SUMMARY

• Highly motivated technology leader with a track record of delivering complex technology solutions in DevOps space, being a champion in knowledge transition, portfolio level release manager, experienced development skills and ITIL change with incident and problem management in both ground - up and restructuring environments in multinational companies. Lead by example manager who understands and leverages his team member’s strengths to accomplish corporate goals. Strong technical ability to accurately assess and resolve IT issues.
• Aspiring to become a DevOps lead by utilizing my strengths like strong technical knowledge to spearhead technology modernization or lead technical operations, performing well under pressure and people management skills to manage teams and impress stakeholders & client which eventually will build an ecosystem that will help in the growth of the organization.
• Overall more than 13 years in the IT industry helping clients achieve their goal.
• 8 years of strong DevOps experience providing technical and architectural guidance.
• Successfully lead multiple teams in various transformation efforts involving multiple stake holders
• Strong technical knowledge with hands on experience in CICD using different DevOps toolset.
• Experienced in building pipelines for both containerized and monolithic applications
• Experienced in orchestrating containerized applications via K8
• Expertise in migrating homegrown build and deploy pipelines to more modern CICD patterns
• Expertise in building patterns which can be used or extended for specific usecases
• Experienced in onboarding wide verity of technologies(java,.net, Nodejs etc) on to the CICD pipeline
• Expertise in building COE for DevOps and contributing to the knowledge center
• Experienced in conducting POC’s in building Mainframe DevOps pipeline
• Worked and presented on various client proposals and attended various client workshops helping in wining new business for the organization.
• Hands on experience in handling project management tools like Rally, Kanban, HP PPM & BMC Remedy and ability to cope up with change and drive value add and thought leadership
• Successfully performed the role of a release manager and managed release for 150 applications. Provided valuable inputs to streamline release processes and helped increasing the number of major releases from 3 to 5 annually. Also successful in ramping up a team from 1 to 6 release managers
• DB2, ITIL, SAFe DevOps and SAFe Agile certified

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps skills: Devops process, CI Process, GIT, Gitlab, Gitlab-CI, Jenkins, Ansible, Ansible Tower, AWS, Azure, UCD, VMware, Sonarqube, Nexus, Docker, Terraform, Kubernettes

Scripting skills: Python, Groovy, Shell scripting, Powershell, Windows Batch scripting

Build skills: Maven build, Gradle build, Ant build, NAnt build

Management skills: Release management, Rally, Kanban, SCRUM, Agile & ITIL Skills

CMS skills: Chef

Cloud skills: Public, Private and Hybrid cloud

Scripting skills: Ruby

Mainframe skills: JCL, Cobol, VSAM, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

CICD Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating CICD patterns for deploying various MQ objects as code
• Responsible for creating CICD pattern for DB object migration via CICD
• Leading a DevOps team of team size 4 with primary responsibility to modernize legacy build process
• Created application pipeline(Java, .net, mq, DB etc) and on boarded applications to use the new DevOps pipeline
• Created a pattern for Autosys deploy using python and docker container
• Created a pattern for Unix file copy using Jenkins/gitlab and Ansible
• Train app-dev resources to become DevOps resources and help the application development process
• Evaluate new tools which is better for the organization(Cloudbees Jenkins, Nexus, Ansible etc)
• Create pipeline templates and MVP for application teams to consume and use to build there pipeline
• Support Production deploy and provide assistance in case of deployment issues
• Manage Jenkins instances on both linux and windows node
• Provided technology consulting support to other projects within Confidential and also to acquire new clients

Confidential

Operations/MSA lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing the work of 10 onshore and 40 offshore DevOps resources
• Managing escalations and ensuring smoother delivery
• Driving POC’s of UCD Mainframe with Endevor
• Bring in new ideas and evaluate the benefits. If applicable perform and drive POC to closure
• Preparing and presenting inputs for leadership insights
• Managing deployment and maintaining environment stability are key KPI’s for my role
• Driving CI & CD value stream and influencing project teams to adopt the theme
• Experienced in working on both open source Jenkins as well as cloud bees Jenkins.
• Troubleshooting build related issues and providing resolutions to development teams
• Managing deployments via UCD(Urban code deploy)
• Coordinating releases with the release management team
• Troubleshooting environmental issues(UNIX and Windows) and providing resolutions to those issues
• Going through the console output of project builds and resolving any issues
• Maintaining master and slave nodes of Jenkins
• Coordinating the access requests throughout the development cycle
• Managing non-prod incidents like links not working, server down
• Co-coordinating the migration activity and promoting the distributed code to Production
• Designing and building the complete sequence of packages with their proper dependencies being considered
• Taking care of the timings of the packages and deciding the technical implementation plan of a release

Confidential

Continuous Integration/Mainframe lead/Infrastructure lead

Responsibilities:

• Travelers Claim DevOps deals with the development operations work with different development teams of Claim systems.
• Coordinate between the development and QA team. Provide input to the SLT to perform operational improvements.
• DevOps operate as a collection of different teams which work to support environmental needs, code migration and keep the development environment available 24/7.
• The release management team works in coherence with DevOps to keep track of release and constantly work towards bringing down defect counts which increases the speed of development and keep applications up to the evolving insurance market.

Confidential

Release manager/Mainframe lead/Infrastructure lead

Responsibilities:

• Travelers BI DevOps deals with the development operations works with different development teams of Business Insurance.
• Coordinate between the development and QA team.
• Provide input to the SLT to perform operational improvements.
• DevOps operate as a collection of different teams which work to support environmental needs, code migration and keep the development environment available 24/7.
• The release management team works in coherence with DevOps to keep track of release and constantly work towards bringing down defect counts which increases the speed of development and keep applications up to the evolving insurance market.

Confidential

Datastore mainframe support tech lead

Responsibilities:

• Awarded with ASE achievers award by Confidential for outstanding performance in the 1st year of Confidential . This includes a prize money of 30K (equivalent to 500 USD).
• 4 promotions within a span of 8 years of my Confidential career is one of a remarkable achievement
• Prepared an extensive material on Natural and ADABAS. It is uploaded on the asset portal of Confidential .
• Above is an illustration of my presentation skills and skill to impress the target audience
• Received nearly 2000 monetary points (Equivalent to 2k USD) from Confidential management as a mark of appreciation for the good work.
• DB2 UDB family fundamentals certified.
• ITIL foundation certified.
• SAFe Agile certified
• SAFe DevOps certified
• Learnt release management & DevOps process in a very short time and the processes implemented were very well appreciated by Travelers and Confidential management.
• Received ACE award from Confidential twice in appreciation towards the work I did for Whirlpool and Travelers.
• Lead development, maintenance and operations teams sizing from 5 to 40 team members.