Nivesh Gopathi

Phone: (415)271-2757	2 Townsend St, Apt 2-0701,
Email: ngopathi@gmail.com	San Francisco, CA 94107

 

Profile:

·               Technology and organization leader in turning traditional software delivery and release into ‘DevOps’.

·               9 years driving small and enterprise scale CI, CD, Cloud strategy and implementation.

·               6 years building, managing and mentoring successful on-shore / near-shore / off-shore ‘DevOps’ teams in a demanding, dynamic environment.

·               5 years hands-on VCS / Build / DevOps Engineering. 3 in C++, C# development.

·               Deliverable focused Agile methodologies including Lean, Scrum, BDD, ATDD and XP.

 

 

Recent Work Experience:

Sr Manager, Release Engineering and Continuous Delivery:  04/2013 – Present

Manager, Release Engineering:  12/2011 – 04/2013

For Macys.com

·               Oversee the engineering functions in the release, scaling and support of highly available, fast growing (revenue, hits, functionality, architectural complexity, data size) multi-billion dollar digital streams.

·               Manage the allocation of a high seven figure annual budget including resource and technology vendors.

·               Solutions architect delivery automation and critical infrastructure setup. Interface with process, security and legal teams to assess and bring in new tooling and technology.

·               Increased software delivery throughput several-fold, contributing directly to shorter and higher quality production release cycles (from 8 weeks, down to daily incremental and 2 week integrated releases).

 

Operations:

·               Head 2 managers with 25+ geographically distributed engineers responsible for 200+ hybrid full stacks.

·               Scaled to 24/7 level 1 support for production on cloud and level 2 for production on bare-metal.

·               Provide 24/7 level 1 support for hybrid release and development environments (non-prod).

·               Lead quarterly cross functional capacity management initiatives for private and public cloud.

·               Spear-headed the implementation of OSS monitoring on non-prod, with auto-healing capabilities.

·               Drove cross organizational resources to turn a large unreliable private cloud into a robust IaaS platform.

 

Automation:

·               Built out and manage 15+ geographically distributed automation (DevOps, TechOps & Java) engineers.

·               Took over a failing CI/CD program. Set up true and efficient CI and a platform for CD.

·               Moved the org from manual environment build outs to infrastructure-as-code with CI.

·               Spear-headed public cloud for production mobile digital streams, driving to a hybrid cloud model.

·               Built out cloud agnostic PaaS/SaaS frameworks for provision, deploy, configure, test, progress and data.

·               Spear-heading the organization’s move to containers and externalized configuration management.

·               Foster DevOps and ATDD culture in matrixed project teams, through seeded resources, automation frameworks and data driven evangelization.

 

Technology stack: Activiti/RabbitMQ/Camel, Docker/Kubernetes, Libcloud, Heroku, vCloud Suite, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) GCE, AWS AMI/EC2/S3/ELB, Vagrant/Packer, Chef, RSpec, Serverspec, F5, BlueCoat, ZooKeeper, Zabbix/Flume/Prometheus/Logentries/Splunk/Dynatrace, Liquibase/Mutagen, uDeploy, Git/Gerrit/GitLab, Maven/Jenkins/Artifactory, J2EE, AngularJS, jQuery, Ruby among others.

 

Operating environment: *nix, WebSphere, jBoss, Akamai CDN, J2EE, jQuery, node.js, DB2, Oracle, Cassandra, Infinispan, Kafka, Cucumber, VersionOne, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint among others.

 

Note: Was in a consultant designation from 12/2013 to 07/2014 with the same role/responsibilities.

Awards: Innovator of the Year – 2013 (on awards panel since 2014)

Sr ALM Consultant:08/2011 – 11/2011

For Sirk Technologies LLC (now InCycle Software Inc)

·               Conducted .Net / Java Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) best practice roadshows and webcasts.

·               Perform 5-7 day programs with clients; interviewing stakeholders, understanding current setup, exploring process and release needs. Present assessment and talk through recommendations.

·               Worked with NVIDIA, AutoDesk, Clear Channel, TCW, Bio-Rad, Agilent, Fisher Investments, eBags

 

Technology Stack: Azure, AWS, TFS, MTM, Git, TeamCity, MSBuild, C#, .Net, WWF

 

ALM Architect (Consultant):11/2010 – 08/2011

For Carnival Cruise Lines (through JCG Technologies)

·               Analyzed process requirements and presented ALM stack solutions. Designed and implemented a multi-tiered TFS instance with redundancy. Fulfilled best practices while improving inter-department synergy.

·               Migrated/synchronized codebase from ClearCase, ClearQuest, Quality Center, Heat and Excel.

·               Implemented a scalable build, deployment and test automation system for the eCommerce team, and extended it to other .NET and *nix based Java teams.

·               Set up, evangelized and enforced CI (commit à build à deploy à test à feedback loop).

·               Recruited, trained and integrated release and test automation engineers.

·               Set up reporting and code analysis. Oversaw the release of the eCommerce website overhaul.

 

Technology Stack: Azure, TFS, MTM, Work Items, MSBuild, C#, .Net, SiteCore, WWF, ClearCase, QC

 

Release Engineering Manager:08/2009 – 11/2010

For Infragistics, Inc.

·               Led a small geographically distributed team of Release Engineers in the configuration management, build and deployment of acclaimed ASP.NET, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF, UX and Java product lines.

·               Provided technology direction to a 20+ test team focused on test automation.

·               Responsible for the administration and extension of a global multi-tier Team Foundation Server implementation with 100+ recent users across 4 continents at any given time.

·               Restructured code-base (9 Team Projects, 30+ major Branches and 100000+ files) to align with organization structure, scalability and maintainability. Set Merge guidelines.

·               Decreased average version control response times by 69% and average build times by 34%.

·               Architected the migration from VMware Lab Manager to MS VS 2010 Lab Management on Azure.

·               Proposed and built out install time feedback, empowering Org to make data-driven decisions.

 

Technology Stack: TFS, MTM, MSBuild, Azure, VMWare Lab Manager, C#, .Net, Windows Workflow

 

 

Previous Experience:

Source Control Manager, Diskeeper Corporation (now Condusiv Tech)03/2007 – 06/2009

Software GRA, Bloch School of Business, University of Missouri02/2006 – 06/2006

Project Intern, Advanced System Labs01/2004 – 03/2004

 

 

Education:

·                     Master’s in Computer Science from University of Missouri                            Graduated: 01/2007

·                     Bachelor’s in Computer Science from JNTU, India                                          Graduated: 05/2004

 

* References available upon request.