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Ajitabh Pandey

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India29 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over two decades of engineering leadership experience.
  • Expert in transforming engineering culture through automation.
  • Recognized for mentoring high-performance teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Engineering expert with a focus on operational excellence and team leadership.

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Operational ExcellenceStakeholder Management

Other Skills

Cost EngineeringReliabilityPublic CloudAgentic AI DevelopmentAgentic AutomationLarge Language Models (LLM)Statistical InferenceStatistical ModelingStatisticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksResponsible AIMachine LearningThreat ModelingData Analysis

About

I am an accomplished engineering leader with over two decades of experience spanning DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and software engineering. My journey has been fueled by a passion for innovation, learning, and building high-performance teams that drive impactful results. My professional expertise includes transforming engineering culture through automation, CI/CD, and self-service tools to enhance developer productivity. I've successfully led complex projects, such as containerizing search services on Kubernetes, deploying highly available web clusters, and scaling Hadoop infrastructures for data-intensive operations. At Walmart Global Tech India, I spearheaded initiatives that modernized engineering practices while fostering a collaborative, forward-thinking environment. With a strong foundation in academics, including an MBA in Human Resources and Marketing Management and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Mathematics, my educational pursuits reflect my commitment to continuous growth. I’ve earned certifications in ITIL, Azure, and Google Cybersecurity, which complement my hands-on technical expertise. My academic curiosity also extends to authoring publications on traffic balancing, proxy servers, and highly available infrastructure. Beyond my technical roles, I take pride in mentoring teams to thrive in dynamic environments and achieve customer-centric excellence. Recognized as a TechOps Yoda and recipient of multiple organizational awards, I consistently deliver innovation, operational efficiency, and technical rigor across consumer internet, SaaS, and cloud engineering domains. I remain excited about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and building resilient systems that empower organizations and their people to succeed. Let's connect to share ideas, explore synergies, and shape the future of engineering innovation together.

Experience

29 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Walmart global tech india

2 roles

Director Software Engineering

Promoted

May 2022Present · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading the transformation of engineering culture with a forward-looking mindset, emphasizing enhanced developer productivity through a combination of automation, self-service tools, and CI/CD.
Operational ExcellenceStakeholder ManagementCost EngineeringReliabilityPublic Cloud

Senior Manager II, Engineering

Jul 2018Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Spearheaded the containerization and deployment of all search services on Kubernetes with integrated CI/CD, automated regression & performance tests, and canary deployment.
Operational ExcellenceStakeholder ManagementCost EngineeringReliabilityPublic Cloud

Logmein

2 roles

Senior Manager, Engineering (Cloud Engineering)

Promoted

Feb 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • GetGo Software Technologies (a wholly owned subsidiary of Citrix R&D) was merged with LogMeIn as on 1st Feb 2017. With this merger LogMeIn has grown to become one of the world’s leading SaaS companies with products such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining, GoToMyPC, JoinMe, LastPass and many more in its portfolio.
  • LogMeIn is simplifying how people connect to their colleagues, employees, devices and the world around them to solve some of the world’s most complex problems. It is one of world’s biggest SaaS companies with revenues in excess of US $1 billion.
  • I lead multiple teams within Technical Operations (Core Technology Group).
  • Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Team has a focus on validating the next/new infrastructure technologies. The team also designs and develops tools/platforms that automate repetitive manual processes and provide a consolidated infrastructure view.
  • Real-Time Communication Infrastructure, Operations and Development team manage infrastructure and applications to manage audio traffic. In addition to this, the team works as Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) to iron out inter-provider telephony issues.
Operational ExcellenceStakeholder ManagementReliabilityPublic Cloud

Manager 2, Product Development (Technical Operations)

Nov 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Part of Technical Operations team at Citrix Mobility Apps Business Unit which was later spin-off as GetGo Software Technologies in Aug 2016 and then later on merged with LogMeIn as on 1st Feb 2017.
  • I have built strong Infrastructure Engineering, Real Time Communication and Cloud Application Services (DevOps) Teams at Bangalore in order to provide round the clock engineering and operational support for the world class SaaS products - GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining, GoToMyPC, GoToWebcast.
  • I was awarded TechOps Yoda in July 2016 for nurturing innovation and faster delivery & execution.
Operational ExcellenceStakeholder ManagementReliabilityPublic Cloud

Yahoo!

Engineering Manager (Production Engineering, Platforms and Cloud)

Jan 2010Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • I worked with the Production Engineering and Operations organization at Yahoo. As a production engineer we engage with the product engineering team at the design state of the product and help them with an appropriate scalable architecture. We work as consultants to the product engineering team at every stage of the product life cycle.
  • Platforms Group is a premier group at Yahoo, running the core production infrastructure including the Developer Productivity Services, Yahoo Infrastructure Services, Unix Infrastructure Services, OpenStack, Monitoring Services and Performance Platforms.
  • I have build strong technical teams and have managed several critical projects for the company.
  • One of my teams have been awarded the prestigious "A Night on The Town" award for the exemplary performance demonstrated during some of the critical projects. In addition to this all of my team members have been recognized individually for their performance and have been awarded spot bonuses from the senior leadership.
  • Before joining the platforms, I was working with the User Data and Analytic group managing the Audience Analytic Infrastructure and Applications. The infrastructure comprised of 6 large Torque clusters (altogether 1200 process instances on 250 nodes and 2500 NP transforming/aggregating around 8TB data per day). We transitioned from the legacy Torque based infrastructure to three large Hadoop Clusters (2000 nodes per cluster).
Operational ExcellenceStakeholder ManagementReliability

Barclays global investors / blackrock

Consultant

Sep 2007Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Fransisco, London, Singapore

  • I have worked as a Consultant through ITC Infotech India Ltd. in the Unix Infrastructure Operations team at Barclays. Over a period of 2.5 years I handled various projects including Unix Patching/Upgrade Project and Unix Operations Support.

Itc infotech india ltd.

IT Consultant

Feb 2007Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • ITC Infotech is a global IT Services company wholly owned by ITC Ltd. During the period I worked with ITC Infotech, I was engaged with two of their major clients such as British American Tobacco, Barclays Global Investors at Bangalore, San Francisco, London and Singapore.
  • For British American Tobacco offshore development center at Bangalore, I have designed and implemented monitoring for Lotus/Domino servers using Nagios which replaced an expensive commercial product resulting in cost savings.
  • As a process consultant I have designed and streamlined various unix operational processes thus enabling the client Barclays Global Investors to move global unix operations to Singapore resulting in cost savings.

Red bee media

Linux Systems Administrator

Sep 2005Jan 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos · Eailing, London, UK

  • Broadcasting Dataservices (BDS) was a wholly owned subsidiary of BBC Broadcast, part of BBC group. BBC Broadcast was subsequently acquired by Red Bee Media. BDS is a leading specialist broadcasting listings bureau providing TV and radio listings to the highest standard on behalf of both broadcasters and publishers. The company has a database of over 1200 radio and T.V. channels and supply data to over 14 Electronic Program Guides (EPG).
  • During my tenure at BDS, I have exclusively provided support for RHEL production database and application servers. I have worked on setting up a load balanced & highly available cluster of web services cluster for high profile BBC iPlayer project. I have implemented and tested a limited BCP setup and have designed and implemented an automated server build and configuration management system for the production servers.

British airways

Consultant (Support Analyst)

Dec 2003Sep 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos · Waterside, London, UK

  • I worked as a Consultant Support Analyst with the BA.COM Support team.
  • During this period, I was involved in production support of the BA.COM Infrastructure. Comprising of Apache and Weblogic running over Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. I was also involved in migrating the web server and WebLogic layers to Linux from Solaris and have automated several manual processes.

Niit ltd. / niit technologies ltd.

Territory Technical Executive, IS Analyst, Consultant

Jan 1999Sep 2005 · 6 yrs 8 mos

  • Ensured adoption of the education delivery process across 70 education centers in North India.
  • Training Need Identification for the Faculty members and arrange/conduct ToT courses.
  • Audit the education delivery process for the education centers and also ensure that the support is provided to the centers as per ISO 9000:1994 standards.
  • Successfully implemented the in-house student management system across the North region.
  • As an Consultant analyst for British Airways helped migrate the web server layer of E-commerce platform to RHEL from Solaris and automated several manual processes.

Elcee education pvt. ltd.

System Software Administrator

Jul 1996Dec 1998 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Lucknow, India

  • Training Students and key corporate clients on C/C++, Advanced Unix Programming
  • Administered SCO Unix , Novel Netware and Sybase Servers.

Hiltron-calc

Senior Faculty

Jan 1996Apr 1996 · 3 mos · Lucknow, India

  • • Training Students and Corporate Clients on C, COBOL, Foxpro

Education

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Human Resources Management and Marketing Management

Jan 2013Jan 2016

SHIA P.G. COLLEGE, SITAPUR ROAD

B.Sc.

Aug 1992Jul 1995

Kendriya Vidyalaya

All India Senior School Certificate Examination (12th Class) C.B.S.E.

Jun 1991May 1992

Kendriya Vidyalaya

All India Secondary School Examination (10th Class) — C.B.S.E.

Jun 1989May 1990

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

Master of Arts

Jan 2024Present

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