Senior Director of Engineering

• Aug 2023 - Present

Director of Engineering

• Sep 2020 - Present

• Manage the end-to-end product development, delivery & support of ISD product. Perform Product Planning, Lead the Product Management, Product Strategy and Go to Market & product adoption activities. Setup product management team for the ISD Spinnaker & ISD Argo product. Setup Technical Publications & support engineering teams for the Product.• Envision & implementation of the Security principles into the Software Supply chain Delivery concepts (as per the NIST framework) into the ISD product. Manage multiple global teams, be accountable for the quality, technology and ultimately the business outcomes and strategic objectives. • Managed end-2-end execution & delivery of the Spinnaker based CD implementation & maintenance projects for Google, Apple, Salesforce, Standard Chartered Bank, Western Union, Cloudera & Digital Dubai customers.• Involved in delivering presentations, solution demos to the prospects, delivering webinars, white boarding, and technical workshops as a part of driving offering adoptions and go to market. Help customer transform their CD implementation and fast-track their product adoption journey.• Spearheading the concept of SaaS based offering of ISD product. Spearhead end-to-end SaaS Ops for the product including but not limited to onboarding, platform availability, billing, SRE etc.• Instrumental in setting up Spinnaker COE in the organization, responsible for customer engagements & Spinnaker contributions towards open-source community.• Responsible for setting up the team, coordinating the offshore execution of deliverables, ensuring quality & on-time delivery. • Spearheaded the successful implementation of a comprehensive security framework and achieving SOC2 & ISO 27001 certification for the organization.• Active member & SIG Lead for Open-Source Spinnaker (OSS) SIG community. Instrumental in driving feature performance improvements in the OSS and managing the releases of OSS. Show less

Self Employed

• Jul 2019 - Aug 2020

• Work on defining product strategy & roadmap, defining feature specifications, gathering functional/non-functional requirements, product development planning • Identify business goals, stakeholder requirements. High level design of the prototype & POC of the product idea • Working with the development & QA teams to develop the working prototype of the product. • Develop product brouchers, functional & user documentation for the product. • Deliver presentations to the stakeholders/investors. Show less

Senior Manager - Software Engineer IT

• Apr 2013 - Jun 2019

• Responsible for setting up Enterprise DevOps & CI-CD competency with in Dell IT globally. Define enterprise DevOps& CI-CD Strategy/Architecture/Toolsets for Dell IT, for both monolithic & cloud native applications. Architect agile and scalable enterprise DevOps solutions for different technology stack. Evangelize & lead SRE practice implementation. • Overall leadership, direction, and allocation of resources for the DevOps development & operations teams. Collaborate with architects, platform engineering, application managers, project managers, and infrastructure teams to drive emerging technology standards to industry. • Leading PaaS product engineering team (72 engineers including architects, developers & support engineers) for the automation platform that enables & drives DevOps based IT transformation of 2000+ applications. This Self-service & Self-healing platform enables the application teams implement E2E SDLC automation on DevOps principles & helps them become capable of taking the code from version control to production, thru multiple pipeline stages. • Entrepreneur for the based enterprise-scale product, that enables the migrations of apps on different technology stack to Dell private cloud. Performing the product management (envisioning, planning, roadmap, releases, adoption) activities, working with the development & test teams for the delivery, working with various C-level execs for the internal product adoption & Maintenance of the product. • Lead Platform engineering team, responsible for building, maintaining & managing the non-prod test environment for 2K+ apps. Provide SLA based L1/L2 infra support for the development & test teams for the non-prod test environments. • Roll out & implementation of cloud migration strategy towards Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) with Dell IT. Training users on Cloud foundry concepts, drive the adoption of cloud native application on PCF/PKS based DevOps Platform. Well versed with 12-factor cloud native principles. Show less

Head - Technical Operations

• Nov 2011 - Mar 2013

• Responsible for Managing CI-CD team, Release team, L1/L2 Production support team, Data center ops team, IT operations team. • Develop and document annual technology plan that incorporates and in line with the organization’s vision. Includes product roadmap, implementation & adoption plans. • Drive the implementation of build, deployment & release automation for all the product variants/releases. Identify customer issues, work with the architecture team to simply customer issues and maintain an active product roadmap for all the product variants/customers. Drive product adoption. • Ensure 24x7x365 availability & operational support to the production systems. Manage production releases, hotfixes, and production patches. Manage daily IT operations. • Lead the infrastructure management team, instrumental in setting up & streamlining DCOps process. Maintaining & managing multiple production environments with multiple global data centers (Rackspace, NTT). • Lead the BCP activities within the organization. Build and maintain the Disaster Recovery (DR) sites for all the various production systems, ensuring its up time and availability. Handle large projects related to DB segregation, Network segregation, Security. • Instrumental in setting up security & compliance practices and drive the organization towards successfully getting PCI compliance. Show less

Release Manager

• Apr 2010 - Sep 2011

• Responsible for the overall management, coordination, communication, support and assistance in all aspects of the release of Oracle Utilities MWM, MDM, SGG, CCB products. Responsible for the timely and quality release of these products ensuring the consistency in quality in all the deliverables as per the defined release process. • Maintain the annual release calendar and ensure all the relevant stakeholders are kept informed on the upcoming releases, ensure readiness & preparedness for these releases & manage all the release dependencies. • Work with the product management team, delivery team, customer support group for feature prioritization, prepare release calendars and release reporting. Stakeholder management for all the above mentioned product releases. • Set-up & lead a team of Build & Release Engineers, WebLogic system administrators, Oracle DBA’s. The team was responsible for performing build & deployment automation, release automation and maintain / manage test environments. • Hands-on in developing & testing the build & deployment automation scripts, installer scripts for above mentioned products. Performed all the products releases. • Lead the L3 support team for the above mentioned products, Triage the issues & coordinate with L1 & L2 teams, get involved in direct customer interactions and drive the closure of customer issues. • Responsible for the preparation & review of the product documentation, preparation of the Release Notes, Readme documents, installation guides/manuals. Show less

Build Lead

• Apr 2007 - Jun 2009

• Team Lead for the Build & deployment automation team for Relationship experience division (RxD) at Microsoft IT. Automate the build & deployment process for both non-production & production deployments of RxD applications. • Program Manage the development & roll-out of self-service virtualized dynamic environment provisioning app, capable of provisioning on-demand VM based test environments. Involved in the testing of the app & drive its adoption within RxD & other BU within Microsoft IT. • Standardizing the build & deployment process across all of the applications within RxD business unit, standardizing the automation hand-off to the prod support team. 90% manual effort reduction, 93% deployment / configuration error reduction achieved thru automation. Show less

Associate Manager - Software Configuration Mgmt

• Dec 2000 - Mar 2007

• Setting up & leading the Software Configuration Management COE at VisualSoft India Pvt. Ltd. Driving the SCM competency by building the SCM team, conducting org-wide SCM training & awareness boot camp sessions, defining documenting SCM standards, policies & procedures. Participated in ISO & CMMi audits for SCM, QA, CM & RM functions. • Development & maintenance of VisualSoft OfficeSecure product, an add-on for MS-Office that can encrypt, decrypt & digitally sign office documents, excel files, outlook emails. Was involved in the Product benchmarking, requirements gathering, design, development, testing & maintenance/enhancements of the product. Used VBA, VC++, COM technologies. • Involved in the development of the device drivers for Setup box for Phillips customer. Writing device drivers for USB devices. Development of the SNMP agent software. Used Unix scripting, C++ in these projects. Show less