Engineer Manager

Siva Reddy

Email: ********@****.*** Phone: 330-***-****

SUMMARY

Having 5+ years of experience in the area of Release Management, SDLC and ITIL process.

Skilled collaborator with strong analytic and presentation abilities.

Experience in managing product releases (US and international markets) with aggressive timelines.

Good track record for meeting timelines and exceeding expectations.

Experience in connecting the dots and people, risk mitigation and focus on delivery.

Adaptable, focused and possess problem solving skills.

EDUCATION

Master of Science May 2016

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio GPA: 3.83/4

Bachelor of Technology May 2014

K L University, Vijayawada, India GPA: 3.76/4

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Build and Release Tools: Git, Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, SonarQube, Microsoft Visual studio.

Application/ Web Servers: Apache, Apache Tomcat.

Languages: C Language, C++, Python, Java.

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS, Linux.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Client: Safeway Inc March 2018 – Present

Release Engineer

Guarantee utilization of Release and Deployment forms are comprised with Release and Change Management strategies on RHEL platform.

Use JIRA to track issues.

Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution on build and release issues.

Worked with Dev Team and Create Install Plans to Deploy Various Application and facilitate Release in different Environments.

Performed and deployed Builds for various Environments like QA, Integration, UAT and Productions Environments.

Assisted developers on a daily basis with issues such as code syntax, access permissions, rollbacks, creating rollout instructions, troubleshooting issues with manifest files, log files, updating flows, monitoring deployments, restarting agents, etc.

Organize weekly release meetings with multiple development teams to identify the releases ahead and bring awareness on milestones as per release calendar.

Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using Jenkins.

Communicate UAT timelines to Operations team and communicate with Technical Partners, other lines of Business as appropriate.

Manages change advisory board (CAB) review and approval for all application code.

Performed Branching, Tagging, Release Activities on Version Control Tools: GIT and GITLAB

Work with Release Operations team to meet SLA's and business expectations.

Exposed to all aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing, Implementing and Post-production analysis of the projects

Ability to write intermediate level SQL queries

Employer: i28 Technologies, Client: Agero May 2017 – March 2018

Release Engineer

Contributed to the "rapid deploy initiative", which resulted in overall release cycle efficiency of 30%.

Established the SDLC process and authored several SOP's for release management office.

Create, update and execute tasks defined in JIRA and Service Now for each release, deployment and access. And was also involved in Sprints and planned releases with the team using JIRA and Confluence

Installed/Configured/Managed JENKINS CI Automation.

Worked on Salesforce and learned about Marketing cloud connect.

Responsible for the Plugin Management, User Management, Build/Deploy Pipeline Setup and End-End Job Setup of all the projects.

Acts as a Scrum Master in scrum teams managing sprints and Backlogs in JIRA. Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment

Experience with using/administrating Mac OS

Mitigated risks by collaborating with cross functional teams to identify blocking issues and ensured the smooth launch of the product. Involved in release planning & scheduling, risk assessment and mitigation.

Identify cross-group technical or project issues as they impact the release.

Work closely with QA to identify, create and/or implement processes and products to efficiently manage the release and testing of our applications. Manage post-implementation process reviews and recommends process improvements.

Lead and co-ordinate the go-live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists, and the triaging of any post-release issues.

Expertise in streamlining the Release process bringing efficiency and reducing the overall build times. Continually work towards making improvements in the release process.

Employer: i28 Technologies, Client: American Express June2016--March2017

Release Engineer

Expertise in Build and Release processes and knowledgeable of complete software development life cycle (SDLC).

Ability in managing all aspects of the software configuration management process including code compilation, packaging deployment, release methodology and application configurations.

Created Release Engineering Configuration Support documentation for Releases.

Communicated with developers and clients to resolve testing issues and release tasks.

Updating the release calendar and scheduling deployments as per the convenience by coordinating.

Holds overall responsibility to plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities with application and support teams. Daily Release Status update to IT Leadership. Conduct the release retrospective analysis

Experience managing and configuring web servers Nginx and knowledge about WebSphere.

Installation of Subversion and GIT in Linux Environment. Expertise on source control concepts such as Branches, Merges and Tags.

Experience of working with the release and deployment of large-scale Java/J2EE Web applications using GIT repository.

Design and implementation of 'Continuous Integration' systems based on Jenkins. Involved in developing MAVEN and ANT build tools for application layer modules.

Provide Admin support for the Atlassian tool suite - Jira, Confluence, etc.

Administer and execute Jenkins jobs for generating artifacts and deploying the same on specific environment as and when required.

Work within SDLC Environment (Dev, Test, Stage, Prod)

Tested a web projects designed and developed in studio. Was in charge of all activity related to product release.

Analyzed software failures, with daily issue and progress reports to project manager and developers’ team.

Intern at Nano Bright Solar Tech May 2013—Nov 2013

Intern at Labyrinth May 2012—June 2012

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