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Amit Chhatbar

Frisco,TX

Summary

An accomplished technical hands-on leader, with several years of people management skills, 10+ years of experience in SDLC & Agile Software development and extensive experience in Financial and Retail Industries. 10+ years of solid experience in AWS Cloud, Micro-services architecture, DevOps and modern application development with security, automation, CI/CD pipelines, with popular DevOps tools & DevSecOps best practices. Proficient in hybrid-cloud and serverless deployment architecture. Truly passionate about designing scalable, highly available, secure, and automated systems with efficacy in continuous cloud cost management across the organization. Experience in communicating, presenting and direct reporting to Sr. Management/Leadership like CTO of the organization. Good understanding of Azure and Google architecture and services.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager/Associate Director, CCoE

Neiman Marcus
Irving, TX
02.2018 - Current
  • Handson experience with implementing terraform, serverless, DevOps CI/CD pipeline with EKS, Jenkins, Spinnaker.
  • Expert in designing highly available, scalable and secure Microservices architecture and complete containerized Docker and Kubernetes deployments
  • Member of Executive Architecture Review Board (EARB) for NMG. Spearhead architectural discussions to outline successful solutions, achieving effective deployment, security, cost controls, and availability in cloud.
  • Provided technical leadership in strategy, product roadmap, sprint planning for development, testing, implementation and support of product and sales promotions for NMG
  • Maintained accountability for multiple functional, operational, and strategic priorities, including budgeting, forecasting, tracking AWS expense, cloud security posture, and recruiting on- and offshore talent.
  • Regularly drive agile development, SCRUM and Sprint planning, especially focused on quality code development with automatic PR creation, review and approval process, for any code merge to staging or master.
  • Implemented FinOps framework for cloud financial management, monthly and quarterly budget forecast
  • Streamlined workflows by identifying bottlenecks in existing systems and proactively addressing these challenges through appropriate solutions implementation.
  • Led AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) 2.0 for NMG-led and partner-led projects execution.

Cloud Solution Architect

CAPITAL ONE
Plano, TX
08.2013 - 01.2018
  • Architect and design several Retail banking applications features like check deposit by taking picture, retail banking promotions for customer etc. in AWS cloud.
  • Designed automated CI/CD pipeline for quick development , testing and Canary deployment of Retail and digital technology (RDT) customer faced applications and features without any impacts to millions of customers.
  • Migrated retail and digital bank applications to Amazon Cloud using Azure SQL Migration Wizard, EC2, RDS, WAF, VPC, Security Groups, SNS, CloudWatch, Splunk, Nagios, New Relic, ELK, and created Jenkins pipeline to implement in Blue/Green East and West Region for DR.
  • Enabled seamless migration to cloud by planning and executing successful data transfer strategies.
  • Led datacenter consolidation projects by migrating applications to AWS Public Cloud to achieve Organization's goal of "Zero Data Center" by 2021
  • Migrated complex bank applications from on-premises to Amazon Public Cloud and mitigated costs for running legacy environment.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals within deadlines, ensuring smooth project execution.

Sr. Unix Administrator - Expert

Citibank
Irving, TX
02.2011 - 07.2013
  • Reduced downtime for critical applications through proactive maintenance and prompt resolution of issues.
  • Led team of Unix administrators to maintain high-performance systems, ensuring smooth operations across organization.
  • Data Center migration of 20,000 servers from Silver Spring, MD to TX Data Center. Virtualization on IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris Security and Audit Compliance using Global Security Framework, Disaster Recovery using SRDF, GLVM, GPFS, VIPA.

Lead, UNIX - Projects and Security Focal

IBM
Durham, NC
10.1999 - 01.2012
  • Led data center migration projects to migrate servers from 29 State of Texas agencies to IBM data center
  • Security focal – SME for Global Server Security team in US, Argentina Brazil and India. Trained 26 engineers team in US, Brazil, Argentina and India on Security Health Check Scan/Remediation process for American Express.
  • Designed process to remediate security violations on server for SOX Audit compliance based on GSD331 Security policy

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX, United States
05.2016

Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics

Nagpur University
Nagpur, India
08.1992

Skills

  • Expert in AWS Resources like EC2, S3, VPC , IAM, ECS, EKS, SNS, SQS, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, RDS, Redis and DynamoDB
  • Skillful in Integration of EKS, Jenkins & Spinnaker for robust CI/CD platform
  • Skillful in Python, YAML, JSON, Terraform, Ansible
  • Skillful in architecture of centralized monitoring and alerting using Splunk, Dynatrace, Reltio
  • Project Management, Contract Negotiation
  • Business Development, Business Planning
  • Operations Management, Budget Control and forecasting
  • Strategic Planning & Analysis, Software Development Lifecycle
  • Communication & Collaboration, Vendor Relations

Accomplishments


  • NMG Best - 2023
  • STAR Performer – NMG - Q3'2019 and Q4' 2019.
  • CapitalOne awards

– Tech Excellence Award

– Outstanding project work for Retail and Direct Bank

– “OnederFul” award for training Capital One associates in AWS Cloud

  • IBM Bravo Award - Outstanding Support of the General Motors Customer – 2004, 2005
  • VP – Public Relations – Capital One Visigoth Toastmasters Club 2016 – 2018

Certification

AWS Certified Data Analytics, Specialty (DAS)

AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional (SAP)

AWS Certified DevOps Architect Professional (DOP)

Snowpro Core Certification, Snowflake

Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)

Agile Certified Scrum Product Owner (SCPO)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute

TOGAF v9 Certified

ITIL Certified

FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP)

Timeline

Sr. Manager/Associate Director, CCoE

Neiman Marcus
02.2018 - Current

Cloud Solution Architect

CAPITAL ONE
08.2013 - 01.2018

Sr. Unix Administrator - Expert

Citibank
02.2011 - 07.2013

Lead, UNIX - Projects and Security Focal

IBM
10.1999 - 01.2012

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Texas Woman's University

Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics

Nagpur University

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