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Srikanth Yalma

Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced Release Manager with a proven track record at JP Morgan Chase India, adept at driving successful CI/CD pipeline implementations and enhancing team collaboration. Expert in change management and risk mitigation, consistently delivering high-quality project outcomes while fostering stakeholder communication and agile methodologies. Passionate about optimizing release processes for maximum efficiency.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Release Manager

JP Morgan Chase India
Bengaluru
08.2017 - Current
  • As a Release and Change Manager, I’m responsible for managing all aspects of the release lifecycle, ensuring smooth deployments to production, and ensuring alignment with change management priorities and key goals.
  • Responsible for various types of changes across all lines of business and locations for web and mobile applications.
  • Collaborate with software engineering, QA, and operations teams to define and implement release strategies, ensuring compliance and quality standards are met.
  • Guiding and assisting application managers and teams in integrating change management activities into their project plans by conducting office hours.
  • Partnering with engineers, QA testers, product managers, program managers, leadership, and stakeholders across the organization.
  • Delivering outcomes aligned with project plans. Collaborating with cross functional change leads and third-party vendors.
  • Performing end-to-end model build, release workflow, and lifecycle in a fast-paced, agile environment.
  • Managing code repositories, version control, and coordinating seamless code integration into the release process.
  • Implementing a DevOps CI/CD pipeline and owning release processes for approved code through development, testing, and production environments, including generating builds for each platform, and deployment pipelines with a focus on automation, leveraging GitHub Actions or other CI/CD tools.
  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and cost-effective AWS cloud infrastructure to support application releases and business operations.
  • Utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch to architect cloud solutions that align with business requirements.
  • Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform for provisioning and configuration management of AWS resources.
  • Plan and facilitate the release schedule, considering the complex interrelationship of client apps and services.
  • Communicate all key project plans, release dependencies, commitments, and changes, including requirements, to stakeholders.
  • Scheduling weekly meetings to adopt best practices to assist project managers and teams in integrating change management activities into their project plans.
  • Manage risks that may affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
  • Generating release reports, providing regular updates, and transparent reporting to senior management regarding release schedules, infrastructure performance, and security initiatives.
  • Assess risks, provide escalations management, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
  • Coordinate release content and effort based on service requests backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates.
  • Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business go/no-go reviews.
  • Facilitate and optimize the integration of GitHub with AWS, and other DevOps tools, to automate deployments and version tracking.
  • Manage key information such as publishing and release procedures, dependencies, and notifications lists.
  • Maintain code base integrity, version controls, including check-in validation rules, and branch/merge.
  • Investigate, recommend, and drive forward the adoption of best practices for maintaining code quality.
  • Creating dashboards using ServiceNow and Confluence tools for platform release enhancement communications.
  • Creating contingency plans to address potential risks, and implementing best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
BANGALORE
02.2013 - 08.2017
  • Integrating IBM Lotus Notes with Documentum for PWC clients.
  • Routing documents according to the indexed data, and validating the same with a checker in another IndexPlus instance.
  • Worked on integrating FileNet components with Captiva export modules.
  • Analyzing, troubleshooting issues, and providing support for production and non-production environments.
  • Involved in the creation and modification of users, groups, and roles in Documentum.
  • I worked on Captiva and Documentum configurations.
  • Created the Installation and Qualification documents for Project Release.
  • Worked on rendition issues, index-related issues, and workflow issues.
  • Involved in patching activities and application verifications.
  • Performing system health checks and managing non-production environments.
  • Responding to the issues, following up with other teams for root causes, solutions, and a permanent fix.
  • Performing system health checks and managing non-production environments.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, including access, data integrity issues, and ensure triage and resolution.
  • Assist developers with user needs and provide the root cause for any bottlenecks.
  • Interaction with the vendor teams and business on problem reports and bugs.
  • Monitor application servers for any potential performance issues, and provide performance tuning.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Srinivasa Engineering College, JNT University
Hyderabad
05-2007

Skills

  • Release management
  • Change management
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Agile methodologies
  • AWS management
  • DevOps practices
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Project scheduling
  • Risk management
  • Team collaboration
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Version control systems
  • Supporting deployments
  • Requirements analysis
  • Configuration management
  • Incident management
  • Documentum, FileNet, and Captiva

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Developer-Associate

Scrum Alliance CSM Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

Timeline

Release Manager

JP Morgan Chase India
08.2017 - Current

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2013 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Srinivasa Engineering College, JNT University

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