• Languages C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Go, Shell scripts, VBscript, Batch scripts, Groovy
• Web HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP,Rails, Bootstrap, React.js, Express.js, Node, REST, JSON
• Cloud Azure, AWS, SaaS, PaaS, IBM Workload Deployer, KVM, VMware
• Monitoring Tivoli Netcool Omnibus, Tivoli monitoring tools (ITCAM, ITNM, ITM), Newrelic, Pagerduty, Logentries
• Source/Configuration Management Clearcase, CVS, Git, RTC, Mercurial, gitlab, Chef, Ansible
• Databases Informix, DB2, Mysql, Firebase, MongoDB, documentDB (Azure), dynamoDB (AWS)
• Software Systems Lex, Yacc, TBSM, Make, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus, Jira, Bamboo, Buildforge, Crucible, Concourse, gitlab,jira
• Cloud AWS, Azure

ImagineX DIgital, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Engineering Manager

Sep 2022 - Sep 2024

1. Lead multiple teams, driving Cloud/DevOps and Data/AIML practices, and achieving revenue targets.
2. Spearheaded the recruitment and onboarding of several talented individuals, building a robust team that contributed significantly to the success of the company by adding clients
3. Assess customer Cloud and DevOps maturity, identify gaps and suggest and implement improvements.
4. Assist in presales and transition deals into engagements e.g., from initial customer conversations, to contributing or owning a proposal.
5. Established strategic partnerships with AWS and Azure vendors, serving as the primary liaison and providing guidance to Technical Architects and senior consultants in delivering cutting-edge cloud solutions.
6. Engaged proactively with customers to identify business development opportunities, fostering strong client relationships, and contributing to increased revenue streams.
7. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and execute go-to-market strategies, ensuring the successful launch of new services and solutions.
8. Implemented best practices in project management and quality assurance, resulting in improved project delivery and client satisfaction.
9. Played a pivotal role in achieving measurable business growth, including a >2M increase in revenue and improvement in customer satisfaction within the practice area.
10. Guiding companies through their initial steps into the cloud, facilitating seamless transitions by providing expert consultation, comprehensive strategies, and hands-on support to optimize their journey towards cloud adoption.

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VARONIS SYSTEMS, Morrisville

Manager ( Team Leader )

Nov 2021 - May 2022

1. Built a new Devops team, managing the cloud infrastructure.
2. Developed monitoring solution using log analytics and Grafana dashboards in Azure
3. Developed over the sun support process for the Israel, Ukraine and US team

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BLOCKGRAPH, NYC, NY

Senior Manager Devops

Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

1. Built a new Devops team, managing the cloud infrastructure.
2. Deploying the foundation of Blockgraph in AWS Organization, using Control tower for compliance and security.
3. Completed SOC2 Type1 Compliance
4. Rearchitected the Aerospike DB and Kubernetes cluster solutions.

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LINCOLN FINANCIAL, Greensboro, NC

Senior Analyst, Infrastructure Cloud

Nov 2019 - May 2020

1. Lead a team of five senior Infrastructure architects. Migrated compute Infrastructure to AWS cloud. Mentored team on agile development process.
2. Design and develop AWS patterns, guardrails and CI/CD pipeline.
3. Lead and coordinated virtual project team for cloud automation across Lincoln.
4. Project manage Kubernetes cluster, HPC windows cluster that involves designing, planning, coordinating with various team and scouting for sponsors.

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FIDELITY, Raleigh, NC

Principal Cloud Pipeline Technologist

Jan 2018 - Nov 2019

1. Lead a team of two principal architects, focused on Bigdata (EMR, Hadoop), RDS migration and nosql DB to Cloud for all the on-premise Fidelity application.
2. Designed patterns and implemented the application architectures for EMR, RDS and NoSQL DBs (mongo, dynamoDB)
3. Helped business unit cut down cloud resource consumption, bringing down cost from 10k per month to 2k per month in AWS without losing performance.
4. Helped teams across Fidelity hire engineers on Bigdata, EMR.
5. Helped teams adopt new centralized pipeline including training engineering resources on AWS EMR, Concourse, across Fidelity.
6. Developed CI/CD engine for AWS platform based on Concourse.
7. Developed microservices REST API endpoints on PCF and AWS
8. Implementation of Docker container services.

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Avanade, Raleigh, NC

Senior Consultant

Aug 2017- Dec 2017

Devops lab setup

HONEYWELL CORPORATION, Raleigh, NC (2016-2017)

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2016- Aug 2017

1. Lead setting up of Devops team for Honeywell Tridium IOT solutions, helped in hiring engineers and managers.
2. Designed a build solution using Docker
3. Set up and improved the CI/CD processes for Niagara Framework.
4. Azure App services and documentDB architecture implementation for IOT platform for Honeywell
5. Defined L1, L2, L3 support structure for Cloud services, process development for runbook automation.
6. Worked with project managers in negotiating cost with internal Operations team.
7. Controlled the cost in Azure for project resource consumption and charting the statistics for executive management.

IBM CORPORATION, RTP, NC

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

1997 - 2016

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Connections

2015 - 2016

Served in leadership role as Architect for three major projects. Helped management in hiring engineers and setup of new 24/7 Operations Command Center.

1. Designed and developed monitoring solution for IBM Connections Cloud using cloud monitoring technologies such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Pagerduty, Logentries, webhooks, providing faster problem identification and resolution, resulting in improved customer satisfaction.
2. Setup of OCC (Operations Command Center) for IBM Connections included hiring engineers and training them in Site reliability engineering and dealing with various alerts in the system.
3. Developed monitoring automation for New Relic metrics and synthetics.

Release and DevOps Engineering, IBM Rational Labs

2012 - 2013

1. Worked on designing a new build system for Cloud at enterprise scale. Some of the features were build engines on demands, saving power, savings on tools, licensing costs, improved security compliance as the VMs were Infrastructure as a code.
2. Coordinated image availability for test, support and sales. Collaborated with multiple labs and teams across IBM Software Group for timely delivery.
3. Built Rational Automation Framework (RAFW) and Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management Patterns, virtual images on Power Hypervisor and VMware ESX for Pure Application systems
4. Set up continuous integration for product builds using JBE in Rational Team Concert.

Monitoring Systems and Solutions Architect, IBM Tivoli Labs

2009 - 2012

Designed monitoring solution for twenty-seven labs and over 1500 devices worldwide using Tivoli line of products. Managed and coordinated efforts worldwide with team lead, managers and product architects. As a Functional Manager, built a team that monitored the systems for Tivoli.

1. Improved reliability of services provided by Tivoli labs and reduced number of incidents by developing monitoring system, enabling engineers to see problems before customers reported them and managing system availability effectively.
2. Increased efficiencies by building dashboard for engineers, managers, and executives, enabling decision making based upon "real time" information.
3. Enhanced productivity by providing training and education to engineers and managers in use of monitoring tools and dashboards.
4. Reduced problem tickets by 30% by avoiding system downtimes and customer reported problems.

Build Architect, IBM Tivoli Labs

2005 - 2009

Designed and developed a Build automation system on Windows that replaced legacy 16-bit OS/2 build system, enabling 64-bit build for over 100 Tivoli releases. Acted as System Administrator for Unix and Windows platform. Supported customers on build services.

1. Build centralization effort for Tivoli in collaboration with management, resulting in >$2M savings YOY and improved customer service.
2. Developed process and coordinated with various teams for Build migration into centralized system.
3. Built website for Tivoli Central Build using IBM intranet standards, improving customer satisfaction as builds were submitted online and logs were monitored in real time.
4. Improved problem resolution and turnaround time by creating Windows build interface written in Unix shell scripts, better addressing input from Unix engineering team.
5. Designed automation for maintaining the IBM internal security compliance and audit readiness of over 100 machines.
6. Presented Capacity and Capital plans for the lab to executive management, receiving approval to purchase equipment and upgrade the lab.
7. Improved operation by creating processes and implementing source code backup and disaster recovery plans for Tivoli using TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) and tape libraries.
8. Trained engineers across geographies on build activities and completed a new lab setup in China.

Staff Software Engineer IBM Information Systems

1997 - 2005

1. Lead development and maintenance of Universe, a 2NF database server
2. Enhanced product quality by working with customers in feature development for Universe server.
3. Team lead for Informix 4GL tools.
4. Helped offshore support team during Y2K migration, trained Advance Tech Support in Lenexa
5. Design, development and support of Informix 4GL tools, i.sell ecommerce solution.