Pavan Kumar Nagubandi

Senior Perforce Administrator In team

• Managed a complex Perforce environment with over 150 commit/master servers and 300+ Perforce servers, including Commit, Edge, Swarm, and Proxy servers, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.
• Designed and executed a comprehensive plan for a major Perforce version upgrade, including a rollback strategy across all Perforce instances.
• Expert in disaster recovery of Perforce metadata, addressing corruption, upgrade failures, and inconsistencies in commit-edge server metadata.
• Developed and implemented engineering strategies to enhance application monitoring, leveraging central tools and custom scripts to collect metrics and send notifications.
• Deployed a Perforce Server Log Analysis tool to facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and troubleshooting.
• Led the migration of Perforce servers from on-premises to Azure cloud, and from Windows to Linux, ensuring seamless transitions across environments.
• Collaborated closely with the Linux operations team to implement monthly OS patching across all studios, providing on-call assistance for Perforce-related issues.
• Onboarded all Perforce servers to central monitoring tools, configuring alerts and notifications to ensure proactive issue management.
• Led major Perforce upgrades, from version 2015.X to 2023.2, and Swarm upgrades from 2018.X to 2023.3, across multiple environments.
• Resolved critical issues such as B-tree errors and broken OfflineDB checkpointing, ensuring system stability and performance.
• Deployed multiple edge servers across different environments, both with and without SDP (https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce-software-sdp/), to optimize performance and scalability.
• Trained and mentored two new team members in Perforce administration, providing ongoing support and guidance for both day-to-day tasks and project work.
• Integrated Perforce servers with the in-house P4One application for journal rotation, log management, OfflineDB updates, and checkpointing services, providing continuous feedback for application improvement.
• Implemented performance enhancements, such as disabling transparent huge pages, optimizing server locks, and standardizing configurations, to address resource-related performance issues.
• Partnered with Perforce Critical Care to resolve major issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining system integrity.
• Led the onboarding of Perforce servers into an Ansible automation framework, streamlining configuration management and deployment processes.
• Create trigger scripts, maintain & support existing trigger scripts.

Perforce Administrator & Electric Flow/Commander Administrator

• Managed 24 Perforce commit/master servers, leading efforts in upgrades, patching, and break-fix operations to ensure consistent, high-performing systems.
• Administered Electric Flow/Commander (CI/CD tool) and Code Collaborator, delivering comprehensive support for development and build teams, including resolving workflow issues and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Spearheaded the deployment and configuration of Perforce edge servers, developed custom triggers, and executed architectural enhancements to improve system efficiency and scalability.
• Proactively managed major incidents by raising tickets and collaborating with the Incident Management team to quickly address and resolve Perforce outages, minimizing downtime and impact on operations.
• Diagnosed and resolved performance bottlenecks within the Perforce environment, implementing strategic solutions that enhanced system stability and responsiveness.
• Provided expert assistance to development and build teams, troubleshooting complex issues, conducting in-depth root cause analyses (RCAs), and driving continuous improvement in SCM processes.
• Led Electric Commander upgrades and provided ongoing operational support, ensuring the tool's seamless integration and optimal functionality within the CI/CD ecosystem.
• Create trigger scripts, maintain & support existing trigger scripts.

Contractor at GE Healthcare

• Managed the operations and administration of various enterprise tools, including Perforce, Swarm, Electric Flow/Commander (CI/CD tool), Code Collaborator, SonarQube, and Git Fusion.
• Onboarded new users to Perforce, providing daily support and ensuring smooth integration into the version control environment.
• Led code repository migrations from SVN, ClearCase, and Git, ensuring seamless transitions and minimal disruption to development workflows.
• Maintained production, staging, and development server instances, adhering to GE Healthcare’s standards for validation and compliance with all changes to the Perforce environment.
• Executed upgrades for the Electric Commander server, addressing and resolving agent-related issues and break-fix scenarios to maintain operational continuity.

• Lyra is a sale partner for perforce and electric commander.
• Provided product demos, create proof of concept, trainings on perforce.

• Responsible for Git, gerrit, Jenkins, Coverity local site administration.
• Learned about SCM and version control tools.
• RHEL, Ubuntu server administration and build tools, package installation.
• Day to day support.