MEGHANA JAYAKUMAR
Liberty Hill,TX
Summary
Results driven Program Manager/ Release manager with personal drive and passion for delivering comprehensive solutions. Excels in blending technical expertise with a customer-service focus. Has a track record of adapting quickly to new roles and challenges. Particularly welcomes opportunities to conceptualize and develop systems to fit the needs of the organization through automation.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager
Visa Inc
Austin, TX
04.2023 - Current
- Manage Deployment/Release windows both in production and non production environment
- Drive the coordinated management of large, complex programs in order to achieve specific business goals. Ensure the timely delivery of business value and the efficient use of organizational resources.
- Managing software build pipelines, merging, test systems and methods, and the delivery of code.
- Lead release management efforts End-to-End for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements, adhere to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards
- Drive resolution of program-level issues leveraging scrum-of-scrums as needed. Facilitate executive-level escalations and program-level change management.
- Continuously assessing program risks and mitigation plans
- Track KPIs (key performance indicators): Bug closure, checklist compliance, etc. and review any POR (plan of record) changes to drive strategy to project teams
- Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply build and release engineering best practices
- Create Change management requests and manage their timely closures
- Develop and suggest improvements to tools/Scripts to enhance our ability to release as part of the CI/CD process
- Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures
- Participate and determine root cause for service failure and support escalation
- Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
- Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features to communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
- Collaborate with senior technical staff and Release Engineers to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved.
Technical Systems Engineer /Release Manager
Cisco Systems Inc.
San Jose, CA
04.2019 - 07.2023
- Implemented Artifactory, SonarQube and Jenkins to support various internal projects of Cisco and automated the build process thereby making the process easy and less time consuming
- Implemented GitHub and BitBucket repositories to version code changes that helps developers/programmers to branch/merge/revert the code as needed
- Developed Puppet modules to automate tool installation and bootstrap mechanism
- Implemented various new functionalities in to build script which greatly supported in project management like SONAR
- Setup continuous integration software tool – Jenkins
- Integrate Docker in the current deployment cycle
- Work with day-to-day operations and stories in addition to performing deep investigation into operational issues that impact users and identify root causes by collaborating with dev/QA/Stakeholders
- Create utilities that monitor continuous integration process, code changes in GitHub and job failures in Jenkins
- Based on the notification from above monitoring, debug/investigate issue
- Work with software vendors to gather and provide necessary data for them to assist with root cause analysis
- Enhance monitoring and log analysis systems using CheckMK , Splunk and Grafana to facilitate earlier detection of potential operational issues
- Assist with development of automation with Puppet and scripts to help address past operational incidents
- Perform primary/secondary on-call duties to manage alerts on pager duty and solve issues
- Work with Kubernetes for building Jenkins masters and container orchestration
- Assist in the Development Priority List process working with the Product Management group to address the issue identified as part of Problem Management
- Provide solutions for performance management, disaster recovery, monitoring, and access management
- License renewal with vendors.
Build and Release Engineer
ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY
Milpitas, CA
04.2017 - 04.2019
- Analyzing business requirements from Functional Specification Designing Technical specification based analyzed requirements Leading the business analysis team and guiding them on the project
- Configured various plugins to the continuous integration process which greatly helped in the project management
- Experience working with Kuberenets for building Jenkins masters and container orchestration
- Implemented various new functionalities in to build script which greatly supported in project management like SONAR
- Used Jenkins for the continuous integration process and assisted in the code coverage and analysis by generating reports
- Hands on experience using Selenium Box to test the code
- Experience using Puppet Development to automate the host bootstrap mechanism
- Responsible for driving the enhancement and automation of our continuous integration and delivery toolsets offered
- Developed Python, Shell, and Groovy scripts for software build conduct and management
- Evangelizing DevOps best practice and facilitating adoption of DevOps methodologies across teams
- Experience in using Bug tracking tools like JIRA
- Creation and maintenance of a DevOps monitoring and alert system Technical Go To regarding all things CI/Build and Artifact management (Design, implementation, execution, evaluation) Integration tests, Integration trouble shooting and error debugging
Build and Release Engineer
PALUXY TECHNOLOGIES INC
Sunnyvale, CA
12.2015 - 04.2018
- The Accountabilities: Managing and executing application deployment to hundreds of servers Managing and executing SCM for engineering organization Enforcing and improving organization's release process
- Responsible for developing & maintaining IT infrastructure & tools to support development
- Manage version control tools Bitbucket and Git to version code changes to help developers/programmers branch/merge/revert code
- Wrote build scripts & made recommendations to enhance customization in build scripts written in Ant & Maven
- Used Java programming, related code files, config files & package mechanisms (JAR, WAR & EAR packages) & provided optimal mechanism to build application packages
- Setup defect tracking system in Jira & managed various requests to enhance workflows & added/updated components, users, permissions, projects, etc
- Setup package repository with Artifactory & implemented Maven workflow to use & publish JAR files & packages to this central repository Wrote scripts in Python & Shell scripting to customize build, promotion & release process
- Worked on Cloud server for deployment using AWS Developed and documented a branching strategy to be used Setup code review tool Gerrit with GIT and integrated with CI system to help developers do peer code reviews & identified issues in code early in the cycle using code analysis
- Solely been responsible for more than three UNIX production box setup and migration of the entire set of projects from the old ones to the new
- Responsible for building the project in different environments and then troubleshooting and bug-fixing.
Education
Master of Sciences - Nano Technology
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University
01.2015
Skills
- UNIX
- Linux
- MacOS
- Build and Release Management Tools
- Jenkins
- Maven
- SonarQube
- Artifactory
- Puppet
- GITHUB
- Bitbucket
- CheckMK
- Grafana
- MySQL
- Python
- Apache Tomcat Server
- Intellij
- JAVA
- SQL
- Oracle
- Eclipse
- Oracle
- Leadership skills
- Customer support
- Project Management
- Continuous Integration/ Deployment
Timeline
Technical Program Manager
Visa Inc
04.2023 - Current
Technical Systems Engineer /Release Manager
Cisco Systems Inc.
04.2019 - 07.2023
Build and Release Engineer
ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY
04.2017 - 04.2019
Build and Release Engineer
PALUXY TECHNOLOGIES INC
12.2015 - 04.2018
Master of Sciences - Nano Technology
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University