ABHRANIL (ANIL) BARUA

• Led strategy and direction to drive cloud operational excellence
  • Set-up Cloud Engineering team’s business operations processes from the ground up.
  • Managed its $10M+ budget (OPEX, CAPEX, COGS).
  • Implemented with Finance approval a process to capitalize critical cloud development programs, thereby reducing pressure on team’s annual OPEX budget by 20% each year.
  • Streamlined all tool vendor contracts
    • Ensured up-to-date Master Service Agreements (MSA), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA), Statements of Work (SOW), invoice payment for contractors.
  • Worked on quarterly engineering capacity estimation activity to achieve roadmap delivery execution for the Cloud Engineering team of ~100 team members.
• Performed key role for the Cloud Engineering team in the integration of teams, budget, processes during Semtech’s successful acquisition of Sierra Wireless’ IoT solutions business in 2023/24.
• Supported setting up new AWS regions (Canada, Australia) for the flagship cloud M2M platform AirVantage
  • Project scope included moving the K8s containerization platform from ECS to EKS.
• Supported FinOps and tracked AWS Cloud Spend
  • Participated in AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) negotiations, projected Cloud spend for 2024 ($5.3M), initiated its PO for all Engineering teams using AWS, implemented cost savers - Savings Plans & Reserved Instances.
• Tracked & reported Cloud organization metrics as KPIs to continuously improve them
  • Service Availability (SLA, SLO), incidents (MTBF, MTTR), business growth (accounts & active devices)
  • Cloud spend variance, engineering capacity, project timesheets and monthly capitalization rates, and development metrics (burndown & velocity charts).
  • Created and maintained a comprehensive Cloud Operations SharePoint site for these metrics.
• Worked on continuous Improvements to the cloud environment:
  • Supported improving the Cloud Platform AWS account management as well as Identity and Access Management (IAM) by implementing the AWS Control Tower.
  • Conducted bi-annual penetration tests of the important applications through eSecurity vendors.
• Represented Cloud Engineering in a cross-functional team responsible for the successful migration of the ERP system from JDE to SAP in 2023/24.
  • Ensured that all the Cloud Engineering cost centers were migrated accurately, and the backend interfaces to ERP (including usage and billing) were tested properly.
• Provided leadership to the Enterprise Tribe involved in developing applications (using Spotify Scrum methodology) to support Semtech’s enterprise grade routers and gateways
  • AirLink Management Service (ALMS), Advanced Mobility Reporting (AMR), Hybrid Cloud - all built on AirVantage M2M AWS based cloud platform).
  • The tribe members (~18 headcount) were based in Canada, Mexico, and India.
• Took responsibility to collect information and prepare important presentations for Vice President of Cloud
  • Monthly Ops. Reviews, QBRs, Roadmap Reviews, Engineering Interlock meetings, All-Hands Meetings, etc.

• Transferred from IT to become the Lyve Cloud Operations Lead, and drive strategy and direction for this new business unit of Seagate offering public K8s based Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS).
• Took leadership responsibility to support Lyve Cloud Operations:
  • Service Availability (5 9s SLA & SLO), management and control of the production environment.
  • Hands-on involvement in production releases, change management, incidents/problems tracking and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reporting
  • End-to-end monitoring/logging/alerting of all components, vulnerability & system patch management, backup & restore, scheduled/unscheduled downtime notifications, identity and access management, and all other operational aspects.
• Built Lyve Cloud Operations processes, headcount, systems, tools, budget, and roadmap from the ground up. Important achievements in these areas were:
  • Set-up and scaled the 24 x 7 Network Operations Center for Cloud Operations support with resources in US, Singapore and India. This team also had Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) specialists.
  • Used open-source tools Prometheus & Grafana for cluster monitoring, GitLab for production releases.
  • Deployed state-of-the-art cloud event-based system monitoring and alerting process using SolarWinds, Opsgenie, Pingdom, ML based anomaly analyzer Zebrium (also used for long term log retention).
  • Incident Management using Jira Service Management, ELK stack for system logging and troubleshooting, statuspage.io for downtime notifications to customers and a Known Error Database using Confluence.
  • Implemented Identity & Access Management (IAM) using Auth0 and secrets management using Hashicorp Vault.
  • Deployed Change Control processes using Jira Service Management and Change Approval Board (CAB) for release on demand. Implemented concept of Error Budget to control roll-back of releases.
  • Implemented process automation through of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
    • Deployment of systems were done through Terraform scripts.
    • Configuration management/patching through Ansible scripts was implemented on a regular cadence to meet ISO/SOC2 vulnerability patching standards.
• Led Operations team successfully during extensive external audits that helped Lyve Cloud achieve ISO 27001 and SOC2 certification.
• Reduced AWS consumption costs by over 10%
  • Eliminated redundant Lyve Cloud Zabbix monitoring
  • Capped AWS Elasticsearch service data retention to 30 days (keeping system and application logs long term in a cheaper SaaS environment).
• Negotiated procurement agreements with SaaS vendors (Atlassian, SolarWinds, Auth0, Zebrium, etc.).

• Led the IT Support teams at Seagate’s US Design Centers in California, Colorado, and Minnesota.
• Planned and executed the program for end-to-end set-up of on-prem IT infrastructure at the new Seagate Fremont facility from blueprint stage to completion, over a two-year period (from 2014 to 2016)
  • Set-up 3 data centers, Factory Pilot Line, 350 seat event center, 20 conference rooms, 10 IDFs, 25 R&D labs.
• Implemented a data center Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) project on the AWS platform, saving $100K+ on premise DR infrastructure cost.
  • Served as the site IT Business Continuity Lead and took part in several DR drills.
  • Implemented Everbridge emergency mass notification tool at the site for ensuring business continuity.
• Deployed a Hadoop Data Lake that ingests (edge) factory data to enable Machine Learning (ML) based defect reduction using image analytics.
  • Saved ~$150K capex by leveraging data lake infrastructure in Singapore instead of the US.
  • The data lake project used a new Seagate product called Lyve Drive, a modular mobile data storage drive-based system that was used to physically transfer hard-disk image data from US to Singapore.
• Led the Factory Information System (FIS) Development teams based in US and Singapore
  • Guided my application development team to adopt the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe) framework.
  • This change helped to delight our customers by improving the efficiency of software project delivery – we reduced average project delivery time by 25%.
  • Organized training for my team on Container Management (Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices).
• Participated as a leader in an IT organizational realignment initiative at Seagate, wherein local site-based teams were converged to global teams - Data Center Infrastructure Services, End User Services and Network Services.
  • It required a high level of emotional intelligence on my part, where site-siloed employees in my team were reassigned to global teams in a psychologically safe and encouraging way.
• Collaborated with the Information Security organization and stakeholders to improve the cybersecurity maturity in Seagate’s factory and lab environments.
  • Ensured every endpoint that joined the company network was authorized and did not have malware vulnerabilities, by implementing Network Segmentation & Control and installing a site factory firewall.

• Led the IT Support Team at Seagate's Media Research Center located at Fremont, California.
  • This involved data center management, network and firewall services, end user services, R&D pilot line and labs endpoints support.
• Also led the IT Support team for Seagate's Cloud Systems and Electronics Solutions (CSES) team based at Lakeview Blvd., Fremont.
  • Managed the team's data center, supported the network for design and verification labs, provided end-user support.
• Successfully led the closure process of IT Operations at Seagate's Milpitas (California) manufacturing facility in 2008 and the transition of manufacturing operations and factory systems to Seagate’s Singapore facility.
• Provided technical and managerial direction for the development and implementation of an in-house Factory Information System (FIS), developed to meet company specific needs.
  • My development team consisted of ~20 members in US & Singapore.
  • Deployed in several Seagate sites in the US and Asia (China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and India)
  • This system is still operational and is used to manage equipment-centric needs of over 25,000 equipment at these sites.
• Proactively managed my team’s budget.
  • Monitored expenses with Anaplan to stay at least 5% within budget annually.

IT Senior Manager (March 1998 - August 2005)

Led development and deployment of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for in-house use at Seagate's Recording Media Operations facilities at Fremont and Singapore. Developed and implemented supporting applications for product containment, finished goods tracking, statistical process control, etc.

With the advent of web programming, my team was responsible for migrating these factory applications from client-server to web-based applications in the .Net and Java/J2EE environments.

During this period, I was also involved in the Y2K conversion of these applications, as well as their underlying message bus for the factory application clients from hub-and-spoke model based Talarian to peer-to-peer model based TIBCO Rendezvous solution.

IT Senior Engineer (August 1996 - March 1998)

Led the design and development of in-house Factory Information System (FIS) called EDCS-PARIS. The job involved developing and implementing the lot tracking system (also known as MES). that was suited to Seagate's manufacturing needs.

The major components of the MES were: Work-in-progress (WIP) tracking, Equipment Tracking and Maintenance Scheduling, Consumable Tracking, Floor Planning, Calibration Scheduling, and Spares Tracking. This was implemented using a message bus called Talarian.