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Himanshu Kakkad

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India25 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in Production Engineering and DevOps.
  • Expert in building high-performing global teams.
  • Recognized for leadership in project planning and risk management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Cloud Computing and SaaS with extensive experience in DevOps and Production Engineering.

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Distributed SystemsAgile MethodologiesPerformance TuningSoftware DevelopmentScalabilityJava Enterprise EditionEnterprise IntegrationHigh AvailabilityProject ManagementJavaSQLPL/SQLProgram ManagementLinuxBig Data

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20+ years of experience in Production Engineering,Dev Ops and SRE domain - Have built high performing global teams and worked across organizations to produce consistent results using cutting-edge technologies and effective processes and people management. - Recognized for leadership in project planning, scheduling and prioritization, contingency and risk planning, emergency response, and mentoring skills. - Experience with: agile/iterative development processes, object-oriented, database and large scale system design. - Worked on high-performance, highly-available computing environments and integration of technical products into complex environments using enterprise, open-source, and home-grown applications.

Experience

25 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Azure dedicated

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Vmware

Senior Engineering Manager, Horizon Cloud Services

Sep 2016Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading platform development team of Horizon cloud responsible for providing virtual desktops and hosted apps as a cloud service that can be delivered to any device, anywhere.

Amagi media labs

Head of DevOps

Feb 2015Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Provide technical leadership for automating management and maintenance of hybrid infrastructure ( AWS +inhouse ). To design systems that are resilient, highly available and secured . Was responsible for setting up CI/CD pipeline .
  • Build and coach technical team of 24 member responsible for the Servers, Storage and Datacenter Architecture & Operations for Amagi products & Services..
  • Develop and enhance processes including emergency response, physical security management and disaster recovery.
  • Work closely with upper management to develop architecture, policy, budget, and team direction.
  • Responsible for all non-functional requirement of Amagi products & Services..

Samsung mobile

Senior Technical Manager - Enterprise Cloud

Aug 2013Jan 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Responsible for building and leading Service Operations/Devops team for supporting Mobile Licensing platform of Samsung Mobile devices.
  • Contributing towards architecture on how to make restful services scalable and “Highly Available”
  • Being responsible for design and development of all Non-functional aspects of B2B services hosted for Samsung Android devices.
  • Building and maintaining Infrastructure on AWS and setting up CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and building monitoring tools using Java/J2ee and Nagios.

Yahoo!

Senior Engineering Manager

Nov 2007Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Leading Advertising and Search platform team of 20+ engineers to manage revenue critical systems (5000+ servers) which includes build/upgrade/monitor on Java/J2EE platform.
  • Lead successful integration of Yahoo Search with Microsoft Bing for 8 global markets.
  • Provided strong support for the development team through comprehensive documents, technical overviews, and infrastructure diagrams to increase efficiencies and identify sources of contention.
  • Prepared capacity planning estimates and formed strategy for new infrastructure to support growth and new product development.
  • Working closely with product and Dev for product releases, product line expansions, SLA definitions and generating business metrics.
  • Setting up and leading Sponsored Search backend team in Yahoo Bangalore which included setting up infrastructure, monitoring system and maintenance.
  • Instrumental in designing and implementing datacenter migration for Sponsored Search (~2000 servers) globally.
  • Design and implemented disaster recovery and business continuity to match customer SLA.

Oracle

Senoir Support Engineer

Apr 2003Oct 2007 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked with TDS (Technical Demo Services) group under Server Technology organization in building, maintaining and supporting enterprise level demos showcasing latest technical competency of Oracle App server and DB on Java/J2ee platform.
  • Worked closely with product management in designing and developing complex demos which required integration of Oracle Application server (Identity Management stack) with various other heterogeneous applications like PeopleSoft, Siebel and orchestrations of various services using BPEL and SOA.
  • As a member of 24x5 worldwide TDS support group, the job responsibility was also to ensure the highest level of effectiveness of the demos for Oracle Sales Consultants and Oracle Partners. I was also involved in framing efficient and effective processes for the support of the demos built and hosted.

Churchill ssi pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Aug 2000Apr 2003 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

  • As a Graduate Software Engineer the job responsibility included designing and developing software applications in Java and J2EE with specialization in enterprise application integration and migration services for business applications globally.

Education

Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

PGDBA

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Saurashtra University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) — Mathematics

Jan 1994Jan 1998

Kendriya Vidyalaya Rajkot

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