Nivedhidha Vadivel Kumar
Optum
Minnesota,MN
1
Certification
19
years of professional experience
Seasoned Senior Manager with a strategic mindset and a proven track record in driving DevOps excellence and innovation. Recognized for delivering $1.2M in cost savings through automation and process optimization, while accelerating delivery timelines across complex environments. Skilled in leading automation audits, managing high-impact projects, and enhancing disaster recovery and system uptime. Brings deep expertise in CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Azure, and team leadership—now expanding into AI-driven DevOps to further elevate operational efficiency and intelligent automation.
Work History
Sr Manager Member Portal, Onboarding, Pbm , Mobile
1 Year- Developed strategic initiatives for resource allocation, contributing to organizational growth and sustainability.
- Led cross-functional teams to implement process improvements, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs.
- Analyzed performance metrics to identify trends, supporting data-driven decision-making for improved service delivery.
- Mentored junior managers, fostering leadership skills and promoting a culture of continuous improvement within teams.
- Led enterprise AI platform initiatives, enabling scalable deployment of Generative AI solutions across cloud environments while ensuring security, governance, and operational excellence.
- Spearheaded AI-driven automation initiatives that reduced manual operational tasks by 60% and improved incident response times by 30%.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to redefine workflows, streamlining operations and enhancing overall productivity.
- Spearheaded project management efforts for key initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and timelines.
Senior Manager Member Portal
3 Years- Lead DevOps, boosting deployment by 40%. Led automation, cutting manual tasks by 60%. Mentored teams for innovation. Worked with stakeholders on tech goals. Introduced AI to cut response time by 30%. Partnered with data team on scalable MLOps.
- Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by $1.2M annually through optimized resource management and automated scaling.
- Led the DevOps COE team from baseline to a fully functional audit team, expanding from 5 to 15 engineers.
- Implemented governance frameworks and monitoring to ensure compliance across hybrid cloud environments, enhancing operational excellence.
- Reduced system downtimes through proactive maintenance and monitoring. by 50% with disaster recovery and automated failover systems BCDR.
- Completed AI chat ops orchestration project involving integration across 5 platforms, reducing average response time by 30%.
Senior Manager DevOps COE
1 Year 4 Months- Led a DevOps COE team to become a fully operational automation audit team, managing a portfolio of 25 projects annually with a team of 15 engineers.
- Expanded DevOps COE team from 5 to 15 engineers, establishing full automation audit capabilities.
- Achieved 35% faster delivery times and boosted deployment success rate to 98% by streamlining DevOps workflows and automating tasks using Ansible.
- Led DevOps COE team to establish operational automation audit capabilities, managing a portfolio of 25 projects annually with 15 engineers.
- Orchestrated AI chat ops projects and designed team microsite, centralizing initiatives and deliverables for improved access and collaboration.
- Created best practices handbooks and automated scripts to enhance DevOps excellence and streamline onboarding, generating monthly audit reports for 22 applications.
- Handled orchestration of AI chat ops projects and designed team microsite as a centralized hub for initiatives and deliverables.
Senior DevOps Engineer
2 Years 11 Months- Migrated on-premises applications to Azure Public Cloud, facilitating legacy application transitions; upgraded AKS, improving workload efficiency.
- Migrated on-premises applications to Azure Public Cloud, supporting legacy application cloud transitions; upgraded AKS for workload efficiency.
- Developed Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform and wrote Chef cookbooks to automate infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Utilized Jenkins, Kubernetes, Azure, and AWS to build and test automation tools for streamlined infrastructure and application provisioning.
- Drove a 25% increase in development productivity by standardizing CI/CD pipelines and implementing automated testing.
- Achieved 50% faster incident response times by automating alert systems and optimizing monitoring processes.
- Reduced system downtime by 20%, enhancing overall productivity and saving $500,000 annually.Configured BCDR business continuity and disaster recovery for cloud services, including global load balancers for high availability.
- Reduced system downtime by 20%, enhancing overall productivity and saving $500,000 annually.Configured BCDR for cloud services, ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with global load balancers for high availability.
Senior DevOps Engineer
4 Years- Spearheaded cloud migration for 200 applications, working with a $3 million budget.
- Automated build/deployment processes with Chef Recipes for environment improvement, and developed Ansible Playbooks for software component management.
- Deployed Nexus for artifact management, and utilized Docker for middleware installations, domain configurations, and managing container operations.
- Automated build and deployment processes with Chef recipes to enhance environment consistency and developed Ansible playbooks for streamlined software component management.
- Coordinated over 20 high-impact projects, effectively managing a budget exceeding $5 million to ensure timely delivery and quality outcomes.
- Spearheaded migration of 200 applications to cloud infrastructure, managing a $3 million budget to optimize resource utilization and scalability.
- Boosted team productivity by 30% by developing comprehensive training programs and implementing best practices.
Senior Software Developer
2 Years 11 Months- Led Jenkins server setup, defined GIT branching/merging strategies, automated nightly builds, and managed build scripts for diverse environments.
- Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GIT, Maven, Ant for Spring Boot applications and REST API projects.
- Configured Nagios for monitoring and integrated Kibana with Logstash for real-time data analysis and visualization.
- Streamlined Dev-QA communication and project management using JIRA, Confluence, enhancing collaboration.
- Managed version control and deployment strategies across multiple platforms, ensuring consistent release processes.
- Streamlined Dev-QA communication and project management using JIRA, Confluence, improving productivity.
Sr Software Engineer
2 Years 11 Months- Managed version control and deployment strategies across multiple platforms, ensuring reliable binary file releases.
- Configured Jenkins CI automation for nightly builds and generated change logs documenting daily modifications.
- Achieved a 40% increase in team productivity by integrating advanced monitoring tools and streamlining workflows.
- Developed REST API's that were built on top of Drop Wizard. Created multiple Make, ANT, MAVEN, Shell scripts for build automation and deployment. Worked on the creation of puppet manifest files to install tomcat instances and to manage configuration files for multiple applications.
- Developed REST APIs using Drop Wizard and created build automation scripts with Make, ANT, and MAVEN, while managing configuration with puppet manifest files.
- Developed REST APIs that were built on top of Drop Wizard. Created multiple Make, ANT, MAVEN, Shell scripts for build automation and deployment. Worked on the creation of puppet manifest files to install tomcat instances and to manage configuration files for multiple applications.
- Supported WebSphere and WebLogic applications 24/7 in a production environment by handling incident management, change management.
Education
Master of Science - Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams
- Digital Strategies for Business Leading the next-Generation Enterprise
Master of Science Degree - Information Technology
Bachelor of Science Degree - Computer Science
Skills
Amazon Web Services
Angular
Ansible
Apache
Apache Ant
Apache Tomcat
API
Artifactory
Automated Testing
AWS
AWS Cloud
Aws ec2
Azure
Azure DevOps
Bigdata
Cicd
Cloud Computing
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
Cognos
Confluence
Containers
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Control-M
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Docker
Dynamo DB
Dynamodb
Dynatrace
Ec2
Eclipse
Elk
ELK Stack
Erp
ETL
Excel
Exchange Server
Python
AI
ML
Strategic planning
Cross-functional collaboration
Operations management
Cross-functional team coordination
Troubleshooting and problem resolution
Data-driven decision making
Documentation and reporting
Operations planning
Data analytics
Cross-functional communication
Talent development
Budget oversight
Organizational improvement
Resource allocation
Partnership development
Budget administration
Organizational development
Market analysis
Human resources management
Logistics operations management
Reporting management
Corporate communications
Reporting oversight
Accomplishments
- Cost Optimization: Saved $2M annually by enhancing CI/CD pipeline efficiency.
- Deployment Success: Boosted deployment success rate to 98% by refining continuous integration practices.
- Team Management: Managed 50+ active projects overseeing implementation and delivery.
- Automation Audit: Created scripts to audit scan across 22 applications, generating monthly reports.
- Cost Reduction Expert: Reduced cloud costs by $1.2M annually via optimized resource management.
- Delivery Efficiency Leader: Achieved 35% faster delivery times by streamlining DevOps workflows and automating routine tasks.
- Deployment Accuracy Enhancer: Boosted deployment success rate to 98% by refining continuous integration practices.
- Incident Response Pioneer: Achieved 50% faster incident response times by automating alert systems.
Certification
- AWS DevOps engineer
- Generative AI Optum university
- Azure Fundamentals
- LEAD1x:Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
- Finance for Non-Financial Professionals
- ITIL v3 foundation
- Oracle WebLogic server 10g
Timeline
Sr Manager Member Portal, Onboarding, Pbm , Mobile
Optum
08.2025 - CurrentRead More
Senior Manager DevOps COE
Optum
04.2024 - 08.2025Read More
Senior Manager Member Portal
Optum
08.2023 - CurrentRead More
Senior DevOps Engineer
Optum
03.2018 - 02.2021Read More
Senior DevOps Engineer
UHG
04.2013 - 04.2017Read More
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Best Buy
04.2010 - 03.2013Read More
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Capital One
04.2007 - 03.2010Read More
Madras University
Bachelor of Science Degree from Computer Science
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Madras University
Master of Science Degree from Information Technology
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The Wharton School
Master of Science from Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams
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Columbia Business School
from Digital Strategies for Business Leading the next-Generation Enterprise
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