Platform Engineering

Kamran Ghane

Saratoga, CA *****

Mobile: 408-***-****

Linkedin.com/in/kamran-ghane

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Summary of Qualifications:

Result-driven with over 20 years of solid experience and success at large and startup companies, defining and building products, leading software projects/teams, maximizing business opportunities, and ensuing compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Recognized agent for change with exceptional ability in applying innovative methodologies to software project life cycle. Expert in Agile methodologies, and Lean Six Sigma. Over 15 years of experience with regulated environments such as HIPAA, CLIA, FDA, PCI, SOC II, GDPR, and CCPA. Papers published by IEEE and other organizations. MBA, MSEE, BSEE, and PMP (Project Management Professional.)

Education:

MBA, Finance, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Software), University of Southern California (USC).

B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Software), Sharif University of Technology (SUT).

Certifications:

PMP Certified (Project Management Professional Certified by Project Management Institute.)

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Bristol-Myers Squib, Certification Date Mar 2016 –License CI-Lean Sigma Center of Excellence.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Scrum Alliance, Issued Aug 2022, Credential ID 001407749

Certified Engineer in Data Communications, Siemens K-Schule (Computer & Communication School), Munich, Germany.

Experience:

03/2024- Principal Consultant

Current Anagira, Inc. Saratoga, CA

SaaS Platform: Defining, designing, and building cloud SaaS Platform and Observability solution using microservice architecture and containers on Kubernetes, for new products and migration of legacy products. The Platform includes Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and CI/CD processes and implementation for microservices and micro-frontends.

Agile Migration: Defining and implementing processes for Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) based on agile methodologies.

(Technologies: AWS; Kubernetes, Docker, Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenSearch, MySQL, Redis, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Istio)

01/2022- Senior Director, Software Engineering

02/2024 A10 Networks (Security, Nasdaq ATEN) San Jose, CA

Built a new Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform with an AI powered security product.

Led over 30 engineers as an agile team of backend and frontend developers, testers, Cloud Ops, and DevOps engineers to develop a new SaaS Platform providing security, observability, operation management and many other common services to products.

Built Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to accelerate developer onboarding and significantly improve developer productivity. It included microservice project template generator, developer environment setup, debugging framework among others.

Released new product on the newly implemented SaaS Platform that significantly improved the company’s product standing and revenue model within a year and led transition of legacy products to the new SaaS Platform.

Used Docker containers and Kubernetes utilizing microservices and micro-frontends architectures, Java/Spring Boot, Python/Flask/Django, and React.

Built from ground up a multi-cluster, multi-region highly secure, scalable and highly available distributed Cloud SaaS Platform for company’s products in less than a year.

Implemented CloudOps in IaC using Terraform and DevOps CI/CD for microservice delivery on Kubernetes including canary deployment using Istio API Gateway.

Packaged the SaaS software for delivery to on-prem as a single or multi-tenant offering.

As a hands-on leader architected the Platform from start to production release and beyond.

(Technologies: Oracle Cloud (OCI), Azure, AWS; Kubernetes (OKE), Docker, microservice/micro-frontend architecture, Terraform, Java, Spring Boot, Python, Flask, Django, React, Kafka, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Gitlab Runner, Spinnaker, Canary deployment using Istio, …)

07/2021- Software Director

11/2021 Karius (BioTech, Private: $254M Funding) Redwood City, CA

Led the software team designing and implementing workflow automation software systems and analytics solutions for NGS processes/data and SaaS system for order management.

Restructured and resolved product’s long lasting (years) serious problems within months.

Streamlined CI/CD processes and solutions including Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for faster delivery of features to production.

(Technologies: AWS Managed Services; Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, C#, .Net Core, Scala, Postgres, SQS, SNS, Lambda, microservices, Jenkins, GitOps, ...)

06/2020- Principal Software Engineer

07/2021 Qualys, Cloud Platform Engineering (Cloud Security, NASDAQ: QLYS) Foster City, CA

Led design and implementation of highly scalable multi-cloud platform services and SaaS for enterprise security and compliance products including analytics, ML and AI processing.

Solved scalability problems and developed highly scalable services for the load of 3+ trillion data points, and 5+ billion Kafka messages per day.

Design and implemented zero down time migration of terra bytes of data using dual-write algorithms.

(Technologies: Enterprise SaaS in hybrid Qualys cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP; Java/Spring Boot/OpenAPI, React, Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Prometheus/Grafana, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, Terraform, Ansible, Gerrit, …)

09/2019- Principal Software Engineer

06/2020 Earnin, Platform Engineering (FinTech. SaaS product, $190M funding) Palo Alto, CA

Led development of SaaS Platform for AI and ML jobs empowering company’s product

migration of the company’s monolithic SaaS financial product to microservice architecture SaaS in Docker containers managed by Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS. Agile/Scrum SDLC.

Built Internal Developer Platform (IDP) including project template generator, developer onboarding, environment setup, debugging framework, among others.

Compliant with PCI and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act.)

(Technologies: SaaS using AWS, Azure, OCI, Python, C#, .Net Core, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Lambda, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Kafka, SQS/SNS, Redis/ElasticCache, Elasticsearch, MySQL/RDS, DynamoDB, S3/EBS/EFS, IAM, K8s RBAC, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, Linkerd, App Mesh, Spark, Redshift, Terraform, Jenkin, Spinnaker CD, GitHub, Ansible, Blue/Green and Canary deployments, …)

10/2016- Principal Software Engineer / Architect

09/2019 Squelch (Enterprise SaaS, $20M funding by Shasta, et al.) Redwood City, CA

Joined the company at company inception as member of the core engineering team of three.

Built enterprise SaaS product based on microservice architecture using Docker on Kubernetes in Amazon cloud AWS.

Used Elasticsearch for Knowledge Discovery and Analytics in enterprise data along with AI and ML.

Devised CI/CD processes and solutions including Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

(Technologies: Enterprise SaaS in AWS, offered as on-prem on Azure, and GCP; microservices architecture in Docker containers on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Linux, Java, Spring Boot, React Native, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis/ElasticCache, RDS/MySql, S3/EBS/EFS, Redshift, Jenkins for CI/CD, Bitbucket/Git, ...)

07/2011- Senior Manager / Senior Software Architect

10/2016 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BioPharma., NYSE BMY) Redwood City, CA

Led software projects, developers and QA engineers for Cancer Immuno-Oncology drug discovery:

oData Warehouse design and implementation, Analytics, Data Mining, Business Intelligence;

oGenotyping Lab and Order workflow, algorithms, and Machine Learning solutions;

oNext Generation Sequencing (NGS) workflow automation, Instrument/robot control & data-exchange, and data pipeline for NGS data.

Devised processes and automation for software development and continuous delivery.

Applied Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices to multi-location multi team projects.

Led Continuous Improvement using Kaizen and Six Sigma (Certified Yellow Belt.)

Agile/Scrum SDLC. FDA regulated.

(Technologies: .Net, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Angular.js (Angular), React, MS SQL, Oracle Database, Entity Framework, WCF, TFS, Java, Linux, AWS, microservices, Azure.)

09/2007 Architect and Principal Engineer

07/2011 Crescendo Bioscience (Biotech.), Zenprise (Mobile), Clarity Medical Systems (Med. Device)

03/10-07/11 FT employee at Crescendo Bioscience (Acquired by Myriad Genetics for $270M)

Senior Software Architect South San Francisco, CA

Led all aspects of architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise SaaS and consumer SaaS software products for physicians and patients with microservices architecture; including Lab Workflow Automation, LIMS integration, and multi-biomarker algorithms.

Led and developed Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Data Mining for KPI.

Agile/Scrum SDLC. HIPPA and CLIA regulated.

(Technologies: C#, .Net, SQL Server, Microsoft Silverlight, Entity Framework, WCF Web Services, JavaScript)

09/08-03/10 FT employee at Zenprise (Acquired by Citrix (CTXS) for $355M) Fremont, CA

Principal Software Engineer

Designed, developed, and led implementation of enterprise SaaS software product for Diagnosis Expert System and enterprise Mobile Management.

(Technologies: C#, .Net, SQL Server, Microsoft Silverlight, Entity Framework, WCF Web Services)

09/07-09-08 Principal Consultant at Clarity Medical Systems (Medical Device) Pleasanton, CA

Developed device embedded and also enterprise SaaS product for Medical Imaging Storage /Retrieval and Collaboration.

Designed and implemented enterprise web-based support for DICOM, interfacing with PACS.

Agile/Scrum SDLC. FDA regulated system, 510k, PMA, Approval.

(Technologies: C#, .Net, SQL Server, JavaScript, Cloud SaaS and Device Embedded)

3/2002- Chief Technology Officer & Head of Engineering & Co-founder

9/2007 Acermed (Healthcare IT); San Jose, CA

Assets acquired by Ophthalmic Imaging Systems (OISI); in turn acquired by Merge Healthcare (MRGE); and in turn acquired by IBM for $1B.

Built initial version of the product by myself during the first year until I raised funding.

Then as CTO and Head of Engineering hired, grew engineering team to 25, and led the team in developing enterprise and Internet web-based patient SaaS software products for Electronic Medical Record, Business Process Management, and Business Intelligence from concept to revenue shipment followed by rapid sales growth.

Revenue reached $7M in the 2nd year of the product release.

Supported standards: HL7 engine/interfaces, ASC X12, CCR, LOINC, SNOMED, etc.

HIPPA compliant and CCHIT certified.

(Technologies: C#, .Net, SQL Server, JavaScript, Service Oriented Architecture)

Recent Publications (of 29 total):

[1] K. Ghane, “Big Data Pipeline with ML-based and Crowd Sourced Dynamically Created and maintained Columnar Data Warehouse for Structured and Unstructured Big Data”, Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT 2020), IEEE Xplore Library, March 2020.

[2] K. Ghane, “Quantitative planning and risk management of Agile Software Development”, Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON) Pages: 109 - 112, IEEE Xplore Library, 2017.

[3] K. Ghane, “Managing Risk in Agile Software Projects Using Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning”, PMI 9th Annual Symposium 2016.

[4] K. Ghane, “Healthcare Information Exchange System Based on a Hybrid Central/Federated Model”, Proceedings of 36th Annual International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), August 2014.

[5] K. Ghane, “A Model and System for Applying Lean Six Sigma to Agile Software Development Using Hybrid Simulation”, Proceedings of IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ITMC), June 2014.

[6] K. Ghane, “Associative LRU Algorithm and Policy with Advance Loading and Self-Tuning for Medical Imaging Storage in Hybrid Cloud”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), April 2014, pp 894-897.

[7] K. Ghane, “Lean & Six Sigma in Agile Software Development Processes”, 2014 Lean & Six Sigma Word Conference, March 2014.

[8] K. Ghane, “Improving Healthcare Through Healthcare Information Exchange and Analytics Using Cloud”, 4th Cloud Computing for Healthcare Conference, December 2013.

[9] K. Ghane, “Healthcare Information Exchange System Based on a Hybrid Central/Federated Model”, “34th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference”, August 2012.

Personal: Hobbies: Marathon (ran 15 times), ski, tennis, wind surfing; playing guitar and piano.

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