of the telecom routers.

Education

SJCE , Mysore

B.E — IT

Jan 2000Jan 2004

St.Michaels' High School,Patna

Jan 1997Jan 1999

Gyan Niketan

Jan 1987Jan 1997

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