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Prajith Bhaskaran

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led global teams in cloud platform engineering.
  • Expert in site reliability engineering and cloud transformation.
  • Proven track record in delivering multi-million dollar savings.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Leader with expertise in SAAS and Site Reliability Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringCloud Platform ArchitectureCloud Production EngineeringSaas OperationsGlobal It InfrastructureGlobal Infrastructure Leadership

Other Skills

Platform engineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Technology thought leadershipKubernetesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Agile Project ManagementFinopsData CentersAopRecruitingGlobal DeliveryAIOpsAgentic AIAgile development

About

Prajith is a Seasoned IT Techno-functional agile transformational Global Leader & Strategist with a proven track record leading IT & OT Architecture, transformation & Platform engineering(Multi/Hybrid Cloud & DC/Co-loc), SRE, Governance, Service delivery, DevSecOps & FinOps practices. In a career spanning 2 decades, Prajith headed multi-geo groups in Sr. Leadership roles (NA, EMEA, APAC, China) Fortune 500/Startups/Scale ups - Leading Global Banks (ANZ, ING), Hyper Scale Product Engineering/SAAS/IoT/ Cybersecurity (JFrog, Honeywell, ColorTokens), International Retail & eCommerce (The Childrens Place),Telco(Reliance JIO) across Operational technology, Engineering & Enterprise IT infra services His Core Specialties includes: - STRAP, Roadmap, Investment planning, technology selection & AOP - Solid business acumen & effective price-performance ratio adherences - Solution design, architecture, optimization & operational governance - Solutions & tech stack selections, managed services & vendor assessment plus selection - Hybrid multi-cloud computing & transformation(Public & Private, IAAS,PAAS), AWS, Azure, GCP - Enterprise DC setup/transformation & mgmt - SAAS design, architecture & governance - Constitute site reliability engineering(SRE) groups & implementing principles, frameworks, technologies in areas as HA, SPOF, self-healing, Chaos engineering, SLO/Error Budgets, toils minimised, DR,/BCP Data protection & virtualisation/orchestrated containers. - Constitute DevSecOps, agile strategies enabled via Infra as code, microservices/containerisation CI/CD pipeline, blue-green/Canary deployments - Cloud/IT FINOPS (delivered Multi Million$$ Savings @ multiple orgs) & resource augmentation mgmt. -Establish, build & expand global talent powerhouse -Develop service & system availability, resilience, continuity, high performance, distributed architecture, intent based capacity & elasticity -Observability & instrumentation strategies -Platform & APM -Service delivery, system integration, and IT Ops -Establish cloud governance, cloud-centric architecture, life cycle & consolidation, provisioning/Decom, IAM, PAM & change controls. -Security(Network, Data & Platform), enabling tools ecosystems -Setup platform focused ops centers (24 * 7 Infra/Cloud service fulfillment &/NOC/ECC) -Core Platform(Windows/Linux/Unix), Enterprise Storage, Network, Backup, and Security -Composable, Converged & hyper Conv Infra setup - Vendor, managed services, and stakeholder mgmt. - Governance, risk & compliance mgmt.Adept @ delivering compliance certifications (ISO27001,SOC2, etc)

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Jfrog

2 roles

Global Director of Cloud Platform Engineering - Site Reliability engineering ,Cloud PlatformOps

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Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

  • As the Global Director of Cloud Platform Engineering's SRE & Cloud Platform Operations I'm at the helm of ensuring seamless delivery & best customer experiences for our multi-geo SaaS and cloud systems serving thousands of enterprise customers. My focus is on Strategic planning, Cloud Platform architecture, budgets & refactoring reliability & resilience engineering and operational excellence leading diverse global teams across the US, Israel and India committed to driving innovation and delivering exceptional value for our customers!
  • This involves leading a talented global team across the US, Israel, and India, comprising Sr.SRE/Cloud Managers, Cloud/Platform Architects, SRE Engineers, PlatformOps engineers, Program & incident Managers and FinOps experts.
  • Key areas of responsibilities includes:
  • Design and engineering of platform and cloud systems.
  • SaaS and Cloud platform reliability and resiliency engineering.
  • SaaS governance, risk, GRC and certifications.
  • Agentic AI Autonomous Platform Operator, AIOPS
  • Strategic planning, roadmap development, investment planning and AOP.
  • Platform tooling, toil reduction and automation strategies.
  • Capacity, performance and scalability engineering.
  • SaaS and cloud platforms 24/7/365 operations .
  • Internal developer platform/portal to enhance collaboration & AI-driven Cloud platform + SRE initiatives
  • Chaos engineering
  • Observability and instrumentation engineering including APM, Synthetics, RUM, SLOs and error budget policies.
  • Incident management including blameless debriefs/problem management and RCA's.
  • Release lifecycles and canary qualifications.
  • Engineering a streamlined ecosystem for SaaS solutions.
  • Delivery of cloud migration and consulting services to improve customer engagement.
  • Disaster recovery/ Ransomware DR drills and audits.
  • Agile development and governance.
  • FinOps strategies.
  • SaaS governance, risk, GRC and certifications.
  • #Cloud&ITLeadership #Platform engineering #SRE #CloudplatformOperations #SaaS #FinOps #DevOps
Platform engineeringSite Reliability EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Technology thought leadershipKubernetesMicrosoft Azure+10

Director of Cloud Production Engineering & Cloud TechOps

Mar 2021Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

Technology thought leadershipPlatform engineeringSite Reliability EngineeringMicrosoft AzureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)+3

Colortokens, inc.

DIRECTOR - SAAS Ops [ Multi/Hybrid Cloud Architecture & Delivery | SRE | FinOps ]

Feb 2020Dec 2020 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Headed Global Cloud Architecture, Delivery & Site Reliability practice for all ColorTokens SAAS Zero trust security products operating on Multi-Cloud/Private Cloud, multi-regional architecture & deployments, multi-TB data through the lifecycle for reliability, scale, Cost, cyber security & automations.
  • Built Platform & SRE seamless 24/7/365 follow the sun ops function consists of Cloud architects, SRE pureplay, data & embed engineers based @ US & IND.
  • Responsible for SAAS Technology roadmap & architecture, Certifications, Workforce strategies, investment planning & AOP.
Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform engineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Technology thought leadershipKubernetesMicrosoft Azure+2

The children's place

Director - Global IT Infrastructure | India Site Leader

Oct 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Headed TCP Global Technology & Infrastructure function inclusive of Strategy, Architecture, design, delivery & infra engineering (Data-center , public & private cloud hosting services ), Corporate IT , DevOps, SRE, 24*7 IT service desk & Enterprise command centre (NOC, workload automation), infra security, end user support , Collaboration & connectivity services, business continuity and DR .
  • Responsible for multi regional ( US & IND ) Global IT infrastructure workforce strategies & deliverables.
  • India IT leader for e-commerce, SAP , BI, ETL , QA , loss prevention & site deliverables.
  • Global Infra investment planning & AOP, P&L for global IT & India IT procurements
Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform engineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Technology thought leadershipKubernetesGlobal IT Infrastructure

Honeywell

Global Infrastructure Leader | Connected Technologies (Digital&IOT SAAS)

May 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Headed Global Infrastructure group for Connected Technologies - Honeywell’s business Operational Technology solutions arm for Cyber industrial IOT, software IOT platforms, SAAS & digital products aiding end to end to architect, build, instrument & support solution's for all the strategic business groups with Honeywell
  • Primarily responsible for Global Solution Architecture, Site Reliability engineering, Global infrastructure operations plus engineering & Global Monitoring/Instrumentation functions & team distributed across US, EMEA, APAC & Greater China.
  • Built & expanded teams of Cloud/Infra & Solution Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Platform/Network/Storage/Sysadmin and infra security analyst, Monitoring tools SME & instrumentation engineers spread throughout the globe supporting 24*7 follow the sun ops model & co-located with product Engineering groups.
  • STRAP, roadmap, investment planning and AOP.
  • Multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) , DC/On-Premise , Hybrid hosting & steady state
  • Establish, build & expand talent powerhouse globally
  • Service & system availability, resilience, continuity, high performance ,capacity & scalability
  • Design , architectural , operational governance
  • solutions, tech stack & vendor assessment plus the selection
Site Reliability EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Technology thought leadershipKubernetesMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)+1

Jio

Dy General Manager | Data-center Solutions design & Architecture

Dec 2015May 2016 · 5 mos · Mumbai/Bengaluru

  • Responsible for Reliance JIO Digital product & IDC Solution and architecture initiatives across verticals BSS/OSS, IOT solutions, Cloud transformation, Tooling for Greenfield & expansions setup.
  • Key Deliveries #
  • BSS/OSS 125 million subscribers capacity expansions and DR setup.
  • IDAM implementation & DR.
  • Cloud Transformations( IOT on AWS,JAA on GCP)
  • HP Tooling (BSM, Monitoring & automation) pan india setup
Technology thought leadership

Ing vysya bank

Associate Vice President | Infrastructure Architecture

Oct 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Responsible for Bank's IT Infrastructure Roadmap, Architecture, Design and Strategy along with Planning & solution deployments across Bank's all Line of Business
  • Worked closely with Business Domains (Retail, Institutional, Shared Service & Wealth) and their Heads,application service and engagement managers & CIO, CTO to define and maintain IT architecture to ope-rationalize business needs for upgrade or new services to achieve optimization on performance, Business Impact Analysis(BIA) ,capacity, and TCO along with IT fulfillment of Central Banks requirements
  • Conceptualized, Architected, Designed & Deployed
  • Setup & migration to New TierIII+ DC
  • Core banking upgrade Infrastructure & DRC Setup
  • Multiple IBM Power 7 Systems
  • Storage consolidation on Netapp cluster arrays
  • DIW Solution on SAP BI & Sybase IQ
  • ATM Switch HA & Upgrade
  • Private Cloud using BMC CLM on Customized Flexpod
  • Virtualization (Vmware, HyperV, OVM,PowerVM) of 90% DC server footprint
  • Application Delivery Controller (LTM & AAM) for critical application HA & scalability
  • WAN optimization reducing RPO to < 5 mins for DC–DR replication
  • GTM implementation for Global Workload load Balancing
  • APM for VDI,IPV6 Implementation
  • End-End DC Tooling solutions
  • BMC Remedy as the One Platform Service desk for the Bank modelled on ITIL framework
  • Monitoring & Assurance for Datacenter using BMC BPPM, App Diagnostics, End User Experience Monitoring, Sentry Storage & Entuity Monitoring
  • Service Automation using BMC Bladelogic suite for Server, Network & Database
  • Workload automation & Advance File transfer using BMC ControlM
  • Automated CMDB using BMC ADDM & Atrium suite
  • Capacity Management for Compute & Business Services
  • Architect Disaster Recovery Setup & Mgmnt
  • Numerous Critical Biz Service Design & Implementations
  • Endpoint Mgmt System for Pan India
  • Core member of Kotak & Ing vysya Integration Management office for all integration/Consolidation projects
Technology thought leadership

Anz

Technical Consultant

Jul 2006Oct 2013 · 7 yrs 3 mos · India & Australia

  • Associated with ANZ Banking Limited as Technical Consultant and functionally lead the Life Cycle Management (LCM) of Global midrange platforms for ANZ Banking Limited, one of the major Banking Solution Provider in Australia, New Zealand & Asia-Pacific.
Technology thought leadership

Emc

Engineering Intern

Dec 2005May 2006 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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