JANARDHAN HUSTHIMME

• Led multi-disciplinary DevOps, Developer Enablement, and Change Management teams, defining technology vision for AI-powered release orchestration with embedded security-as-code and automated HIPAA/PCI compliance validation on Azure/.NET Core infrastructure.
• Served as Hyderabad site leader, directing a team of 20+ engineers across project execution, performance management, and resource allocation, acting as the primary interface with US-based leadership.
• Implemented DevSecOps with IaC scanning, SLSA/in-toto frameworks, and policy-as-code (OPA), achieving 99.99% reliability through AIOps observability using Datadog, Azure Log Analytics, PagerDuty, and Site24x7 with ML-based anomaly detection and self-healing infrastructure.
• Modernized CI/CD pipelines from legacy processes to Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with reusable Kubernetes (AKS) manifests, Helm charts, and Liquibase-based database migration automation, cutting deployment time by 25% and improving reliability by 15%.
• Drove Azure cloud cost optimization, reducing cost sprawl by approximately 46% through right-SKU selection, Hyperscale, Serverless, and Auto-pause strategies.
• Established shift-left quality engineering with Selenium, Playwright, JMeter, SonarQube, and Veracode (SAST/DAST) integrated into CI/CD; embedded network security via Cloudflare and Zscaler with Zero Trust principles.
• Integrated Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and GitHub Copilot into engineering and knowledge workflows, accelerating analysis, documentation, and developer productivity by an estimated 20%.
• Managed staff augmentation and insourcing/outsourcing decisions in partnership with the VMO team, implementing security and resilience practices that sustained 99.9% uptime across operational platforms.

• Founded and led the venture end-to-end: company registration, legal/compliance setup, product strategy, hiring, go-to-market planning, vendor selection, and marketing, building the organization from the ground up and managing licensing and trademark registrations.
• Defined technology vision and organizational goals, leading a multi-disciplinary team of 20+ across cloud, IoT, ML, hardware, and agriculture domains, accelerating product delivery cycles by 30% and reducing critical bug resolution time by 40%.
• Architected a cloud-native, multi-sensor IoT/ML platform for precision hydroponics combining edge inference and automation, delivering approximately 25-30% crop yield improvement and 20-25% reduction in water consumption.
• Built a Kubernetes- and Kafka-based Farm Management Platform providing real-time analytics (pH, temperature, humidity, nutrient concentration) with 99.5% uptime across multi-site operations.
• Directed predictive ML and computer-vision pipelines for nutrient control, microclimate tuning, and disease detection, achieving 90%+ accuracy and cutting manual checks by approximately 70%.
• Deployed Raspberry Pi-based distributed control systems to automate lighting, irrigation, and climate management, reducing manual effort and downtime.
• Reduced operating costs by 18% through scalable, cloud-native architecture and rigorous performance monitoring; grew user engagement by 25% and market reach by 15%.

• Led a global engineering organization of 160+ professionals delivering cloud, SRE, data, and patient-care platform modernization across a $40M+ portfolio; managed a $28M budget and achieved 97% on-time delivery.
• Defined organizational technology vision and goals; established Centers of Excellence for DevOps, SRE, and Security; directed insourcing/outsourcing strategy with Vendor Burst Team Pods for spike workloads, reducing external dependency by 40%.
• Executed hybrid cloud deployment across AWS, Azure, and GCP; implemented Kubernetes (AKS) and Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code, cutting infrastructure provisioning from days to minutes.
• Drove Cloud FinOps optimization, reducing cloud run-rate by approximately 30% through automated rightsizing, spot instance adoption, and tiered storage, yielding $3.6M in annual savings.
• Established a unified DevOps + SRE operating model with automated CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), improving deployment velocity by 40% and reducing MTTR by 25%.
• Led the enterprise-wide rollout of GitHub Copilot to 500+ teams, improving developer productivity by approximately 28% and reducing deployment errors by approximately 40%; built an AI/ML-powered voice-to-text solution improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
• Modernized 22+ legacy data models into an enterprise-aligned, API-first framework; directed the Member Self-Scheduling modernization initiative, saving $273K annually.
• Oversaw the HIPAA-aligned security framework and DR/BCP program, achieving 100% compliance and 99.99% availability.
• Built leadership pipelines across India, the US, and APAC through targeted hiring, mentoring, and structured succession planning; led org-wide role transformation, upskilling 50+ QE professionals into Full Stack Engineers.
• Received the Bravo Award from the Senior Vice President for exceptional contributions to platform modernization.

• Directed India site leadership and global IT/security operations across multi-disciplinary teams in 5 regions, achieving 99.99% availability for a high-scale AdTech ecosystem supporting millions of daily transactions.
• Established enterprise-wide security vision and governance frameworks impacting 1,000+ employees; drove ISO 27001/SOC 2 readiness by implementing CIS Controls, reducing audit findings by 50%.
• Led PKI migration to AWS Certificate Manager with WAF, strengthening security posture; reduced vendor costs by 12% through strategic procurement.
• Ensured HIPAA/GDPR compliance; embedded security-by-design principles into IaC and CI/CD pipelines, reducing security incidents by 15%.
• Led Microsoft Office 365 cloud-powered productivity platform integration with Google Workspace; managed IT asset forecasting, procurement, and software licensing.
• Spearheaded ISO certification readiness and led HRIS application integration and cloud migration; managed insourcing/outsourcing decisions for IT operations, optimizing resource allocation.

• Directed 70+ global engineers across India, France, Germany, and the US, managing an $18M portfolio; defined technology vision and goals, improving project alignment by 35%.
• Led the architecture of a Red Hat OpenStack private cloud (Amadeus Cloud Services) for 20+ airlines with Red Hat CEPH storage, Nuage networking, and Red Hat OpenShift containers, achieving a 50% cost reduction and 30% reliability improvement.
• Managed the VIO-to-Red Hat OpenStack migration and administered 60+ clusters and 30,000+ ESXi hosts; implemented N+2 availability zones with active-passive firecell/zones for disaster recovery.
• Initiated cloud migration to AWS/Azure saving $2M annually; championed Kubernetes and microservices adoption, enhancing deployment speed by 40%.
• Led FinOps initiatives delivering $500K in storage savings and reducing cloud run-rate by approximately 30%; upskilled 32+ engineers in cloud-native technologies.
• Built an enterprise AI/ML platform using NLP, Kafka, and MongoDB, enhancing customer experience and operational intelligence; scaled GitHub Copilot adoption improving engineering productivity by approximately 28%.

• Established Cloud Engineering, Storage, Telemetry, and DevTools teams from inception as Centers of Excellence; recruited and developed 100+ engineers.
  
  Operated at massive scale: 20+ production clouds, 180,000+ CPU cores, 93,000+ VMs; architected CEPH-based private cloud STaaS, reducing TCO by ~35%.
  
  Directed petabyte-scale LogSearch/observability platform (450 nodes, 70K+ source nodes, 2+ PB/day) using Splunk and Kafka, delivering 99.9% availability; established Splunk Center of Excellence.
  
  Migrated legacy e-commerce workloads to Walmart’s OpenStack private cloud, improving provisioning speed by 60% and ensuring resilience during peak events (Black Friday, Cyber Week).

Datacenter, Cloud, Systems, Storage & Engineering Operations • Managed a 25,000 sq. ft. engineering datacenter and multidisciplinary cloud, systems, storage and operations teams. • Designed and delivered VMware-based Global Labs as a Service / private cloud capability, generating approximately $400K year-over-year value/savings in different versions of the role record. • Led datacenter virtualization, storage architecture, SAN fabric design and Infrastructure as a Service initiatives. • Planned and executed a zero-downtime datacenter relocation, with documented savings ranging from approximately $450K to $800K across resume versions. • Established Centers of Excellence and supported IT integration during M&A-related transitions. • Led talent acquisition, performance management, capacity planning, infrastructure optimization and vendor operations. • Drove green datacenter initiatives through automated shutdown and decommissioning of idle/end-of-life systems.

• Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues.
• Collaborated with clients to determine need and devise appropriate software and hardware solutions.
• Created manuals and taught training sessions to educate co-workers on new systems.
• Coordinated with stakeholders to design and develop solutions.

Enterprise Server & Storage Support • Provided enterprise technical support for Dell PowerEdge servers and Latitude systems. • Resolved approximately 15 complex technical issues per day in one documented role version, achieving approximately 98% customer satisfaction. • Supported configuration, triage, problem resolution and operational support; identified recurring issues and provided engineering feedback. • Created and maintained knowledge-base content for support teams.