Unmesh Patil
Pune
Summary
Implemented DevOps best practices and automation strategies, achieving a significant reduction in deployment time and ensuring seamless release cycles for a global IT organization with over 17 years of experience. Skilled Release Manager adept at maintaining live service software releases while minimizing disruptions to user bases. Enhanced customer satisfaction and reduced liability through iterative development cycles. Designed consumer-facing patches to address user concerns and improve security.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Application Developer
Rocket Software
Pune
11.2024 - 01.2026
- Led the development and implementation of robust end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, integrating advanced plugins to automate build, test, and deployment processes. This initiative significantly reduced deployment times and increased release frequency for critical applications.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to configure and manage Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab repositories, optimizing version control, streamlining code review workflows, and ensuring secure repository management through effective user and group access controls.
- Utilized AWS cloud services to support scalable and resilient infrastructure for CI/CD pipelines, enabling seamless software delivery and high availability during organizational transitions and acquisitions.
- Enhanced project tracking and release management by integrating Jira for issue tracking and Confluence for documentation, facilitating transparent communication and knowledge sharing across development, QA, and operations teams.
- Successfully migrated CI/CD pipelines and related assets following a major acquisition, leveraging Jenkins, AWS, and version control platforms to ensure uninterrupted delivery and smooth transition of development processes.
Senior DevOps Engineer (Manager)
Capgemini
London
10.2021 - 11.2024
- Provided support in the maintenance and administration of automated build and deployment processes using TFS 2015 and Octopus deploy.
- Orchestrated seamless coordination of build and release cycles with development teams, testing teams, and project management, ensuring timely deployments and minimizing disruptions to business operations.
- Managed software branching activities for each release cycle, optimizing version control processes and facilitating seamless collaboration among development teams.
- Prepared and implemented the migration roadmap from on-premises TFS 2015 to Azure DevOps, enhancing scalability and fostering cross-team collaboration.
Application Developer III
Rocket Software
Pune
11.2020 - 10.2021
- Worked on establishment of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and an array of plugins, resulting in reduction in deployment time and increase in deployment frequency.
- Collaborated with teams to configure Bitbucket repositories, optimizing version control and facilitating code review processes.
- Streamlined Bitbucket user/group access and permissions, optimizing collaboration and securing code repository management.
- Facilitated seamless migration of CI/CD pipeline for Rocket Software acquisition, enabling uninterrupted software delivery in the Rocket environment.
Senior DevOps Engineer (Team Lead)
Persistent Systems
Pune
05.2013 - 11.2020
- Designed and implemented a highly efficient CI/CD system using Jenkins, enabling weekly releases and out-of-cycle releases based on business needs, reduced deployment time and increased development productivity.
- Managed source control management for GitHub and GitLab Enterprise repositories, configuring user access levels, monitoring logs, identifying merge conflicts, and managing the master repository; ensured smooth and streamlined collaboration among the development team.
- Worked on the preparation and maintenance of configuration files for microservices deployment on Prod environment, utilizing OpenShift/Kubernetes.
- Led the development and deployment of an application on AWS, utilizing the entire AWS stack including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, IAM, Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, and others. Implemented Cloud Formation to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and efficient auto scaling.
- Carried out the setup and configuration of AWS Pipeline and Infrastructure, including VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Roles, and Policy, leveraging Terraform.
- Setup VPCs, public and private subnets, and distributed across availability zones, resulting in enhanced network resilience and scalability.
- Implemented NAT gateways and instances for seamless communication from private instances to the internet through bastion hosts.
- Developed Java and SQL build using ANT, deploying to UNIX platform across CFG, TST, UAT, and PROD environments; ensured defect-free code through SVN and Git merge coordination.
- Orchestrated weekly production deployments and carefully planned for major and emergency releases, seamlessly coordinating with the onsite team to ensure flawless execution and alignment of build flow.
- Successfully managed project timelines and workload for the DevOps team, optimizing resource allocation and delivering projects on time, resulting increase in team productivity.
- Actively engaged in documentation, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information on system architecture, procedures, and troubleshooting guides; facilitated seamless knowledge transfer and enhanced team productivity.
Senior Systems Engineer
iGATE Computer Systems Limited
Pune
12.2007 - 05.2013
- Implemented a seamless transition of various Team Projects into distinct Team Project Collections in TFS 2010, configuring the TFS 2010 Environment and customizing Work Item Templates and Workflows to support Manual, Continuous Integration, Gated Check-in, and Scheduled builds, resulting in improved project management efficiency, and streamlined development processes.
- Optimized the development workflow by implementing Schedule builds in TFS 2010, allowing for automatic builds at specified intervals and ensuring continuous integration even in the absence of code changes since the last build.
- Accelerated build process by leveraging Jenkins' capabilities, implementing parallelization and acceleration techniques, enabling faster delivery and improved development cycle efficiency.
- Implemented and optimized full-featured build systems, tools, and scripts using ANT/Maven.
- Applied change and configuration management practices to ensure seamless integration of build changes, enabling smooth collaboration among cross-functional teams and minimizing deployment issues.
- Enhanced build reliability by providing timely and clear error output to stakeholders, ensuring quick resolution, and minimizing downtime; maintained comprehensive documentation of build processes and systems, facilitating seamless knowledge transfer and onboarding.
- Maintained regular communication with the OSC on project status and functionality inquiries, facilitating productive discussions and clarifications to drive project success.
- Analysed requirements and collaborated with the onsite team to successfully integrate Rational Tools, increasing team efficiency, and delivering tasks with expected levels of quality.
- Spearheaded installation and upgrade service calls and work orders through HP Service Desk, resulting in seamless integration of Rational Tools and reducing customer support.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computers
North Maharashtra University
01.2007
Skills
- AWS and Azure DevOps
- DevOps practices
- Agile methodologies
- CI/CD pipelines
- Build automation
- Shell scripting
- Python Programming
- Version control systems
- Continuous integration tools
- Containerization technologies
- Configuration management
- Infrastructure as code
- Project management software
- Operating systems expertise
Languages
- Hindi
- Marathi
- English
Websites
Timeline
Senior Application Developer
Rocket Software
11.2024 - 01.2026
Senior DevOps Engineer (Manager)
Capgemini
10.2021 - 11.2024
Application Developer III
Rocket Software
11.2020 - 10.2021
Senior DevOps Engineer (Team Lead)
Persistent Systems
05.2013 - 11.2020
Senior Systems Engineer
iGATE Computer Systems Limited
12.2007 - 05.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computers
North Maharashtra University