Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
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Deepa Talwaria

Deepa Talwaria

DevOps Transformation And Practice Leader
BENGALURU

Summary

Global DevOps and QE Transformation leader with 19.6 years of rich experience leading DevOps Transformation, DevSecOps Solution implementation, Quality Engineering Transformation, setting up Site Reliability and Chaos Engineering practice for large and medium projects.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

DevOps Transformation Leader

Capgemini
BENGALURU
06.2018 - Current
  • Lead DevOps, SRE and Quality Engineering Capabilities by focusing on innovative solution designs and implementation.
  • Responsible for generating revenue target of ~150M through additional of new logos and driving transformation opportunities within Capgemini North America Business Unit.
  • Strong product development and program management experience developing tool agnostic managed DevOps platform service, leveraging cloud native and microservices based architecture.
  • Driven Quality Engineering Transformation leveraging emerging technologies like Script-less automation, AI/ML, DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering to shift left and right quality within SDLC.
  • Work with various Alliance Partners to build innovative solutions and framework leveraging latest tools and technology in the industry.
  • Instrumental in defining Global career framework for DevOps and Quality Engineering experts and mentoring aspiring DevOps Engineers and Solution Architects in their career growth.
  • Established thought leadership by participating in external and internal forums, publishing Point of Views, blogs, conducting Webinars, etc. with wider audience
  • Co-Authored Agile and DevOps chapter for World Quality Report in 2019 [https://www.capgemini.com/news/world-quality-report-19/]

DevOps Delivery Lead

Accenture Global Services
BENGALURU
10.2011 - 05.2018
  • DevOps delivery lead for large program involving various technologies like Drupal, AWS services and Mobile applications
  • Responsible for Application hosting and Operations of Enterprise Mobility platform to Clients worldwide and focused on building virtual Infrastructure Architecture on private cloud with effective Configuration Management and System Performance management
  • Driven large scale DevOps Transformation program for a fortune 500 customer. Defined and implemented tools migration strategy after thorough technical risk assessment to ensure successful migration to new tools and CI/CD pipeline setup using Git, Gerrit, SonarQube, Jenkins, selenium involving 500+ applications. This resulted in saving of more than 30% delivery cost.
  • Effective co-ordination with various stakeholders like Client team, Infrastructure, Network, and project delivery teams for successful release deployments.
  • Conducted DevOps Maturity assessments providing Transformation roadmap for identified people, process, and technology gaps.
  • Published DevOps Blogs and Point of Views on the latest trends in SCM and DevOps tools on Enterprise-wide forums.

Build & Release Manager

Nokia India Pvt Ltd.
BENGALURU
05.2008 - 09.2011
  • Primary contact for all releases of Multimedia codecs to multiple Nokia platforms.
  • Defined and Implemented SCM and release process across different SCM tools like CM Synergy, SVN, Mercurial and GIT.
  • Driven best practices like effective peer reviews, enforcing code quality gates using 100% unit test coverage and static code scan as part of Continuous Integration process.
  • Effective defect triaging and generation of quality metrics across various ALM and Test Management tools to improve time to market
  • Hired, monitored and motivated subcontractors to keep to tight schedules and budgetary requirements.
  • Conducting Training on SCM, build and release tools and process across projects

Module Leader for Configuration Management Team

Wipro Technologies
BENGALURU
11.2004 - 04.2008
  • Module leader responsible for build and release management for all enhancements and production fixes.
  • Worked at Customer onsite coordinating build and release activities with other project delivery sites.
  • Built automation to reduce the baseline execution cycle time by developing Perl scripts.
  • Removed interdependency between component builds, facilitating nightly execution of different builds in parallel and reducing build cycle time by 80%
  • Planning and carrying out Production release activities like code rebase, build and deployments of hot fixes and maintenance releases.
  • Conducted trainings/workshops for the new joiners in the project on ClearCase Build process and tools.

Software Support Developer

HCL Technologies
Chennai
09.2002 - 10.2004
  • Involved in high and low-level design activities and coding as per defined standards
  • Performed configuration control activities like branching and merging of release code for preparation of build environments.
  • Execution of builds and deployment to internal test and production environments.
  • Worked on many Severity/Priority 1 production issues
  • Supported System Testing activities by liaising with dependent 3rd Party services

Education

Associate of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Puducherry Engineering College
Puducherry, India
06.1998 - 05.2002

Skills

    DevOps Transformation Leader

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Accomplishments

  • "Certified Capgemini Architect" driving DevSecOps transformation and leading Delivery and Market development, Thought leadership and contribution of new innovative solutions.
  • “Accenture Celebrates Excellence” Award for significant contribution in streamlining the DevOps solution design and implementation strategy across Digital projects.
  • Nokia Kudos award for Architecture redesign and implementation of package build, deployment, and release process
  • Spot award for streamlining the SCM and release process for different Nokia platform releases
  • “Feather in My Cap” award for significant contribution in Alcatel-Lucent build and release automation process in Wipro
  • Wipro Best Performance award as Build module lead.

Certification

SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM)

Timeline

SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM)

06-2021

SAFe Agilist

12-2020

DevOps Transformation Leader

Capgemini
06.2018 - Current

AWS SysOps Administration – Associate level certification

05-2018

AWS Solution Architect - Associate level certification

08-2017

ITIL Foundation v3

06-2016

DevOps Delivery Lead

Accenture Global Services
10.2011 - 05.2018

Build & Release Manager

Nokia India Pvt Ltd.
05.2008 - 09.2011

Module Leader for Configuration Management Team

Wipro Technologies
11.2004 - 04.2008

IBM Rational ClearCase Administration Certification for Unix

05-2004

Software Support Developer

HCL Technologies
09.2002 - 10.2004

Associate of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Puducherry Engineering College
06.1998 - 05.2002
Deepa TalwariaDevOps Transformation And Practice Leader