Ravinder Kumar

Responsible for Cloud Capacity plannings, Cloud budget, Cost optimization strategies, Cost Reporting, Cybersecurity, Platform Engineering, Vendor relationships and global hybrid infrastructure. Delivered over $6m in AWS cost savings in less than a year and drove decisions to optimize Windriver Studio Developer platform footprint and lowered customer environment costs by 30%.

● Leading and responsible for the vision and strategy of Engineering Shared Services organization and growth of over 55 people team focused on enabling engineering to innovate and develop embedded and cloud software products. Brought focus on CSPM, SRE, FinOps, LabOps, EngOps, SDL, Infrastructure modernization along with cybersecurity awareness and compliance in "develop, deploy and operate" areas to meet diverse customer requirements.

● Established SLA and SLO. Scaled hybrid infra and achieved higher uptime for critical tech stack. Driving continuous learning based improvement processes and systems to lower recurrence of incidents and any potential impact to global engineering.

● Created a comprehensive Cloud resource and cost insights analytics dashboard

● Created a vulnerability management platform to drive focused engineering actions.

● Led automation of multi-cloud deployment automation development for 200+ open-source and in-house developed container based Windriver Studio Developer (DevSecOps) Platform.

Responsible for Developer Experience, Build Operations, Release as a Service, Analytics Dashboards, and Idea to Deployment pipeline. The role included CI/CD processes, tools, infrastructure, and automation. Code Quality, Measurements/Analytics, Development KPI and reporting, Technical Debt Reduction Strategies and Solutions.

● Evaluation and rollout of modern tools and technologies for engineering productivity in global, and distributed engineering environments.

● Led the CI/CD Center of Excellence to assist multiple BU and programs through thought leadership, resource sharing, strategy, and execution of CI/CD.

● Drove evaluation and rollout of Customer Requirement management solution Aha! in partnership with Product Management and Engineering Leadership.

● Led architecture and development of multiple mobile applications to keep executives informed in real-time on critical issues as perceived by key SP Customers.

● Developed and led a group of experts/coaches on Agile and DevOps methodologies adoption to transform CVG towards agility.

● Led initiative to avoid multi-millions in customer-found defects and escalations.

● Led evaluation and rollout of Customer Requirements Management Solution.

● Championed a comprehensive Business Dashboard "B360" for multiple technology groups and enabled leadership with data transparency to drive portfolio management and data driven decisions.

● Developed a comprehensive tool-set to significantly reduce the steps and enhanced developer experience.

● Led SBOM automation and software composition transparency via in-house and commercial solutions. Key to a company-wide 3rd party license compliance program.

● Led program to align CI process and resources across the BU. Formed Software Tools, Infra and Services group to standardize toolchains and SDLC infrastructure.

● Created a scalable build framework and transitioned all BU products to modern systems.

● Led cross-functional programs to simplify and modernize tooling and infra.

• Unified development, build and test pipelines. Fully automated configuration management for database products by email triggered to automatically set up a pre-templatized development environment.
• Led Network Performance Team for cellular network reliability. Automated call quality data analysis and improved reliability.
• Led Operations and Maintenance team of shift engineers. Site acquisitions for BTS and BSS stations.
• Automated INMARSAT subscriber management. Led O&M activities for INMARSAT Earth Station.