SAURABH KUMAR PAL
Noida Extension
Summary
IIM Alumnus with over 17 years of expertise in Connected Factory, Cloud Architecture, and Digital Transformation. Proficient in Cloud Engineering, Governance, FinOps, SecOps, MlOps, DevOps, and Gen AI, driving operational excellence and innovation. Led diverse, multicultural teams globally, promoting collaboration and high performance across various time zones. Implemented SAFe Agile processes to enhance team alignment and accelerate value delivery in dynamic environments. Energetic professional successful at motivating and building positive team dynamics to accomplish aggressive goals. Dedicated to open, communicative culture where employees feel empowered to contribute to company's success.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Global Cloud Operation/Digital Transformation Leader, Program Manager
Pentair
04.2011 - Current
- Visionary Technology Manager skilled in strategic thinking, driving innovation, adopting emerging technologies, and leading change management to deliver transformative business solutions.
- Developing and implementing a Cloud Infrastructure strategy that integrates security into the software development lifecycle and ensures secure coding practices are followed.
- Managing security policies and procedures: Developing and maintaining security policies and procedures for cloud-based applications, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Overseeing the development and implementation of security testing plans, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and threat modelling.
- Managing incident response efforts, including coordinating with external security teams and law enforcement agencies to investigate and resolve security incidents.
- Providing technical leadership and guidance to development and operations teams on secure coding practices, secure architecture, and secure deployment methodologies.
- Maintaining project financials showcasing the project's health, which includes costs, revenues, margins, associated risks & their mitigation plan, exposure to bonds, receivables & their ageing, critical issues both on technical and commercial fronts, project cash flow requirement, in and out.
- Ensuring that all cloud-based applications are compliant with industry standards and regulations, such as PCI-DSS, and GDPR.
- To ensure project deliverables like timelines, performance, quality & work towards value- addition. Implements optimum execution strategy.
- Reviews and enforce quality control on the projects.
- To perform project risk assessment and develop their mitigation plan.
- Attend review meetings with customers and other internal and external stakeholders.
- To conduct weekly project review meetings with all members, for seamless flow of information and tracking project deliverables.
- Coordinate with BU on project planning and execution in areas related to requirements gathering, risk mitigation, and design reviews to ensure smooth project execution.
- Pentair plc is an American water treatment company incorporated in Ireland with tax residency in the UK, with its main U.S. office in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Pentair support in Smart, Sustainable Water Solutions From our residential and commercial water solutions to industrial water management and everything in between, Pentair is focused on smart, sustainable water solutions that help our planet and people thrive.
- Projects: Smart Factory, Pentair Residentials, Commercial, Pool & Industrial IoT Products. PentairQ, PentairHome, PentairPro connectivity with cloud & App, Commercial IoT Platform (SAAS)
Project Engineer
Meneta Automotive Pvt. Ltd.
07.2010 - 04.2011
- Responsible for planning and execution of Projects taking into consideration the performance goals.
- Industrial automation & IIOT
- Vendor coordination & execution
- Key Projects: IOCL, Delhi Metro, Water Treatment Plants, Molding, Printing & Packaging Machines/Systems
Project Engineer
Dreamz Automation System Pvt. Ltd.
07.2008 - 06.2010
- Responsible for planning and execution of Projects taking into consideration the performance goals.
- Industrial automation & IIOT
- Vendor coordination & execution
Education
B.Tech. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
UPTU
BIT, Uttar Pradesh01.2008
Executive Programme - DT
IIM Indore
IndoreSkills
- IIOT 40
- Cloud infrastructure
- Security compliance
- Vulnerability assessment
- Incident response
- Change management
- Project management
- Stakeholder coordination
- Performance tracking
- Risk mitigation
- Financial oversight
- Problem solving
- Effective communication
- Strategic thinking
- Process improvement
- Talent development
- Goal setting
- Continuous improvements
- Process monitoring and improvement
- MQTT
- Greengrass
- Sitewise
- Observability
- JIRA
- Smart Factory
- SonarQube
- SonaType
- APM Tool
- NewRelic
- Dynatrace
- AppDynamics
- Kibana
- Cost management
- Resource Management
- Gateway
- KepServer
- GitLab
- CICD
- SCM
- DevSecOps
- TestOps
- MLOps
- FinOps
- GIT
- Docker
- Linux
- IAAC
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- ARM Template
- Python
- Cloud
- AWS
- AZURE
- Troubleshooting
- Problem Solving
- Engineering Documentation
- Critical thinking
- Analytical approach
- Proactive actions implementer
- Agile Project Manager
- CI
- Strong commercial proficiency
- Agile
- Safe Framework
- Software Development Life Cycle
- SDLC
- Project execution
- Cross-functional Coordination
- New product development
- R&D
Certification
- Project Management
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS DevOps Professional Certified
- SAFe Certified (5.0)
- AWS SysOps Administrator Certified
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Awards
Awarded for Pentairhome, Smartfactory & PentairPro Projects
Hobbies and Interests
- Driving cars
- Playing cricket
- Listening to music
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 04/05/88
- Nationality: INDIAN
- Marital Status: Married
Industrial Automation Skills
- Experienced in PLC, VFD, HMI, and SCADA (Siemens, ABB, Rockwell) tools.
- Sensors
- IoT Gateway
- R-Pi, On Logic, KEPServerEX, KEPServerEX Edge, Proficy Historian, Application Manager
- OPC, Modbus, Profibus, Ethernet, Node red.
- KPI
Timeline
Global Cloud Operation/Digital Transformation Leader, Program Manager
Pentair
04.2011 - Current
Project Engineer
Meneta Automotive Pvt. Ltd.
07.2010 - 04.2011
Project Engineer
Dreamz Automation System Pvt. Ltd.
07.2008 - 06.2010
B.Tech. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
UPTU
Executive Programme - DT
IIM Indore