Srivathsan Ravindran
Bangalore
Summary
At VMware, our R&D team's dedication to product excellence and seamless SaaS transition has led to Cloud Director's transformation and expansion to a global audience. We've established a robust delivery model that integrates CI/CD pipelines, ensuring the team's efficiency and the product's agility. Our strategies have successfully scaled service operations across six regions, underpinning VMware's commitment to quality service and customer satisfaction.
My role extends to comprehensive compliance, fostering a culture of accountability by conducting audits that meet SOC2 and ISO 27000 standards. With expertise in Java and a focus on performance engineering, I've been pivotal in implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting systems that uphold our SaaS best practices. These efforts continually drive innovation and elevate VMware's stature as a leader in cloud services.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
VMware by Broadcom
Bengaluru
11.2020 - Current
- Leading teams in development and performance engineering for cloud director and cloud director service product offerings
- Led the transformation from an on-prem product to a SaaS model.
- Established delivery model for team transition in Bangalore, including building CI/CD pipelines using the GITops model.
- Implemented strategy to grow Service operations from a single region to six regions globally.
- Implemented SLA’s in coordination with various stakeholders such as SREs, support teams, and product management.
- Successfully conducted comprehensive compliance audits, covering SOC2 Type and ISO 2700 standards.
- Established best practices in managing software as a service by implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting systems. Developed comprehensive run books to streamline operations and enhance operator experience.
- Designed and implemented tools for monitoring consumption patterns, receiving product feedback, and measuring time to value indicators.
- Facilitated the transition of teams, previously focused on delivering software to on-prem customers, towards adopting a cloud-first mentality.
- Responsible for delivering service from Initial availability to General availability and expanding partner network to include 50 consuming Service providers.
Engineering Manager
VMware
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 04.2020
- Served as the leader of both development and system testing teams for the cloud director product, overseeing their progress and success.
- Instilled a sense of ownership and commitment to quality in the development teams, driving them to perform thorough functional testing.
- Developed robust methods for analyzing API and UI performance across various releases, ensuring early identification of potential regressions.
- Implemented scale maximums for the product.
- Established and enforced CI CD best practices in the development process, ensuring the delivery of top-notch code.
Staff Engineer
VMware
Bengaluru
07.2013 - 07.2015
- Working on VMware cloud Director
Software Engineer
Brocade Communications
Bengaluru
02.2011 - 07.2013
- Working on Application Delivery controllers
Senior Software Engineer
SonicWALL Inc
Bengaluru
12.2007 - 02.2011
- Working on SonicWALL Email Security Servers
Network Engineer
Slash Support
Chennai
04.2006 - 11.2007
- Working on Email Security appliances and Network Identity appliances
Customer Response Officer
Microland
Bengaluru
06.2004 - 03.2006
- Working on Analog, DSL & Wireless Networking products like wireless routers, gateways, and network adapters
Education
BTech - Computer Science
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
Prayagraj, UP05-2003
Skills
- SAAS Development
- Agile Methodologies
- Operating Systems
- Virtualization/ VMware Stack
- Java, Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Cloud Services
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Container Orchestrations
- Helm
- Observability
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- CI / CD
- Jenkins, Git lab pipelines
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
VMware by Broadcom
11.2020 - Current
Engineering Manager
VMware
07.2015 - 04.2020
Staff Engineer
VMware
07.2013 - 07.2015
Software Engineer
Brocade Communications
02.2011 - 07.2013
Senior Software Engineer
SonicWALL Inc
12.2007 - 02.2011
Network Engineer
Slash Support
04.2006 - 11.2007
Customer Response Officer
Microland
06.2004 - 03.2006
BTech - Computer Science
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
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