Srikanth Janardhan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Innovative leader with 13+ years in software engineering.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Expert in delivering complex software projects efficiently.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on quality assurance and team leadership.

Contact

srikanth.janardhan@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringTeam ManagementSystems EngineeringTeam LeadershipInfrastructure ManagementPerformance EngineeringProduct StrategyTest AutomationProduct DevelopmentQuality ManagementQuality AssuranceAutomation EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

AJAXAgile Software QualityAgile methodologiesAnsibleAutomated testsAutomationAutomation framework designCC++CSSContinuous deliveryCypressDiagnosticsEclipseGo (Programming Language)

About

Innovative and Passionate Software Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience in Distributed software development, Performance engineering, Agile Software Quality & test automation. 5+ years in management - taking over established 25+ member teams as well as starting new teams from scratch Proven track record of building nimble motivated teams and delivering exponential business value. Successful in consistently delivering complex and large software projects through ingenious innovation and implementing strategies across Product, Processes, People and Tools Blog on Software Reliability: https://www.rubrik.com/blog/architecture/24/5/behind-the-scenes-how-rubriks-system-engineers-deliver-confidence-to-its-customers

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Rubrik

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager, NAS CD

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Transitioned from a supporting role (Quality and infra) to have direct impact on Product and Core engineering for protecting Unstructured data:
Bootstrapping and setting up a new team from scratch out of India for Unstructured data protection, where business is growing at an exponential pace! Read more about it here: https://www.rubrik.com/solutions/nas

LeadershipPerformance engineeringAgile Software QualityTest automationSoftware EngineeringTeam Management

Senior Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led a team of 20+ along with a manager reporting to me for the Systems Engineering charter – domain expertise, infrastructure and tooling for delivering reliability
◊ Drove a massive internal transformation with smaller teams and forums, pure agile practices with a clear vision & strategy to achieve 2x velocity, high quality and high engagement (80%+) with a product development mindset for all tooling and infrastructure
◊ Pivoted the Systems Engineering and identified a number of projects to work on the next generation of Infra and tooling with advanced auto-learning capabilities, with many new platforms being developed
◊ Ideated from scratch and executed major project to get to 99.9% guaranteed workloads with the Stable Workloads Infra at massive scale by incorporating team’s domain knowledge into tooling with use of Packer, Ansible, self-healing, monitoring, Snowflake and Tableau.
◊ Led the development of 10x better Auto Triage of all failures (100k+ per day). In addition, speed up of all infra
◊ Active Performance management of immediate & broader team to achieve team’s latent potential and development

Agile methodologiesInfrastructureToolingReliabilitySystems EngineeringTeam Leadership

Cloudera

3 roles

Senior Manager

Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 · 4 mos

Responsibilities include planning, mentoring & coaching, hiring, product strategy, performance management, test automation (Python - Pytest, Javascript - Cypress, Protractor), framework development, shipping the various releases, defining clear OKRs, improving delivery using agile methodologies, improving & increasing tests based on historical escalations, optimizing quality processes, generating ideas and more!
Release lead for on-prem releases of CDP in On-Prem and Private Cloud form-factor across multiple teams and core member in interactions with PgM, PM, Dev, Docs et al
Led the development of MeterGuru – a software service that brought visibility and a path to improve Metering test coverage for all network configurations and lifecycle operations in the public cloud

Test automationPerformance managementAgile methodologiesProduct StrategyTeam Management

Manager, Engineering

Aug 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Leading a team of 12+ engineers for the quality of Platform & Operations area of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) involving Cloudera Manager, Control Plane in Private Cloud, Management Console in Public Cloud, Cloudbreak, Connectivity Access Management, HDI, and Apache Ambari on the Hybrid cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, Openshift, RKE and on-prem.
Led the upgrade/migration quality & automation efforts from legacy CDH and HDP to CDP which involved collaborating with more than 30 software products with only 2% escaped defects
Bootstrapped and set up the team from scratch for the Control Plane in Private Cloud involving deployment, monitoring, diagnostics, and upgrade of K8s based Data Services
Delivered agile releases on Public Cloud from 2 weeks to 2 days by improving the delivery pipeline with same quality
Led the initiative to gather insights based on customer escalations and code coverage and improved test coverage by 30% (including resiliency)
Mentored two interns to develop a new simplified way to test using Model-Based Testing and automated resource optimizations in Public and Private Cloud leading to 30% cost reduction

Quality AssuranceAutomationAgile methodologiesQuality ManagementTeam Leadership

Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos

Post the merger with Cloudera, leading the release activities of Cloudera manager in the new Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) on the Public Cloud (AWS, Azure)
Delivering the automation framework design for Cloudera Manager UI & API tests from scratch and setting up new process for various activities.
Continuing to lead the efforts for HDInsight certification for Azure as well as on-prem Ambari maintenance releases

Automation framework designRelease managementTest AutomationQuality Assurance

Hortonworks

Senior Software Engineer in Test

Jun 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

Key contributor in all quality related release activities of Apache Ambari in the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) from 2.6 to 3.0 by contributing automated tests, troubleshooting issues and reporting defects in the product
Developed an entire UI automation framework from scratch to support deployment of HDP, reducing the time to deploy by 50%
Developed a performance engineering framework for Ambari with mock-agents and certified scalability for 5000+ nodes
Mentored an intern in a project “KingKong” focused on Chaos Engineering to identify and rectify fault tolerance related functionality in Ambari
Managed the relationship on the Ambari with Microsoft for close to a year leading to high-quality bi-weekly releases to Azure HDInsight
Contributor to Apache Ambari project

Automated testsTroubleshootingPerformance engineeringQuality AssuranceTest Automation

Cisco systems

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – Jun 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Delivered Quality in a continuous manner by focusing on automation of 90+% of API, UI and Smartphone-based functional and e2e tests and reporting defects on-time
Developed a continuous delivery pipelines to speed up the delivery of quality software by 50%
Developed Zippy – Automation framework for Selenium Grid based projects which improved team productivity of automation scripting by 50%. The framework won the People’s Choice Award in San Jose, CA
Helped benchmark the performance of all applications by simulating load using Jmeter as well as developing custom mocks & simulators
Involved in the full cycle of software development for 4 critical projects related to IOT / Smart Connected Communities domain involved in Building and workspace automation, Telepresence
Presented Talks on current trends in Devops @ Unconference 2016, London

AutomationContinuous deliveryPerformance benchmarkingSoftware DevelopmentQuality Assurance