As a seasoned technology leader, I bring extensive expertise in Global Technology Leadership, with a strong focus on driving innovation and growth. My proficiency lies in overseeing the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring seamless execution of strategic goals for the business unit or team. I prioritize leveraging cutting-edge technologies to achieve milestones and deliver superior outcomes.
Well-versed in understanding organizational needs, identifying technology trends, and crafting strategies to drive innovation, efficiency, and growth.
Ambassador to Safe Agile Methodologies since last 12 years SAFe 2.0.
Skilled in analyzing market trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practices to inform strategic decision-making.
Effective in fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the technology organization.
Define Process standards and guidelines for Software R&D; drive continuous improvement process of technology implementation.
Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in implementing DevSecOps principles and practices.
Extensive experience in managing technology projects from initiation to successful implementation, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
Proficient in end-to-end talent acquisition, including hiring, growth, retention, and performance appraisals for high class technology engineering teams.
Working extensively with major cloud services/strategy like Salesforce.com, SAP (Hana, Ariba), IBM- ICM, Amazon, Dell Bhoomi Strong working Knowledge in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BaaS, microservices based API.
Successfully managed the migration of multi-cloud platforms for over 325 business sites, encompassing 100+ technology stacks and petabytes of data across 10+ physical data centers.
Proficient in evaluating and selecting technology vendors and partners to meet organizational needs.
Adept at improving security, operational processes and systems implementation procedures. Proficient in disaster recovery planning, emergency response, project mapping and training.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Manager(IT, Infra, Cloud, Lab)
Applied Materials
Bengaluru
08.2019 - Current
· Leading Platform Engineering , Backend software Development, DevSecOps, Lab, Security programs for the division e2e at PDC AMIND level, Cloud Program (AWS/AZURE) acceleration programs for the division e2e.
Collaborated with fellow leaders to drive significant growth within the Business unit, achieving a remarkable increase from $2.5M to $27M in just four years. This growth was driven by delivering 40% sustain Engineering & Support, 30% value addition, 20% new additional features with algorithm development, 5% leadership support to achieve the Vision, and 5% innovation.
Derive QBR milestones and present to stakeholders and collect feedback and proliferate to team.
Manage Customer Satisfaction Survey with Product marketing team YoY from 2021 To get more visibility and transparency in process to cater the customer differently and make sure UX and Customer satisfaction index 95%.
Manage IT Development KPI’s for the group from People, Product, Process, Technology perspective.
Manage Customer Satisfaction Survey with Product marketing team YoY from 2021 To get more visibility and transparency in process to cater the customer differently and make sure UX and Customer satisfaction index 80%.
Manage IT Development KPI’s for the group from People, Product, Process, Technology perspective.
Managing a Team of 9 scrum Teams across globe along with operation capabilities. Managing Customer Experience stories to strengthen the usability of product with minimal outage.
Engaged with e2e People management starting from hiring, onboarding, coaching and retention.
Conduct Risk management and Risk mitigation plans which reviewed and aligned with all stakeholders.
Making sure CI/CD Runs as per their time to collect the required data and process the build process automatically to minimize delivery timelines. Maintain a strong KPI based Deployments for different infrastructure.
leading and managing a high-performing team of DevOps Engineers focused on ensuring the automation and smooth operation of production systems, consistently meeting and exceeding SLA targets with maximum support availability.
Managing project operations with key focus on defining Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) as well as interacting with prestigious clients, business partners, industry leaders, vendors & other key stakeholders
Leading the performance management, observability, monitoring, traceability solution to maintain the scalability and reliability of system using Opensource as well paid APM tools.
Built applications efficiently monitoring using ELK, Python Open-source technologies. Responsible for tracking & integrating using wavefront, setting up T1, T2 monitoring required for Quest applications, and handled production releases.
Enhanced customer experience by ensuring 100% resolution of issues through effective tracking, monitoring, and debugging of issues. Generated weekly reports using these metrics.
Transitioned, rebuilt team, and managed portfolio of On Premises Devops services with continued investment in key engineering and business-related requirements resulting in 10% YoY growth with 25% increase in data – Test Plans, Reporting & Analytics.
As part of Innovation created a query based Chatbot (2020) which can answer around 2000 + queries which save around 20% of Global ticket and able to answer status related queries along with that help creating automated ticket behalf.
Defining cross-organizational processes (Supply, Demand, and Resource Management) for optimizing use of on-site and off-shore staff and reducing the usage of expensive external consulting resources
During 2020 Successfully Managed a great pool of talent as part of backend team with 100% velocity sprint on Sprint.
As a Certified Cyber Security professional, I assist in implementing E-187 SEMI standards, introducing tools and technologies to enhance DevSecOps. This ensures a secure product development lifecycle and strengthens the delivery process.
Strong working knowledge in e2e flow of CI-CD using Bitbucket, Jenkin, K8, Docker, ArgoCD.
Distinguished contributions in setting up the Kubernetes environment, CICD, and test cases for ensuring seamless deployments. Provided proactive and end to end support for addressing issues with Kubernetes environments.
· Introduced performance management, observability, traceability solution to maintain the scalability in the pipeline using fluentd, elastic withing the K8 infrastructure to collect logs from 100+ Pods.
High Availability & Load Balancing using nginx and ingress along with auto scale in K8 environment.
Introduced SAST (SonarQube Enterprise version) within our CI pipeline which is running as non-blocking CI and taking care of the code quality and security.
· Good understanding and hands-on experience on terraform for infra provisioning (IaaS) to run data center using KVM Hypervisor for Dell, HP blade servers at AMIND and presented to various forum in AMAT.
Proliferated Containerized distributed system for GPU based application along with K8, cuda, Apollo servers to increase AI/ML, MLOps (clear ML) Road map with 100% proliferation for data and Algo Developers eof 2024.
Acted as a solutions evangelist, automated key processes, and contributed towards the expansion of business opportunities and excellence. Responsible for the evolution of existing processes, tools, automation, and technology stack, managed continuous improvement processes and took care of the operational aspects.
Globally managed several satellite IT locations, maintaining secure and operational corporate infrastructure.
Examined metrics and prepared IT project progress reports.
Communicated relevance of organizational goals, policies and procedures to IT department staff.
Procured IT resources for strategic and operational computing requirements.
Met with users, vendors and technicians to determine computing requirements.
Managed backup, user account and helpdesk systems.
Managed the design, implementation and maintenance of software applications.
Provided technical leadership in developing innovative solutions for complex problems.
Provided guidance on refactoring existing code base when necessary for better performance or scalability purposes.
Oversaw development, testing and rollout of complete suite of Web-based software solutions.
Controlled operational IT budget and expenditures within department parameters.
Sr Technical Delivery Manager
Thomson Reuters
Bengaluru
02.2012 - 08.2019
Managed and coordinated technical delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of projects.
Developed strategies for effective risk management, ensuring the highest levels of quality assurance.
Oversaw the development of technical solutions that met customer needs while staying within budget constraints.
Coordinated with stakeholders to define project scope and objectives, develop detailed plans and timelines, and track progress against goals.
Collaborated with internal teams to ensure seamless integration of new technologies into existing systems infrastructure.
Established processes for efficient issue resolution between customers and technical teams.
Identified gaps in current processes or procedures and developed action plans for improvement.
Led team meetings to review project goals and provide feedback on individual performance.
Monitored milestones and deliverables to stay ahead of schedules and proactively spot potential roadblocks.
Defined scopes, managed resources and oversaw schedules in line with stakeholder and project owner specifications.
Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.
Tracked costs and expenses and assessed closely against original project budget.
Lead Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
01.2010 - 01.2012
Developed, tested and maintained software components for a large-scale project.
Managed team members to ensure timely completion of projects.
Provided technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
Reviewed code changes and monitored application performance.
Resolved complex technical issues related to software development tasks.
Analyzed system requirements and created detailed specifications documents.
Created automated unit tests using various scripting languages.
Product Engineer
Ariba
Bengaluru
- 01.2010
Associates
Mindtree
Bengaluru
05.2005 - 08.2006
Java Developer
Indus Software Solutions
Hyderabad
04.2003 - 05.2005
Sr Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters
08.2006
Education
PG Certificate on Cyber Security -
IIIT (Bengaluru)
01.2021
General Management in IT -
IIM (Bengaluru)
01.2012
Masters in computer application -
BPUT (Biju Patnaik University of Technology)
01.2003
Bachelors in science (Physic Hons) -
SU (Sambalpur University)
01.2000
Skills
Solutions Development
Project Management
Decision-Making
Product Development
Organizational Skills
Leadership Expertise
Strategic Design
Technology Roadmap Design
Product Development & Engineering Management
Digital Transformation
Product & Technology Roadmap
Leadership and People management
Hiring, Team building, Coaching
Project Delivery Life Cycle
Business Process Transformation
Cost Control, Budgeting
Software Engineering Delivery & Innovation
Security & DevOps
Global Service / Solution Delivery Stakeholder Engagement
Operational Excellence
IT Infrastructure (Cloud & Data Centre)
Certification
PG Certificate on Cyber Security (IIIT)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Certified WebMethods Developer
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Certified Safe Agilist
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 11/29/1978
Languages
Odia
English
Hindi
Accomplishments
Awarded Star Employee for 2 Quarters 2005(Q4)/2006(Q2) at Mindtree
Awarded Fast Award (CEO) 2007 at Reuters India Pvt Ltd.
Awarded Best Lead for Platform and Cloud Engg 2011 Thomson Reuters
Awarded Best Technical Manager for Salesforce Migration Project 2014 Thomson Reuters.
Awarded Best Technical Manager for Cloud Migration 2017 Thomson Reuters.
Awarded Beyond & Above for Building Complex problem Diagnostics lab 2020 Applied Materials.
Awarded Beyond & Above for Building The Force helping in hiring around ~200 people 2022 Applied Materials.