Vamsidhar Pulapa
Summary
Senior Technology Leader and Principal Technical Program Manager with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and middleware modernization. Successfully led CI/CD initiatives that reduced release integration time by up to 50%, while aligning cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions for high-availability environments.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Technical Program Manager/Snr Dev manager
Oracle Corporation
01.1999 - 11.2025
- Owned multi-year, multi-product cloud and middleware modernization portfolios across OCI and Fusion Middleware.
- Directed technical roadmaps for NextGen OUI, FMWTOOLS, and GLCM, building unified deployment & lifecycle automation frameworks.
- Led company-wide CI/CD modernization—scaled Jenkins pipelines, optimized OPatch workflows, cut release integration time by 30–50%.
- Delivered Docker-based Oracle Homes—reduced provisioning by 40%, established cloud-native standards.
- Championed secure-by-design engineering with automated vulnerability detection and reduced remediation time.
- Drove engineering, architecture, security, and operations alignment through formal governance and VP/SVP steering committees.
- Defined OKRs, risk frameworks, and KPI dashboards for leadership visibility across multi-quarter initiatives.
- Presented strategy, risk trade-offs, technical deep dives, and program execution updates to VP/SVP leadership.
- Primary escalation leader for high-severity customer incidents—coordinated engineering war rooms and restored SLA compliance.
- Led onboarding, migration, and upgrade programs for enterprise customers adopting OCI-based middleware.
- Drove customer pain points into engineering roadmaps, influencing resiliency, automation, and cloud-native improvements.
- Partnered with CIO/CTO organizations on modernization strategies, cloud adoption roadmaps, and long-term architectural alignment.
- Re-architected middleware components for cloud scale, ADB integration, and next-gen deployment models.
- Implemented autonomous patching and lifecycle automation across OCI-hosted services.
- Built release quality frameworks, validation environments, and automated compliance checks to improve engineering efficiency.
- Delivered NextGen OUI and GLCM frameworks powering flagship Oracle deployments.
- Established Oracle’s first standardized cloud-native patching model used across multiple product lines.
- Introduced ADB-backed RCU, accelerating cloud onboarding and reducing customer adoption friction.
- Scaled programs across thousands of customers, multiple product suites, and globally distributed engineering teams.
- Initiated AI-driven vulnerability scanning for third-party components, enabling automated CVE identification and reporting.
Senior Development & Support Engineer
Actuate Software
01.1998 - 01.1999
- Developed SQL-based enterprise reporting solutions improving accuracy, performance, and data validation.
Software Developer
IMX Mortgage
01.1996 - 01.1998
- Developed admin and reporting modules for mortgage processing systems, enhancing user/role management and automating reporting.
Education
B.E. - Computer Science
Bangalore University
Postgraduate Program - Generative AI for Business Applications
UT Austin
Skills
- Program and portfolio management
- AI project management
- Agile and scrum methodologies
- Hybrid cloud solutions
- Oracle cloud infrastructure
- Cloud platforms
- Continuous integration tools
- Containerization technologies
- Configuration management systems
- Database administration
- Exadata expertise
- Secure software development lifecycle
- Vulnerability mitigation techniques
- Risk management strategies
- Data-driven decision making
- Data analysis techniques
- Model evaluation techniques
- AI-driven automation solutions
- Process improvement strategies
- Technology strategy alignment
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Executive communication skills
- Scripting expertise
- Programming proficiency
- RESTful services development
- Global delivery strategies
Certification
- OCI Foundations
- AI/ML Foundations
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Postgraduate Program Generative AI for Business Applications - UT Austin
Core Competencies
OCI, SaaS/PaaS, Hybrid Cloud, Program/Portfolio Mgmt, Agile/Scrum, Global Delivery, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Fusion Middleware, Databases, Exadata, OUI, OPatch, RCU, GLCM, Risk Mgmt, CVE Mitigation, Secure SDLC, Cross-functional alignment, Executive communication, Global mentoring
Timeline
Principal Technical Program Manager/Snr Dev manager
Oracle Corporation
01.1999 - 11.2025
Senior Development & Support Engineer
Actuate Software
01.1998 - 01.1999
Software Developer
IMX Mortgage
01.1996 - 01.1998
B.E. - Computer Science
Bangalore University
Postgraduate Program - Generative AI for Business Applications
UT Austin