Vasudevan Suriyababu

• Architecting & developing Cloud Platform tools & Developer Platforms to help accelerate migration of applications to AWS / Google Cloud
• Partnering with cross functional teams within the organization to automate operations and improve developer experience in public & private cloud
• Providing guidance on cloud best practices & security standards for new tools and solutions being developed within the firm
• Working to automate provisioning of on-prem infrastructure using Terraform Infrastructure as Code
• Providing guidance for application teams design their target app architecture for public cloud migrations
• Leading a team of diverse engineers & providing technical guidance for automating operations across public cloud and on-prem
• Automating operations using Terraform, Python & Golang

Spearheaded Architecture & Technology decisions for Macys Cloud Platform team responsible for migration of Macys.Com to the Cloud.

Delivering these key initiatives required wearing multiple hats & working on various Google Cloud Products specifically Kubernetes (GKE), Networking (VPC Networks, Firewalls, VPN, DNS Peering/Forwarding, Cloud Routers, Cloud NAT, Private Service Access, Partner Interconnects), Google Cloud Load Balancing, CloudSQL, Memorystore, Enterprise Redis, Cloud Armor, Stackdriver, Google IAM & VPC SC. Also required was in-depth knowledge of Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, Nginx, Consul, Helm, Spinnaker, Jenkins. This also required looking at code & config to recommend Java / NodeJS tuning or improvements

• Cloud & DevSecOps enablement for Digital, Common-Services & Stores to increase developer efficiency and productivity
• Provide technology direction to a team of engineers in Cloud Platform & Engineering, CI & CD areas
• Establish Cloud Standards, tech stack paved path & consistent delivery model which allows multiple teams to onboard easily to the Cloud
• Provide Networking & Security guidance to teams that want to onboard new services to Google Cloud that might require on-prem / 3rd party connectivity
• Improved monitoring and alerting capabilities & helped facilitate blameless postmortems on incidents

Key Achievements

• Planned, organized & executed Cloud migration & MicroServices architecture adoption to deliver reduced TCO (~$37M), enhanced ROI, and improved business value
• Improved application stability & resiliency by defining and driving standards such as sigterm handling, appropriate health check implementations & pre-warm-up for certain applications
• Enabled apps to use distributed Redis Cache which made the workloads suitable for a highly disruptive k8s environment, allowed easier horizontal scaling and improved overall RTs by ~30-40%
• Engineered the enterprise platform (dev->prod) with multiple tools for various tech stacks (Java, Nodejs, etc.) to increase developer efficiency and productivity by providing fully automated build, test & release process
• Created Network & Security Architecture for hosting PCI Compliant applications on the Cloud

• Led Google Cloud Migration effort for Macys.Com
• Lead Architect of internal cloud-agnostic provisioning (GCE, AWS, SoftLayer & vSphere) & Orchestration platform called "Zeus"
• Established CI / CD workflows & templates for apps on Kubernetes using Jenkins & Spinnaker
• Automated all Infra Structure provisioning using Terraform OSS
• Implemented Service Discovery / Mesh patterns for apps using Istio ASM
• Worked on API Management migration from Mashery to Apigee
• Involved in setting up Google Cloud Networking & Security Standards

• Developed automation using Python to Improve CI/CD process at Macys
• Automated Akamai CDN to increase velocity and stability of env delivery
• Implemented automation around Consul, Nginx & Apigee EMG
• Worked on F5 automation which helped creation of isolated dynamic environments
• Perform administration tasks on Linux CentOs virtual machines
• Automated ad-hoc tasks using Bash / Ansible & make Chef cookbook changes

• Automated deployment steps using Ansible / Python
• Performed basic administration tasks on Linux VMs
• Migrated Deployment scripts from UDeploy to Chef
• Good understanding of CI tools such as Jenkins, Git & Artifactory
• Automated Comodo cert procurement using Python
• Worked on migration effort for CI & Integration environments from Private Cloud to Google Cloud platform

• Worked on setting up new 3rd party interfaces for Macys.Com (eg: Plenti, CITI)
• Managed delivery for ~ 50 environments per month & automated tasks using Python / Ansible
• Triaged & fixed App issues on App / Web Layer, CDN, Load Balancer, API gateways, SOAP interfaces etc
• Helped the teams by identifying, improving & automating to reduce env delivery time

• Administration tasks for JBoss EAP / EWS
• Managed apps hosted on Heroku Paas & automated using APIs
• Wrote Bash / Ruby scripts to automate adhoc manual tasks
• Worked on provisioning, configuration and delivery of environments

• Administration tasks for IBM WAS / IHS / MQ & AIX
• Created automation workflows using Bash & Jython (for IBM WAS)
• Worked on several aspects of App Server configuration - Data sources, SSL setup, JMS providers etc
• Implemented performance tuning changes such as Heap size, GC policies & Connection pool changes
• Worked in Production support role to troubleshoot and fix issues with Java applications hosted on IBM WAS