Richard P.

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

14+ years of experience in Platform Engineering.
Expert in propagating DevOps culture across teams.
Strong background in cloud infrastructure and automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud InfrastructureAutomationCloud Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApacheArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksBackup ExecBashCentOSCisco Systems ProductsCisco TechnologiesConfluenceContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Data AnalyticsFirewalls

About

Principal Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering with 14+ years experience on a variety of platforms and propagating the DevOps culture. Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on high quality and productivity. Innovative and known for designing solutions tailored to meet the client's needs. Strong fundamentals and interpersonal skills.

Experience

Atlassian

2 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat LinuxAmazon Web Services (AWS)JiraConfluenceAnsible+5

Senior Engineering Manager - DevOps

Apr 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Architecture, IaC, Configuration Management, Automation, Python, CI/CD, Monitoring. Managing the internal infrastructure and automating pipelines.

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat LinuxDevOpsAutomation

Walmart labs

Advanced DevOps Engineer

Apr 2018 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux

Alten calsoft labs

Technical Lead - DevOps

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos · Bangalore

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux

Concur

Senior Production Design Engineer

May 2017 – Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux

Stayzilla

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sep 2016 – Feb 2017 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Manage linux based datacenter servers and services within the AWS cloud. Design and build infrastructure for micro-services, database interactions.
Implementing proactive monitoring.
Backup solution.
Setup automated build/deployment cycle.

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat LinuxCloud Management

Dimension data cbu

Automation Engineer - Senior (DevOps)

Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

Automation of cloud based infrustructure and application deployment using puppet, python, powershell.
Customization of applications like Prognosis, Nimsoft, MediaWiki using Configuration Management Systems like Puppet, Ansible and Python, Powershell.

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux

Cisco

Technical Lead

Jul 2014 – Dec 2014 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux

Bodhtree

Systems Administrator

Apr 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

Solaris and Linux Server Administration.
Custom scripts in bash, perl, expect and python to automate day-to-day tasks.
Automating patch deployment using Config Management Systems like Puppet.
Apache, Cisco Network Collector, Common Services Platform Collector administration.

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux

Ritsnet

Technical Team Lead

Aug 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Goa, India

Deployed multiple network solutions involving complex L2 and L3 design. Traffic segragation using VLANs and Routing. Worked on Cisco, HP and Netgear switches. Configuration of Hardware and Software firewalls like Sonicwall, Fortigate, Shorewall.
Providing custom solutions tailored to the needs of the customer. Examples include Ubuntu fileservers, LTSP thin clients with Windows Server Integration.
Solaris, Linux and Windows Server Administration. Troubleshooting a wide range of issues across different platforms. Setup of blade, rack and cloud servers. Setup and Administration of critical services such as Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010 with DAG, WSS 3.0, Sharepoint Server 2010, Postfix, etc.
Setup of Web Servers (IIS, Apache), MySQL, Monitoring applications such as Nagios, Cacti, Splunk, Snare.
Virtualisation involving Solaris Zones, Containers, LDoms, Xen, VMWare.
Backup solutions - Wbadmin, Symantec Backup Exec, Barracuda Backup Server, ntbackup.
Joined as a 'Systems and Network Administrator', got promoted to the role of a 'Technical Team Lead'

Linux System AdministrationRed Hat Linux