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VINOD KUMAR K

VINOD KUMAR K

BENGALURU

Summary

Overall, I have 9.5+ years of experience in the IT industry and am working as a Salesforce DevOps Release Engineer, specializing in designing, automating, and optimizing DevOps pipelines for Salesforce environments.
Proven expertise in leveraging Git, Jenkins, and CI/CD frameworks to streamline development,
testing, and deployment processes
. Strong background in managing and configuring Salesforce DevOps/AWS environments, improving release cycles, and ensuring code quality through continuous integration practices using SonarQube. Adept at working collaboratively with development and operations teams to deliver scalable, efficient solutions. Passionate about automating repetitive tasks, enhancing system performance, and ensuring the seamless integration of Salesforce with other enterprise systems.
I am eager to bring my expertise and passion for Salesforce DevOps/AWS to contribute to the success of your organization.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Salesforce Release Engineer

Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
09.2022 - Current
  • As a Salesforce Release Engineer at Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt Ltd, I was responsible for managing the deployment and release process of Salesforce applications
  • This role required strong technical skills, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills to coordinate with various teams
  • Delivered DevOps Transformation Programs across different Business Units - Airlines, Travel Distribution Unit and Airport-IT projects
  • Lead and Implemented DevOps for Salesforce Release Management activities ie
  • Daily/monthly release sprint deployments with Agile methodology
  • Monthly release deployment activities are performed on agreed timeline in INT/UAT/Fasttrack/Production environments
  • Proposed and Implemented the Sprint Release Calendar/schedules
  • Coordinating with Product Owners to plan and deploy major releases, hotfixes and sandbox refreshes
  • Supporting and training Vendors/Developers on the Release Management process
  • Implemented SonarQube integration for all Salesforce Platforms
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely deployments
  • Conducted regular audits to ensure the quality of releases
  • Implemented automation tools to improve efficiency
  • Trained new team members on release processesQuarter of the Member

DevOps Release Engineer

Deloitte consulting India private limited
Bengaluru
02.2020 - 09.2022
  • Own all aspects of the end-to-end Salesforce release management process at Johnson & Johnson including project deployments, sprint deployments, and including Salesforce releases / critical updates
  • Mentored and Led the junior engineers in best practices for release management, fostering a culture of continuous learning within the team
  • Deploy Salesforce code and configuration in different environments (scratch orgs, FIT/BST/UAT sandboxes, and Production environments)
  • Handled all deployment and related admin activities and actively executed 100+ FIT/BST, 50+ UAT and 20+ Production deployments
  • Managed deployments & tuning 20+ Jenkins jobs, ensuring timely deployments across 08 environments
  • Coordinate and execute the implementation of managed packages across the Salesforce landscape, including management of package releases / upgrades
  • Create and maintain an efficient Continuous Integration/Delivery process for multiple Salesforce projects and ensure that project teams execute as needed
  • Plan release windows and the overall release lifecycle in coordination with the project leads and platform manager
  • Develop DevOps and release management best practices and ensure all development teams follow as needed
  • Coordinate regular sandbox refreshes, especially with respect to full sandboxes
  • Manage Admin security access across all environments and branching and merging strategies and automate processes where possible
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues in both prod and non-prod environments
  • Helped to developers and testing team on resolving the user access permissions in their respective orgs

DevOps AWS Engineer

Square Panda India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
04.2019 - 02.2020
  • Working exclusively on making applications more scalable and highly available system in AWS (load balancing) with full automation
  • Infra-structure development on AWS using various services like EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, IAM, VPC, Code Build and Code Deploy etc
  • Building servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, SES and SNS in the defined virtual private connection
  • Configuring IAM roles for EC2 instances and assigns them policies granting specific level access to S3 buckets
  • Created Snapshots and Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) of EC2 Instance for snapshots and creating clone instances
  • Using MongoDB database for workloads., taking Backup and Restore
  • Setting up private networks and sub-networks using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and creating security groups to associate with the networks
  • Used Elastic Load balancer, Auto scaling, Security groups to manage network security & Configured Elastic load balancers for incoming loads
  • Have experience on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration & Experience in Automation using AWS Code Deploy
  • Developing Applications and push to the Target server

DevOps Engineer

Optus Infotech Pvt LTD
Bengaluru
08.2016 - 03.2019
  • Managed the Roles for Git version administrator and Build Engineer in the project and Creating New Repo's
  • Setting Up the new build environment for various work stream environment
  • Implemented the Release Practice and Responsible for the pushing builds into FIT/UAT/Pre-Production And Production environments
  • Involved in Branching, tagging of code delivery at required releases
  • Involved in scheduling the automated build called Nightly Builds Verify Build requests, resolve merge and branch conflicts
  • Interacting with developers to sort out issues related to Build Automation
  • Managing/Tracking the defects status using Jira
  • Performing deployments to multiple environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Production environments

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science and Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Anantpur University
PUTTUR, A.P, India
06-2014

Skills

  • Salesforce CRM
  • Bitbucket, Git, and GitHub
  • Jenkins CI/CD
  • AWS Devops Web Services
  • SonarQube
  • Terraform
  • Bash/Shell Scripting
  • Ansible
  • MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Copado
  • Linux Administration
  • Docker containers
  • Kubernetes orchestration
  • JIRA

Awards

  • Applause Award
  • Player of the Quarter
  • Best Team Player
  • 50+Shout Outs Received

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Kannada

Timeline

Salesforce Release Engineer

Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt Ltd
09.2022 - Current

DevOps Release Engineer

Deloitte consulting India private limited
02.2020 - 09.2022

DevOps AWS Engineer

Square Panda India Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 02.2020

DevOps Engineer

Optus Infotech Pvt LTD
08.2016 - 03.2019

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science and Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Anantpur University
VINOD KUMAR K