Saurabh Kumar
CTO
Bengaluru
Summary
- Self-motivated professional successful in seizing viable opportunities for expansion and innovation in business. Background in increasing profits, reducing costs and transforming customer service standards. Experienced in leading and supervising Product development and design and DevOps team.
- Persistent leader eager to lead and grow organizations. Skilled in strategic planning, problem-solving, and communication with good understanding of business principles, project management and team leadership. Collaborative with relentless work ethic.
- Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Co-Founder
KridaFans
09.2022 - Current
- Working as Co-founder and CTO of Company
- Contribution towards Product design, architecture and development
- Leading Developer and design team
- Automated whole development cycle to reduce bugs while doing development
- Having traction of more than 10000 users in less than an year.
- Strengthened organizational structure by clarifying roles and responsibilities within the team, promoting efficient collaboration among employees.
- Grew the customer base through targeted outreach and networking events.
DevOps Manager
HealthEdge
05.2021 - 09.2022
- Worked as a DevOps Engineering Manager
- Mentored and leaded more than 20 DevOps Engineers
- Reduced AWS costs by 20% using FinOps methods
- Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives.
- Contributed in design and architecture of DevOps and Infrastructure in Azure for a new application
- Worked for various automations to increase developers productivity.
- Drove operational efficiency through data-driven decision-making processes, leveraging analytics tools for informed strategy development.
Principal Architect DevOps
Altimetrik
02.2020 - 05.2021
- Automated fully CI/CD with EKS and GitOps
- Led DevOps team for various CI/CD automation and analytics
- Worked on Agile Transformation
- Design and Architected solutions using Python and React to bring automation using REST APIs.
Staff Software Engineer
Visa
02.2017 - 02.2020
- Owner of various DevOps tools and responsible for high availability and performance improvement of those tools(Jenkins, Bitbucket, JIRA, SonarQube and Nexus, DTR) Implemented Infrastructure as a code for all DevOps tools
- Wrote multiple Jenkinsfile and shared libraries
- Designed, Architected and developed Vulnerability Management Portal
- Designed, Architected and Developed ChatBot using Rasa in Python to increase developers productivity
- Used Custom Natural Language Processing model to achieve above solution
- Helped and mentored team for improvement of CI/CD and releases
- Worked on various collaborative projects for help of infrastructure solution architecture and setup
- Introduced Agile methodologies in the team and handled planning and scrum ceremonies.
Manager
Capgemini
01.2014 - 02.2017
- Managed Big Data and DevOps team of team size 15
- Responsible for hiring, appraisals, mentoring
- Achieved Security Patch Automation using Python
- Integrated Slack, Jira, Zabbix and Yum command to achieve above solution
- Won Innovation award for the security patch automation solution
- Various stakeholders management and provided DevOps solutions
- Did Hortonworks Data Platform Administration and worked for upgrade to HDP 1.2 Developed One click Deployment solution using Jira, Jenkins and github
- Worked on various scripting to automate build and release cycle
- Helped a very large cruise booking customer to migrate to AWS
- Traveled France and UK for Customer engagement and Knowledge transfers.
System Support Specialist
IBM
08.2013 - 01.2014
- Worked on various builds and installed WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal for Customer
- Involved in major incidents and troubleshooted as L3 support person to resolve incidents
- Worked on projects to reduce OPEX and CAPEX through automation
- Weekly status report and monthly status report sharing with customer
- Involved in CAB meeting to approve changes from Middleware opertions.Worked on Major releases and Changes.
Associate Ops Manager - IT IS
Cognizant
12.2009 - 08.2013
- Worked for two years in US for major Banking Customer
- Upgraded one of the major application
- Worked in WebSphere Portal and Application Server
- Wrote scripts for LDAP configurations
- Automated multiple manual tasks e.g
- Restart of application servers
- Did vendor to vendor transition successfully for one of investment bank
- Won multiple accolades throughout the tenure
- Participated in various meetings for infrastructure decisions
- Participation in Weekly Status Report, Project Monthly report and various meetings with customer
- SSL activities, Upgradation and creation of SSL certificates
- User Access management using Sun Access Manager.
Sr Project Engineer
Wipro
09.2006 - 12.2009
- WebSphere Application Server Administration
- Worked in Banking and Finance Domain for various clients as a WebSphere Application Server Administrator
- Worked in 24
- 7 shifts for all Production and non-production environment with more than 1600 Servers.
Education
PGP Pro, General Management -
UCLA Anderson School of Management
01.2019 - 04.2020
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering - undefined
Bhagalpur College of Engineering
01.2001 - 04.2005
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Websites
Certification
CKA - The Linux Foundation
Timeline
Co-Founder
KridaFans
09.2022 - Current
DevOps Manager
HealthEdge
05.2021 - 09.2022
Principal Architect DevOps
Altimetrik
02.2020 - 05.2021
PGP Pro, General Management -
UCLA Anderson School of Management
01.2019 - 04.2020
Staff Software Engineer
Visa
02.2017 - 02.2020
Manager
Capgemini
01.2014 - 02.2017
System Support Specialist
IBM
08.2013 - 01.2014
Associate Ops Manager - IT IS
Cognizant
12.2009 - 08.2013
Sr Project Engineer
Wipro
09.2006 - 12.2009
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering - undefined
Bhagalpur College of Engineering
01.2001 - 04.2005
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