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Pranav Kumar

Bangalore

Summary

SAFe certified Sr Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience in the areas of Development, DevOps, SRE, Platform

Operations, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Build, Release Management, Application Development and Application Support.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Manager R&D

o9 Solutions
Bangalore
11.2022 - Current
  • Sr Tech Manager in R&D managing a team of 30+ engineers with EMs and Tech Leaders
  • Responsible for deployment of o9 Solution Stack on k8s on multi cloud deployments including AWS, GCP & Azure using Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, k8s, Argo CD.
  • Deployments & Architecture of o9 platform, storage and DB solutions
  • Identification of Smal scale automation projects, design review and implementation.
  • Managing & Architecture of Monitoring and Alerting systems using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana and Responsible for defining SLA/SLO, MTTF, MTTR, ETC.
  • Cost optimization: Strategized and executed the process through rigorous query analysis, indexing techniques, and performance tuning, resulting in saving $500000
  • Client engagement and customer onboarding
  • Release Management

Staff

VMWare Software India Pvt Ltd
12.2017 - 11.2022
  • Successfully executed a project to save $6000000 cloud cost
  • Setup, Manage and Own DevOps process
  • Infrastructure utilization monitoring and take necessary action to reduce the cost by coordinating with different teams
  • Collaborate with Product and Project Managers across BU for product requirement, integration, and deployment
  • Coordinate on Cloud Architecture, Security, Privacy, and compliance reviews for new feature releases
  • Review design documents, technical documents and collaborate on customized design to achieve process improvement and compliance
  • Setting CI/CD process/pipeline for VMC on AWS
  • Deploying vSphere SDDC into Dev, Stg, EA and Prod environments
  • Implement code quality checks for multiple projects
  • Communicate and co-ordinate with cross functional teams to get tasks completed and all issues resolved
  • Collaborate with Product and Project Managers w.r.t product requirement, integration and deployment
  • Review of design documents, architecture of new initiatives
  • Hosting daily scrum call with engineers and other stakeholders/cross functional BUs
  • Responsible for getting C/CD Framework implemented for different teams, on-prem and in Cloud
  • Validate Product quality on VMC on AWS
  • Responsible for End-to-End upgrade on VMC on AWS for GovCloud
  • Designed and Implemented Resiliency testing during upgrade of SDDC
  • Setup and Manage Pipeline CI/CD process for VMWare Cloud on AWS
  • Managing AWS environments for VMC-SDDC Pipeline
  • Designing and implementation of new processes in Pipeline
  • Working with Multiple VMC stakeholders in bringing their pipeline/test execution flow into VMC-SDDC Pipeline
  • Mentoring team in new technologies and help them in implementation of new requirements
  • Designed architecture of BaaS (Bot as a Service)
  • Team size 35
  • Tools and Technology: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, GitLab, Groovy, selenium, python

Tools Development Engineer

Juniper Networks
09.2015 - 12.2017
  • Resource Management and Allocation of tasks across team
  • Helps team around in any technical issues/challenges
  • Setup CI and CD process from scratch for Cloud Services Platform team
  • Implementation of Release and Deployment process for different releases across different teams
  • POCs of different requirements and Documentation of the same and getting those implemented as part of process
  • Managing GIT and Jenkins for Configuration Management and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
  • Evaluating new tools and implementation
  • Configured and manages SonarQube for different Projects
  • Working with Docker, creation and installation of Docker images
  • Team size 60
  • Tools and Technology: Jenkins, GIT, Linux, Shell Script, Python, Artifactory, Docker, Salt stack, Kubernetes

Principle Member of Technical Staff

Oracle India Development Centre
09.2014 - 09.2015
  • Worked on Oracle Public Cloud-PaaS to implement and automate Build, Release and Deployment process
  • Managed GIT and Hudson for Configuration Management and Continuous Integration
  • Monitoring progress and quality of builds on daily basis, and liaison with respective teams to get the issues fixed
  • Automate the build process using the ANT/Maven
  • Creating Maven plug-ins using Java to automate specific requirements
  • Tools Consulting and Customization
  • Team size 50
  • Tools and Technology: Maven, ANT, Linux, Shell Script, GIT, Hudson, JAVA, JIRA, WebLogic, Oracle

DevOps Lead

Barclays Technology Centre India
09.2013 - 08.2014
  • Automate the build process using the ANT/Maven, Perforce and TeamCity
  • Build, Deployment and Release Applications for DEV, QA, UAT and PERF team
  • Monitoring, debugging and Administration of Tomcat servers
  • Tools Consulting and Customization
  • Designing architecture of Build, Release and Deployment process
  • Designing and Implementation architecture of Cloud applications
  • Configuring CI and Nightly builds in TeamCity
  • Log and track all issues in JIRA and follow up with different teams
  • Analysis and fixing the build/deployment issues occurred in projects
  • Involve in improvement of build pipeline structure as and when needed
  • Driving daily status call across locations
  • Provide support to India, Singapore, London and New York teams
  • Team size 8
  • Tools and Technology: Maven, ANT, Perforce, TeamCity, JIRA, Sonar, Tomcat, IntelliJ IDEA, Nolio, Junit, JAVA, C#

Technical Specialist (DevOps)

Fidelity International Ltd (FIL)
12.2009 - 09.2013
  • Designing Build & Release structure and getting Continuous Integration configured for J2EE and CMS based technologies
  • Helps team in getting things done by providing them technical guidance
  • Automate the build process using the ANT/Maven, Build Forge and ClearCase
  • Capacity Planning
  • Tools Consulting and Customization
  • Administration of Tomcat, IBM Http, and WebSphere servers for all DEV and QA environments
  • Implementation Continuous Integration process using SVN, GIT, Jenkins, Build Forge, ClearCase, Cruise Control
  • Monitoring & Implementing Quality checks using tools like SONAR and Cobertura, JCoverage and getting those fixed by different project teams in case of any violations
  • Getting new changes implemented into production environments starting from DEV
  • Planning and Implementation of Production Release steps into DR and Non-Prod environments just before Production
  • Automation using Selenium and Ruby-Functional Testing
  • Configuration and Administration of Tools like SONAR, JIRA, and Agitar
  • Manage development and deployment environments
  • Manage the daily deployments and QA deployments on WAS server
  • Identify and Introduce new tools and technologies into Build & Release which helps development/project team minimizing their effort and reduce cost
  • Planned strategies to meet the requirements of project on time
  • Involvement in all projects from Designing to Delivery
  • Update/enhance and create new build scripts using ANT/Maven for project teams
  • Coordination and communication between different project teams to understand their requirements
  • Responsible for maintaining standardization of products
  • Maintained records and reports of the technical changes for technical team
  • Coordination with UK team to guide and help them in setting up new pipeline for new requirements
  • Provide support to India and UK team in case of any issues
  • Involve in setting up the build pipeline for all the projects
  • Analysis and fixing the build issues occurred in projects
  • Involve in improvement of build pipeline structure as and when needed
  • Code review of the changes done by sub ordinates
  • Give training to development team in CVS, Cruise Control, ClearCase, Build Forge and suggest and implement SCM best practices
  • Team size 4
  • Tools and Technology: ANT, GIT, SVN, Clear Case, Jenkins, Build Forge, JIRA, Sonar, WebSphere, IBM Http Server, Apache, RAD, eclipse, Agitar, Junit, Cobertura, Check style

Analyst Programmer

Fidelity: Project-“AOF - A (Adviser Ongoing Fee)”
05.2009 - 12.2009
  • Involve in Proof of Concept (POC) analysis
  • Requirement analysis
  • Involve in preparing TSD
  • Code Review
  • Designing
  • Estimation
  • Team Coordination
  • Involve in implementation of XTRAC flow
  • Creating ANT scripts for Build & Deployment
  • Team Size: 9
  • Technology/Domain: JAVA, J2EE, JSP, SERVLET, STRUTS, SPRING, APACHE WEB SERVER, WEBSPHERE, ORACLE, SYBASE, SITEMINDER, XML, SELENIUM, SVN, Cruise Control
  • Description: This project is about providing extra feature to the Advisers of Fidelity to enhance the commission which they can charge on their clients
  • They are given feature on the web to select the client details and apply the commission to the certain limit
  • This process is Non-STP
  • All the provided details are provided to the XTRAC in Work-Item format which then processed at the core systems

Analyst Programmer

Fidelity: Project-“Web Application Support”
12.2005 - 05.2009
  • Discussion with different clients from different locations to understand their requirements and clarification on requirements
  • Implement required changes once requirement analysis is completed
  • Meeting and Discussion with FDM team on Fund release requirements
  • Preparing scripts for Fund releases for different countries
  • Help and guide team in resolving issues
  • Team coordination
  • Team Size: 4
  • Technology/Domain: JAVA, J2EE, STRUTS, WEBSPHERE, ORACLE, SYBASE, SVN, Cruise Control
  • Description: This Team is a core part of Fidelity Business which supports around 20 Web Applications across fidelity
  • Business provides the requirement/issues, raised by clients
  • This team works on the requirement/issues based on the severity
  • Identifying the requirements/issues raised by the business and resolve them in very short period of time
  • This project involves activities like Fund Releases and maintenance releases

Software Engineer

BOB Technologies
08.2005 - 11.2005
  • Company Overview: Client - Tavant Technologies, Bangalore : Project – LBAC ( Long Beach Acceptance Corp.) – Long Beach Acceptance Corporation, USA
  • Responsible for designing user interfaces using struts and JSP and implementing business logic
  • Client - Tavant Technologies, Bangalore : Project – LBAC ( Long Beach Acceptance Corp.) – Long Beach Acceptance Corporation, USA
  • Team Size: 60
  • Technology/Domain: JAVA, JSP, JDBC, STRUTS, HIBERNATE, SPRING, WEBLOGIC 8.13, Oracle 9i
  • Description: LBAC is an independent automobile finance company engaged in underwriting, purchasing, securitizing and servicing automobile retail installment sales contracts originated by franchised and independent automobile dealers in connection with the sale of used and new automobiles
  • The typical LBAC customer is generally a consumer who is unable to obtain financing from traditional sources
  • LBAC's business strategy is to enhance profitability by focusing on customers who are charged higher rates of interest than prime borrowers, while managing risk through careful underwriting, risk-based pricing and intensive collection management

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration - Pursuing

IMT Ghaziabad + Liverpool Business School
11.2024

Diploma in Business Management -

ICFAI
Tripura
12.2010

Masters in Computer Management -

Disha College of IT
Raipur, C.G.
12.2004

Bachelor of Computer Science -

Govt. College of Science
Raipur, C.G.
12.2001

Higher Secondary School Certificate -

Govt. Hindu High School
Raipur, C.G.
12.1998

High School Certificate -

Govt. Hindu High School
Raipur, C.G.
12.1996

Skills

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Technical Leadership
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Application Development
  • Quality Assurance
  • IaC
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • SRE
  • Platform Architecture
  • PaaS
  • Automation & Scalability
  • Security & Compliance
  • Vendor Management
  • Problem Solving & Decision Making

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub
  • Python
  • Kubernetes (K8s)
  • Docker
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • MySQL
  • Java
  • Shell scripting

Websites

Certification

  • Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.5), SR5541305, R56SYD52A3, II275, 055, 80%, 02/28/09
  • ITIL V3 Foundation, ITIL/IN074082, 08/29/12

Accomplishments

  • Awarded with “On-the-spot” on July 2006.
  • Awarded with “Here&Now” on February 2007.
  • Awarded with “Together we win” on May 2008.
  • Awarded with “Here&Now” on November 2008.
  • Our team has been awarded with “Best Team” on August 2009.
  • Awarded with 'Best Student' of Govt. Hindu High School, Raipur (C.G.)
  • Participated in Science Model Competition at National Level.
  • Participated in Science Project Competition at National Level.

Awards

  • On-the-spot, 07/01/06
  • Here&Now, 02/01/07
  • Together we win, 05/01/08
  • Here&Now, 11/01/08
  • Best Team, 08/01/09

Majorexperience

  • Leading, Managing and mentoring Dev, DevOps and SRE Operations team.
  • Deployment of SaaS o9 platform into AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Managing patching and upgrades into multiple client’s (on-prem) environments.
  • Resource Cost optimization and planning.
  • Client Engagement, Escalation management.
  • Capacity planning.
  • Implementation of CI/CD Process.
  • Release Management.
  • Implementation of Effective Release for effective utilization of Infrastructure resources.
  • Evaluating technical and behavioral capabilities during talent hiring.
  • Motivate team for Innovation and Research.
  • New Tools and Technology evaluation and Implementation.

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1

Personal Information

  • Passport Number: N4264197
  • Date of Birth: 06/24/80
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Sr Manager R&D

o9 Solutions
11.2022 - Current

Staff

VMWare Software India Pvt Ltd
12.2017 - 11.2022

Tools Development Engineer

Juniper Networks
09.2015 - 12.2017

Principle Member of Technical Staff

Oracle India Development Centre
09.2014 - 09.2015

DevOps Lead

Barclays Technology Centre India
09.2013 - 08.2014

Technical Specialist (DevOps)

Fidelity International Ltd (FIL)
12.2009 - 09.2013

Analyst Programmer

Fidelity: Project-“AOF - A (Adviser Ongoing Fee)”
05.2009 - 12.2009

Analyst Programmer

Fidelity: Project-“Web Application Support”
12.2005 - 05.2009

Software Engineer

BOB Technologies
08.2005 - 11.2005

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration - Pursuing

IMT Ghaziabad + Liverpool Business School

Diploma in Business Management -

ICFAI

Masters in Computer Management -

Disha College of IT

Bachelor of Computer Science -

Govt. College of Science

Higher Secondary School Certificate -

Govt. Hindu High School

High School Certificate -

Govt. Hindu High School

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