May 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Products handled:
• 1) SMB: Adding SMB as a supported protocol for accessing File system for Windows Clients.
• 2) Kerberos/ LDAP: Provide strong authentication to Filesystem customers by adding KRB5i and krb5p options and adding OCI Vault, metrics and logging support.
• 3) Replication Providing replication – “Migration” functionality to customers so they can replicate mount /active file system in source region to an un mounted file system in target region. Support for failover and failback were incorporated in workflows
• Responsibilities:
• Weekly Program meeting on the programs with the Architects and Engineering managers to update the state of program and identify blockers.
• Attending Daily standup with development team on the program progress and bottle necks.
• Managing and maintaining project plans in Microsoft project.
• Creating dashboards for development teams to track Issue resolution and rate of progress.
• Updating Meeting minutes to all the stake holders and sharing the status.
• Creating confluence pages to track release readiness, Test case coverage by development teams.
• Attending weekly Critical projects meeting with senior leadership and updating the status of projects in wiki page.
• Weekly sync with external Engineering managers on their dependent tickets and updating the timelines of their readiness.
• Maintaining resource allocation sheet for the Org (Quarterly resource-program estimation).

Jul 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1) Microsoft’s Blueshift Program: Migration of LinkedIn services and products from OnPrem stack to Azure VM’s.
• 2) Deadpool: Auto remediation of hardware faults on the machines. Involves Continuous hardware health Check, Fault determination (by Agent) and their maintenance
• 3) Unified Configuration Management (Microservice architecture): Next generation system to manage safe and seamless migration of policies with correct version to connected hosts. Consists of Reporting & Metrics, Artifactory sync service (Versioning) and module distribution.
• 4) Light Cop-OnPrem: Program to create a lighter version image of selected modules (MP’s) that are available On-Prem so that bootstrapping of them in Azure VM is fast and easy.
• 5) Network Incident Management: This product captures all the Realtime network failures in the datacenters and relay them to Kafka from where they are stored in timeseries database. All alerts are exposed in a dashboard for the Network Operations.

Apr 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Managing large scale and global Strategic programs for Amazon India for their Category expansion pod. [Managed 'Amazon NOW' & 'Amazon Global Store' for India marketplace rollout].
• Deliver programs with teams using AGILE practices like SCRUM/KANBAN/SAFe/ Scrum of Scrums, SPRINT planning and retrospective meetings.
• Organize and plan release meetings, release stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and demos.
• Coach new team members on Agile principles, handling all effective agile ceremonies with focus on-
• 1. Test Driven Development (TDD)
• 2. Capturing Burndown Charts/ Velocity/ Utilization/ Defect Leakage of sprints
• 3. Continuous Integration with Jenkins
• 4. Creating EPICs and Allocating Stories in SPRINTs
• 5. Backlog grooming using Kanban board
• 6. Maintain Confluence Wiki
• 7. Testing Strategy and Release Planning
• Hands on experience and certified MCSD professonal in Microsoft technologies, Cloud, Azure
• Reviewing the BRD's, prioritization of requirements, establishing baseline, manage, and energize cross-functional teams to ensure plans & resources are coordinated and project deliverables are well defined, scoped and achievable.
• Deep dive on the requirements, resolving bottlenecks, Negotiating statement-of- work (SOW) with stake holders, Prepare the Project Plan, Milestones and Delivery Plan.
• Get buy in from Dev Teams/QA teams on milestone delivery dates, reviewing tech debts and backlogs and negogiciating with stakeholders on the prioritization of them.
• Publish weekly and monthly reports on execution status forecast and path to green action items. Involved in reviews with all stakeholders and leadership team.
• Proactively capturing Risks and a Mitigation plan to resolve them.

Aug 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore, India

• Managed real time inventory management system (an ERP system) for Tesla Motors USA. The product Interacts with other systems on real basis and provides up to date info on vehicle parts to the assembly line engineers.
• Defined Project Charter, Scope and deliverables for the current and iterative releases.
• I was accountable for operational excellence of assigned program(s), with duties including project reviews, project plan, feasibility, Design analysis, risk management, execution and closure for all project work related to the Options code project.
• Frequent client site visits to Fremont, CA for discussing delivery plan, baseline requirements with stake holders and dependent teams.
• Meetings with Architecture group to address any bottlenecks in execution.
• Publishing reports on health of project on bi weekly basis with all the metrics .

Sep 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Managing re-engineering of products for a Global hedge fund asset management company on wall street in manhatten.
• Prepared and presented project plans, status reports to senior leadership.
• Involved in Proof of concept, Review SOW for current release and defining a new migration plan. Attended code reviews and technical discussion with team members and leads.
• Interacted with Quality Support team on regular basis to monitor and resolve issues logged in bug/ incident tracking CRM system HP Quality center JIRA.
• Relocated to CANADA to start up near shore development and delivery center and drive this project from there by establishing a new development and support teams.
• Reviewing of UAT, Pre Production environments release plans and interfacing with the release and quality team. Reporting after release stats to top leadership.

Oct 2011 – Aug 2012 · 10 mos

• Working on rearchitecting the portfolio management software.
• Was working at client site for Neurberger berman LLC in NY

Jul 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos · United States

• Weekly Meetings with Directors and stakeholders (Dept of IT) for understanding and documenting the new requirements, current infrastructure setup and scope of project.
• Provided project plan to the client that had detailed WBS, Database migration plan, coding and release estimate.
• Advised client on Technology stack to be used for development and future hardware cost associated with migration.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · United States

• Played a pivotal role in Managing and development of a Prime brokerage trade capture system for different class of clients. This new integrated trade capture exposed three verticals i.e. General Trades, Equity and FX. Introducing Lightspeed and Siteminder integration with the product. Very rapid Requirement changes, high pressure development and delivery.
• Interact with the Senior Leadership Team and Product Management to help define and evolve the project plan.
• Created project charter, project scope statement, and project management plan using standard SDLC and Agile methods.
• Provide technical guidance and direction to the team members.
• I was involved in Support, resolving problems, updating project plan, tracking issues, and third part tool evaluation.

Sep 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on Real-Time Risk Assessment and Tracking (Intrusion detection & Server Patch-ups) product. It was meant for venerability ranking and scanning. Virus alerts from the exchange server are ported to SQL server in real time and they are ranked on the basis of threat to Intel environment. Based on this application the server, desktops are patched and scripts are scheduled.

Dec 2002 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on Production Scheduler product. This was a product developed for SHELL Refinery by Honeywell Industrial Automation Group. This product helps to visualize the post production scenarios in a plant. Helps to predict the flow of crude oil between the different plants and helps the plant engineers to manage and analyses the plant behavior ahead of time.