Denish Kothadiya
DevOps Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Dedicated IT professional with over all 18+ years of diversified experience, including extensive expertise in DevOps spanning 14+ years and 5+ years of experience on Managing DevOps team.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Engineering Manager
Eximietas Design
BENGALURU, Karnataka
5 2024 - Current
- Collaborating with various team stakeholders to coordinate current and upcoming projects and closely collaborating with the Clients to understand their requirements to fulfill delivery excellence
- Leading a team of 26 with different profile of resources like DevOps, Virtualization, Cloud, SRE and Network engineers
- Work closely with engineers and clients to collaborate and fine tune process to deliver project on time and highest customer satisfaction
- Handling entire cloud division with current running projects plus collaborate with sales team for upcoming projects
- Successfully managed and delivered two distinct projects from inception to completion, overseeing both product development and team coordination as the Delivery Manager
- Spearheaded the strategic planning, execution, and delivery phases, ensuring alignment with client requirements and project timelines
- Led cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring efficient resource allocation to achieve project milestones
- Implemented agile methodologies to streamline processes and enhance productivity, resulting in improved project outcomes and client satisfaction
- Monitored project progress, identified potential risks, and developed mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery within scope, time, and budget constraints.
Manager DevOps and Engineering Support
Dell Technologies
BENGALURU, Karnataka
04.2018 - 03.2024
- Collaborating with various team stakeholders to coordinate current releases and closely collaborating with the Project Owner to prioritize and divide tasks into sprints
- Leading a team of 5 DevOps engineers to drive end-to-end process enhancements and efficiently distribute sprint tasks
- Orchestrated the comprehensive end-to-end build process automation using Jenkins & Bamboo across product portfolios
- Architected an Azure Kubernetes infrastructure to facilitate the seamless migration to a microservices architecture to optimize resource utilization and reduce cost
- Transitioned our infrastructure provisioning to Terraform, streamlining deployments and enabling efficient management through code
- Executed the migration of Jenkins Freestyle projects to Pipeline projects, enhancing the efficiency of the CI/CD pipeline
- Dockerized all Jenkins jobs to eliminate dependencies on physical infrastructure resulted overall build process improvement from 4 hours to 25 minutes
- Transformed existing product build scripts from Batch script to the new MSBuild script framework, optimizing the build process
- Engineered a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline for the WMS server on Jenkins, incorporating the new MSBuild script framework
- Collaborated with Security team to implement industry standards best practices for current DevOps process
- Database: As part of AWS to Azure migration, Lead the initiative to configure PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MariaDB servers, implemented Database server replication to facilitate load balancing and enhanced server architecture robustness.
Sr DevOps Engineer
Avaya India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2011 - 04.2018
- Built and Maintained Windows installer for different products for whole IP Office BU
- Handled maintenance activities for one-X Portal RPM installer
- Migrated all the build plans from Hudson to Bamboo. Maintained all IP Office BU bamboo build plans administrative activities
- Implemented CI pipeline for different IPOffice products
- Maintained or enhanced all projects to ant build script and integrated Junit unit test with existing projects
- Administration for SVN repo for any kind of branching, merging, cloning or conflict management.
Build & Release Engineer
Symantec
04.2010 - 12.2011
- Maintained or created Windows installer of OpsCenter Server, Agent, ViewBuilder and Symantec VM Ware Plug-in for NetBackup which is based on WIX 2.0
- Migrated build automation process from Hudson to IBM BuildForge
- Performed admin tasks for repository management such as branching/merging, tagging
Build & Release Engineer
Symphony Services
12.2008 - 04.2010
- Maintained Windows installer of Atempo Live Backup Server & Agent which is based on InstallShield 2010
- Automated manual build process on Hudson using Apace Ant
Software Engineer
Symantec
11.2007 - 12.2008
- Maintained Windows installer of Symantec Command Central Storage Product which is based on InstallShield 10.5
- Handled end-to-end build script and process in Hudson to generate automated builds.
Associate Software Engineer
BMC Software
05.2006 - 11.2007
- Maintained Windows installer of Proactive Net eBiz Product which is based on InstallShield 12
- Also involved in build and release part of windows products.
Education
Skills
Leading the DevOps and Engineering Support team and providing guidance and mentorship
Developing CI/CD roadmap and implementing to the project
Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
Container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
IaC: Terraform, Ansible
Monitoring: Azure Monitoring, Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Application insights, New Relic
CDN: Cloudflare
Database: MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, NoSQL
Application Server: Tomcat
CI Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, JFrog, Artifactory
Version Control Tool: Git, GitHub & SVN
Scripting: Apache Ant, MSBuild, VBScript, Windows Batch, PowerShell, Shell script, Groovy
Static Code analyser: Coverity, Klockwork, SonarQube
Software Composition Analysis: BlackDuck, Palamida, Snyk
Test Automation Tools: Selenium, TestNG
Virtualization: VMWare vSphere, Oracle Virtual Box, Citrix
OS: Windows and Linux
Project Management, Strategic Planning, Coaching and Mentoring
Accomplishments
- Dell Technologies: Inspire award for Dedication and extensive effort to handle customer escalations.
- Applause award to help other team to fix installer issues.
- Bronze award for good work for installer design and NPI plugin installer automation framework.
- Avaya India Pvt Ltd: Velocity award for good work in all installer design and migration.
- Symantec: Applause Level 2 Awards for release of zero-defect installer release.
Timeline
Manager DevOps and Engineering Support
Dell Technologies
04.2018 - 03.2024
Sr DevOps Engineer
Avaya India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2011 - 04.2018
Build & Release Engineer
Symantec
04.2010 - 12.2011
Build & Release Engineer
Symphony Services
12.2008 - 04.2010
Software Engineer
Symantec
11.2007 - 12.2008
Associate Software Engineer
BMC Software
05.2006 - 11.2007
Cloud Engineering Manager
Eximietas Design
5 2024 - Current
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