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Shantanu Thakre

Shantanu Thakre

Manager, Infrastructure Architect-3DEXPERIENCE at Dassault Systemes
Pune,MH

Summary

  • 15 years of experience in the PLM domain, specializing in managing 3DEXPERIENCE projects, improving deployment time and reducing project costs through efficient resource allocation and streamlined processes.
  • 10 years of expertise in Infrastructure, Networking Administration, and Security, with a focus on optimizing system uptime to 99.9%, reducing security incidents by 35%, and cutting infrastructure-related costs by 15% through virtualization.
  • 2+ years as an AWS Solution Architect/Consultant, saving 30% on infrastructure costs, improving scalability by 50%, and accelerating deployment times by 40% using cloud-native solutions and automation tools.
  • 4 years of leadership experience as a Manager/Team Lead, driving 25% improvement in team productivity and 30% boost in employee retention by fostering a collaborative, agile work environment.
  • Extensive experience in 3DEXPERIENCE infrastructure design, optimizing system performance by 40% and reducing VM resource waste by 20%, while leading architecture assessments to achieve 25% reduction in system failure rates.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certificates

Work History

Manager, Infrastructure Architect

Dassault Systemes Global Services Ltd
Pune, , Maharashtra
08.2016 - Current
  • Infrastructure Architect (Lead) :

    Successfully led software delivery projects for global clients across industries (Transport, Mobility, Aviation, Packaging, etc.).
    Managed the delivery of automated 3DEXPERIENCE platforms, reducing environment setup time from weeks to a single day,
    enabling rapid deployment and cost savings.
    NOVIA V6 and 3DExperience platform Implementation and Installation on different releases from 3DEXPERIENCE R2017x
    R2024x
    V6 to 3DEXPERIENCE platform upgrade infrastructure implementation for customers like Mclaren, BOBST, CAF etc.
    Experience in Performance Audit for the 3DEXPERIENCE Platforms.
    3DExperience Infrastructure Architecture design and Sizing of customer.
    V6 to 3DEXPERIENCE platform upgrade infrastructure assessment and implementation.
    Reverse proxy and Load balancing using BIPIPF5/HAProxy/Apache HTTPD server.
    Maintained Git workflow for version control (Source code management).
    Setup Monitoring dashboard by using Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus & Loki
    3DEXPERIENCE SSO/IAM integration with SAML IDP and LDAP.
    Oracle and MSSQL database server installation and administration.
    Extensive experience on working on installation and configuration of NATIVE Apps.
    Creating Technical training presentations and Deliver training to the end customers on 3DEXPERIENCE topics.
    Led a team of 12 infrastructure consultants, overseeing resource allocation, onboarding, technical training, timesheet
    management, billing, and performance reviews.
    Monitored project progress, produced detailed reports, and adapted to scheduling, and technical challenges, resulting in
    successful project outcomes.
    Communicated effectively with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment, producing progress reports, and driving client
    satisfaction.
    AWS Solution Architect:
    Designed secure, scalable, and highly available AWS architectures utilizing services like EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and API Gateway
    for event-driven workflows.
    Proficient in VPC design, NAT Gateway, Internet Gateway, route tables, and security configurations, ensuring optimal network
    setup and security.
    Expertise in CI/CD automation using Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible, Docker, and integrating AWS services with tools like Sonatype
    Nexus, Prometheus, and Grafana.
    Skilled in cost optimization using AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans, alongside IAM and
    WAF configurations for security.
    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023) with exposure to AWS training programs, including "Architecting on AWS" and "AWS
    Cloud Practitioner Essentials."
    Devops Technical Activities:
    Used Ansible Playbook for automation of 3DEXPERIENCE Platform Installation.
    Installation and configuration of Gitlab and Gitlab runner and setting up GitLab CI pipeline for running of Ansible scripts for
    installation on Remote VMs, using Docker containers for running the official images of SonarQube.
    Manual setup of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki to monitor the VM resources, Gitlab pipelines for PLM application.
    AMS Support:
    Managing AMS Team for incident management & Planning of resource allocation for release activities
    Planning Product release activity on Customer Production Environment.
    Responsible for all Application servers related issues and new implementation
    Managing team of different stakeholders from DS, customers (end users, IT etc), Partners involved in the Project

PLM Consultant

Nobletek PLM Solutions Pvt Ltd
Pune, Brussels, Maharashtra
10.2014 - 08.2016
  • Duties and Responsibilities include:

1. PLM Administration

  • Create Enovia V6 environments for different releases of V6R2013x on windows.
  • Daily management of multiple Enovia environments (Test-Dev / Acceptance / Production).
  • Release management (FP) for Enovia environments and Clients (CATIA) in collaboration with end-users support team.
  • Configuration of Enovia environment through Business / Matrix / System as per BA.
  • Perform tasks as testing of the customized environments.

2 .PLM support

  • Communicating and coordinating with users and different level of supports of any issues related with CAD application (CATIA) and PLM (Enovia V6 2013x).
  • Working towards reporting and resolution of the bugs.
  • Reproducing the issues, provide solutions if feasible or else communicate the issue to DS through SR’s (Bug reporting).
  • Provide necessary information ,traces, as and when required to DS Support.
  • Create support training presentation and deliver training to the 1st level of support for Enovia / CATIA, and to the CATIA users on BPM central, Eng central topics.
  • Assist CAD engineers in the migration of the data from V5 to V6, migration of the data, tests, issues’ resolution.
  • Creating technical training presentations and deliver training to the end-users.

Senior Engineer QA

3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd
Pune , Maharashtra
04.2010 - 08.2014
  • Worked as a Quality Analyst Engineer for Manual and Automated projects on ENOVIA V6 and CATIA V6.
    Generating High level test plans.
    Functional testing of different domains of ENOVIA and CATIA.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur
Nagpur University
05.2005 - 05.2009

Skills

    PLM/CAD Systems Dassault Systemes Enovia V6/3DExperience Platform, CATIA V5/V6

Middleware : Tomcat/TomEE

Database Management Systems : Oracle, SQL Server

Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, SUSE) Windows Server 2008/2012/2016, Windows 7/10

Virtualization: VMware vCloud/vSphere/Workstation

Scripting Language Shell Scripting

Office Software MS Office, Apache OpenOffice, Microsoft Visio

Certified Scrum Master (ScrumAlliance)

AWS certified Cloud Practitioner

Certification

Infrastructure Consulting Certification (Level 2) - (3DEXPERIENCE PLATFORM)

Software

3DExperience

AWS

CICD- Gitlab, Nexus, Ansible

Timeline

Manager, Infrastructure Architect

Dassault Systemes Global Services Ltd
08.2016 - Current

PLM Consultant

Nobletek PLM Solutions Pvt Ltd
10.2014 - 08.2016

Senior Engineer QA

3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd
04.2010 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur
05.2005 - 05.2009
Shantanu ThakreManager, Infrastructure Architect-3DEXPERIENCE at Dassault Systemes