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Subhash Kanchi

Subhash Kanchi

Hayward,CA

Summary

Proactive, solutions-oriented, highly analytical and experienced transformational leader with an extensive track record managing teams which deliver solutions within the given time lines to an exceptional standard. During my 23 years as an I.T. professional, I have been responsible for the design and implementation of large and complex systems, improving application performance, stability and scalability, project management and providing I.T. policies and procedures. My experience and ability to motivate and manage a global team enables me to be an effective resource for any organization.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Engineer, DevSecOps

F5 Networks
San Jose, CA
12.2021 - Current
  • Manage a “follow the sun” Global DevOps team, of talented DevOps engineers whose focus is to keep agility and stability in balance, and constantly strive to tighten security in systems we onboard / assume operational responsibility
  • Developed all the necessary technical expertise to architect and design SIEM solution using Splunk into F5XC Cloud. Ensured effective execution of all architecture tasks with the assigned projects
  • Performed a critical role in bringing existing multi-account systems under security initiated SSO solution.
  • I Interface regularly with Project Control, Customer Success and Technical account Managers, and PMO Manager, as well as our Strategy, Transition and Operations teams to assist in resolving architecture/bad design issues, improving processes, and increasing productivity
  • Collaborated with stakeholders across product, dev, app and infrastructure teams to develop strategies for piloting changes, pushing out new releases without interrupting services, and rolling back features that demonstrate problems
  • Liaise with our engineering teams on security tools and automation standards in order to enable and drive automation within our security engineering domain

Principal Engineer

Oracle
Santa Clara, CA
04.2017 - 11.2021
  • Managed a “follow the sun” team of talented SRE engineers focused on scaling and maintaining OCI LB infrastructure across multiple applications
  • I am accountable for ensuring OCI LB group is compliant for PCI and FedRamp
  • Assured that Architecture designs meet requirements for scalability, performance and quality in accordance with negotiated service level agreements
  • Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
  • Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of monthly security patching process
  • Identified and implemented automated ‘zero’ client impact LB failover procedures using one click run book automation

Lead SRE

GoPro
San Mateo, CA
03.2016 - 04.2017


  • Designed and implemented enterprise monitoring for GoPro infrastructure running in AWS
  • Lead roll out of GoPro Plus subscriptions product for https://shop.gopro.com commerce system
  • Created log and metrics infrastructure using technologies from ELK, Nagios and Telegraf for dashboards and alerts thus improving productivity for application teams and SRE team
  • Head a project involving performance improvement for https://www.gopro.com site by implementing AlertSite synthetics and AWS caching, which significantly improved page load times

Director, DevOps

Plastiq
San Francisco, CA
03.2015 - 03.2016
  • Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
  • Designed and deployed central infrastructure and application monitoring using Zabbix
  • Automated production deployment using Jenkins and Rundeck
  • Build Jenkins CI and streamlined into multiple QA environments in AWS
  • Oversaw operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals.

Lead Web Systems Engineer

Wells Fargo
San Francisco, CA
03.2013 - 03.2015
  • Architected and deployed wellsfargo.com infrastructure scaling to multi data center reg 0 ions
  • Tier-1 Operational support for large scale online banking operations (www.wellsfargo.com)
  • Implemented a sampling system for security for security analysis and proactive correction

Architect

PayPal
San Jose, CA
10.2011 - 11.2012
  • Led implementing unified monitoring system for NOC’s visibility and operational efficiency
  • Defined and created architectural standards in security and compliance domain, conforming
    systems to PCI audit
  • Key contributor in architecting and deploying virtualization technology for PayPal’s web-tier
    using Converged Infrastructure thus reducing datacenter footprint and physical servers by 60%.

Architect

Cisco
San Jose, CA
06.2001 - 10.2011
  • Launched and led internal web infrastructure group that oversaw standards, installation, configuration and management of web systems
  • Drafted and executed many architectural designs, documentation and policies related to web systems including Apache web servers, reverse proxy and app servers etc.
  • Initiated and implemented unified architecture for Cisco’s Internet and Intranet application layer in new data center, thus reducing close to 50% on resources and money
  • Architected B2B solutions for Cisco’s ordering system that caters 40% of business revenue
  • Held leadership role in simplifying the architecture of new web CGI systems and content farm
  • Key contributor in designing and deploying Cisco’s J2EE infrastructure

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Sri Venkateswara University
India

MBA - Technology Management

University Of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ

Skills

SCM Tools: Git,Github,Bitbucket

CI&CD Tools: Jenkins, Rundeck, Chef, Puppet, Docker,Kubernetes Programming/Scripting Languages: Python,shell

Bugtracker &Testing tools: Jira,Bugzilla

Project Management Tools: MS Sharepoint,Confluance

Application Servers: Apache,Tomcat,IIS,Nginx

Operating Systems: Linux, CentOS, RHEL

Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, GCP

Directory Services: Microsoft Active Directory, AWS-IAM,LDAP

Monitoring and Log Analytics: NewRelic,AppDynamics,Splunk,ELK Stack

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services,Microsoft Azure,Google Cloud

Core Skills:

  • DevOps Engineering
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Solutions Architect
  • IT Strategy and Planning
  • IT Operations
  • Service Delivery Management
  • Governance & Compliance

Timeline

Principal Engineer, DevSecOps

F5 Networks
12.2021 - Current

Principal Engineer

Oracle
04.2017 - 11.2021

Lead SRE

GoPro
03.2016 - 04.2017

Director, DevOps

Plastiq
03.2015 - 03.2016

Lead Web Systems Engineer

Wells Fargo
03.2013 - 03.2015

Architect

PayPal
10.2011 - 11.2012

Architect

Cisco
06.2001 - 10.2011

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Sri Venkateswara University

MBA - Technology Management

University Of Phoenix

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