AWS, Community builder
Accomplished Senior Technology Manager offering 19 years of experience in IT. Successful when leading high-performing teams to sustain product vision, roadmap and business goals. Exceptional technical expertise, leadership and talent for driving stellar, on-target results.
I am passionate about technology and people where I focus on delivering results by bringing business value to the customers.
Help customers in their Digital Transformations, product development, cloud operations with agility to the business and innovation by using cutting edge technologies that brings the ROI as at the end it is the profit that drives everything.
Helped Enterprise customers on strategic business road map for Digital Transformation that helped to achieve 40% cost saving, increase market share by 30% , faster time to market by 50% and 40% of business growth.
I bring the right culture with in the team that helps to improve the efficiency and deliver better results. As a TPM I see to improve the efficiency and deliver the results by 15% YoY.
I am passionate about learning and fill the gaps by doing certifications every half year and ensure to do atleast 2 to 3 certifications per year.
As a Senior Technology Manager for cloud operations responsible for defining the governance and operational model for different cloud platforms in a secured, scalable, cost effective way that will improve the speed of deploying new solutions to cloud platform.
Responsible for operationalization of the platform to ensure it is HA, resilient, robust and performance oriented that can scale and handle thousands of workloads and millions of messages in a cost effective manner.
Make sure the platform is operational excellent which has auto-scaling and auto-recovery, health check implementations in place that will help to make the platform more robust and handle failures in a graceful manner.
Key achievements :
1) Defined the HA and DR strategy in a cost effective manner that helped to bring down the operationalization cost by 15%.
2) Implemented an automated approach for deploying the applications in cloud using an E2E CI/CD pipeline that helped to reduce the approval and deployment time by 10%.
3) Built an automatic monitoring solution for a .NET console based application that helped to reduce the manual effort by 20% and improved the efficiency by 10%.
4) Defined the KPI's, SLA for the in-house and cloud platform which help the development teams to design the applications as per the requirement.
5) Scaled the logging and monitoring solution built on ELK stack without any downtime that can scale from 50K to 100K devices and can handle throughput from 1.5 million to 15 million in a cost effective manner.
6) Took full responsibility of operationalizing the IoT edge device monitoring platform by building a new team in-house and eliminating the supplier team that saved cost of 250K USD YoY
7) Effective management of supplier teams 50+ support engineers and create an operationalization and monitoring framework that helps to monitor the platform in a proactive and reactive way.
1) Managing a team of 50 people across geographies for a project value of $ 10M.
2) Responsible for developing and delivering a full stack IoT based platform that will collect, process and store signalling data from millions of IoT devices where customers can fetch the data in Real Time.
3) The application is developed using cloud native technologies and is HA, Scalable, Resilient, secured, cost optimized that provides the business value for the customers.
4) The solution is migrated to cloud to bring more business value and utilizing AWS public cloud. Have good expouser on different AWS services and platforms like EC2, S3,RDS,Lambda,VPC,CloudFormation, KMS, Kinesis, Redshift, AWS EKS etc.
5) Defining the needed process to ensure the team can deliver the requirements as needed.
6) Plan the project budget, schedule, risks, deliverables and other needed artifacts.
7) Mentor the team technically and process oriented that helps to motivate.
8) Building right culture in the team that helps to improve the productivity.
9) Interact with the stakeholders related to the dependencies and work on the plan to ensure the timelines are met in getting the requirements delivered as per the schedule.
10) Interact with customers on a very regular basis to communicate on the status of the deliverables and performing demos to get regular feedbacks.
11) Work with pre-sales on RFP's to provide solutions and cost estimations for getting new business.
12) Work on understanding the customer business issues and pro-actively come up with solutions that gives needed business value.
13) Defining the project roadmap to align with the product roadmap.
Key Achievements :
1) Built a platform that helped to scale the business from 1 million to 30 million users thus increasing the revenue and marketshare 30%.
2) Reduced the overall cost to 40% and improved the performance of the platform by 50% by moving from on-premise to cloud.
3) Developed a big data analytics solution using flink that helped to give insights on the data. This helped the customer satisfaction by 30% and business growth by 20%.
4) Defined a new process for change management i.e deploying applications to production thus helping to reduce cost by 30% and faster time to market by 25%.
Responsible for Digital Transformation of a banking platform of value $ 25M that is delivered as SaaS to different banks.
Digital Transformation of Banking platform by transforming from monolithic to microservices cloud based architecture that can scale on-demand and utilizes cloud capabilities like API first, Elasticity, HA, secured and Resilient.
1) Define the cloud migration strategy and work on Cloud Adoption Framework.
2) Break-down the High level tasks to user stories based on the requirements.
3) Create the project plan, schedule, budget, timeline and risks identification.
4) Work with product management to align with the business goals where the deliverables meet the business criteria.
5) Resource planning and recruiting the people with the right mindset and competency.
6) Training needs to ensure that the teams gain the needed competency.
7) Interact with customers on the project timelines to keep track of the releases.
8) Bringing the right mindset and culture in the team that helps be more productive.
9) Coach the team when and where required.
10) Ensuring that best practices are implemented in the team (cloud, code, TDD etc).
11) The platform is migrated to cloud and utilizing the cloud capabilities to get the maximum business value, agility. Have good expouser of AWS cloud and different services and platforms provides by AWS. (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, AWS EKS etc)
Key Achievements :
1) Provided a strategic plan to the CTO for the digital transformation of the platform that brings 60% revenue growth and increase market share with global presence.
2) Key driver for the digital transformation by using cutting edge technologies and frameworks that brings agility to the business.
3) Successfully recruited, trained and on-boarded team of highly talented people of 20 with in a month and started developing the platform 2 months early than the expected timeline.
4) Increased the revenue and market share by 40% by reducing onboarding cost for customers by 53% thus brought more customers to use the new platform.
Responsible for Leading a highly talented and motivational team of 25 people for a project of revenue $ 15M and delivering the product with high quality and 1 month before the deadline.
Responsible for delivering a project for migrating the OS of the platform from windows to Linux to save cost and improve efficiency.
There is an switching platform that consists of multiple applications running on windows operating system on a telecom switch. The OS was planned to upgrade from windows to Linux by porting the application code, defining the test strategy, test cases, upgrade strategy for the live system without any downtime.
Project budget allocation
AWS Solution Architect Associate (SAA-C02)
I have cleared the AWS SAA C02 certification where gained the needed experience in building solutions in AWS which are HA, Secured, Resilient, Scalable, Cost optimized.
Based on the knowledge gained helped customers in driving the digital transformations of the platform that helps to bring agility and innovation.
Have done extensive hands on workshops with different AWS managed services and platforms like EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc.
AWS, Community builder
Linux
Solution Architecting
Openshift
I am passionate about technology where I help customers to bring the maximum value by using the cutting edge technologies.
Help customers in their Digital transformations which gives maximum business value, agility and innovation.
Helped multiple Enterprise customers in their Digital Transformation that helped to gain cost saving of 40% , business growth by 40% , faster time to market by 50% and increase market share by 25%.
Here is my GitHub link where I talk about Cloud Native technologies and use cases https://github.com/kamesh2229/
Growth and Transformation Leader (INSEAD Business school)
AWS Solution Architect Associate (SAA-C02)