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SHIRAZ ALI

SHIRAZ ALI

San Francisco,CA

Summary

Skilled Principal Software Engineer possessing strong leadership and people skills, having led cross-functional projects in the successful delivery of complex projects, optimizing processes to improve efficiency. Strong focus on collaboration and innovation, I thrive in fast-paced environments, consistently delivering high-quality solutions that align with business goals. My commitment to staying current with emerging technologies and industry trends ensures that I provide cutting-edge solutions that drive organizational success.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Software Engineer AI Platform / Manager

Salesforce
01.2018 - Current
  • Principal software engineer in devops, mlops, cloud operations leading multiple initiatives across clouds and wearing multiple hats within AI platform
  • Building key devops knowledge base within the team acting as force multiplier with cloud native technologies kubernetes, spinnaker, docker, AWS, terraform, sagemaker, mlops, vault. model life cycles. etc.
  • Lead all efforts from infrastructure, new microservices for path to production for ML console, a key service within the AI platform.
  • End to end experience on taking products from CI/CD on-boarding and building to production in public cloud / Falcon (north star public cloud migration project at salesforce for AI platform)
  • Planning all tasks and deliveries for all AI cloud devops tasks from scratch to Production working across multiple teams across the globe.
  • Including service engineering team, capacity planning team, change case management team, release teams etc
  • Executing as hands on lead on all devops aspects under AI cloud.
  • Onboarding new engineers to team - grew team from 2 engineers to 8 engineers (interviewing, mentoring, 1-1 sessions and knowledge transfers) Running planning meetings, retro meetings, scrums for AI cloud devops team.
  • The go to person leading all efforts on AI cloud devops from scoping, planning, execution.
  • FKP (falcon Kubernetes platform) on-boarding, planning and deliverables for diffeo, CLM, RCG (acquisitions within salesforce) and AI platform. GIT
  • Improve and re build git workflows for AI platform.
  • Created and rolled out auto integration tool used by entire AI cloud in production which increased dev productivity by ~60%
  • Key player in kicking off org wide devops/SRE initiatives, building new ML devops team/team's charter for AI platform, hiring committee and onboard Engineers, mentor and grow the team to support key ML/AI services as part of the ML platform within salesforce, very handson.

Senior Software Engineer Devops for Big Data Technologies

Cloudera
05.2015 - 12.2017
  • Lead Cloudera's Build and release infrastructure team. CI/CD, branching strategy, packahing, DevOps/SRE for all products and teams, Implement and maintained team SLAs (service level agreements)
  • Part of Cloudera devops expansion, hiring and building new team in Budapest, Hungary
  • Work on Cloudera's CDH Hadoop, Cloudera Manager, Kudu, Kafka, Impala Releases to customer from Build, Branching, testing to Go-Live to thousands of client
  • Migration to new enterprise Jenkins, instrastructure as code best practices.
  • Moving thousands of jobs to DSL, and error prone Jenkins infrastructure
  • Setup Cloud Infrastructure AWS, Jenkins CI and CD systems.

Senior Software Engineer / Lead in Devops/Integration Engineer

Amazon Lab126
01.2014 - 06.2015
  • Own android and ios native platform and app Build and Release / automate building images / sample test apps and Integrate with Jenkins and establish a delivery mechanism to QA and production
  • Work on amazon hardware devices in as integration engineer/devops engineer for alexa, firetv, fire phone.
  • Act as a single Point of contact for delivery to different platforms / track delivery and manage delivery schedules to different platforms
  • Own entire Build and Release management / SCM management for middleware team
  • Studio, upgrade Build tools versions etc
  • Manage entire Build and Release Infrastructure , android platform releases
  • Investigate / Manage future tools Up gradations
  • Eg: moving from eclipse to Android
  • Android Build management with Gradle Build tool / Git / Gerrit expert
  • Setup complete CI / CD for full automation from code to prod.
  • End to end Release automation
  • Manage entire Branching scheme / Implementation .Manage entire Build artifact and versions
  • Working with cross cloud teams in Integration of 3rd party tools with Gradle.

Embedded Devops Engineer

Qualcomm, Inc
06.2012 - 12.2013
  • Work on build and release management / Software Integration for several Qualcomm targets for (Embedded Android/IOS) and Firmware
  • Working on android integration of several projects (WLAN, BT, Kernel, firmware)
  • Lead Integrator activities in Build (generation of labels, merging of labels from various developers, resolving merge conflicts, release announcements
  • Debugging project Build errors and deployment in both windows and Linux Environment
  • Testing builds on QUALCOMM specific targets (MTPs, QRDs, CDPs, APQs.)using QPST, QXDM, other integration hardware , JTAG, trace 32 etc.
  • Acquiring component knowledge on Android Components (WLAN/BT/FM/NFC , Linux Kernel etc.).
  • And testing team and several multinational clients in manipulating/debugging project builds and release
  • Taking full ownership of the release process (on each environment from dev to prod), SCM, release.
  • Work on Opensource environment for android / IOS (codeaurora Forum) contributing back to opensource community.
  • Part of several Qualcomm chipsets bringups including latest 8084, 8080, snapdragon etc. for connectivity project.

Software Integrator/Software Engineer

Bosch Gmbh
11.2011 - 06.2012
  • Lead build and release management / Software Integration for internal Bosch Product on Car Navigation System (Using Clear case, Perforce P4, scripting, automatio
  • Bosch Hardware GMNextGen /Nissan /VW/Ford projects
  • Working on ARM/ eclipse compilers, build management
  • And testing team and German clients in manipulating project builds in terms of Perl build scripts
  • Handling various day to day troubleshoot issues in build and release
  • Lead as integration engineer all bosch multi media team.
  • Taking full ownership of end to end release process
  • Be a integral part of future build, SCM and release planning with German counterparts
  • Monitoring and tracking tools like Jira on day-to-day basis and internal Bosch tracking tools.

Engineer/Software Engineer for Bank Of America

Accenture
12.2009 - 10.2012
  • Devops for Bank of America client
  • Part of Key team for Bank of America and Meryll Lynch merger project
  • Coordinating Client, Development and work with global testing teams
  • Working on SCM Activities using Rational Clear case (UCM/BASE), subversion, TFS (team foundation server 2008), Perforce P4, IBM Web sphere, Blade-logic
  • Taking full ownership of the release process.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science And Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Sikkim Manipal Institure of Technology
Gangtok, Sikkim
05.2009

Skills

  • Cloud Ops (AWS)
  • AI / ML platform
  • CI/CD (Jenkins, circleCI, teamcity)
  • Network protocols
  • ISTIO
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform, Pulumi
  • Spinnaker
  • Docker
  • MLOps, model lifecycle management
  • Vault, Opensearch, elasticache, RDS
  • Languages (python, shell)
  • Configuration management (git, Perforce, SVN, Gerrit, Clearcase, TFS)
  • Build tools (Maketools, Maven, ant, Gradle)
  • Blade Logic, SSH Tectia, CCRC (Clear case remote client), RAD, qws secure, nginx

Certification

  • Berkeley Hass certification in High Impact Leadership
  • Cloudera Hadoop certification
  • Salesforce Ranger

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer AI Platform / Manager

Salesforce
01.2018 - Current

Senior Software Engineer Devops for Big Data Technologies

Cloudera
05.2015 - 12.2017

Senior Software Engineer / Lead in Devops/Integration Engineer

Amazon Lab126
01.2014 - 06.2015

Embedded Devops Engineer

Qualcomm, Inc
06.2012 - 12.2013

Software Integrator/Software Engineer

Bosch Gmbh
11.2011 - 06.2012

Engineer/Software Engineer for Bank Of America

Accenture
12.2009 - 10.2012

Bachelor of Computer Science And Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Sikkim Manipal Institure of Technology

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