Srinivas Kotla

• Lead the engineering team in the next phase of cluster allocation and management for the Intuition digital twin. • Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure reliable networks for testing and development. • Manage production support across all platforms, enhancing operational efficiency. • Contribute to the CICD vision and strengthened vendor relationships, driving project success.

Play a key role in rapid transformation of DevSecOps at iDirect. Streamline and automate CI/CD for all product groups across the company.

Part of FortiSASE team working with developers and other operational specialists to orchestrate and automate components of our hybrid infrastructure. Work with the Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams for orchestrating and automating the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of the FortiSASE platform including network infrastructure, VMs, and Cloud services.

Build systems that capture, transform, store, and deliver large data sets used by social science researchers globally. Work with leading edge technologies and integrate new technologies where these can improve throughput, quality, or scalability. * Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs and priorities for systems * Work within a team of like-minded professionals to plan, deploy, and maintain critical business applications in production and non-production cloud environments * Design and implement appropriate environments for those applications, engineer suitable release management procedures and provide production support * Develop and enable continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) * Participate in the Agile DevOps design, development, testing, and release of new capabilities and features with focus on release and post-production support * Drive improvements to processes and design enhancements to automation to continuously improve the production environment.

Oversee configuration management of BroadWorks codebase, identify configuration items, and implement change control. Serve on the BroadSoft Engineering Group supporting BroadSoft DevOps activities. Support tools and integrations including Subversion, Git, Artifactory, Perl, MySQL, Jira, Jenkins, Coverity, and Protecode. Key Achievements • Implemented automated builds in CI/CD environment, using Gradle, Groovy, Perl, Shell, Jenkins, Subversion, Git, GCP, Docker, Packer, Jira, Artifactory, Java. • Designed and implemented patching process and scripts. Improved dependency calculation from hours to minutes and seconds by enhancing scripts to minimize real-time queries to the source control system, implemented a nightly process to create a change control database to map commit revisions with file changes, and to map Jira tickets against file/revision changes. • Managed the development environment resources and software utilizing Linux servers, VMs, and containers. • Improved productivity and build performance by developing multiple read-only mirror copies of Subversion repositories and synced the read-only copies with the read-write master copies. • Successfully managed GCP instances including Firewall, DNS, user access; created and maintained VMs to build, run, and test BroadWorks via Docker and Packer. • Automated disaster recovery verification, escrow deposit generation, and implemented security processes and policies through ongoing TL9000 and ISO27001 support.

· Put in place a configuration management plan and process from the ground up, using Clearcase, Clearquest and other IBM Rational suite of products. · Automated build and release process. · Managed tools and server resources for Engineering team (both Linux and Windows). · Conduct CCB (Change Control Board) meetings, project management activities.

· Key contributions included build automation, configuration and release management, automated testing. · Implemented and managed Clearcase Multisite. · Improvements to configuration and change management policies.

· Formalized and streamlined the process of automated builds and testing new releases of DFS (Distributed File Systems) product. · Managed development environment consisting of Solaris, AIX and Windows servers. · Lead efforts in certifying new DFS releases.

· Worked on several advanced technologies deployment initiatives, such as ATM fiber network, fast Ethernet, Andrew File System. · Installation and configuration of Oracle database and web servers. · System administration of servers running several flavors of Unix. · Mentor and train junior administrators. · Contributed to a software project by designing and writing C++ code.