Dec 2022 – Nov 2023 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Part of the Leadership group at MerkleScience; where we are building the next generation of enterprise grade Blockchain risk management and compliance platforms.

May 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading technology enabled business transformations, including but not limited to fintech and media

Mar 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading developer productivity, SRE and Cybersecurity initiatives for VISA Data Platform teams. Building and growing a strong engineering team across US and India offices focusing on self service systems, tools and automation capabilities.
• Multiple trade secrets granted to team for the work done in the area.

Jun 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• Managing an SRE team for DWH and Hadoop Infrastructure at LinkedIn. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Driving/Evangelizing SRE culture in the teams
• Growing/Mentoring the team
• Identifying and culling down on operational heavy tasks by replacing them with relevant automation
• Put in tooling in place for deployments,best practices and influencing stakeholders
• Cost and resource optimizations

Aug 2016 – May 2017 · 9 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Incubating a DevSecOps culture across the organisation and building the tooling for the same. Responsible for:
• Implementing best DevSecOps practices <securing SCM/Artifact storage systems, SCM branching and artifact versioning, build pipelines etc>
• Ownership of SCM systems
• Setting up the centralized build and code quality systems
• Experimenting/helping the engineering <dev/test> teams with containers and ephemeral test environments <using Docker/Kubernetes/compose>
• Building check-in to production artifactory capable build pipelines
• iOS and Android build pipelines for the Hike Messenger App
• Coaching and mentoring teams

Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Evangelizing/Establishing Release Engineering cadence across the organization
• Setting up SCM, Build and Release Infrastructure
• Defining Change Management process across the organization
• Building Automated Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment pipelines for different software stacks
• Hiring/Grooming team for Release Engineering and automation
• Automated systems to capture code/release quality metrics at various levels in SDLC
• Environment management using various tools (Chef,Opsworks,Docker)
• Automating everything I can get on my hands :)

Apr 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Optimising software build systems and processes at InMobi
• Designing automated systems to capture code/release quality metrics at various levels; and publishing the same across the organisation
• Exploration into software build philosophies and latest tooling
• Coordinating end-to-end testing for various cross stack projects

Jan 2012 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Delivering quality platforms for inMobi ad network
• Designing and coding automation frameworks
• CI and white box analysis

Apr 2011 – Jan 2012 · 9 mos

• Designing automation frameworks for various QA verticals
• Frontend and backend technology test automation frameworks
• CI onboarding for different teams

Jul 2010 – Mar 2011 · 8 mos

• Delivering quality on endless/Javari; Amazon owned apparel solutions
• UI Automation using selenium/testNG

Apr 2010 – Jul 2010 · 3 mos

• Developing and maintaining automation for Video platform projects

Jul 2007 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Member of Video Platform Group
• Delivering quality on scalable CDNs and Video Transcoding systems
• Test Automation using TestNG and PHPUnit