MCKAN COLACO
Mangalore
Summary
SEEKING ASSIGNMENTS AS CLOUD ENGINEERING MANAGER
A competent Lead cloud administrator/project manager with experience in running successful process oriented operations, entailing implementation of cost cutting strategies as well as initiatives for business excellence through process improvement. Experience in defining procedures, best practice and service standards for business excellence
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Cloud Administrator/Engineer
Ellucian
12.2020 - Current
- Led cloud administration and engineering management, overseeing 24×7 cloud operations across 200+ production and non-production environments for mission-critical enterprise and higher-ed platforms.
- Improved platform availability to 99.9%+ uptime by introducing proactive monitoring, automated remediation (ASRs), and standardized incident response procedures.
- Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 20–30% through rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, storage optimization, and usage governance.
- Reduced P1/P2 incidents by ~35–40% through root cause analysis, automation, and preventive monitoring.
- Implemented cloud governance, SOPs, and best practices to achieve 25% faster incident resolution (MTTR) and enhance audit readiness.
- Led and mentored a team of 6–10 cloud engineers and administrators, driving operational consistency, skill uplift, and on-call excellence.
- Successfully managed multiple concurrent cloud projects (migrations, upgrades, security remediation's) with on-time delivery >95%.
- Served as primary technical and operational liaison with vendors and internal stakeholders, enhancing resolution SLAs and customer satisfaction.
Lead Software Developer & Project manager (scrum master)
Ellucian
Bangalore
07.2009 - 12.2020
- Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Ensured adherence to Agile/Scrum principles, removing impediments and enabling team productivity.
- Coach teams on self-organization, velocity improvement, and Agile maturity.
- Led project planning, estimation, scheduling, and delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations.
- Manage scope, risks, dependencies, and timelines, ensuring predictable delivery.
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams.
- Tracked and reported project status, KPIs, velocity, and delivery metrics to leadership, fostering transparency and informed decision-making.
- Lead architecture, design, and development of scalable, secure, high-performance applications.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions, system designs, and implementation plans.
- Defined coding standards, design patterns, and best practices to enhance code quality and maintainability across development teams.
- Perform code reviews, mentor developers, and drive continuous technical improvement
Software Engineer
Zenith Software’s Pvt. Ltd.
09.2007 - 05.2009
- Implemented automated testing procedures, improving software reliability and performance.
- Conducted code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards while enhancing code quality.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and specifications, aligning development efforts with stakeholder needs.
- Participated in Agile ceremonies, contributing to sprint planning and retrospectives.
Associate Consultant on Oracle E-Business Suite 11i
One APPS Enterprise Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
07.2005 - 09.2007
- Conducted training sessions to educate clients on software features, improving user adoption.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline project delivery, ensuring timely completion.
- Supported the implementation of new technologies across client platforms.
- Reviewed project progress and provided actionable feedback to team members, fostering continuous improvement.
- Developed documentation for system processes and user guidelines.
Education
BE - Computers
P.C.C.E College of Engineering
Goa, GoaSkills
- Project Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum Master
- Cloud manager
- Cloud support
- Techno functional manager
- Solution Designing
- Delivery Management
- Change & Release Management
- IT Product Development
- Business Analysis
- Vendor Management
- System Integration
- Platform Migration
- SQL
- PLSQL
- RDBMS
- AWS
- DevOps
- Dockers
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- ServiceNow
- Addible
- Java
- C#
- RESTful APIs
- WSO2
- Single Sign On
- Oracle forms
- Windows 98
- Win NT
- Win 2000
- Win 2016
- Win 2019
- Win 2022
- Visual Studio 2019
- NET
- SVN
- GIT
- Tomcat
- QTP
- Oracle Applications 11i
- SQL Developer
- PLSQL Developer
- UNIX/Linux
Certification
- An Oracle Application Developer 9i course, SQL Star International Ltd Pune-India, OCP certification
- CSM Course for Certified Scrum Master career development
- OCP 9i Certificate, Oracle University California, USA
- Certified Scrum Master based on Agile Methodology Principles
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 12/04/83
Projects
Managed cloud applications, All hosted managed cloud customers, Involved in mentoring and managing resources to ensure quality of work is met with every customer. Cost savings to reduce redundant EC2 instances, ensuring SLA are met above 99.5% with customers, OS modernizations of servers across cloud applications. Providing on spot solutions and directions to team members. Adaption to leading the team towards customer first attitude. Implementing, planning, resource allocation. Banner Document Management, All on-prem customers, Involved in writing PLSQL validation programs, configurations for Single Sign on implementations for Banner and Non-Banner customers. Exide Battery System, Exide Industries Ltd., Mumbai, Involved in writing PLSQL validation programs to validate data and inserting valid records into base tables to implement Data Conversion. Paxar India Oracle Implementation, Paxar India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Facilitated development & customization of Oracle reports. SRF Support, SRF Limited, Chennai, Effectuated development & customization of Oracle Forms/Reports. Sparebank, Oakdene, Norway KD Life, Oakdene, Slovenia
Languages
- Hindi
- Konkani
- English
- Hindi
- Konkani
Seeking Assignments
CLOUD ENGINEERING MANAGER
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Beginner
A1
French
Intermediate
B1
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
RemoteHybridSalary Range
₹45000/yr - ₹200000/yrTimeline
Lead Cloud Administrator/Engineer
Ellucian
12.2020 - Current
Lead Software Developer & Project manager (scrum master)
Ellucian
07.2009 - 12.2020
Software Engineer
Zenith Software’s Pvt. Ltd.
09.2007 - 05.2009
Associate Consultant on Oracle E-Business Suite 11i
One APPS Enterprise Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
07.2005 - 09.2007
BE - Computers
P.C.C.E College of Engineering