Sivakumar Krishnamurthy

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of experience in technical leadership.
  • Expert in scaling engineering organizations and cloud infrastructure.
  • Proven track record in driving operational excellence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipDevopsCloud ManagementCost OptimizationCloud MigrationInfrastructure ManagementData ManagementCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

AWSAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)AzureBCPBig DataBusiness OwnershipCoachingCommunicationCompliance ManagementComputer ScienceCost ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership

About

A strategic and accomplished technical leader with over 20 years of experience in designing and managing large-scale production platforms and infrastructure for high-growth companies. Proven ability to scale teams, optimize processes, and leverage cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional business outcomes. Expert in scaling engineering organizations from startup to enterprise level, driving excellence, and delivering mission-critical infrastructure solutions that support billions of users globally. Extensive experience in leading Global Capability Centers(GCC), fostering innovation, and driving operational excellence. - Heading Global Capability Center - Proven capability to develop and manage DevOps/Systems Engineering/Technical Operations/Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)/DBA/DataOps teams - Expert in Cost Optimisation for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform - Platform first approach with abstraction over systems so that can manage multi-cloud infrastructure with ease - Mentor and Unleash the potential of team members from being Good to being Great. - Transition from Operations to engineering focussed execution rhythm - Evolve teams, process and technology through various phases of the company growth - Expert in navigating the journey from Data Centers into cloud (AWS,GCP) - Technical leader with razor sharp focus on business impacts for technology projects: Costs, Benefits, Risks and Contingencies to evolve infrastructure as a key business differentiator. - Shift the paradigm from technology focussed to business focussed systems - Build close collaboration and strategic partnership with product, engineering and business leadership teams to improve reliability - Passionate about technical architectures, failure domains, mitigation strategies, disaster recovery/business continuity process, Compliance - Highly involved in Project Management, developing Success Criteria, Impact Analysis, Business Process, Chaos Management, Incident Management and RCA.

Experience

Cloudera

2 roles

India Site Leader / Senior Director - DevOps/SRE/Platform

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Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

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Director - DevOps / SRE

Dec 2020Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Information SecurityMicrosoft AzureLeadership DevelopmentBusiness OwnershipSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Reliability+27

Qubole

Director DevOps/SRE

Feb 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Building the DevOps and Site Reliability team both for India and US
  • Managing the Qubole Data Service product for AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle public clouds.
  • Platform first automation approach with abstraction over systems across multiple clouds
  • Responsible for driving Infrastructure cost to Revenue ratio for AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Driving the culture change with Metrics and Continuous Delivery(CD) as first class citizens
  • Evolving on automation and process for sustainable and scalable production infrastructure
  • management
  • Re-inventing process, automation and technology to scale up from operating one environment to multiple environments
Information SecurityMicrosoft AzureLeadership DevelopmentBusiness OwnershipSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Reliability+21

Zendesk

Senior Manager DevOps

Oct 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Singapore

  • Building and mentoring the DevOps team in Singapore Region for strategic initiatives
  • Migrating the production infrastructure of Zendesk Chat from Data Center to AWS and GCP
  • Manage the operability of Zendesk Chat and Message products for reliability and seamless customer experience along with efficiency at scale.
  • Building partnership with Engineering and Product teams to deliver on business needs
  • Evolve on process, technology and culture as part of the global DevOps leadership team
Information SecurityMicrosoft AzureLeadership DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)ReliabilityLeadership+17

Inmobi

Senior Engineering Manager - DevOps & Data

Aug 2009Oct 2016 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Key Focus Areas
  • Responsible for managing petabyte scale data volumes using Hadoop, Kafka, Storm across multiple data centers
  • Responsible for the Database Engineering team where we are pushing the limits to achieve scale and reliability using PostgreSQL/MySQL/Vertica/AeroSpike
  • Managing AWS infrastructure at InMobi and optimising on their costs with spends exceeding more than million dollars
  • Leading the evolution from managing servers to enabling business at scale
  • Leveraging AWS for elasticity needs for stateless and stateful systems
Information SecurityMicrosoft AzureLeadership DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)ReliabilityLeadership+13

Synopsys

RnD Engineer

Oct 2007Jul 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

LeadershipCommunicationCoachingComputer Science

Enterprisedb software

Software Engineer

Jun 2006Sep 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

CommunicationCoachingComputer Science

Aztecsoft

Developer

Jul 2004May 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

CommunicationComputer Science

Education

University of Madras

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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