Reimagining CI/CD with Agentic AI: The Future of Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions

A seasoned software engineering professional with over two decades of experience in building scalable platforms, developing tools that enhance developer productivity, and driving innovation in DevOps and platform observability. Currently a Principal Engineer, I specialize in solving complex challenges for the developer community by delivering robust toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, and end-to-end observability solutions.

My expertise spans virtualization, on-prem and cloud technologies like AWS, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI and LLMs to build solutions that optimize proactive alerting, decision-making, and operational efficiency. Passionate about fostering collaboration across teams, I bridge engineering and operations to improve delivery quality, visibility, and release velocity.

I am also a strong believer in continuous learning and an advocate for innovation, community building, and mentorship to empower engineering teams and deliver impactful outcomes.

• Built great, cohesive and efficient small to large teams to develop and test the high availability and storage solutions of vSphere, vSAN
• Built data analytics platform for vSAN to give live product Customer feedback based on Telemetry data
  
• Leading several initiatives in the organization leading towards Engineering Productivity
  
• Believe in Inclusion and Diversity and actively contributing towards these VMware’s goals
  
• Mentored, motivated, and managed groups towards high productivity
  
• Facilitated teamwork and co-ordination to improve the overall group competency and enhance individual growth
  
• Drove implementation of test automation by helping design the automation frameworks
  
• Worked closely with product management, development and cross-functional QE teams to determine product roadmaps, quality criteria and quality metrics
  
• Provided leadership and guidance to engineering teams running multiple product releases. Worked with Senior management team to prioritize release schedules
  
• Coordinated cross functional initiatives, proactively identifying dependencies and driving issues to resolution
  
• Effectively proposed and managed schedules, budgets and resources
  
• Worked effectively with managers and teams in offshore locations like India, Denmark, Bulgaria and China.
  
• Influenced the engineering initiatives across various VMware products and teams
  
• Integrated and implemented concepts of Software Engineering and quality assurance to deliver products of high quality

Full stack Machine Learning engineer turning data into insights and actionable strategies in Consumer Lending, Direct & Digital Media Marketing, CRM, ERM and Retail Supply Chain Optimization.

Adept in DevOps, Model governance, designing and implementing novel AI/ML solutions in Fraud to advance internal risk management practice using Cloud Platforms and legacy environments.