JILU JACOB

RELEASE MANAGER - TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Kochi

Summary

As a Technical Architect at Allianz Technology, I have over ten years of experience in leading and managing the release management and CI/CD processes for the company's on-premises applications. I am a Certified Scrum Master and an ITIL Foundation certificate holder, with a strong background in DevOps methodologies and tools.
I formed, enabled, and led the newly created release management/CI-CD team, which handles multiple projects and supports the automation of the software development lifecycle. I also serve as a functional manager and a technical lead for the team, overseeing the quality and performance of the deliverables.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Architect - Release, Tooling & CICD

Allianz Technology SE

10.2015 - Current

Functional Manager to Release Managers-CICD & Tooling team overseeing the quality and performance of the deliverable.
Certified Scrum Master and ITIL Foundation certificate holder, with strong background in DevOps methodologies and tools.
Worked with engineering teams, product management teams, and business partners to develop and execute scope and schedule of solutions.
Managed end-to-end release management process, ensuring successful planning, coordination, and execution of software releases.
My job involves - Release Planning,Release Coordination, Risk Management,Communication and Stakeholder Management,Quality Assurance,Continuous improvement,Change management and Team leadership
End to end ownership in build and environment set up especially during application upgrade as well as JBOSS upgrade .
Along with release management im also doing people management of 9 member team working in different functional teams.
Release management experience in various kinds of applications like Guideware - Claimcenter & Contact Manager , IBM- Casemanager etc.

Senior Software Engineer-Build & Release Managment

IBS Software Services, Techno Park, Trivandrum

05.2011 - 10.2015

Provided support to developers on ClearCase tools in Multisite environment and solved issues related to branches/merging operations.
Experience working with multiple simultaneous software releases, successfully managed customers including Qantas, South African etc with 5+ streams parallel.
Successfully coordinated ClearCase migration activity
Provided presentations and trainings to users on Rational ClearCase tools and SCM Best practices
Worked closely with Project Managers to design release plan.
Maintained and executed build scripts by coordinating with development and QA teams.
Delivered exceptional client support by promptly addressing concerns and implementing requested changes or enhancements to software solutions
Streamlined development workflows, increasing team efficiency and reducing time spent on repetitive tasks
Contributed to overall system stability by regularly reviewing and refining build and release processes, incorporating feedback from team members to address areas of concern
Managed version control systems, ensuring accurate tracking of code changes throughout project lifecycles

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication Engineering

College of Engineering Cherthala-CUSAT

Kerala, India

04.2011

Skills

Certification : ITIL Foundation Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Agile Methodologies- Scrum,Kanban

SCM - Gradle, Maven , ANT,npm

SVN, GIT,Clearcase

Jenkins, Hudson

SerenaDA,GitLab

JBoss,Weblogic,Websphere

JIRA,Service Now

Basics -AWS,Azure,Kubernetes

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