IT Manager

SATISH KUMAR ANKALA

***** ******** **., ***., ***, Farmington Hills, MI +1-930-***-**** ******.******@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile Link

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Continuous Service Delivery

Engineering & Automations

Network and System Security

Cost Benefits Analysis

Data Integrity/ Recovery

Technical Specifications Development

Team Project Leadership

Risk Analysis/Impact Analysis

Threat Mitigation Analysis

Solutions Implementation

Incident Response/Compliance

System Integration & Planning

IT Strategy & Planning

Software Enhancements

Project/Program Management

Software Development Lifecycle

Senior professional equipped with product and engineering leadership experience with a background in production storage engineering, hybrid cloud computing, operations management, and all aspects of development, such as design, coding, testing, integration, and deployment. Recognized for effectively guiding, nurturing, and empowering diverse IT teams to create, implement, and deliver innovative, budget-friendly solutions within large IT infrastructure. Proven success in restructuring IT strategy, Product leadership, programs, and procedures to generate significant cost savings and boost revenue. Experienced leader who excels in rapidly changing environments and challenging situations.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Eliminated physical compute and storage infrastructure, resulting in more than $5 million in cost avoidance on datacenter investments.

Slashed out tech debt and application downtime by 40% and retired more than six outdated storage technologies.

Enhanced cost-effectiveness, scalability, high availability, data protection, and system uptime by implementing upgrades, selecting vendors, managing budgets, ensuring security, handling incidents, making forecasts, and planning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Autodesk: Novi, MI Jul 2015 – Present

Engineering Manager – Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure: Novi, MI Aug 2020 – Present

Led the Autodesk private cloud to Azure migration initiative for 40+ products, created virtual assistants using machine learning and GenAI to enhance experiences for stakeholders, resulting in a significant decrease in response time

Decreased infrastructure costs per unit by 40% and enhanced High Performance Computing (HPC) production workload performance by 60% by refreshing HPC servers, NAS & SAN storage, switches etc.in datacenters.

Modernized several legacy applications across various use cases from Autodesk private cloud to Azure, improved the desktop development pipeline overall throughput by 55%, while ensuring compliance with HPC security standards and implementing Disaster Recovery Plans (DR Testing included).

Generated 40% cost savings and budget avoidance on a multi-million tech refresh project through tight governance and integration with tools like Ansible and Puppet for infrastructure configuration management.

Implemented strict engineering and operational protocols following best practices in Site Reliability Engineering.

Achieved substantial operational capacity expansion while upholding a 99.9% uptime rate.

Maximized team productivity while reducing weekly downtime from 10 hours to one hour.

Enhanced developer environment by quadrupling efficiency and reduced latency, with a 50% increase over a two-year period through optimizing large-scale distributed systems and storage caching architectures.

Introduced a new approach called "product thinking" to the infrastructure sector, an engineering method focused on metrics, fostering a culture of alignment and prioritization through technology, metrics, OKR reviews and TAM/SAM/SOM analysis to identify, capture and serve market segments.

Skills, Tools & Software Used: Agile Methodologies, AWS, Azure, REST API Integrations, DevOps and Incident Management, Continuous Delivery (CD), Scrum, Open AI, Chatbot Development, Product Management, Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, Langchain, Software Development, MLOps, Azure Open AI, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, Jenkins, Ansible, Spinnaker, Project Management

Lead Infrastructure Engineer: Singapore Jul 2015 – Aug 2020

Championed architectural design for various engineering projects, creating integration maps, solution diagrams, technology stacks, and blueprints for cloud and storage infrastructure architecture.

Strategized all engineering projects from planning to execution, incorporating an Agile approach and leveraging tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Docker and Terraform to enhance DevOps.

Spearheaded DevOps engineers and regularly assessed the company's cloud and storage infrastructure strategy.

Promoted ongoing enhancement through providing technology feedback, coaching, and tracking performance.

Streamlined 10 different storage platforms, cleaned up 1.7 petabytes of data, changed backup policies, and archived 700 petabytes of cloud data with the Legal Teams.

Developed dashboards for hybrid cloud infrastructure to track capacity, performance, and other insights for executive team on the usage insights.

Revamped multiple monolithic applications into microservices using container technology like Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless functions. This transformation significantly decreased technical debt and operational burden associated with virtual infrastructure management and also improved disaster recovery plans

Skills, Tools & Software Used: Continuous Delivery (CD), Jenkins, Scrum, Product Management, SAN & NAS Enterprise Storage, Enterprise Data Protection, Terraform, InfluxDB, Grafana, Elastic Stack, IBM CleverSafe, EMC data domain, DevOps, Docker Products, Software Development, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Storage, Python, Incident Management, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy

The Product Leadership Council Oct 2021 - Present

Advisory Council Member

Offered strategic counsel to product management and marketing professionals to keep up with the newest best practices and concerns affecting product success.

Aided find business opportunities, technological trends, and possible problems.

Attended advisory meetings once a month to talk about success, problems, and chances.

Ensured that sensitive talks and all confidential and/or proprietary technology information stay confidential.

Presented professional knowledge and a range of constituent views on a range of product management or marketing issues.

HCL Technologies: Chennai, India Jun 2011 – Ju 2015

Senior Infrastructure Specialist Engineer/Shift Lead (Autodesk)

Oversaw the storage of Autodesk data and the security of infrastructure activities for 24/7 operations in India. Updated the CMDB and inventory of storage arrays and gave end users self-service provisioning to make Autodesk more efficient and boost developer output.

Minimized risk for rapid company expansion by strengthening service level agreement and enhancing on-call incident monitoring and response metrics.

Implemented monitoring and response methods to analyze issues and tickets, resulting in architecture modifications and vendor participation.

Reduced data management, retention, and total cost initiatives by 40% through data replication, migration, storage infrastructure renewal and consolidation of MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL Servers.

Increased customer satisfaction by 30%, efficient manpower usage, timely resolution of incidents automated resulted in improved SLA by 65%.

Skills, Tools & Software Used: Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Cassandra, MSSQL, Purestorage, AngularJS, NetApp, Backup Solutions, Software Development, 3PAR, NetBackup, Storage,

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada: Aug 2007 – May 2011

Certifications & Additional Education:

Pragmatic Certified Product Manager, Pragmatic Institute: Sept 2020

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance: Exp. Jul 2024

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect – Professional: Amazon Web Services (AWS): Exp. Nov 2022

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services: Exp. Jul 2020

Nimble Technical Professional, Nimble Storage, Acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company: Exp. May 2018

NetApp Certified Cluster Mode Administrator, NetApp: Exp. Aug 2015

NetApp Certified Data Administrator, NetApp: Exp. Oct 2013

Symantec Certified Professional, Symantec: Jul 2012

HONORS & AWARDS

Digital Excellence Award - Autodesk, Inc.: Sept 2020

Role Model Award – Autodesk, Inc.: Nov 2019

Service Excellence Award – Autodesk, Inc.: Nov 2018

HCL O3 Infinity Award – HCL Technologies: Jan 2014

PUBLICATIONS EXPERIENCE

Archive & Digitize Storage Leveraging Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services: Sept 2020

Migrating Hundreds of TB of Data to Amazon D3 with AWS Data Sync, Amazon Web Services: Jun 2019

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