Jaison Peeris
Cary,NC
Summary
Results-oriented engineering leader with over 17 years of experience delivering high-impact software solutions. Proven track record includes:
- Leading and growing high-performing engineering teams, including building new teams from inception.
- Delivering cloud-native, open-source software (NetApp Astra Trident) adopted by 800+ customers.
- Collaborating effectively with senior leaders to shape the product roadmap and steering end-to-end software development using Agile Methodologies.
- Achieving a 50% reduction in defect count, 80% improvement in CI execution time, and 40% program cost reduction.
- Streamlining customer support processes, resulting in a 75% reduction in issue resolution time.
- Architecting and implementing distributed, scalable and resilient software solutions.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Cloud Engineering Manager
NetApp
04.2020 - Current
- Led a high performing team of 15 engineers in developing NetApp Astra Trident, an industry-leading open-source Container Storage (CSI) provisioner for Kubernetes applications
- Successfully delivered 25+ releases of NetApp Astra Trident by using Agile best practices
- Collaborated across business units to shape the roadmap of NetApp Astra Trident, resulting in adoption by over 800 customers
- Built a distributed engineering team of 14 members from ground-up (in India) to expand the existing engineering workforce
- Responsible for mentoring, team development, and performance management of Engineering teams
- Collaborated with support teams and optimized processes, leading to a 75% reduction in issue resolution time
- Improved CI efficiency and stability, cutting execution times by 80% and reducing CI failure counts
- Implemented Engineering best practices, resulting in a 50% reduction in defect counts
- Achieved a 40% reduction in cloud spend (saving $3K/month) by leading cloud spend optimization efforts
- Organized hackathons, innovation days, and knowledge-sharing sessions to foster creativity and information sharing
- Currently leading a Platform Engineering team with a goal of enhancing developer experience and productivity by at least 40%.
Software Engineering Manager (VP)
Deutsche Bank
06.2014 - 03.2023
- Led a team of 8 engineers in transforming a core position computational system to a distributed, scalable, and resilient microservice architecture
- Reduced product release time from over 20 hours to less than 1 hour through release workflow automation
- Collaborated with business and engineering leadership to define target state architectures and evaluate technology options
- Served as engineering escalation manager for production issues, ensuring minimal business impact
- Organized training sessions for Global Support Teams to enable efficient issue resolution with minimal supervision.
Senior Software Engineer
Teradata Corporation
10.2006 - 05.2014
- Led the design and implementation of a massively parallel Data Mover tool for data synchronization between Teradata systems
- Implemented 2 major SAP Integration solutions to enable efficient data transfer between SAP BW and Teradata systems
- Led performance testing efforts including refactoring over 20,000 lines of Java code to improve performance and reliability
- Provided 24×7 critical engineering support, mentoring team members, and conducting knowledge transfer sessions.
Education
MS in Computer Science -
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
08.2006
BE in Computer Science -
University of Madras
05.2003
Accomplishments
- SPOT award for Exceptional Leadership at NetApp.
- Recognition award for Technical Leadership at Deutsche Bank.
- Global Enterprise Engineer at Deutsche Bank. (30 Engineers selected globally each year)
Skills
Kubernetes | Docker | AWS | GCP | Azure | OpenShift Container Platform | Microservices | GitOps | NetApp Storage | Object-Oriented Programming | Multi-threading | Java | J2EE | JDBC | JMS | Spring | Maven | Apache Kafka | Solace | ActiveMQ | Bitbucket | Git | TeamCIty | Jenkins | Confluence | Jira | Hazelcast | QuestDB | Teradata | Oracle | PostgreSQL | SQL
Timeline
Senior Cloud Engineering Manager
NetApp
04.2020 - Current
Software Engineering Manager (VP)
Deutsche Bank
06.2014 - 03.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Teradata Corporation
10.2006 - 05.2014
MS in Computer Science -
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
BE in Computer Science -
University of Madras