Umapathy Ravichandiran
Mesa,AZ
Summary
An Expert DevOps Leader in the Banking and Financial industries, technology driven, and goal oriented, I am seeking a challenging opportunity to create and configure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery for the projects where my advanced skills, education, extensive training, and professional experience can be fully utilized.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
IT Team Lead
Silicon Valley Bank
Tempe, AZ
08.2021 - Current
- Managed a team of 6 Site Reliability Engineers onsite and offshore to run DevSecOps platform in production environment
- Increased team’s productivity by implementing firefighter process, shift roster and updating Operations handbook with periodic reviews
- Consolidated DevSecOps tools such as Perforce, Fisheye, Checkmarx into Gitlab which produces similar business functions and achieved operational cost savings of $353k per year
- Successfully migrated 45 critical applications from Cloudbees Jenkins to Open-Source Jenkins and avoided licensing costs of $488k per year
- Conducted RTO Disaster recovery exercises for DevSecOps tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Cloudbees Jenkins, Open-Source Jenkins, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Nexus) and made sure tools can support business during disaster
- Solved a critical system issue in Checkmarx, resulting in a 50% reduction in downtime and worked with Checkmarx support and added additional Checkmarx engine nodes to support Gitlab onboarding
- Acted as single point of contact for issues raised from Privacy, Security, Audit and Compliance for DSO tools
- Delivery ownership of DevSecOps Operations such as license renewals, vulnerability remediations, service accounts password rotations, SSL certificate rotations
Senior Software Engineer (DevOps Engineer)
Silicon Valley Bank
Tempe, AZ
09.2019 - 07.2021
- Developed Ansible playbooks and onboarded deployment automation for 16+ applications which is successfully running in production
- Running entire DevOps tool chain operations (10 tools) with regular patching, upgrades, and server maintenance
- Successfully remediated security vulnerabilities on DevOps tools and proactively preserves the tools in compliance with security findings
- Enabled Synthetic Monitoring for Tier 1 Client Facing applications and improved service availability
- Responsible for analyzing and troubleshooting issues on DevOps tools and provide fixes using scripts/task automation
Assistant Consultant (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
Santa Clara, CA
07.2019 - 09.2019
- Configured Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process for Client Onboarding application with end-to-end automated deployment pipelines
- Migrated on-premises server deployments written in Ansible to container-based deployments using OpenShift
I.T Analyst (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
Santa Clara, CA
03.2016 - 06.2019
- Achieved The Best Performer Award (2017), On the Spot Award (2018) thrice for the outstanding performance and client appreciations
- Configured Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process for the Online Banking application (Murano) which improved production release frequency from 1 month to 2 weeks
- Delivered release builds and managed production releases faster, secure, and reliable
- Worked as a DevOps single point of Contact for eight development teams worked on the platform
- Built a custom Flyway implementation based on client requirements
- Expert knowledge in enabling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Access Management on DevOps tools
- Extensively worked in both Agile and Waterfall models
I.T Analyst (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
Tempe, AZ
11.2015 - 03.2016
- Achieved on the Spot Award twice and promoted to IT Analyst for the exceptional contribution and initiatives
- Developed build and deployment automation for the Credit Cards and Cards Admin modules of the Online Banking application
- Architected the application from DevOps standpoint by externalizing configurations in A/B deployments
- Good exposure to DevOps tools migration and optimized the tools
- Developed an in-house Monitoring Dashboard and set up Slack alerts for the application health status which helped us to foresee incidents and fix it before they even occur
Systems Engineer (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
Chennai
04.2014 - 11.2015
- Achieved on the Spot Award and promoted to Systems Engineer for leading the successful production releases
- Developed build and deployment automation for the Oracle Service Bus and Enterprise Data warehouse applications
- Administered and managed the entire DevOps tools stack for installations, upgrades, and Disaster recovery
- Lead the Offshore DevOps team by participating Client meetings and drive the Monthly/Quarterly review meetings
Assistant Systems Engineer (Build and Release Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, JP Morgan and Chase
Chennai
08.2011 - 03.2014
- Delivered daily build and deployment as part of development process using Jenkins
- Worked with the development team and contributed as a Java developer in Service Oriented Architecture
- Created ant scripts for building web application using Java/J2EE
Education
Master of Computer Science - Cyber Security
Arizona State University
03.2021 - Current
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Pondicherry University
07.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Programming languages – Java, PythonSCM tools – Perforce, Gitlab, BitbucketCA Release AutomationSonarQubeSonatype Nexus
Build tools – Ant, Maven, Gradle
Configuration Management – Ansible, Chef
JenkinsServers – Tomcat, Apache, WebLogic, NodeJSOS – Windows, Unix/Linux, MAC OS XParasoft, SeleniumFlywaySnyk, CheckmarxDocker, Kubernetes, OpenshiftAtlassian Tools – Jira, Confluence, Fisheye/CrucibleDisaster Recovery
Technical issues analysis
Teambuilding
Developer collaboration
Project planning
Maintenance and troubleshooting
Policies and procedures
Strategic planning
Staff Management
Certification
Gitlab CICD Associate
Timeline
Gitlab CICD Associate
01-2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
01-2022
IT Team Lead
Silicon Valley Bank
08.2021 - Current
Master of Computer Science - Cyber Security
Arizona State University
03.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer (DevOps Engineer)
Silicon Valley Bank
09.2019 - 07.2021
Assistant Consultant (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
07.2019 - 09.2019
I.T Analyst (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
03.2016 - 06.2019
I.T Analyst (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
11.2015 - 03.2016
Systems Engineer (DevOps Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Valley Bank
04.2014 - 11.2015
Assistant Systems Engineer (Build and Release Engineer)
Tata Consultancy Services, JP Morgan and Chase
08.2011 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Pondicherry University
07.2007 - 05.2011