Rajagopal Srinivasan

• Having over all 24 plus years of Strong Leadership Experience in Software Industry, worked in various Senior leadership roles in engineering like Development, Quality, Sustaining, and Operations Engineering
• Worked in DevOps Leadership role at NetApp for 10 years in managing Devops Operations in CI/CD solutions for releases.   
• More than 15 years’ experience in Cloud, Hyper converged infrastructure products, Software defined storage, and all the way till low level HW design and firmware solutions. 
• Worked in distributed team’s environment across geographies and have also started operations – offshore R&D center from scratch to managing other large transitions.
• Demonstrated strong Site leadership in managing complete company (R&D Engineering, Services, Support, IT, HR & Finance) from one the strategic location for billion-dollar US based company
• Architected complete Devops End-to-End solutions tailor made to the NetApp release 
• Strong know-how in skills like traditional Hardware Storage, Cloud- Aws & Azure, Python- Automation & Tools Development, DevOps- Continuous Integration and Deployments (CI/CD), Source-to-Test & Jenkins, Dockers, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Kubernetes- Containerization, HCI solutions.  
• An exemplary communicator with skills in designing and providing solutions towards organizational problems towards optimising cost by strategic partnership with vendors, using various tools and maintaining a healthy mix of Full Time Engineers Vs Alternate work force (Contractors) for decreasing engineering cost and increase operational efficiencies of the organization to deliver results quickly within or below the budget. P&L Management
• Possesses excellent interpersonal, communication, organisational, coaching and mentoring skills with proven abilities leading motivated teams towards achieving organizational goals.

At NetApp India, Private Ltd.

• Worked in Agile Environment 
• 2 weeks firmware sprints 
• 8 weeks feature releases 
• Branching Strategy and Builds 
• Worked as scrum Master for NetApp Hardware firmware releases, conducted daily stand-up meetings and release management 
• Worked in Cloud environment 
• Private cloud workloads using NetApp on-premise – off premise ONTAP solutions 
• Public cloud using Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, Dockers on AWS servers 
• DevOps Leadership Experience 
• 10 years working in providing leadership in DevOps for Storage companies and involved in the following activities in large solutions to the Customers
• Designed and Architected the End-to-End process workflow for DevOps tailor made to fit into NetApp releases
• Release Management - Source Repository, Development Code Management (JIRA, Perforce, GitHub)
• Continuous Integration- Continuous Builds (JENKINS, Subversion, Visual Studio)
• Continuous Delivery - Continuous Testing (Python, Perl test scripts, Selenium, Junit) 
• Continuous Deployments – Configurations Managements and Push installs of patches on Customer servers (Dockers, Puppet, Ansible, Chef) 
• Continuous Monitoring using (Stack, Nagios) 
• DevsecOps – Worked in Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing, Runtime Prevention, Compliance monitoring

Strategic Management Diploma from Indian Institute of Management Calicut| 2008 

Bachelor of Technology – Electronics & Communications from JNTU Hyderabad |1997