JANMEJAY BARAL
Bengaluru
Summary
DevOps-focused Product Owner with extensive experience in product management, business analysis, and service delivery. Proven track record of delivering innovative, scalable solutions and enhancing product performance. Skilled in optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating workflows, and seamlessly integrating development with operations. Possess strong domain knowledge in CIDR, compliance, e-discovery, and risk management. Actively seeking opportunities in Hyderabad and Bengaluru to drive product excellence and operational efficiency.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Smarsh India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2015 - Current
- Implemented DORA Metrics: Established and tracked DevOps performance indicators such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery, driving improvements in operational efficiency and release predictability.
- Agile Delivery Leadership: Coordinated all phases of product development within a DevOps framework, analyzing customer feedback, defining product requirements, and creating detailed user stories to validate new enhancements.
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Ensured robust BCP testing and adherence to DevOps best practices, resulting in resilient disaster recovery and business continuity plans that were regularly monitored and updated.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnered with Professional Services, Pre-Sales, Technical Management, Support teams, and vendors to deliver timely, budget-friendly, and high-quality product enhancements.
- Technical Assessments & Pre-Sales: Conducted business value and technical assessments, providing expertise during pre-sales discussions, responding to RFPs, and supporting customer engagements with detailed technical insights.
- PCF to Kubernetes Migration: Led proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives for migrating from Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) to Kubernetes (K8), presenting product features and benefits to stakeholders to demonstrate technical feasibility and business value.
- Customer-Focused Solutions: Actively engaged with customers to present product features, align solutions with their business goals, and ensure the technology proposed met their requirements during pre-sales and implementation phases.
Sr. Software Engineer
Indecomm Global Service (India) Pvt. Ltd.
02.2015 - 06.2015
- Developed automated test scripts and validation parameters to ensure quality and functionality of customer web-based applications.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to align testing with evolving product features and functionality.
- Debugged code, reviewed logs, and resolved performance issues to ensure seamless product delivery.
- Designed and executed test plans, ensuring comprehensive coverage and system reliability.
QA Automation Engineer
HCL
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Contributed to the AADHAAR project, focusing on HDFS to MapR migration and its impact analysis on peripheral applications.
- Designed and developed automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and implemented a functional testing framework using JUnit.
- Conducted backend testing using SQL, Hadoop Shell Commands, and Mongo Queries, ensuring data integrity and application performance.
- Performed load and performance testing, along with comprehensive system testing in pre-production environments.
- Authored test cases, tracked defects in Bugzilla, and prepared release documents for pre-production deployment.
Software Engineer
Arcus India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2011 - 01.2014
- Started career as a corporate trainer, delivering programming language training across multiple organizations for 1.5 years.
- Engaged in requirement gathering, analysis, and preparation of LLD and TRD for project implementations.
- Contributed to server-side coding, database connectivity, and system behavior investigation under varying load conditions using Pound.
- Designed and executed unit test cases using JUnit to ensure code quality and reliability.
Education
B. Tech -
Biju Patnaik University Of Technology
Odisha01-2010
Skills
- Product Ownership and Management
- Story Planning
- Roadmap Development
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Business Analysis
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Agile Methodology
- Scrum/Agile Methodologies
- Technical Product Management Technical Acumen
- CI/CD Pipeline Automation
- Application Containerization/Orchestration
- Distributed Cloud Architecture
- DORA Metrics/DevOps Principles
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code) Problem-Solving and Delivery
- Problem Identification
- Root Cause Analysis/5 Why Analysis
- IPC (Incident, Problem and Change)/SLA Management Leadership and Stakeholder Collaboration
- Team Management & Leadership
- Client & Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Key Relationship Development
Certification
- PMP (Project Management Professional)
- CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- PSM 1 (Professional Scrum Master)
Timeline
Product Owner
Smarsh India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2015 - Current
Sr. Software Engineer
Indecomm Global Service (India) Pvt. Ltd.
02.2015 - 06.2015
QA Automation Engineer
HCL
01.2014 - 01.2015
Software Engineer
Arcus India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2011 - 01.2014
B. Tech -
Biju Patnaik University Of Technology
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