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Naren Yadav

San Ramon,CA

Summary

Individual with a passion of new technical skills learning, sharing ideas, dialog and appreciates inputs and possesses breadth of experience in Management, Technical, Mentoring and Leadership skills. With more than 20+ years of Technical Industry experience and over 15+ years of experience in people, project, program and process management. Have been recognized as Top Talent Performer consecutively for many years. Experienced in innovating and piloting sustainable architectural, development and support strategies. Instrumental in presenting the strategies to business and IT executives for approval for me to plan and implement in the organization. Working in DevOps space to guide different technology development teams and build team to have a scalable automated CI/CD pipeline. Experience with DevOps tools like Bamboo, CircleCI, TravisCI, GitLab CI, Pipeline, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation Artifactory. Knowledge of Java, Groovy, Ruby, JDBC, Node, Docker, MongoDB, Spring, Ant, Maven, SQL, No-SQL DB, Graph DB. Always work with an engineering mind set to streamline repetitive work and automate such repetitive works using different technology and solutions. Worked with Big Data technologies to implement and support Tier-1 eco systems. This includes Cloudera with flume, hdfs, Hbase, Hive, Casandra DataStax Solr and REST to consume this information from hdfs/Hbase. Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive solutions. Excellent communicator with emphasis on building strong client relationships and interfacing with business units. Extensive experience in vendor management, project management, resource allocation, functional analysis, risk management, capacity planning, hardware assessment, setting up infrastructure and doing performance analysis of the applications.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. SRE

Disney
- Current
  • At Disney worked as part of Studio and platform SRE team supporting multiple applications deployed for Program Management business unit in AWS EKS cluster
  • As part of this role, I have worked on to setup new VPC’s and new EKS cluster setup to move all applications deployed from 1.20 EKS version to 1.24 EKS version
  • I have also worked on creating a new Gitlab pipeline to create docker images and pushed those images to container registry and later update ArgoCD deployment to refer newly created image
  • As part of platform SRE I worked on cloud cost optimization across multiple AWS accounts and removed unused resources
  • I have also looked into Elasticsearch cluster and optimized data nodes to reduce total footprint to save cloud cost
  • All AWS deployment is managed through terragrunt, terraform and terraform modules very effectively using GitLab pipelines.

Sr. Software Engineer

Duke Health
  • At Duke worked as part of Innovation and Automation team where team has to provide Duke Kubernetes system to all Duke health application team to migrate their applications from on prem OpenShift platform to Azure AKS
  • Automation team was also tasked to provide an automated way to renew their SSL certs for containerized and non-containerized application and I was tasked to lead that effort technically
  • I worked with Duke ServiceNow, Cert, MuleSoft and DKS team to look all application and design and work on implementing an automated solution for application team to renew SSL certs from Sectigo
  • I have also works to move Ansible Automation platform application from OpenShift platform to DKS on Azure.

Sr. Software Engineer

Wine.com.
  • Wine.com is working towards to move their infrastructure form datacenter to public cloud (AWS)
  • I am working as part of the DevOps team who is designing and moving applications to AWS public cloud
  • This also includes to move some of the applications to Kubernetes environments hosted on AWS
  • I am also responsible to move applications like Couchbase, API environments and MS Sql Server
  • As part of the migration, we are also leveraging Cloud Endure to perform database replication and terraform to complete all IAC
  • Wine.com team also leverage Azure pipeline, bitbucket and Gitlabs as part of their environment
  • In Wine.com I am also responsible to perform reverse engineering to convert manually created infrastructure (Managed Apache Airflow) to terraformed so that everything is IAC.

Sr. Software Engineer

Workday Inc.
  • Working as a Senior technical lead as part of Workday pipeline engineering team to support all Workday development teams to effectively adopt to different build frameworks using different build tools and plugins
  • Manage custom Java APIs, Gradle plugins, self service UI and slackbot
  • Work collectively with pipeline engineering, PMO and environment operations team to effectively deliver workday stack to all DC’s and Cloud provider in very effective manner multiple times during the week
  • Work with security team to make sure development teams are using non vulnerable dependencies and all deliverable's gets delivered to CUST environment without any compromise
  • This includes enabling JFrog Xray and build custom dashboards to scan the vulnerabilities and implement the workflow to stop and notify the respective teams in timely manner
  • Manage development of AWS AMI’s using packer for Centos and AML OS and work with security team to harden these AMI’s to provide a more secure environment
  • Work effectively with AWS using terraform, ansible, chef, concourse and packer to automate the build infrastructure as a code and migrate the workload from Workday DC’s to a cloud provider on EC2 or AWS EKS
  • We are using terraform to deploy our core infrastructure and Ansible to deploy our application-level stack based on ansible hosts defined
  • We also use ansible-vault to encrypt certain confidential information like license and private keys.

Technical Account Manager and Sr. Solution Architect

JFrog Inc.
  • Worked as TAM (Technical Account Manager) to manage multiple big customers to enable their adoption in CI/CD and help them to have their CI/CD pipeline as liquid software
  • Liquid software enables enterprise to deliver their products and solution to their customers without interrupting customers workflow and environment
  • Worked with customers in different source control system like git, perforce and bitbucket and different CI tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse and team city used by different build technologies like maven, Gradle, RPM, NPM and GO
  • Worked with the customers on how to enable build and distribution frame work so that product can also be distributed across the globe without any significant delay
  • Making sure that what was build and what was delivered is the same without any tampered bits
  • This also includes Jfrog Xray integration with Artifactory and work with any 3rd party code scan and vulnerability scan tools.

Solution Architect & IT Manager

NetApp
  • IT leader for conducting reviews with business executives on vendor management with focus on increase test automation capabilities, sustainable Service Level Agreements
  • Responsible for developing forward looking roadmaps with annual budgets exceeding about 100 million/year
  • Motivate and drive projects to reduce downtime and lower storage and operating expenses via NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop enterprise-class infrastructures
  • Solution design and 24x7 support for Big Data solutions for Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications
  • Hands on experience on multiple technologies including Cloudera CDH 4.1 with flume/Hbase and DataStax Solr; also hdfs, Hbase, Hive, Casandra DataStax Solr, REST APIs, ETL extracts from Hadoop to relational databases using Pentaho ETL.

CRM Consultant/Development Lead

InfoGain
  • Reduced returned material lifecycle/cost by the recovery of defective and consigned materials
  • To track Return Merchandise Authorizations, integrated Tibco, Vantive, Worldchain (Supply Chain Management System), and UPS
  • Built data interfaces between CRM and UPS applications using Tibco
  • Integration of Vantive CRM with Oracle TCA product (customer master hub).

Solution Architect & Development Lead

NetApp
01.2006 - 01.2011
  • Devised solution architectures for projects leveraging SAP Service CRM and Java technologies
  • Lead architecture support for vendor selection for SAP Service CRM
  • Managed MDM interfaces (I-object, Ibase, MM, BP, Contract); in addition, interfaces with SAP CRM/Oracle ERP interface; SAP configuration for Global Service
  • Design of NetApp Call Home capabilities including new events, custom Java application to accept files from the NetApp Call Home module and transfer files into NFS storage.

Senior Systems Analyst

NetApp
01.2003 - 01.2005
  • Led UPS-Redo project with respect to the Vantive CRM deliverable
  • Business Requirements analysis and issue tracking; key member for Service CRM selection process.

Education

Advanced Project Management -

Stanford University
01.2011

Masters of Business Administration -

University.of Phoenix
01.2010

Bachelors of Engineering (Computer Science) -

Bhopal, India
01.1993

Skills

  • DevOps CI/CD automation
  • Risk Management
  • Container Technology
  • Cloud Migration
  • DevOps principles
  • Java/Groovy languages/Shell scripting
  • Splunk/SumoLogic Livelog
  • Friendly, Positive Attitude
  • Software Debugging
  • Cloud Computing
  • AWS Architecture Design
  • Disaster Recovery Planning

Certification

  • ITIL Processes and ITSM Adoption Certification
  • Professional CRM Certifications (Vantive, PeopleSoft and SAP CRM)
  • Business Value-Added Partner Awards
  • PeopleSoft 8 Certified Consultant
  • Genesys Framework CGRP Certification
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner
  • Cloudera (CDH), Hbase, Hive, Pentaho, Data Stax, Solr Datameer
  • Kony’s mobile platform, Genesys Framework, AppDynamics

Personal Information

Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect/Leader

Timeline

Solution Architect & Development Lead

NetApp
01.2006 - 01.2011

Senior Systems Analyst

NetApp
01.2003 - 01.2005

Sr. SRE

Disney
- Current

Sr. Software Engineer

Duke Health

Sr. Software Engineer

Wine.com.

Sr. Software Engineer

Workday Inc.

Technical Account Manager and Sr. Solution Architect

JFrog Inc.

Solution Architect & IT Manager

NetApp

CRM Consultant/Development Lead

InfoGain

Advanced Project Management -

Stanford University

Masters of Business Administration -

University.of Phoenix

Bachelors of Engineering (Computer Science) -

Bhopal, India
Naren Yadav