Swaroop Nakka

Key Result Areas:

• Spearheading cloud engineering & operations team, owning the cloud journey and roadmap and executing on projects to migrate applications
• Leading process automation and continually grow cloud adoption and know how to broker across clouds and lead cloud migration process
• Providing strategic leadership, direction & strategy also executing on the identified strategy, supporting in the development & talent management activities for direct reports and their organizations, including forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training, and budgeting
• Developing IT strategy and vision around cross-technology development & interfaces, including keeping them current
• Effectively providing technology architecture and interface services along with
• Web/Mobile Development and Dev-Sec-Ops
• Adhering with Enterprise Application Architecture & Standards Services, Educate business on technology
• Working in collaboration with the technology teams & business teams, work with software engineers, QA, SREs and DevOps leads to ensure reliability and optimize cloud infrastructure and services usage
• Ensuring SAST and DAST in Code and Build stages and follow-up in pen testing and load testing
• Supporting performance testing and PIT teams to make sure product meeting standards and inline with expected behavior and performance
• Working closely with security compliance teams and following "the left policy" to minimize vulnerabilities and getting track of critical/high vulnerabilities during scans
• Delivering strong assistance with the development and/or monitoring of workflow, procedures, & metrics for tracking employee & department productivity, gathering, analyzing statistics, and making recommendations for performance improvements
• Playing a key role in defining architecture, selection of tools, directing implementation of the target architecture, including server architecture to server less & containers platforms, CI/CD pipeline, service catalog integration, DevOps automation, and micro- service platform
• Involved I2M and SDLC process with DEV and CI teams and maintaining close association with Architects for new product/feature launch
• SLA & Quality Management as per Client Contractual & internal Managed Services requirements
• Skillfully executing Performance Management cycle functions; formulating development plans & roadmaps for new and incumbent staff
• Effectively representing organization at VP/SVP/CTO level
• Proven record of having managed multiple FTE / Contractors
• Proficient Leader; Managing geographically distributed teams; Working with business division architects to specify and document solutions and practices
• Successfully delivering large scale project on-time with high quality
• Executing full life-cycle development projects; ramping-up projects within time, budget & quality parameters, as per project management & best practice guidelines
• Ability in quality assurance and product development to deliver quality services to clients / customers

Key Result Areas:

• Successfully led end-to-end delivery efforts for infra/hybrid-cloud projects and managing medium to large projects through engagement with technical and business stakeholders
• Managed more than 10 products and product development activities, influence cross-functional teams to meet stakeholder needs
• Partnered with IT / Feature Teams to translate stakeholder needs into accurate and complete user stories
• Delivered meaningful & credible feedback on Data Engineering capabilities, data availability, and customer trend information
• Effectively coordinated engagement & governance framework with key stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle-requirements, access management, testing, pre- production and go- live activities
• Leveraged expert knowledge to design and direct delivery of key platform, automation, and governance features
• Played a key role in developing & maintaining target state architecture and reference implementations
• Specified & reviewed application solutions in collaboration with divisional architects
• Accountable for exploring best of breed industry tools and products to manage with ease multi account cloud environment
• Driven optimization of the enterprise application portfolio around public & private landing zones, using a target state architecture for infrastructure and application patterns focused on microservices and cloud-native deployments
• Major focus on Cloud, DevOps, Software Configuration and Build/Release Management
• Working with Azure/AWS (Storage, Application Services, Deployment and Management) and managed servers on Cloud platform instances using Terraform/Ansible/Kubernetes and other configuration management
• Working CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies using Jenkins/Bamboo/Octopus/GitHub/bitbucket
• Creating, debugging, diagnosing, and troubleshooting, build scripts written
• Effectively managed & administered large IT projects, including the design and deployment of new IT systems and services
• Monitored performance of IT systems to determine cost & productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT infrastructure
• Analyzed business requirements by partnering with key stakeholders across organization to develop solutions for IT needs
• Played a key role in driving improvements (technology, process & data) and best practices
• Used standard ITIL methodology to manage service request, incident management and change management using Jira tool

• Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties