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GOWRI Mahadevan

GOWRI Mahadevan

Chennai

Summary

Experienced Engineering Manager and Agile Project Manager with over 19 years of IT expertise in Configuration, Release, and Project Management. Dedicated Agile and DevOps practitioner committed to continuous learning and automation, driving efficiency and innovation in project delivery.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Engineering Manager, Devops

Thryve Digital
11.2024 - Current
  • Managing a team of 25 members inclusive of Build and Deploy Engineers and Devops Operations team.
  • Manage the project allocation, career development, hiring and appraisals.
  • Preparing Weekly and Monthly report to Senior Management Team.
  • Derived Operational KPIs and SLAs.
  • End to End execution of devops projects and enhancements.
  • Collaborated with application , testing and QA team for all production deployments.
  • Managed the release calendars and supported during major and monthly application releases and infrastructure changes.

Project Manager

Citicorp Services India Private Limited
12.2021 - 11.2024
  • Executed Data migration Project for Divestiture market and responsible for delivering required infrastructure on committed timeline for migrating 5.5 MM customers data across Bank and Cards.
  • Executed Program from inception till closure for APAC and EMEA markets for Digital portfolio projects and worked on creating Project Plans, resource allocation and budget management without any Non Compliance issue in PTS.
  • Experience in PCF to OpenShift migration and Data center migration digital projects.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and prepared Agile project artifacts in PTS to ensure compliance.
  • Have extensively collaborated with Architects, QA, Operations and Delivery team for the customer releases.

Project Manager

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd
09.2019 - 09.2021
  • Handled VM to Cloud migration projects and implemented complete CI/CD pipeline by working with the DevOps team.
  • Have successfully lead a containerization project for a data reporting product including implementation of CI/CD pipelines and brought down the release to market time from 9 weeks to 5 weeks.
  • Planned and managed multiple projects involving 5 Agile teams.
  • Handled Lead Scrum Master role for 4 agile teams and facilitated teams' planning meetings, daily scrums, stand-ups, and scrum of scrums (SoS).
  • Reported Project Status and Trouble Report statistics using Tableau to the Core4 team and PMO in every Project Steering Group meeting.
  • Ensure that sprint deliverables are adhering to the Quality and DoD.
  • Provided monthly metrics reporting to PMO team on burn down progress, velocity, trouble report status and release updates.
  • Coached and Mentored new joiners on Agile WoW.
  • Have done agile maturity assessment at team level.

Senior Devops Engineer

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd
11.2009 - 01.2018
  • Have written python scripts to completely automate manual product deployment and rollback in multinode cluster and thus saved 3 hrs of manual hours for every installation done.
  • Worked on migrating enterprise-wide projects from ClearCase to GIT Version Control tool.
  • Spearheaded all code repositories in Git and set up automated Ci/CD pipelines for all product lines.
  • Highly experience in continuous integration system Jenkins.
  • Worked with internal development teams to automate build system changes using Perl as per the improvement roadmap.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.

Build and Release Engineer

Convergys EMEA
03.2009 - 10.2009
  • Did maintenance builds and head patch build for java projects.
  • Automated build process, and generated graphs for job status using PHP, SHELL and Mysql.
  • Experience in handling CM Synergy Configuration Tool and DCM administration for backup across sites.

Build and Release Engineer

Scientific, A Cisco Company, Chennai
07.2006 - 05.2008
  • Did build automation using Perl, Nant and SHELL scripting and have used Cruise Control for automating Java Projects.
  • Controlled and authorized new versions and releases.
  • Created Views & Metadata (Branches and Labels).
  • Managed the configuration and deployments for QA and pre-production environments.
  • Responsible for product Integration, build creation and releases.

Software Engineer

iSOFT R&D Pvt. Ltd
06.2004 - 07.2006
  • Generated SCM Plan for new projects.
  • Experienced in Migrating Enterprise wide projects from VSS to CM Synergy.
  • Developed training materials and coached team on the process and new tools.
  • Developed triggers, Perl scripts for migration tasks.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Bharath Institute of Science And Tech
Chennai, India
04.2001 -

Skills

  • GIT
  • Kubernetes
  • SHELL/Perl/Python
  • GitLab
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Jira
  • Jenkins
  • Terraform

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Interests

Endurance Cycling

Running

Yoga

Timeline

Engineering Manager, Devops

Thryve Digital
11.2024 - Current

Project Manager

Citicorp Services India Private Limited
12.2021 - 11.2024

Project Manager

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd
09.2019 - 09.2021

Senior Devops Engineer

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd
11.2009 - 01.2018

Build and Release Engineer

Convergys EMEA
03.2009 - 10.2009

Build and Release Engineer

Scientific, A Cisco Company, Chennai
07.2006 - 05.2008

Software Engineer

iSOFT R&D Pvt. Ltd
06.2004 - 07.2006

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Bharath Institute of Science And Tech
04.2001 -

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