May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · United Kingdom

• Collaborated with global sales and field teams to support client briefings, product demonstrations, new customer engagements, and RFP responses, providing technical expertise as needed.
• Steered customers to build, transform, and manage their DevOps, Cloud, and Digital platforms using a cloud-native approach.
• Designed secure, robust, and highly available strategic cloud-native solutions, introduced them to cross-functional stakeholders, and influenced solution buy-in across business units.
• Led the migration of on-premises applications to AWS, Azure, and GCP, leveraging cloud-native migration tools and services specific to each platform.
• Directed delivery teams to execute the migration strategy in alignment with defined plans and timelines.
• Engaged stakeholders regularly to communicate progress and proactively incorporated feedback to address potential gaps.

Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Guiding customers to secure container images in container registries, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration platforms and containers in runtime.
• Engaging with worldwide sales and field teams to deliver demos for Qualys Container Security across the geographies.
• Lending a hand to the customers to integrate Qualys Container Security in their CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/DevSecOps platforms.
• Influencing Qualys Container Security product roadmap and recommending new features based on customer use cases and pain points.
• SPOC and SME for Qualys Container Security, working closely with Technical Account Managers for customer on-boarding.

Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr · Netherlands

• Managing and supporting existing Kubernetes environments hosted on AWS using KOPS and providing solutions to various teams to on board their application to Kubernetes Cloud Platform.
• Implemented Kubernetes monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
• for Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Extensively used Helm charts to automate and setup Kubernetes cloud resources like ALB, Hosts records in Route-53, Certificates in AWS.
• Engineered continuous integration and delivery/deployment (CI/CD) pipeline across Kubernetes environments using Gitlab, Artifactory, Helm, Helmfile, Kubernetes and
• Docker-Containers.
• Day-to-day lead the IT operations and development teams through the technical and organizational challenges of Cloud and DevOps transformation.

Oct 2014 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Architecting and engineering solutions around Software Defined Storage (SDS), Highly Scalable Cloud File Systems, Clustering Software, Replication, Virtualization and next generation Disaster Recovery (DR) products.
• Develop Chef Cookbook and Inspec Chef Compliance code to automate product installation, configuration, and verification.
• Supporting IBM GPFS HPC and VERITAS clustering environments on Linux platform using automated methods, configuration management and DevOps tools.
• Validating OS builds and configurations by integrating Chef Compliance profiles in Test- Kitchen.
• Developing Chef Compliance profiles to validate given Chef cookbooks/recipes.

May 2010 – Oct 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Worked on IBM's Storage Virtualization Appliance, SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and responsible for SVC’s testing on different LINUX flavors and VMware vSphere 4.0 and 5.0 virtualization platform.
• Worked closely with Test Architect for designing test strategy, setting the direction for testing product features, planning interoperability testing and recommending test tools and test hardware.
• Responsible for test plan and test case development, test plan planning and resource planning.
• Provided technical leadership, assisted test manager with detailed test planning and test scoping/sizing activities and acted as an interface with development.
• Participated in customer interactions and presented demo to the business partners as required.
• Worked closely with sales team for POC’s

Apr 2008 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · United States / India

• Responsible for the testing of QLogic InfiniBand products, which includes QLogic/Silverstorm InfiniBand switches and HCA’s (Host Channel Adapters).
• Responsible for the testing of OFED (Open Fabric Enterprise Distribution, an OpenSource Foundation for InfiniBand) on Linux platform, which includes HCA drives and ULP’s (Upper Level Protocols) like IPoIB, SRP, VNIC etc.

Aug 2007 – Apr 2008 · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom / Pune, India

• Testing and integrating customized Linux OS builds based on RedHat and SuSE on various hardware platforms which include IBM BladeCenter, HP BladeSystems and Egenera blade farm.
• Integrating Linux OS builds with various SAN, Virtualization and Clustering platforms.
• Having good knowledge of Egenera blade farm, worked on Egenera pservers and vservers. (Hardware virtualization platform)

Mar 2005 – Apr 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Involved in Software Integration and Functional testing of VERITAS Storage Foundation suite which includes products like VxSF, VxVM, VxFS, VCS and VVR.

Nov 2004 – Mar 2005 · 4 mos

• Research and propose alternative Open Source alternatives to standard applications used by the client globally.
• Support Linux distribution, planning and ongoing maintenance of Linux distributions.

Mar 2003 – Nov 2004 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Responsible for providing Unix production server support, monitoring and Administration.