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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
Jaison Peeris