A Technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Expertise in: Service Strategy Team Formation Enterprise Observability Digital Transformation Grafana ,Automation, Python, Serverless Architecture on Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), ITIL with a Strong Engineering and Entrepreneurial experience.
13+ years’ experience in the areas of Enterprise Observability, IT Infrastructure Management, System Integration, Monitoring & Automation, in metrics driven organizations.
Ability to design a technically viable yet financially competitive solution by understanding customer requirements. Adroit in managing different systems on multiple platforms and able to guide the team on technology and managerial fronts. Architecture & Solution design for medium to large scale enterprises
Overview
3
3
Certifications
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
American Express
06.2020 - 06.2021
Lead Software Engineer
Autodesk India Pvt Ltd
09.2015 - 06.2020
Key Deliverables:.
Evaluate, build and release monitoring solutions based on business requirement.
Develop AWS microservies based solutions to automate operations aspects of Infrastructure and application.
Built a complex Event ingestion/routing/enrichment layer on AWS to bring context to the observability events.
Integrate legacy and new applications to monitoring / event correlation solution by building custom plugins using python.
Automate monitoring metrics collection.
Build custom monitors for applications with no Out Of the box support for monitoring.
Built an event driven remediation platform to help operations effective automate their tasks.
ChatOps initiative to address customer request via Chatbots using Stackstorm and AWS APIG/Lambda.
Lead the SelfService initiative across Monitoring services and released 20+ SelfService tools to provide digital experience for customers
Products/Technologies worked on :.
VMware 6.X (ESXi,VCenter,SRM).
Stackstorm,UI Path, Ayehu.
Grafana.
InfluxDB.
ELK.
Python 2.7/3.0.
AWS Serverless Architecture.
Event Correlation and AIOps.
Catchpoint.
Dynatrace.
SiteScope.
LogicMonitor.
EGInnovation.
Foglight
Noteworthy Attainments:.
Consistently received multiple awards every month for breaking boundaries and talent counts core values.
Twice Awarded by the CIO for Service Excellence and Exceptional Performance.
Rated above expectations in all quarterly reviews and annual reviews.
Lead and successfully executed innovation day initiative to build a team of innovators and come up with LUMA driven implementable solutions.
Architected two organization wide adopted solutions using AWS microservices to automate event routing and metric collection to improve operational efficiency.
Chief Technology Officer
ClearInfra IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
05.2014 - 08.2015
Accomplish business development activities by researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans; implementing sales plans; managing staff.
Achieve marketing and sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews.
Identify market opportunities and understand customer requirements.
Improve Branding and Market Value of the brand.
Prepare sellable competency mapping from the market coordinating with internal technical personal.
Provide inputs to sales team by analyzing market data and trend.
Responsible for building roadmap and drive the team to transform existing event ingestion layer to orchestration engine to improve enterprise observability.
Responsible for building roadmap and drive the team to bring digital experience on the event ingestion layer to improve and increase enterprise adoption to meet Early Detection and Faster Resolution.
Drive special initiatives to drive innovation and design thinking in the existing team (Brainwaves, OpsArchitectCommunity).
Drive engagements with Key enterprise leaders to showcase power of the platform and spin initiatives to drive adoption.
Responsible for transforming ops by bringing key projects like Automation Drive , ChatOps for actions.
Lead the Self-service initiative across services and provide digital experience for customers, Key Deliverables:.
Work with Sales team to understand customer requirements.
Measure and evaluate the opportunity and define the scope based on the opportunity.
Product offering presentation and demonstration.
Provide answers to (technical) questions in a Request for Information(RFI) or a Request for Proposal(RFP).
Deliver proof of concepts.
Provide first-line technical support for software evaluations and/or pilot projects.
Assist with the qualification of the opportunities and/or identification of target accounts.
Assist with the creation of a sales cycle plan.
Assist customer, prospect and Sales Representative to build a compelling and competitive business case and ROI (Return of Investment).
Support Premiere Customers and critical production environment in fixing and advisory of their VMware Virtual environment.
Enhance the team technically on the VMware vSphere and other Infrastructure Products.
Good understanding and troubleshooting of Storage in VMWare environment.
SPOC on Microsoft related issues in VMware environment.
Analyse Windows Performance issues.
Resource planning and identifying the training needs in the team.
Effectively manage the team.
Set up kick off meetings and Communication plans with the stake holders.
Change Control Management – Changes are recorded on the document approved by the key stakeholders.
Quality Management – Keeping the documentation intact based on the internal standards, Attending the audits and regular status reporting.
Products worked on :.
VMware ESXi 4.0.4.1/5.0/5.X.
VMware vCenter 4.0/4.1/5.X.
VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.
VMware VDR and VDP.
Zenoss Core 4.
Cloud Stack 3.1.
Open Nebula 4.0.
Atlassian Confluence 5.1.
Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2.
Atempo Time Navigator Noteworthy Attainments:.
Recognition for outstanding contribution as a lead in Planning and Implementing Virtual Infrastructure with minimum business impact.
Awarded GLOPORIAN of the month award five times in a span of 1 year 8 months.
Awarded certificate for successfully driving the ISO 20000/270001 surveillance audit as an ISO.
Technical Analyst
Dimension Data, OpSource India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
02.2011 - 04.2012
Key Deliverables:.
Windows Operating System related Technical SPOC to the team.
Collaborate with other technical teams effectively to solve critical issues successfully within the scope period.
Prepare Technical documentations and L1’s to help primary support group.
Migrate and Deploy virtual infrastructure on VMware environment
Products worked on :.
Microsoft WSUS.
Service Desk Associate
GLOPORE IM Services India Pvt Ltd
12.2008 - 02.2011
Troubleshooting the following:.
Support Performance issues on Windows Servers (Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008).
Print related issues on a Standalone environment.
System Services, Task Scheduler, Terminal Server, Registry and Event logs issues.
Conducting research on technical issues that are unique and developing KB article or Solution object.
Liaising with cross-team and cross-product technical issues or vendors to resolve the issue.
Providing proactive recommendations to customer as a Technical Advisor.
Tools worked on :.
Perfmon, Poolmon, Procmon, Sysinternals tools etc.