HARI BABU
Hong Kong
Summary
Highly skilled DevOps Lead/Manager with over 12 years of experience designing and implementing scalable and secure cloud infrastructures. Proven track record in enhancing software release processes, application performance, and system reliability. Successful in implementing CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code, resulting in significant cost savings. Strong leadership skills in mentoring and training junior DevOps engineers, resulting in a 40% improvement in team productivity.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Client: AIA INSURANCE, HONG KONG
Solution/Release Manager, PROTIVITI HONGKONG CO.LTD
07.2023 - 01.2024
- Plan and design a comprehensive DevOps/Release roadmap for application and infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and growth.
- Designed and implemented a new CI/CD pipeline for a critical application, reducing deployment time by 50%, and improving overall system reliability by 30%.
- Assisted in the migration of legacy systems to a modern cloud-based architecture, contributing to a 25% reduction in operational costs, and improved scalability.
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to establish a robust incident management process, decreasing mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 40%, and enhancing system reliability.
- Develop and maintain project plans, including resource allocation and risk mitigation strategies.
- Collaborated with the security team to develop and implement new security policies and procedures, resulting in a 25% reduction in security incidents over a six-month period.
- Mentored and trained a team of junior engineers and architects, resulting in a 20% improvement in team productivity and a 15% reduction in system downtime.
Client : AXA INSURANCE & HK SANATORIUM, HONG KONG
Senior Consultant/Architect, DELOITTE ADVISORY HK LTD
02.2023 - 05.2023
- Starting the DevOps culture, including Continuous Integration and Delivery, bringing automated infrastructure tools to existing teams, and setting guidelines and standards to promote the new software conventions.
- Orchestrated the implementation of a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, reducing the software release process time by 30%, and significantly improving the efficiency of the development team.
- Championed the adoption of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, resulting in a 40% increase in application scalability, and a 20% reduction in infrastructure costs.
- To develop and support selected tools with the DevOps Team, while managing suppliers working on other tool development.
LUXOFT HONG KONG P.TE LTD
Solution Architect/Release Manager
05.2022 - 01.2023
- Leading an in-house release team using Agile methodology, providing coaching to new members of the team, and setting the release management standards.
- Developed and maintained automated deployment scripts for high-traffic banking applications, reducing manual deployment efforts by 70% and minimizing downtime during releases.
- Optimized server performance and resource utilization through proactive monitoring and tuning, achieving a 15% increase in application response times and user satisfaction.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, enabling consistent and repeatable deployments across multiple environments, leading to a 20% reduction in configuration errors.
- Led a cross-functional team to implement a cloud-native CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 60%, and increasing release frequency by 40% using Kubernetes and Jenkins.
- Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.
Client : UBS BANK
Tech Lead/Architect, INFOSYS LIMITED (Subsidiary- EDGEVERVE)
01.2020 - 04.2022
- Plan and design a comprehensive release roadmap for investment components architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives and future growth.
- Set and manage standards for successful development processes for automation and tools.
- Architected and deployed a scalable microservices infrastructure on the Cloud, resulting in a 30% cost reduction and a 50% improvement in system uptime.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, enabling consistent and repeatable deployments across multiple environments, leading to a 20% reduction in configuration errors.
- Responsible for continuous integration and continuous deployment automation by using cloud-based and open-source technologies.
- Create dashboards and other tools for day-to-day monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Schedule, coordinate, and manage releases for multiple applications that exist within the business. Work closely with IT project managers and communicate release windows and the overall release lifecycle.
JP Morgan, ICICI, Bank Of America, INDIA
Tech Lead/ Architect , INFOSYS LIMITED (Subsidiary – EDGEVERVE) Client : ICICI, Dept of Posts
08.2006 - 12.2019
- Designed and executed a comprehensive DevOps transformation strategy, integrating automated build and deployment, and monitoring tools, which improved software delivery speed by 35% and reduced incident response time by 50%.
- Led a cross-functional team to implement a cloud-native CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 60%, and increasing release frequency by 40% using Kubernetes and Jenkins.
- Identify and evaluate new technologies and tools relevant to application and infrastructure release management.
- Optimized server performance and resource utilization through proactive monitoring and tuning, achieving a 15% increase in application response times and user satisfaction
- Assisted in the migration of legacy systems to a modern cloud-based architecture, contributing to a 25% reduction in operational costs, and improved scalability.
- Create proofs of concept for technologies to evaluate Docker, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Bamboo, Jenkins, and Splunk.
- Managed Ansible Playbooks with Ansible modules, implemented CD automation using Ansible, and managed existing servers, as well as the automation of the build and configuration of new servers.
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology(Engineering)
JNTU UNIVERSITY
India04.2006
Skills
- RELEASE MANAGEMENT
- DEVOPS & INFRASTRUCTURE
- MICROSOFT AZURE AND AWS
- ENTERPRISE, IT ARCHITECTURE
- CLOUD COMPUTING
- CI/CD
- DOCKER, KUBERNETES
- GITHUB, JENKINS
- ANSIBLE, TERRAFORM, OPENSHIFT
- PROMETHEUS, GRAFANA
- IT GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY
- DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
- JAVA, UNIX BASH SCRIPTING, PYTHON
- ORACLE, SQL, POSTGRESQL
- BUDGETING
- STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
- JIRA, CONFLUENCE
- MICROSOFT VISIO, EXCEL,
Certification
- Microsoft Certified, DEVOPS Engineer - EXPERT
- Microsoft Certified - AZURE Solutions Architect – EXPERT
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate - Amazon Web Services.
- Microsoft Certified, AZURE Administrator Associate - Microsoft.
Timeline
Client: AIA INSURANCE, HONG KONG
Solution/Release Manager, PROTIVITI HONGKONG CO.LTD
07.2023 - 01.2024
Client : AXA INSURANCE & HK SANATORIUM, HONG KONG
Senior Consultant/Architect, DELOITTE ADVISORY HK LTD
02.2023 - 05.2023
LUXOFT HONG KONG P.TE LTD
Solution Architect/Release Manager
05.2022 - 01.2023
Client : UBS BANK
Tech Lead/Architect, INFOSYS LIMITED (Subsidiary- EDGEVERVE)
01.2020 - 04.2022
JP Morgan, ICICI, Bank Of America, INDIA
Tech Lead/ Architect , INFOSYS LIMITED (Subsidiary – EDGEVERVE) Client : ICICI, Dept of Posts
08.2006 - 12.2019
B.Tech - Information Technology(Engineering)
JNTU UNIVERSITY
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