Durga Navaneethan
Chennai
Summary
Serving as a COE Leader with nearly 18 years of experience, I bring dynamic DevOps and cloud architecture expertise, with extensive experience at Fidelity Investments, driving engineering excellence and cloud migration strategies. Proven expertise in containerization using Docker and infrastructure automation with Terraform. Adept at stakeholder engagement, I have successfully implemented enterprise-level DevOps pipelines, enhancing operational efficiency and collaboration across teams.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Centre of Excellence Leader
Fidelity Investments
04.2022 - Current
- Being a COE Strategic Leader driving engineering excellence at the enterprise level, I define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the COE to align with organizational goals.
- Identify and promote best practices, standards, and frameworks across the enterprise.
- Drive innovation by researching and adopting emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies.
- Enabled and advanced Chaos Engineering practices at enterprise level.
- Part of the Auto TLM Enterprise core team, the purpose of Auto TLM (Technology Lifecycle Management) is to automate the process of managing and upgrading technology components, such as software, libraries, or runtime environments, to ensure they remain up-to-date, secure, and compliant.
- Leading the Maintainability pillar under the Dependability Framework, which is a core initiative of the COE.
- Contributed to several reference implementations for having a standard DevOps pipeline with common libraries that can be leveraged at the enterprise level.
- Contributed to building enterprise branching strategy standards.
- Driving the Engineering Excellence Adoption Program, focusing on building the foundational engineering excellence across the BUs.
- Working towards a deployment strategy for a low-code platform like PowerApps, DB, and SPFX.
- Advancing the DevOps_SSPD focus area for applications centered in India, and achieving notable progress. Plans are in place to expand this initiative on a global scale.
- Driving Adoption of Unified Developer Experience (UDE) Tools.
- Being part of the IAC cohort and responsible for driving the adoption of IAC.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, containers, Kubernetes, etc.
- I was driving the DevOps, FinOps, and Green Engineering communities of practice in India.
DevOps and Infra/platform architect
IBM
10.2020 - 10.2022
- Worked on the Devops solutioning for Bigdata projects.
- Strong experience in kubeedge K8s setup.
- Automation of infra deployments using Ansible.
- Product solutioning.
- Worked on edge analytics solutioning product which built upon kubernetes and provides fundamental infrastructure support for network, app deployment and metadata synchronization between cloud and edge.
- Extensive experience with native containerized application.
- Automated deployment of ELK stack and deployed successfully in various production environments.
- Monitoring overall progress and use of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary.
- Facilitate team brainstorming.
- Analyze client requirements and optimize Cloud services architecture for performance and cost.
Cloud Infra architect
Cognizant
04.2019 - 10.2020
- Worked on the Azure Devops and implementing the same in large scale using terraform.
- Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.
- Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.
- Develop and organize cloud systems.
- Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.
- Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.
- Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.
- Worked on the Azure Devops and implementing the same in large scale.
- Strong experience in cloud-based delivery.
- Solid understanding of key operating systems (Linux, Windows).
- Good overall knowledge on cloud native and third party cloud related security solutions.
- Managing the production of the required deliverables.
DevOps and Cloud Architect
Wipro
05.2015 - 04.2019
- Involved in development of cloud formation template using terraform.
- Automated deployment of all resources related to my work as the Lead Python Developer.
- Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes.
- Creation of Rapid and Repeatable Devops Pipeline on cloud using various open source tools and services.
- Building cloud agnostic implementation (primarily targeting AWS and Azure).
- Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects using jenkins.
- Creation of Entire infrastructure on multiple cloud providers through terraform script.
- Customization of terraform script to support Multiple Cloud providers [Azure, AWS].
- Created fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure.
- Implemented Re-usable pipeline implementation across different application types.
- Worked on Docker and Dockerisation of different tools such as Jenkins, Tomcat, GitBucket and Sonarqube.
- Conceptualized, Designed; developed complete DevOps solution using open source technologies.
- Developed scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Terraform.
- Strong worked knowledge of Perl or shell scripts, Maven and Ant and Detailed knowledge of the Unix/Linux operating system and tools.
- Proficient in developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines.
- Experience with automation/ integration tools like Jenkins.
Project Lead
Wipro
02.2012 - 03.2016
- Industry analysts predict that storage will grow by 35% per year for the next several years, and network traffic will grow by 33%.
- Our client is uniquely positioned to address this rising flood of data.
- We design semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in data centers, mobile networks, and client computing.
- Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced application performance, and it is applied in solutions created in collaboration with our partners.
- All major server and storage OEMs use our client storage technology.
- Worked on Windows 8, Windows 2012, Red Hat, and SUSE Linux OS, and worked on Fujitsu, Intel, and IBM servers.
- Experience in test execution, identifying test estimates, test setup preparation, bug tracking, etc.
- Experience in CLI, which is the command line interface.
- Worked on media error injection testing and have experience in OP-ROM testing.
- Actively involved in test station setup.
- Active participation in performing overall functionality and feature testing of the RAID controller using the black box methodology.
- Actively involved with the development team in the reproduction of the issue and bug fixes.
- Worked on virtualization concepts, i.e., XEN and KVM.
- Effective contributions toward regression and functional verification testing, with higher productivity, were appreciated by the client.
- Proven track record of success and excellence in working with enterprise-class, large-scale applications in production environments.
Automation Testing Engineer
08.2014 - 04.2015
- This automation testing project includes Network adapters testing in Virtual Connect (VC) environment including Blade & Rack server on different 32Bit, 64Bit Operating System flavors e.g. Red Hat and SUSE Linux, VMware and windows.
- The automation scripts development need to be completed in the shortest possible duration.
- Offshore team to develop this automation framework is phased manner covering a set of Software Functional Test cases.
- Drop 1 covering basic test functionality against all Smart Utility component of firmware & driver, Features Testing (WOL, Teaming, Jumbo frames etc.,) on Network adapters and enclosures.
- Drop2, Drop3 and Drop3 covers Software Functional test cases covering industry standards like Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI), Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ), Pre-Boot execution Environment (PXE) and Teaming.
- Experienced in automation for the network adaptor firmware development using PERL script and PYTHON script.
- At this level individual completely owns Test Execution for the assigned module / product area, and Responsible for execution of Manual and Automated test cases.
- Responsible for Test Execution, Test case development (automated/manual), modification NS / enhancements, test case review, end to end support for simple applications and for reporting bugs and test bed issues.
- At this level individual monitors and escalates risks to lead / PM, checks for schedule adherence to all milestones and assists the lead / Test Manager in preparing final test report.
- Prepare traceability matrix.
- In addition, is capable to analyze test requirement and product specifications, analyze test tools and develop test plan.
- Worked on Testing the NIC Cards on both Gen8/Gen9 UEFI Servers.
- Responsible for Analyzing and checking the feasibility of the manual test cases for Automation.
- Maintain, manage, enhance builds and releases to various environments, such as development, QA, pre-production and production.
Quality Assurance Engineer
05.2010 - 01.2012
- The project involves performing Software Quality Assurance of the next generation RAID processors.
- Our client is the industry leader in RAID Storage Processor Technology.
- Their highly integrated, purpose-built storage processors greatly simplify networked storage hardware design while providing their OEM customers the framework for preserving their management software infrastructure.
- The result is a cost effective, feature rich storage system solution with uncompromised performance.
- Involved in Test Estimates, and Test Setup preparation, Bug Tracking etc and Actively involved in test station set up and test lab maintenance.
- Actively involved in test station set up and test lab maintenance.
- Performing overall Functionality and feature testing of RAID Controller using the Black Box Methodology and actively involved with the development team in reproduction of the issue and Bug Fixes.
- Effective contribution towards regression and functional verification testing with higher productivity which was appreciated by the client.
- Responsible for assigning daily tasks, coordinated the tasks assigned to entire team and test report generation for the clients.
- Experienced in collecting metrics - Test Case efficiency, Test Cycle Productivity, Coverage for the involved modules.
- Introduced LEAN in our project, hence a total of 8.30 hrs of manual effort has been saved.
Software Engineer
Wipro
10.2007 - 04.2010
- These widgets are developed using the latest Web 2.0 technologies.
- The widgets are developed using Java servlets.
- The front end used is a Webex client, where all the widgets developed are deployed.
- Widgets are coded using the proprietary Mashkit builder from Webex, and the backend used is MySQL Server.
- Contributed significantly to debugging issues in regression runs, which have around 900 test cases.
- Performed regression, integration, platform, and performance testing to certify the stability and usability of software systems.
- Involved in functional testing of Courseware Widgets, defect tracking, weekly test status updates, and regression testing.
- Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
- Developed test plans and test cases based on functional specifications and design documents.
- Maintained requirements and created traceability between requirements and test cases.
- Validated the data by using SQL queries extensively.
Education
MS - Mater of Software
BITS
01.2011
BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application
A.V.C. College
Mayiladuthurai01.2007
Skills
- DevOps practices
- Containerization using Docker
- Cloud migration
- Cloud architecture
- Infrastructure automation
- Container orchestration
- Deployment strategies
- Stakeholder engagement
- Perl
- Python
- Ruby
- Java
- Cucumber
- Git
- Gitlab
- Github
- Jenkins
- Windows
- Linux
- Ubuntu
- Solaris
- RHEL
- Mac OS X
- Maven
- Ant
- Gmake
- Makefile
- MSBuild
- Gradle(F)
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Bash Scripting
- Ruby Fundamental(F)
- Tomcat
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- Nexus
- Artifactory
- Nuget
- Elastic Search
- LogStash
- Kibana
- Nagios
- NewRelic
- MySQL 5
- Oracle 9i
- PL/SQL
- SonarQube
- PMD
- Checkstyle
- Jira
- BugZilla
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned details are true and best of my knowledge.
Languages
- Tamil
- English
- Kannada
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 09/01/86
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Centre of Excellence Leader
Fidelity Investments
04.2022 - Current
DevOps and Infra/platform architect
IBM
10.2020 - 10.2022
Cloud Infra architect
Cognizant
04.2019 - 10.2020
DevOps and Cloud Architect
Wipro
05.2015 - 04.2019
Automation Testing Engineer
08.2014 - 04.2015
Project Lead
Wipro
02.2012 - 03.2016
Quality Assurance Engineer
05.2010 - 01.2012
Software Engineer
Wipro
10.2007 - 04.2010
MS - Mater of Software
BITS
BCA - Bachelor of Computer Application
A.V.C. College
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