Srikanth Kandi

• Infrastructure planning, distribution, and optimization across business-critical environments, ensuring efficient resource utilization and future-ready scaling.
• IBM LSF farm operations, planning and optimization of resource allocation across heterogeneous workflows
• Designed and developed a native cloud-deployable UI application for resource allocation and job tracking, currently used by 5,000+ users across the business unit.
• Drove multiple process improvement initiatives, reducing operational bottlenecks and enhancing system reliability.
• Built and maintained complex analytical dashboards to support hyper-convergence releases.
• Provided technical mentorship and led a local engineering team, while collaborating closely with headquarters leadership on strategic planning and global alignment.

• Cloud support for 20k customers across the globe for Oracle SAAS product
• Cloud automation for SAAS products
• Automated the deployment of internal applications using JC on Cutomer pods on OCI using Python
• Developed fleet scan automation frame work to perform fleet scans and generate automated reports on fleet scan results using Python
• Setting up monitoring health check automation for critical customer pods on OCI
• Generating metrics for monthly Collab SRs stats
• Allocating, budgetting and forecasting compute and storage requirement for our BU
• Designed and developed custom dashboards using Oracle Apex to visualise the usage metrics of customer environments(pods)/ job control/ lsf systems
• Responsible for working on numerous small programming tasks
• SME in infrastructure automation and mentor automation team
• Actively contributing to the architecture, design and improvement of DevOps processes
• Develop Apex based internal portals to build dashboards to represent different support metrics for executive management.
• Developed Oracle Apex based resource allocation tracker to track projects and resource utilization

• DevOps Engineer (Build, Release and Operations):
  Nightly build and regressions systems automation and maintenance/Operations
• Architecture design and setting up a continuous build environment, deployment and delivery pipeline to accelerate s/w development and deployment process of Production, Staging/QA, and Development infrastructures running is 24/7 environments
• worked in tandem with IT teams to to ensure real-time data accuracy and relevant insights that can help in predicting and plan for future compute and storage needs
• Identifying inefficiencies in allocations on LSF compute and storage  and recommending cost-saving measures which can result in budget reduction and maintaining performance
• Assisted in the development of every years financial forecast for Silicon BUs compute and storage requirements
• Assisted in the development of internal tools to manage infrastructure budgets.
• Hands on experience in SCM usage and administration. (Perforce)
• Hands-on on Jenkins automations tasks as well as administration
• Troubleshoot and resolve Build, Regression and Infrastructure Problems.
• Work with the development teams to drive and define branch management
  Assist developers with questions and problems related to the version control tool, or general configuration managementprocess
• Provide technical support to development regarding usage of development tools and processes
• Develop and maintain production applications and managed metrics performance.
  Generate and analyze metrics for different systems, tools and infrastructure
  Work closely with our Product Management, Development, and QA team in a continuous delivery environment
• Work with the Development engineers to scale up test automation practices and provide robust releases
• Work directly with agile Application Development to provide daily support aligned with a model of Continuous Delivery Work with development, QA, and project management teams to set release schedules and environments in a dynamic fast-paced environment
• Work with internal development teams to develop build system changes per the improvement roadmap
• Liaison with corporate IT production engineering teams to escalate application engineering issues
• Ongoing Infrastructure Tools enhancements and bug fixes

• Nightly Benchmarks, Build and Regressions systems automation and maintenance/Operations 
• Hands on experience in SCM usage and administration. (Perforce) Hands-on on Jenkins automations tasks as well as administration
• Troubleshoot and resolve Build, Regression and Infrastructure Problems.
• Work with the development teams to drive and define branch management
  Assist developers with questions and problems related to the version control tool, or general configuration managementprocess
• Develop benchmarks and regression portals