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Praveen Dhir

Santa Clara,California

Summary

Accomplished Distinguished Engineer with a proven track record at Verizon Inc, transforming into cloud and DevOps solutions.

Expert in public, hybrid, and multi-cloud solutions, demonstrating exceptional leadership and customer engagement skills. Achieved significant adoption rates, leveraging expertise in AWS, Openshift, and GCP platforms.

Strong hands-on technical expertise in the design and development of large-scale distributed cloud-based, scalable, observable, fully automated.

Highly motivated and results-oriented Distinguished engineer with strong expertise in Java, C++ and experience in JS, Python. Proven ability to solve complex problems, analyze data, and collaborate effectively within a team environment.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Distinguished Engineer DevOps

Verizon
11.2020 - Current
  • As distinguished engineer, played or wore different hats on need basis. have been part of designing, developing.
  • Designed and developed core modules Artifacts, Pipelines, Workflow Engine, Triggers, and Template Library. All these modules are scalable to handle thousands of deployments per day. Transitioned from developer to technical lead to own complete end-to-end delivery of CD. was able to work with ten different teams across multiple time zones.
  • Part of Tiger team, which is instrumental in designing and architecting Next-Gen platform to simplify user experience, easy to use, developer-friendly, and scale to tens of products.
  • Working with key customers in Continuous delivery to address technical challenges.
  • As distinguished engineer, working with Engineering team to research new products for DevOps domain.
  • Developed automated pipelines to streamline routine tasks, reducing onboarding time by 80% and development time by 30%.
  • Developed AI based DevOps pipelines which support self Ops model for faster lead time.
  • Played critical role in growing company revenue by 20M ARR in 3 years.

Environment/Tools: AWS, OpenShift, Azure, Bedrock/AI, K8s, Docker, Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana , Rancher, Java, Python, Jenkins, Shell, Groovy, SysDig, TwistLock, Sonar, Fortify, BlackDuck, Zap, Influx, Kafka, ELK

Principal Engineer DevOps

Verizon
11.2016 - 11.2020
  • Technical lead for scrum team that delivers framework and application components to , Smart City and Intelligent Lighting product capable of supporting different types of IOT devices.
  • Designed and developed clusters in AWS cloud [DCOS, Marathon]
  • Migrated monolithic web components to micro service architecture
  • Reduced end-to-end test time by 75% by automating vertical slice test tool by containerizing specific components.
  • Actively participated in Developer Community forums and assisted teams across global.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

PayPal
03.2013 - 03.2017
  • Implemented process improvements to smooth development cycle and increase collaboration.
  • Increased customer satisfaction with timely resolution of technical issues through effective troubleshooting techniques.
  • Designed and developed ci API solution
  • Containerized all parts of CI system to auto heal/discover and scale with persistent state
  • Enhanced product performance through thorough analysis of user feedback, leading to targeted improvements in functionality and usability.

Environment/Tools: Docker, Apache Mesos, Aurora, Marathon, zookeeper, Java, node, AWS, S3, Python, Jenkins, Spring, Groovy/Grails, Ansible, Puppet, Shell script, Open stack, Mongo, Dynamo, Oracle, Groovy, Grails.

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
06.2006 - 03.2013
  • Contributed to the design and architecture of major software components, enabling scalable and robust systems.
  • Designed/Developed scalable framework for the web based mail client

Environment/Tools: Java/ C++/LINUX/Web Services/SOA/XML

Eclipse, SOA, Web Services, SOAP, App Logger, ADF, Ant, Java Script, JSP, XML, PERL, OC4J, Weblogic, Enterprise Architect, Clear Case, SVN, C++, LINUX

Senior Software Engineer

Wells Fargo
10.2000 - 06.2006
  • Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience C++, JAVA.
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.

Environment/Tools: C++/Java/Solaris/JDBC/Teradata

Weblogic8.1, Struts1.2, Axis 1.2, SOAP, Web Services, WSDL, Log4j, Ant, Maven, Hibernate, JUnit, Easy Mock, Smoke, XML Spy, Apache Web Server, Shell Scripts

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Telecom. /Computer Science

Pune University
Pune, India

Skills

  • Server-side: Java, JEE, C, Hibernate, JDBC, Multithreading
  • Web services: SOAP/REST, XML, WSDL
  • Web programming: JavaScript, AJAX, JSP/Servlets, Node
  • Databases: Cassandra, Dynamo, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Mongo, Neo4j
  • Cloud Computing: K8s, Docker, AWS, Openshift, GCP
  • Testing: JUnit, Rest assured, Test NG
  • Application Servers: Apache, Spring Boot
  • Other: Python, Groovy, Bash, Make

Timeline

Distinguished Engineer DevOps

Verizon
11.2020 - Current

Principal Engineer DevOps

Verizon
11.2016 - 11.2020

Senior Member of Technical Staff

PayPal
03.2013 - 03.2017

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
06.2006 - 03.2013

Senior Software Engineer

Wells Fargo
10.2000 - 06.2006

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Telecom. /Computer Science

Pune University
Praveen Dhir