Software Engineer Project Manager

PRANEETH DASYAM

+484-***-**** ***************@*****.*** Royersford, Pennsylvania, USA LinkedIn

Software Engineering Leader AWS Solution Architect (Certified) Engineering manager

Nex-Gen Tech Evangelist with 18+ years of career trajectory in leading the scope analysis, requirements study, design, development, testing, and risk migration for application enhancement. Experienced in architecting scalable solutions to migrate complex infrastructure and critical production environments to various cloud platforms. Leads enhancement of efficiencies through automation, monitoring metrics, disaster recovery/backups, and capacity planning

Demonstrated success in technology, people and business with the ability to evaluate current process model and define new process improvement implementations. Subject Matter expertise in driving large-scale & complex IT projects from initiation to closure and executing significant technology initiatives

PROFILE SUMMARY

Diligent & Enterprising IT professional with expertise in directing & designing highly-scalable system spanning the whole range of software technologies by leveraging approved system engineering practices

Results driven, client-focused and articulated Project Manager with ample experience in end-to-end Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Exposure to full-stack application, networking, migration & implementation, as well as database development, delivery, and support

Successful in working with SQL Server Databases, performing automation of application deployments, overall DevOps architecture and practices, and Shell scripting. Leading large teams across various locations globally.

Deft at defining project schedules and specifications, implementing Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment pipelines in multiple environments like DEV, TEST, STAGE & PROD

Strong comprehension in troubleshooting complex projects in a global setting, identifying & mitigating risks, facilitating conflict resolution & escalations management and developing contingency plans through incident & project lifecycles

Comprehensive excellence in managing large-scale high-scalability complex projects within committed SLAs, implementing technical & functional improvements, conducting project meetings with IT & business teams, and facilitating planning systems with data owners

Inspirational, people-oriented leader with a talent for leading on-shore & off-shore teams and unlocking their potential via training, coaching and leadership to maximize performance. Exceptional communication skills; interface with the cross-functional teams, stakeholders, clients, vendors and senior management to define project objectives and specifications

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management

Enterprise Architecture

Process Automation

Continuous Integration & deployment

Software Development Lifecycle

Stakeholder & Client Management

Risk Analysis & Mitigation

AWS Implementation & Migration

Resource Allocation

End User Documentation

Process Enhancement

Enterprise DevOps Framework

Agile coaching & Leadership

Database Development & Support

Team Leadership & Management

Configuration & Deployment

Root Cause Analysis

Requirements Gathering

Reporting & Documentation

Cross Functional Liaison

Capital Management

NOTEWORTHY HIGHLIGHTS

Received IT Leadership Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bravo Award in 2017, 2018, and 2021 for the excellent work and leadership skills demonstrated in handling the business-critical applications, issues, and migrations

Individually implemented transactional replication process (push) for updating 180 subscribers with 100 publishers

Formulated and implemented improvements on clean up processes and performance, minimizing downtime by 90%

Rearchitected our platform approach to feature toggles enabling teams to improve deployment frequency by 200%

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cerner Corporation (Acquired by Oracle America Inc.) Feb. 2015 – Present

Growth Path: Manager Software Engineering Sept. 2016 – Present Lead Software Engineer Feb. 2015 – Sept. 2016

As Manager Software Engineering

Spearhead the development of deployment automation and migration/support of existing on-premises/AWS/Azure infrastructure to OCI for multiple global business units

Steer the development & revision of proposals for assigned projects including project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, timelines, funding, and staffing. Maintain computer network infrastructure and ensuring network security

Partner with Product and Engineering to drive agile scrum and sprint team composition and operations. Improve execution and outcomes, leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions and achieve results. Visualize the flow of work within and between teams to clearly understand all bottlenecks and constraints.

Led the development of Rest APIs to process the data from DB to another Rest service and create, maintain and secure APIs using AWS API Gateway.

Spearhead the migration/support of existing on-premises infrastructure and applications to AWS and Azure for multiple global business units

Set and track the project milestones while managing accounts for unforeseen delays & realigning schedules and expectations as needed

Direct the formulation & execution of project communication plans as well as provide status updates to affected staff and stakeholders

Render strategic, operational leadership while working to reach the company’s long-term goals and maintaining organizational vision

Serve as a mentor to build & guide strong DBA and App teams to provide professional and quality support to the organization& teams of developers, project/product managers, and analysts

Implemented automated remediation systems, reducing manual intervention in incident response by 60%.

Collaborated with 15+ developers and C-Suite executives to establish the technical vision and analyzed tradeoff between usability and performance needs.

Shoulder containerization of deployments via Managed Kubernetes which improved the reliability and operational efficiency of all apps

Ascertain timely resource allocation (mechanics, process engineers, machines) and support in general to the industrialization of new products and continuous improvement of existing products and lines

Organized reviews of user stories with product owner, Scrum team and conduct regularly scheduled meetings with the product owners in grooming product backlog in the definition if done criteria.

As Lead Software Engineer

Wrote PowerShell’s for database and windows events and utilized EPM & CHEF tool for automation to be re-used for server migrations

Oversaw computer technical matters and information technology support teams and implemented computer network security protocols

Developed automation packages for EPM and CHEF tool for end-to-end SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2016 installs with customizations added as per the requirements from app teams

Led the implementation of monitoring and alerting solutions on more than 2000+ database servers

Collaborated with a technology development team and users to enhance the system’s performance and complete jobs on time.

Led migration of physical-to-virtual machine (PV2) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions, virtual machine migrations, and cloning

Managed the daily operations of engineering teams, including hiring new team members or terminating those who were not performing well. Implemented new designs, processes, or products to increase efficiency or improve customer satisfaction

Coded PowerShell Scripts for DB restore routines with enabling and setting up Mirroring on SQL 2008 & AlwaysOn on SQL 2014 servers

Senior Software Engineer Siemens Health Services Oct. 2014 – Feb. 2015

Designed and developed best practices for automation needs & worked with development and systems teams to perform application and database tuning. Implemented and managed SQL Server Virtualization using Hyper-V

Provided database and application infrastructure as per business requirements using SQL clustering, load-balancing, mirroring, etc

Created processes and procedures for application code and database object migrations to support an efficient and reliable system development lifecycle. Developed and implemented jobs for SQL server and involved in various production releases for all the groups

Senior Software Analyst Sriven Systems Inc Mar. 2014 – Oct. 2014

Installed and maintained SQL Server database systems. Maintained the database systems, ensured successful backups, troubleshooted system issues, as well as monitored the success and failure of automated jobs, and updated system documentation, system and database recovery, etc. Evaluated data modeling, database administration, and database backup and recovery tools and made recommendations

Implemented and setup of AlwaysOn Availability Groups as a HADR measure.

Analyzed heavy hitter reports (Prod Issues) and optimized the database and queries for the best performance

EARLY CAREER GLIMPSE

Advisory System Analyst IBM Nov. 2009 – Mar.2014

Sr. Software Engineer Mahindra Satyam Sept. 2006 – Nov. 2009

Software Engineer Brainstorm Technologies Jul. 2004 – Sept. 2006

ACADEMICS & CREDENTIALS

Kakatiya University: Master of Science, Information Systems (MSIS) 2004

Kakatiya University: Bachelor of Computer Application 2002

TECHNICAL PURVIEW

Cloud Expertise & other Technologies: Azure/AWS IaaS & PaaS, AWS Cloud Services, SQL Azure Active Directory, HD Insights, ExpressRoute, PowerShell, AWS CLI, EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, ELB

Operating Systems: Windows NT, 7, XP, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 & 2016 Server, MS-DOS, UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS

Networking: TCP/IP Configuration, Ethernet, Firewall, VPN, Wireless Networking, Hyper-V, Virtualization, Cloud storage, Clustering

Programming/Web: C, C#, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.Net, T-SQL, PL/SQL, PowerShell, XML, Python, Rest API, Perl, PHP, Bash, React, Java Script

Tools/Packages: SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, SAP, Big Brother, Workday, Chef, Jenkins, Salesforce, Microsoft Project, IIS, MS Outlook, VMware, Jira, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, SCOM, New Relic, Toad, VSS, and TFS

DevOps: Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, GitHub, Kafka, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes, ARM and Azure DevOps

RDBMS Software and Tools: MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 & 2019, DB2, ADO, ADO.Net, ODBC, OLEDB, DTS, SSIS, SSRS, Profiler, Query Analyzer, Export & Import, AlwaysOn, Replication, Log Shipping, Clustering, Mirroring, Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, MY SQL, PostgreSQL, MDW, Azure SQL, Dynamo DB

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