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JERRY GEORGE R

JERRY GEORGE R

Chennai

Summary

Seeking a more challenging role to develop and grow together with a reputed organization where my technical and personal skills will be of mutual benefit to the organization and myself.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

SRE Advisor

Transunion
Chennai
05.2024 - Current
  • Advice the team on the technologies and methodologies to build and improvise an effective SRE strategy for a newly formed team
  • Set the vision for the team to make it capable of handling SRE issues with ease and high effectiveness
  • Train the team on SRE tools or monitoring
  • Investigate and resolve issues on live TU websites and applications at the earliest to minimize business impact
  • Advice and work together with the team to make efficient planning and road map to fill in the gaps within the team
  • Advice the team on effective SRE work model and MO
  • Analyze and plan with the team to effectively grow and create new monitoring tools and techniques
  • Identify, plan and execute areas for automating any manual process w.r.t to production deployment

SRE Lead

Peninsular Research Operation
Chennai
01.2022 - 05.2024
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Azure DevOps and VS App Center for deployment of web and mobile apps
  • Create and maintain fully optimal cloud infrastructures on Azure, AWS and GCP for code deployment
  • Manage and administer Kubernetes cluster with proper cost management and chaos management techniques and also resolve issues on any workloads
  • Implement strong SCA and code refactoring techniques to implement proper coding practices and make end products better
  • Work closely with business and technical heads to improvise work culture
  • Educate and train the engineering team in following good engineering practices
  • Implement good infrastructure and site reliability techniques to make sure the production environment is stable with minimal or no downtime
  • Implement proper PR validations on Azure pipelines to improvise and stabilize codebase
  • Pioneer good configuration management techniques
  • Work closely with the engineering team to resolve issues on the web and mobile applications developed
  • Manage deployments on Google Play and Apple Store keeping track of the reviews and implementing proper publishing techniques
  • Manage DNS on Go Daddy and NameCheap
  • Work closely with the technical heads to pioneer solutions to cloud infrastructure issues
  • Develop a good DevOps work culture
  • Pioneer Unit testing, A/B testing and Integration testing solutions
  • Create and manage SSL certificates for all our domains and subdomains
  • Create and manage observability for Kubernetes
  • Set up, update and maintain monitoring tools using Azure monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd and Elastic cloud
  • Create Dashboards with Live data on work, infrastructure and production releases

Sr. Technical Consultant-DevOps

ABB
Bangalore
07.2018 - 12.2021
  • Company Overview: ABB Ability Innovation Center
  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Azure DevOps
  • Creating and running automated nightly build to discover newly produced bugs earlier, reducing bug fixing time from 1-2 days to few hours
  • Performed all builds on time per schedule and resolved any build and compile issues within allotted time
  • Help and training on source code management processes, procedures and tools to the team
  • Executed continuous improvement of project builds
  • Developed an effective build automation, continuous integration and test environment that reduced integration issues and improved code quality
  • Package the software components as per requirements using application packaging tools
  • Implement DevOps culture into the team with best practices
  • Create dashboards to display and manage all activities within the team easily
  • ABB Ability Innovation Center
  • Contractual

Build and Release Engineer-DevOps

CADS Software India PVT Ltd
Chennai
10.2015 - 06.2018
  • Create best practices to automate build creations
  • Migrate all build definitions from batch automation scripts to TFS builds
  • Create CI/CD pipelines to effectively create, deploy and test software components
  • Effectively manage and update release management according to changing software upgrades and requirements
  • Worked as part of R&D team to continuously learn and implement new techniques and strategies according to the changing technology
  • Monitor and fix build issues
  • Support dev team in resolving the issues with compilations in build environment
  • Maintain existing legacy techniques and implement upgrades wherever possible
  • Migrate installations source from Wise packaging studio to InstallShield to create MSI’s
  • Handle live customer support issues related to installation of CADS software products
  • Single handedly worked across several product teams to deliver requirements with high efficiency and accuracy

Software Engineer

CADS Software India PVT Ltd
Chennai
10.2014 - 01.2016
  • Develop automated testing tools using C#, .Net to test the deployment sanctity of CADS range of Software products
  • Create a good, elegant and user-friendly Installation UI Wizards to manage the Installation of CADS range of software products using C++, MFC, C# and .NET
  • Create managed code custom actions using C# in InstallShield to implement customized actions required for CADS software installations
  • Create small tools for the deployment and testing team using .Net to make mundane tasks easier

Education

Master of Computer Application -

Madras Christian College
01.2014

Bachelor of Computer Application -

Alpha Arts and Science College
01.2011

Skills

  • Good communication skills
  • Good Learning ability and always keen to keep learning new tools and technologies
  • Good in working with several teams
  • Hardworking and committed to work
  • Ability to produce best results in pressure situations

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Reji George
  • Date of Birth: 03/09/91
  • Marital Status: Married

Career Summary

  • 9+ years of experience in build and release, deployment, and testing software products. Having Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps, TFS build, CI/CD, Azure, Kubernetes, VS App Center. Expert in automated build and deployment process. Expert on Azure cloud. Hands on experience on AWS and GCP. Expert in application packaging. Expert on mobile app build and deployment including managing play store and app store reviews. Expert in creating and managing Azure Dashboards for CI\CD, Discipline Dashboards, Scrum and Iteration management dashboards. Hands on experience on SCA tools like SonarQube, Sonar cloud. Hands on experience in .NET Programming. Hands on experience on PowerShell scripting, Batch Script, InstallShield, Wise Package Studio, Wise for windows. Trained and experienced in agile methodology. Experienced in implementing DevOps principles. Hands on experience in Configuration Management. Involved in Client Interactions on support issues. Strategic Advisor known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Specialize in policy development, stakeholder engagement, and risk management strategies. Excel in communication, adaptability, and problem-solving to navigate complex challenges and drive organizational success.

Accomplishments

  • Received multiple 'Recognition of Excellence' awards at Peninsular Research Operations for ensuring almost zero downtime for their most critical web application, for cloud migration, for automating multiple NFRs using CI/CD pipelines.
  • Trailblazers Spot Award Issued by ABB · Mar 2021 as part of Engineering team.
  • Pinnacle Award Issued by Axcend Automation and Software Solutions · Nov 2020

Acknowledgement

I Declare that the above given details are true to the best of my knowledge.

Timeline

SRE Advisor

Transunion
05.2024 - Current

SRE Lead

Peninsular Research Operation
01.2022 - 05.2024

Sr. Technical Consultant-DevOps

ABB
07.2018 - 12.2021

Build and Release Engineer-DevOps

CADS Software India PVT Ltd
10.2015 - 06.2018

Software Engineer

CADS Software India PVT Ltd
10.2014 - 01.2016

Master of Computer Application -

Madras Christian College

Bachelor of Computer Application -

Alpha Arts and Science College
JERRY GEORGE R