Umang Gopani

Work History

Amazon Web Services

San Jose, CA

11.2021 - Current

Provide leadership and consultation to partners and customers in development, design, and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions.
Architect and support migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services
Worked with development and support teams to deploy and maintain customer-facing applications and to convey partner and customer needs and feedback as input to technology roadmaps.
Collaborate with AWS field sales, pre-sales, training, and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services.
Delivered technical engagements with partners and customers. This includes participating in pre-sales visits, understanding customer requirements, and creating packaged DevOps service offerings.
Consult on strategy of client’s DevOps Transformation Journey including people, processes and tools that needs change to effectively leverage DevOps with customers.
Developed 70 security python based guardrails for customer securing their cloud perimeter.

Blackhawk Network

Pleasanton, CA

02.2016 - 11.2021

Architect and implement highly available and scalable modern Linux cloud servers-based infrastructure on Amazon public cloud for large scale enterprise gift card network.
Design and Implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD) at enterprise level using Jenkins, Artifactory, XRay, HPFortify, Codescene and other such DevSecOps tools while partnering with Product, Software Development and QA teams.
Direct team in achieving continuous security compliance and PCI compliance requirements every year.
Work closely with organizational leadership, CIO, CISO and CTO, to strategically shape company technology directions.
Hire and develop strong global DevOps and CloudOps teams influencing strong teamwork and effective communication.
Created and managed annual budget of 10M and developed comprehensive plan to accomplish company objectives while staying within budget.

Imshopping Inc DBA Nimblecommerce

Santa Clara, CA

12.2010 - 02.2016

Designed high transaction (million hits / hour) group buying platform for large enterprise customers providing best user experience.
Designed Automated Operational Control center supporting strong customer SLA of 99.999%+
Implemented 20 high transaction RDS MySQL database across all production. Migrating to RDS Aurora.
Managing high volume email system. Maintaining sendmail, postfix and PowerMTA mailing system.
Implemented security fixes and maintaining high network security across all environments and platforms and mitigate online threats.
Automated tasks to reduce labor costs and increase productivity by 30%.
Migration all application code base from Subversion to Git.
Work with customers and partners in hosting their e-commerce website and increasing performance and security while achieving high customer satisfaction.
Directed training improvements to reduce knowledge gaps and eliminate workforce performance inefficiencies.

Webaroo Inc. DBA SMS Gupshup

Cupertino, CA

10.2005 - 12.2010

Managing IT operations, designing, planning and building of hardware resources at scale
Performed MySQL Database Administration at scale with DR capabilities.
Responsible for managing 200+ servers at data center, 24 x 7 x 365.
Web servers: Apache, tomcat, lighthttpd, jboss. Configure multiple tomcat and apache servers.
Others: Troubleshooting, RAID, File-Systems, Kernel Patching, Automation, Xen virtualization.