Anil Kumar M

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in software engineering and automation.
  • Expert in AI-driven automation and performance engineering.
  • Proven track record in CI/CD and release engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on automation and performance engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Automation & Ai/llmPerformance & ReliabilityCi/cd & Devops

Other Skills

Performance/Solution Automation LeadRelease Engineering: Pre/post FCS checksbuild validationregression automationhealth checksPythonLLMJira integrationSIPpCamelotUCS platformsESXiNutanixNFVISJenkins

About

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco with 15+ years of experience in automation, performance engineering, and AI/LLM-based solutions. ๐Ÿ”น Automation & AI/LLM โ€“ Designed and implemented Python- and LLM-powered tools to automate failure triage, log analysis, and Jira integration, reducing manual triage by 60%. ๐Ÿ”น Performance & Reliability โ€“ Led scale, stress, and failover testing on UCS platforms (M3โ€“M7), ESXi, Nutanix, and NFVIS; integrated real-time traffic tools like SIPp and Camelot. ๐Ÿ”น System Upgrades & Patching โ€“ Automated OS component upgrades and CVE patching to ensure compliance and security. ๐Ÿ”น CI/CD & DevOps โ€“ Hands-on with Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and Docker for pipelines, provisioning, and release readiness. ๐Ÿ”น Release Engineering โ€“ Coordinated Expressway builds and sign-offs, driving smooth feature delivery across global teams. I hold an M.Tech in Data Science from BITS Pilani, where I specialized in applying AI/LLMs for QA and automation. ๐ŸŒŸ Iโ€™m passionate about bridging QA, DevOps, and AI-driven automation to build scalable, reliable, and future-ready systems.

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
14 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
14 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Cisco

ENGINEER.SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Dec 2011 โ€“ Present ยท 14 yrs 6 mos ยท Bangalore ยท Hybrid

  • As a senior automation lead at Cisco, my responsibilities include driving the product testing automation, maintenance of the CI/CD pipeline, deploying testbeds and testing for performance and scale, heading the handling PSIRTs and OS team. Automation tools - GIT, Jenkins, shell scripting, groovy scripts, Python automation, Recreating and resolving CFDs, testing product's different deployment and viability - (Hybrid, Cloud only), heading innovation efforts in the team - Webex Teams BOT, System recovery, Status update BOTs and sharing Scrum duties for the team
Performance/Solution Automation LeadRelease Engineering: Pre/post FCS checksbuild validationregression automationhealth checksAutomation & AI/LLM+1

Education

Birla Institute of Technology And Science (BITS), Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech โ€” Data Science & Engineering

Sep 2022 โ€“ Nov 2024

Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak

Master of computer science

Mar 2002 โ€“ Mar 2004

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