Jan 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Brabantine City Row

• Software Configuration Manager (On Secondment) part of the program that delivers the next generation map from the cloud to the car to enable automated driving functions. I was responsible for the tooling infrastructure and environment supporting Life cycle management processes; requirements-, configuration- and test management. This will enable Autonomous Driving products to be built in consistent and repeatable way.
• Tooling: Jira, Bitbucket, Artifactory, SonarQube, Jenkins/Azure DevOps, Azure, Intland CodeBeamer ALM, Nexus, Blackduck, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Responsibilities:
• Developing the optimal design of the ALM tools for supporting the business processes for embedded systems engineering.
• Create the plan for life-cycle management in the program
• Select, setup and maintain the tools for configuration, requirements and test management
• Support the design and implementation for CI/CD for the services in Azure cloud utilizing container technologies (ACR/AKS).
• Setup and maintain the project repository structures in the configuration management system.
• Participate in the deployment and monitoring of micro-services in the development, test and production Azure cloud instances.
• Report on DevOps performance indicators.
• Maintain the configuration management procedures that defines the CM policies and processes.
• Facilitating other autonomous driving programs to setup their infrastructure for life cycle management.
• Coordinate on configuration management related matters with other departments.

Dec 2017 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Brabantine City Row

• IT Architect for implementation of Application lifecycle management suite within PACCAR INC.
• Tooling: IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (Rational Doors Next Generation, Rational Team Concert), SVN, GIT, Jenkins etc. Also seamless integration towards HP Quality Center, Matlab / Simulink, Rational Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect.
• Development Methodology: V-model, Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262
• Responsibilities:
• Developing the optimal design of the ALM tools for supporting the business processes for embedded systems engineering.
• Deployment and maintenance of IBM CLM, Atlassian Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Artifactory, Docker within PACCAR, including the information and application architecture that is tailored.
• Led migration of SVN to GIT in order to align with overall ALM architecture across V-model.
• Implemented the solutions for integrating tools in order to achieve end to end traceability.
• Implemented high availability topology for tooling along with robust application performance monitoring using Splunk.
• Defined the high level architecture and facilitated role to maintain and realize the ALM roadmap.
• Introducing CI/CD/Devops Methodologies for embedded software development in PACCAR.
• Defining high level architectural plan (POC) for migrating on-premise applications/components to the cloud (Azure) and defining over all cloud roadmap.

Mar 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Brabantine City Row

• Software Configuration Manager (Secondment from TMC) for Philips Innovation Services. Products are being developed according to SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and Teams working on these projects are located in various geographies.
• SCM Tooling: Jenkins 2.0 (Pipeline), Groovy, Microsoft TFS Suite, GIT, Atlassian suite, Artifactory, Docker, xCode Macintosh, Gradle, Android Studio, TICS and Collabnet TeamForge.
• Responsibilities:
• Work with engineering management, software architects, and developers to define, deploy, and enforce configuration management policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Active contribution and steering of all aspects of agile software development related to configuration management, build management, and release management.
• Maintain the build management environment, including set-up of the infrastructure, creating branches and builds, and trouble shooting.
• Define software build processes, tools, and scripts used to build and compile codes into executable artifacts (for Android and iOS) and subsequently package executable artifacts into deployable installation packages to Apple store and Google playstore.
• Ensure the integrity of software build and release processes so as to guarantee that builds and releases are managed, predictable, configuration controlled, repeatable, and auditable
• Identify and deploy best practices tools and methodologies to improve developer productivity and maximize efficiency of SW development and engineering resources.
• Work with development managers to ensure that all aspects of the software development, tools validation, build, and release environment is compliant with medical device regulations (e.g: FDA) of various geographies.
• Work with engineering management, project managers, and developers to identify areas of opportunity for process improvement, automation, and standardization of tools and/or processes.

Jan 2012 – Feb 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• SCM Tooling: Rational Clearcase, Rational Clearquest, Rational Team Concert, Rational Build Forge, Rational Quality Manager, JAMA Contour, Jenkins HA, JIRA, RRDI, Crucible, Confluence, SVN Multisite.
• Responsibilities:
• Managing worldwide engineering instances of SCM tools used organization wide.
• Maintain procedures and tasks to keep the tools functioning properly. Perform data maintenance (archive old data, clean up stale data), ensure integrity of data, applying patches and updates, upgrading tools to the latest versions, and perform backup restore testing.
• Provide SCM directions and governance in the design, planning, and implementation of standards, processes, policies and methods using SCM tools for nearly 50 development programs.
• Tools Permission request, License management, application support and troubleshooting. Triaging user scenarios to identify root cause of problems and providing a resolution.
• Creating processes to support tool selection and analysis. Evaluating Tools for worldwide engineering and present proof of concept to worldwide management.
• Gather tool requirements, Research tool solutions, Tool POCs, and develop architectural patterns for tool usage.
• Created a solution for integration of projects between JAMA Contour and JIRA.
• Design tools workflows, design reporting/dashboard solutions, identify best practices for Tools usage, and design tools Integrations.
• Scheduling meetings and feedback sessions with worldwide engineering teams (3000+ users) to ensure appropriate support is available to users for SCM tools and services.
• Develop Training materials and delivering classroom trainings to Worldwide Engineering teams about usage of Tools and enabling them to utilize tool’s full capabilities and functionalities.

Oct 2011 – Jan 2012 · 3 mos · India

• Founded one of the fastest growing travel portals of India with 35K+ active users a month and 26K+ Followers on Viber. Thinking Particle has been featured by many known publications.
• Travel Writing, Travel Photography, Search Engine Optimization,Web Marketing,
• Website Development- Drupal, Apache Tomcat, SQL, Linux
• Brand development, Web site traffic growth, Web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.
• Drafting privacy policies, copyrights policies.
• Was interviewed by various known travel brands and entrepreneurship forums.

Jan 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Assisting worldwide IBM customers on various technical issues related to IBM Rational tools.
• Managing instances of IBM Jazz tools for providing demo and training to internal and external users.
• Managed RTC and Build forge deployments for nearly 1000 Engineers of IBM Software Labs.
• Performing upgrade, backup and other maintenance activities on IBM Jazz tools.
• Working on tools integration and automation of SDLC activities.
• Consulting on branching strategies, configuration items identifications, source code management, change Management, build and release management, vendor product management, definitive software library management and other aspects of software configuration management.
• Organizing and conducting tools adoption workshops and providing best-practice recommendations.
• Closely working with IBM customers on Rational tools for achieving continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• SCM (Software Configuration Management) Analyst for ANZ Bank in Australia on an assignment.
• Led a team of deployment engineers for building environments, management and support.
• Defining and managing SCM plans and environment (Dev, Prod, QA) management plans.
• Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving problems with the build process and ensure the release has been accepted by all parties.
• Developing and presenting Rational User Experience material for IBM conferences
• Delivering sessions and technical trainings for promoting Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Build forge, Rational Asset Manager and other Rational Tools.
• Technology Evangelist:
• Delivered One month Classroom training on Rational Build Forge enablement.
• QSE Speaker on “Continuous Integration and Automation using Rational Build Forge”.

Aug 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Provide technical support to Worldwide IBM DB2 UDB Customers.
• Resolve critical production down issues that directly affect lines of business.
• Understand complex customer database environments.
• Maintain high customer satisfaction by providing high quality support and setting and meeting customer expectations.
• Create technical documentation around best practices (white papers, tech notes).
• Visit client site to help trouble shoot extremely complex and complicated database issues.
• Defect identification and fixing, special build and debug build delivery to customer.
• Technology Evangelist:
• Delivered a session on DB2 Troubleshooting tools to HSBC India Employees.