Ajith Jose — Director of Engineering

Two decades of experience in software industry - Leader, Manager , Architect, dev, ops, QA, large-scale cloud deployments, middleware, automation ... - Performance, reliability and resiliency of large-scale high-available distributed cloud deployment - Designed and developed, load generation and distribution framework for testing hosted audio-video conferencing solution - Designed and developed, resiliency testing framework (inspired by Chaos Monkey) for simulating controlled failures - Debugging in large-scale deployment - application, transport (http/ssl), network layer issues, sip, H323, Couchbase, Zookeeper, MySQL, MongoDB etc - Designed and implemented large-scale load test client infrastructure in amazon aws EC2, MS Azure and Google Cloud - Domain/Technologies: Audio-video, communication, web services, Restful services/APIs, OAuth, Http, LDAP, SSL, Authentication/Authorization(http basic, wsse credentials, oauth, saml, x509, 2-way ssl), Developer portal, Key management, Analytics - Tools : Sipp, h323 load gen, new-relic, nagios, jmeter, AB, soapui, charle’s proxy, fiddler, rest client, openssh, pgadmin, curl, shell, openvpn, ssh tunnel, github, svn, valgrind, wireshark, firebug, watchmouse, github, svn, perforce, visualvm, jenkins, cruisecontrol, hudson, junit, testng, java, jersey, selenium, tcl-expect, shell scripting, maven, ant, sql, abbot/swtbot for eclipse, ruby/rspec - Ops and Devops experience - Setting up large deployments, automated deployments using ruby, chef, puppet, leading and guiding ops team, setting up monitoring infrastructure. Working experience in large scale saas deployments - EC2, rightscale, elastic fox, ec2 apis, CAAS, Open stack, VMWare ESX Leadership Experience : - Own and operate small teams(less than 20 members) with agile practices - Strategy and execution for functional as well as non-functional test team - Hiring and team building - Experience in vendor management

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud architecture and performance engineering.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 24 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Performance Engineering
Cloud Computing
Data Engineering
Api Management

Career Highlights

Two decades of experience in software engineering leadership.
Expert in large-scale cloud deployments and performance engineering.
Proven track record in building and managing high-performing teams.

Work Experience

SAP

Director Of Engineering (6 yrs 11 mos)

BlueJeans by Verizon

Engineering Manager (3 yrs 3 mos)

Engineering Manager - Perf, Scale & Resiliency (1 yr 5 mos)

Principal Engineer - Perf, Scale & Resiliency (1 yr 4 mos)

Google

Solution Architect - REST APIs, Cloud, Identity Management (6 yrs 6 mos)

Bea Systems

Software Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)

Exsyst

Java/J2EE developer (5 mos)

Win Win Computer Solutions

Founder/Java/VB/UI developer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Education

Postgraduate Degree at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Mahatma Gandhi University

Ajith Jose

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Two decades of experience in software engineering leadership.
Expert in large-scale cloud deployments and performance engineering.
Proven track record in building and managing high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud architecture and performance engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance EngineeringCloud ComputingData EngineeringApi Management

Other Skills

APIAWS AuroraAggregationAgile MethodologiesAmazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)AntApache KafkaApache StormApache ZooKeeperApigee API ManagementApplication Programming InterfacesBig DataBig Data Analytics

About

Experience

24 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Sap

Director Of Engineering

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)LinuxBig DataPerformance EngineeringRepresentational State Transfer (REST)Spring Framework+4

Bluejeans by verizon

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Apr 2016 – Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

During these three years, I have lead Analytics product at BlueJeans. It includes Data collection, Ingestion, Processing, Storage, Aggregation, Governance and Visualization. The visualization portal, command-center, was the USP of BlueJeans.
I have grown the team from 3 engineers to a close-knit team of 20+ engineers for various functions including dev, test, automation, devops, Ux and SRE.
The analytics platform, running in AWS and Azure, was designed and built for handling huge volume of data, using Java/JS microservices, Javascript frontend, Apache Storm, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Aurora, Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Zookeeper etc. The platform is built to be highly available, scalable and resilient with monitoring and alerting to ensure 24x7 availability.

Data collectionIngestionProcessingStorageAggregationGovernance+13

Engineering Manager - Perf, Scale & Resiliency

Oct 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

Started performance and resiliency discipline at BlueJeans.
Owned performance, scale, reliability and resiliency testing of two products (Meetme and PrimeTime)
Defined scale and resiliency testing for the large-scale heterogeneous cloud deployment
Designed/developed various testing methodologies and tools
Hired and built a team of 15+ lead/senior/junior engineers
Defined and implemented various processes
Be part of the India leadership team - thought leadership and owning different initiatives

Principal Engineer - Perf, Scale & Resiliency

May 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

Leadership and strategy for cloud deployment, automation, performance and resilience
Performance of large-scale high-available distributed cloud deployment
Hiring and building team for perf, scalability and resiliency

Google

Solution Architect - REST APIs, Cloud, Identity Management

Nov 2006 – May 2013 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apigee Technologies (acquired by Google) : Client facing architect and manager
Being one of the early joiners of the startup, I started my 7 year journey at Apigee with the Engineering team and then became the founding member of the Customer Implementation team. Started as customer facing Solution Architect designed and developed large-scale deployment of Apigee for Telecom giant. Played active role in growing it to a 70 member team for technical professional service in 2-3 years. Stepped into leadership and management at multiple occasions to make it a huge success with close to $100 million revenue.

RESTful WebServicesPerformance EngineeringApache KafkaApigee API ManagementJava Enterprise EditionAmazon EC2+2