DINESH KUMAR CHENNAI RAMESH KUMAR

Enterprise DevOps & Engineering Transformation

• Led enterprise DevOps strategy, establishing a roadmap for 800+ applications.
• Increased CI/CD adoption from 30% to 80%, accelerating deployments and improving quality.
• Designed CI/CD orchestration frameworks enabling shift-left quality and security

Cloud & Platform Modernization

• Chaired cloud modernization initiatives, migrating 50+ applications to Microsoft Azure across Credit Servicing and Digital Account Opening, driving across LOBs.
• Managed enterprise GitHub migration and pipeline standardization for U.S. portfolio

Engineering Productivity & SDLC Optimization

• Directed AI powered SDLC efficiency programs from feature inception to production, reducing cycle time.
• Partnered with product leadership to implement strategic tooling adoption and streamline developer workflows.
• Led Copilot adoption and improved efficiency with promptathon

Observability & Reliability

• Implemented industry grade monitoring and alerting for 150+ APIs, improving operational visibility.
• Automated certificate management and monitoring via Dynatrace, scaling enterprise observability.

Culture & Knowledge Sharing

• Organized TechCon events and engineering education programs to promote DevOps and automation culture.

• Directed CI/CD adoption and cloud adoption strategy for 180+ scrum teams, onboarding applications to AWS, and internal cloud platforms through standardized Terraform infrastructure and automated deployment pipelines.
• Scaled CI/CD adoption across Consumer Lending Technology, increasing Jenkins pipeline coverage from 30% to 70% and rationalizing 1,800 inactive repositories to improve engineering efficiency.
• Led migration of 25,000+ CI/CD jobs from legacy systems to Jenkins, reducing operational overhead and establishing standardized enterprise pipeline patterns.
• Led enterprise CI/CD modernization across mainframe, distributed, and cloud platforms, introducing automated pipelines for COBOL and legacy systems and increasing deployment frequency by 40% by shifting releases from quarterly to monthly cycles.
• Architected CI/CD automation for mission-critical Tandem NonStop card authorization systems, enabling modern DevOps practices for traditionally manual deployment environments.
• Developed the firm’s first automated CI/CD framework for mainframe workloads, enabling 75,000+ automated deployments across Card, Auto, and Investment Banking platforms.
• Built EcoPOD no-touch deployment framework, enabling 8,000 automated deployments per month, reducing outage windows from 12 hours to 4 hours, and saving ~28,700 engineering hours annually.
• Drove DevSecOps transformation by integrating automated security and code quality scans (Sonar, OSS, static analysis) directly into CI/CD pipelines and enabling enterprise-wide compliance evidence capture.
• Led modernization of legacy card services platforms, transitioning monolithic ANT builds to Maven and enabling microservices-based architectures and cloud deployments.
• Improved engineering governance and platform maturity, defining OKRs and frameworks for NFR maturity, SDLC AppFit compliance, and modernization tracking dashboards used by leadership to accelerate cloud adoption.
• Established DevOps best practices and resiliency playbooks, standardizing infrastructure repave processes and improving platform reliability across Card, Auto, and Lending systems.
• Reduced operational overhead through large-scale automation, including environment sync automation for 52 mortgage applications that eliminated ~300 monthly change requests.
• Led enterprise DevOps enablement and culture transformation, mentoring engineers, teaching DevOps Bootcamp sessions, and conducting technology roadshows to accelerate cloud and CI/CD adoption.
• Collaborated with CTOs, product leaders, and global engineering teams to define modernization roadmaps and DevSecOps strategies across Consumer & Community Banking platforms.

• Enabled continuous integration and delivery for dev teams.
• Migrated applications to DEVOPS standards, including Jenkins and Maven setup.
• Led DevOps transformation by defining automation roadmaps and migrating 50+ applications (100+ sub-applications) to standardized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Designed and implemented scalable build and deployment automation for Java, .NET, and Progress applications, improving release reliability and reducing manual effort.
• Installed, configured, and maintained CI infrastructure across Linux and Windows environments, integrating tools such as Apache Maven, Apache Ant, and Apache Subversion.
• Managed Agile delivery processes using Jira, facilitating sprint planning, daily scrums, and release coordination across multiple development teams.
• Architected automated deployment frameworks and environment synchronization processes for enterprise applications, supporting consistent deployments across environments.
• Implemented automated testing integration with Cucumber to enable post-deployment validation and improve release quality.
• Enforced secure DevOps practices by monitoring open-source vulnerabilities using Black Duck and reviewing build/deployment automation created by the team.

• Upgraded Revport application from version 8.6 to 9.5 and executed database migration from Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g, ensuring application stability and improved database performance.
• Configured Access Management and SFTP key authentication across multiple environments as part of the FTP remediation initiative, enhancing secure file transfer and compliance.
• Designed and developed Jasper Reports to support operational and financial reporting requirements.
• Managed and monitored Informatica workflows, including implementing fee migration from Jasper Reports to Informatica ETL pipelines to improve process efficiency and maintainability.
• Automated multiple manual engineering tasks, reducing operational workload and lowering the volume of production support tickets.
• Developed automation solutions for the fee billing team, reducing manual effort and minimizing weekend work during critical billing cycles.

• Enabled DEVOPS operational strategy for front office and middle office applications.
• Automated Daily manual health checks saved $$$ by eliminating manual error prone checks.
• Owned DEVOPS L2 operational teams and defined patterns to improve PRD and NON-PRD environment stability.
• Effective management of project deadlines. Adapted to DEVOPS and trained team for DEVOPS culture and standards.
• Worked with QA and L2 support to define automation solution for application enhancements and Production issues.
• Managed application development and testing.

• Designed ETL requirement and developed AbInitio graph to build unbilled information which is been sent to downstream (Amdocs) system to process data.
• Analyze the High-Level Design Document and Raise design clarifications wherever required.
• Prepare Low Level Design Document. Prepare the test packs based on the documents and review the test packs within the team. Design and build AbInitio Graphs. Raise Defects in IPMS.
• Convert SQL Queries into AbInitio Graphs. Created Control-M jobs to schedule AbInitio graphs.
• Review/Unit testing the Graphs in UNIX and Toad.
• Trained team in AbInitio. Provide post deployment support and maintain logs and update Known Error DB.