Vipul Jain
SDM Amazon AWS, CKAD CKA PMP
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven professional with experience and proven ability in the areas of: project & people management (11 years), product development (14 years) & operational excellence in multi-geo cross-functional teams. Known for customer obsession, successfully building high performing teams to deliver customer success, driving transformation, design thinking, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement via innovation.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Software Development Manager
Amazon AWS Infra Supply Chain Automation
Bengaluru
12.2021 - Current
- In Amazon AWS, part of Supply Chain Management(SCM) team involved in driving and delivering SCos (Supply Chain Operating System), application and automated solutions centered around delivering AWS infrastructure services for AWS Data Centers.
- My role involved building a new generation suite of supply chain management(SCM) services which can automate and optimize supply chain financial planning, budgeting and tracking spends. Currently focused on inventory management and automation.
- From impact on business delivered in 2022 automated solutions to drive efficiencies by 50% and cut costs for our AWS customers that manage ~5 billion of AWS infrastructure budgets on software my team delivered.
- Technically involved in delivering scalable micro services and software frameworks for large scale critical applications using AWS Services like Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, StepFunctions etc
- Leading a team that design and develop these systems from scratch utilizing technologies and frameworks like reactive micro services, serverless computing and distributed NoSQL data stores
- Recognized in developing a high performing team delivering to bring customer value and timely business impact with speed.
Senior Engineering Manager
VMware India
Bangalore
11.2020 - 12.2021
- Build a team from scratch under Engineering Operations that handles DevOps and Build acceleration projects.
- Vmware ESX Builds today are slow and our objective is of improving ESX engineering productivity and modernization of engineering tools and workflows by migrating from SCons to Bazel. This itself would bring in savings of $100 million per year.
- On the DevOps side my team manages the daily operations, governance and tooling. Operations ensure release timeliness and build stability for ESX, vSphere, VCF-SDDC release.
- Involved in driving escalation and resolution for issues raised upon build or test (smoke, core-functional, extended functional) failures. Goal was to continuous improvement via automation and tooling to achieve engineering efficiencies.
Senior Engineering Manager
Dell EMC India
Bengaluru
08.2018 - 10.2020
- Led a large full stack engineering team and developing a brand new Converged Infrastructure (CI) product for Cloud like outcomes with best in class open source technologies (like k8s, Ansible, Go Lang, Python, Docker etc.) and best in class Dell EMC products in server, compute, networking and VMware virtualization (for cloud outcomes using VCF, vSAN, ESXi, NSX etc.)
- The product PowerOne is all Dell EMC stack and lead the engineering teams to get the first version out in Nov-2019 followed by multiple releases
- PowerOne CI solution helps to modernize the data center, transform IT infrastructure to capitalize on the flexibility, scalability and performance of private and hybrid clouds
- This solution delivered platform as a service (PaaS) using IaC principles.
Engineering Project Manager
NetApp India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
11.2013 - 08.2018
- Led a large team (including contractors) & managed end-to-end delivery of NetApp internal, partner and customer-facing tools and product development using DevOps CI/CD, Agile methodologies & Cloud services
- Established multiple projects ownership, managed and provided leadership to a team of Dev QA engineers
- Roadmap and Business reviews with NetApp partners/vendors like Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE, Citrix, Oracle, Brocade, QLogic, Symantec, Cisco etc
- Partnered with product managers, field, professional services and internal engineering agile scrum teams to develop new product solution development, sustenance, resource planning, team building, strategic planning, stakeholder and partner engagement across geographies meeting NetApp’s business goals and objectives
- Assist Critical Customer account cases with storage solutions upon escalations
- Project : NetApp Common Test Lab (Product Feature Development), NetApp Interoperability Product Development and NetApp's Premium SW - 7-Mode Transition tool
Engineering R&D Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard, HP
06.2010 - 11.2013
- Led a project team and managed end-to-end NAS File System product feature delivery including features like Archiving -WORM/Retention, Performance Monitoring (NFS, CIFS etc.), Express Query (unstructured data search for large dataset), Metadata & Audit Reporting and Data Migrations over NFS & CIFS(SMB)
- Partner closely with leadership team to formulate a product roadmap based on business-driven vision and strategy to execute the short/long term product roadmap
- Recognized for successfully building a team locally and transitioning key product feature development and consistently delivering results
- Provide delivery, managerial and technical leadership, identification of opportunities and recommending programs to executive leadership
- Actively involved in processes improvement initiatives to enhance the productivity of the team by defining and tracking all key project & quality metrics, drive talent building and employee engagement
- Work with cross-functional team(s) in multi-site in the establishing relations including engineering, storage consultants & architects, QA and product management team to understand business requirements, plan, design and implement the project/program schedule, track key milestones and provide required details throughout the product development and release lifecycle
- Participate and own responsibility for the decisions on architectural and design matters for the features driven by my group, including direct hands-on participation where required
- Drove responsiveness to changing needs of sales and expanding market segments
- Involved into architecting and managing integration and certification of Independent Software/Solution Vendor (ISV) (like EMC, IBM, Symantec etc.) and HP Storage-based solutions for different verticals
- Provide ISV solutions with HP Storage to customers rapidly between planned engineering releases & product delivery roadmap
- In-turn enabling deals for sales & enable pre-sales to achieve their goals by providing best practices and architectural references in developing and deploying product/storage solutions
- Project : HP StoreAll IBRIX X9000 NAS Storage System (Product Feature Development)
Project Leader
Thomson Reuters (aka Thomson Financial)
Bangalore
05.2004 - 05.2010
- Involved in providing technical expertise in understanding the requirements from the product managers and drive end-to-end implementation & delivery.
- Drove business strategy on product migration and integration to bring a newer improved product platform out in a timely manner with high quality.
- Technologies used: Java, JSP, Sybase DB, SQL Server DB, XML, C, UNIX shell scripts
- Participated in architectural decisions and the development, evaluation, selection, implementation and
maintenance of product with strong technical expertise on databases and end customer interfaces.
Software Engineer / Developer
HCL Technologies Ltd.
Bangalore
12.2001 - 02.2004
Education
High School Diploma -
Executive Program in Global Business Management
IIM Calcutta 12.2014 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Science -
Engineering College Kota
India 06.1997 - 05.2001
Skills
Leadership Skills
undefinedTimeline
Software Development Manager
Amazon AWS Infra Supply Chain Automation
12.2021 - Current
Senior Engineering Manager
VMware India
11.2020 - 12.2021
Senior Engineering Manager
Dell EMC India
08.2018 - 10.2020
High School Diploma -
Executive Program in Global Business Management
12.2014 - 11.2015
Engineering Project Manager
NetApp India Pvt Ltd
11.2013 - 08.2018
Engineering R&D Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard, HP
06.2010 - 11.2013
Project Leader
Thomson Reuters (aka Thomson Financial)
05.2004 - 05.2010
Software Engineer / Developer
HCL Technologies Ltd.
12.2001 - 02.2004
Bachelor of Science -
Engineering College Kota
06.1997 - 05.2001
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