Kiruba Suthan S

• Automated Release Engineering procedures and workflows to improve turnaround times for deliverables.
• Developed Release Compatibility Matrix tool which provides upgrade compatibility of two software release versions/build. This portal is used by Program managers to generate Release notes and the Customer Support team to advise on software upgrade compatibility to the customers.
• Decoupled binary files from source-code repository by implementing GIT-LFS solution. This reduced the repository size by 70%. Reduced code checkout and build time.
• Implementation and maintenance of CI-CD pipeline for Aruba SD-WAN products. - Build and publish cloud images on Azure Cloud Portal
• Migrated source-code repositories from SVN to Bitbucket (GIT). Better code-review and build & test validation of code-changes before merge.
• Responsible for maintenance and upgrade of Bitbucket Server software.
• Identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities and non-compliance in Engineering Infrastructure on collaboration with Info Sec Team.
• Provided guidance to other Team Members on projects such as Defect Density Dashboard, Software LOC Analytics tool and continarizaion of Devops Dashboard Portal.
• Devops Point-Of-Contact for India / Bangalore Engineers.
• Provide Devops / Release Engineering expertise on Git / Bitbucket, Jenkins and Docker for Engineering stakeholders.
• Mentored new joiners / college-grads.
• Administration and Maintenance of SCM and Engg Infra solutions such as Bitbucket, JIRA, Coverity, Blackduck and Opengrok

• Responsible for Software Configuration Management and Release Engineering of Cisco Mobility Products
• Implementation and Maintenance of CI Pipeline for multiple products
• Developed Build / Release-Engg Dashboard and build trends analysis portal
• Dockerized Release Engineering Dashboard and implemented load-balancer. This simplified deployment, migration and enhancements there by improving teams productivity.
• Implemented reproducible Ubuntu Base image build solution using GIT-LFS for legacy Ultra Services Platform product. This solution streamlined deb package management in base image build and reduced workload for the developers in fixing external package dependencies.
• Provided Technical Leadership to the vendor team (HCL) in migrating CPS product code-base from SVN to Github Enterprise.
• Monitoring and auto-remediation of Internal Engineering services and build hosts using Nagios

SCM & Release engineer for Junos EVO - Nov 2016 to Nov 2018

• Responsible for Software Configuration Management and Release Engineering of Junos Evo.
• Implemented Automated Source Code access control workflow for new Engineers. Reduced workload on SCM team on managing access requests
• Migration of source-code repos from CVS to Gerrit
• Worked on automation of singe sourcing of legacy code-bases from SVN to GIT using SubGIT tool.
• Worked in all aspects of Release Engineering - Automation of release, integration pipelines and distribution of build artefacts to remote sites
• Worked on Build infra automation - maintenance of pre-build infra, sandbox wrapper tools/scripts, Electric Cloud administration.
• Worked on maintenance and enhancement of Engineering Productivity tools
• SCM and Release Engineering support for Engineers

Integration & CD-ops Engineer for Junos– Oct 2012 to Oct 2016

• Responsible for timely integration of source-code to meet release delivery milestones
• Worked on automation of integration procedures - Auto identification of code-conflicts owners, pre-merge validations, state-transition of bugs, web-portal to collaborate with engineers for Integration activities
• Implemented Dashboard for Integration Ops and Build Metrics
• Responsible for operations and support of Pre-commit-Validation tools

SCM Tools Developer for Junos– Oct 2010 to Oct 2012

• Responsible for development, maintenance and support of SCM and Dev Tools
• Developed LOC Metrics tool which provided quantitative analysis of Software Quality and Defect Density Metrics