HCT helps enterprises create and operate a secure, flexible, and transparent infrastructure for the Internet of Things. Its STAYTM platform enables secured connectivity and control of real & virtual systems through the Internet over any hardware, device and network interface, enabling enterprises to capture critical performance data across key assets and infrastructure, extract and visualize actionable insights with intelligent analytics, and provide access via APIs and industry standard protocols. 

As the head of Engineering, Testing and DevOps - I am responsible to create & enhance a unified IoT enterprise platform & framework to develop and deliver domain specific solutions for various IoT domains like Tower management, Oil & Gas, Smart Cities, Smart water, smart agriculture, smart Grid management, Hospital (ICU/CCU/HDU) management etc. 

1. Next Gen IoT Platform and Product/solution design, development & delivery on multiple channels: Web & Mobile 

2. Near real time event processing & control, Dashboards, Reports, Alarms, Push Notifications driven by advance analytics through Machine Learning for O&M to sense, locate and control fault situations & also for predictive analysis 

3. DevOps – TDD: CI, CD & TDD. Infra hardware sizing & dynamic provisioning on bare-metal servers or on public/private cloud. Container based deployment using docker, Kubernetes & Ansible 

4. Skill Hiring and building agile, efficient teams – Team mentoring, performance evaluation 

5. Technology & business partners evaluation, onboarding & management 

6. Work with Marketing & sales for collateral creation, RFP responses, & customers presentations  

1. Manager - Product Support & Testing - Digital Face (Retail banking and Cards)
 a. Generated >3M USD per year revenue from customer support
 b. Automated functional and regression testing of the core products, all its versions and deployments
 c. Designed optimal deployment topology for intellect cards, deployed the application securely for fasted go-live
 d. Managed 12 happy customers (Banks) of Digital Face & Intellect Cards world-wide with timely development & delivery of defect fixes, CRs

Manager-Delivery & Support: Led the delivery team, designed optimal deployment topology for intellect cards, deployed the application securely & went go-live in just 2 months time. 

Streamlined the support process with customer & got 2 more new projects which were also delivered in record time.

2. Manager - Configuration management & DevOps (Team Size:25)
 a. Automated Build and deployment of 20 products in a period of 6 months
 b. Automated 12 products deployment on AWS Cloud with hot updates from code repository
 c. Deployed 1 product in Microsoft Azure
 d. Streamlined CM, CI/CD & TDD processes across Intellect products teams & evangelised their internal adoption
3. Manager - Performance Engineering and security testing (Team Size: 13)
 a. Established Performance Testing CoE & completed 18 Intellect products testing in one year – benchmarked 3 products with 10x performance & scalability
 b. Initiated App Security testing in Intellect using. Completed 25 VA & 7 Pen Testing in 1 year
  c. Managed strong relationship with technology partners like IBM, Oracle, Red Hat. Engaged with their lab teams to leverage their offerings in HW, SW & technical expertise/consulting
 d. Identified & initiated use of open-source tools; saved CAPEX of Rs. 20M USD and annual OPEX of Rs. 5M USD
 e. Infrastructure sizing & provisioning, Deployment environment preparation based on given sizing 

IBM Innovation Centre works in partnership with SW development organizations to produce IBM Solutions through Training, Consulting, Architecture Validation, Enablement, Porting, Performance/Scalability Testing and Technical Support. I was responsible for WebSphere SOA based products (IBM WAS ND, IHS, TDS, WMQ, WMB and WPS).

1.       Designed & created advanced application deployment topologies for scalability & high availability
2.       Led & completed 80 Java EE application migrations to WebSphere Application Servers
3.       Steered >100 performance and scalability test of Java/Java EE applications
4.       Created Virtual Application/System Patterns (VAPs/VSPs) of 10 ISVs’ applications for IBM cloud deployment
5.       Developed over 50 Hardware sizing guides and recommended optimal HW requirement for ISVs’ application deployment
6.       Conducted over 20 training sessions on WAS-ND, MQ, MB – Installation, configuration, Management and security
7.       Developed technical collaterals like white papers, sizing guides and fact sheets