SANDEEP DHAR
Mount Laurel,New Jersey
Summary
Highly experienced and customer focused technology executive with over 15 years of experience in product development, software architecture, and team leadership. History of success in designing and executing advanced technology solutions that effectively address business opportunities. Strong ability to take products from vision to delivery and to direct all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Director
COMCAST CABLE
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Set strategy and roadmap for six products to provide higher bandwidth to customers at lower cost
- Led newly formed team of 100 engineers through six direct reports to achieve strategic business objectives, resulting in 25% increase in team efficiency and reduced onboarding time by 40%
- Excelled in executive leadership by coaching and mentoring team members to increase productivity and drive innovation
- Owned annual budget of $20M including cloud spend in AWS for $5M
- Engineered cloud-native solutions with focus on security and scalability; implemented automated CI/CD pipeline that decreased release time by 75%, saving 40+ hours of manual deployment per month
- Directed development of cloud architecture for RPHY and DAA Back Office applications, resulting in 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and 50% faster release cycles
- Spearheaded implementation of data mesh resulting in better data stewardship, increased accountability and faster decision making and cost savings of 40%
- Created and implemented AI-powered monitoring system by which production outages were anticipated prior to occurrence resulting in lowered outage time by 50%
- Introduced Agile Methodologies & development lifecycle using Scrum, thereby improving time to market by 150%
- Orchestrated migration of select integration pipeline to new cross-platform data integration model; reduced data access time by 50% and improved data quality by 30%.
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
RED HAT INC
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Engineered and launched customized solution for large financial institution with 30% reduction in operational costs and 50% faster processing times, utilizing Red Hat Emerging Products
- Served as expert on Red Hat OpenStack, CloudForms, and OpenShift (based on Docker and Kubernetes) for designing, implementing, deploying, and scaling applications to cloud, including microservices
- Delivered on annual sales quota of $10.8M using innovative solution design and selling
- Closed on multiyear OpenShift and Ansible deal with major bank for $20M via solution selling.
Senior Manager
ARRIS GROUP INC
01.2006 - 01.2016
- Directed team of 20 in development of new software and continued support of existing applications
- Created financial targets and managed budget of $5M for high-growth venture, achieving 22% increase in revenue in first year
- Influenced vision and plan to build ARRIS Cloud Platform (PaaS), using open-source tools and technologies
- Guided development of network DVR and Video Catalog solutions using ARRIS Cloud Platform and generating $28M revenue in first year
- Championed development of Arris Medios Solution to provide IPTV and OTT video services to consumers and to generate revenue of $50M in first year
- Directed multiple product teams, including offshore teams, to ensure delivery of releases on time and budget, including products used by major MSOs for ten years and generating revenues of $20M annually.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Kolkata, INDIA05.1993
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
GUWAHATI UNIVERSITY
Gauhati, INDIA05.1991
Skills
- Programming Languages: Java, C, Python, Ruby, Golang
- Cloud: Red Hat OpenStack, OpenShift, RHV, VMware, AWS EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, EBS, EFS, Azure, GCE, EKS, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, VictoriaMetrics, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, GCP
- Data Engineering: Databricks, GraphQL, AWS EMR, Data Lake, Data Warehouse
- DevOps: Ansible, Jenkins, Concourse, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
- Software Technologies: J2EE, SOAP, REST, MVC, Spring, OSGi, Hibernate, OAuth, SAML, LDAP, gRPC
- Software Tools: Ansible, Maven, ANT, SVN, GIT, Bamboo, Wireshark, Vagrant, Nagios, Nginx, HAProxy
- Databases: Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS-SQL, Couchbase, Neo4j, AWS Neptune, Dynamodb, Redshift
- Data Analytics
- Data Governance
- Team-Building Abilities
- Architecture governance
- Deployment Management
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally
- Culture Transformation
- Collaborative Leadership
- Productivity Management
- Performance Tracking and Evaluations
- Coaching and Mentorship
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Reg#445993419 – Apr 2023)
Lean Six Sigma
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified Product Owner (CPO)
Accomplishments
● Supervised data engineering team to build graph representation of access network, reducing truck rolls by 50%.
● Increased service availability in production environments to 99.99% by revamping architecture and implementing automated DevOps model with quality improvement processes.
● Developed completely automated Observability solution for maintenance and troubleshooting of distributed access architecture (DAA) solution, reducing cost by 85%.
● Collaborated with team to build frontend microservices framework using Angular, reducing time for development by 20%.
Timeline
Senior Director
COMCAST CABLE
01.2017 - 01.2022
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
RED HAT INC
01.2016 - 01.2017
Senior Manager
ARRIS GROUP INC
01.2006 - 01.2016
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
GUWAHATI UNIVERSITY