Vikas Krishnia

Director of Engineering

Rajasthan, India17 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of leadership in engineering and product development.
Expertise in cloud-native solutions and performance engineering.
Strong focus on team growth and agile methodologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on performance engineering.

Contact

krishnia2004@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingProduct ManagementPerformance EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWS Cloud technologiesAgileAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application servers tuningArchitectureCContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DatabasesDevOpsDockerDynatraceGarbage collectionGlobal DeliveryGrafanaHeap dump analysis

About

- 17 years' experience in Leadership, Product Development, Performance Engineering and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering). - Hiring the right team with a key focus on fostering an environment that promotes professional growth for all team members. - Expertise in technologies and architecture for highly scalable and available environments. - Deep understanding and knowledge of cloud computing and containerization. - Developed a cloud-native "platform as a service" product using Kubernetes operators and AWS. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences. - Proficient in agile and scrum methodologies. - Strong interest in emerging engineering and leadership trends, and high emotional intelligence. - Collaborate with product teams to define requirements, assess feasibility, estimate engineering efforts, and identify risks and mitigation strategies. - Engage with architecture teams on product design and work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure successful product launches.

Experience

Acquia

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Engineering Manager

Dec 2020 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Lead team to design and deliver highly available software leveraging AWS Cloud technologies.
Build teams & instilled trust based engineering culture to deliver SaaS and PaaS products.
Owned product tech debt and set quarterly OKRs to collaborate with product and architecture to plan and deliver product in an agile way.
Planned and monitored work schedules and work with multiple and teams to stay aligned with organization roadmap and priorities.
Strong focus in mentoring and developing skills and talents of team members.
Provided technical guidance, proactively resolved technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design decisions to avoid them with SRE mindset.
Followed architectural guidelines set by the architecture team.
Set short and medium-term strategic technical directions for 6-12 months and identified top prioritized and planned delivery.

AWS Cloud technologiesSaaSPaaSAgileArchitectureCloud Computing+1

Tsys

Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Build a team of 25 engineers, empowering SRE practices across Issuing vertical of TSYS.
Pushed for continuous improvement in operational performance - focus on root cause analysis, driving improvements to SDLC processes, requirements, engineering and SRE to consistently meet best in class engineering and operational metrics.
Started Observability team leveraging open source technologies based on InfluxDb, Grafana and Prometheus.
Worked on cutting edge technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Python.
Build performance testing frameworks for automating microservices and database performance testing. Lead performance engineering and SRE initiatives.

SRE practicesSDLC processesDockerKubernetesJenkins CI/CDPython+2

Orange business services

Lead Software Engineer

Mar 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Performance engineering strategy planning, design and execution.
Good experience in tuning application servers, JVM, Garbage collection, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis.
Experience in component level testing to identify performances issues at early stage of SDLC.

Performance engineeringApplication servers tuningJVMGarbage collectionHeap dump analysisPerformance Engineering+1