Andy Kamath
My teams enable engineers by providing public cloud and data center services in a self-service and infrastructure-as-code manner. In addition we provide FinOps, Site Reliability Engineering, & DevSecOps practices.
- Role
- Executive Director - Infrastructure Services - Cloud at USAA
- Location
- Littleton, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andy Kamath
Currently serving as Executive Director of Cloud Services organization at USAA. Over the course of my 25 years in Information Technology industry, I have lead multiple transformation efforts either as the architect or as an executive. Have kickstarted multiple enterprise practices like Cloud Financial Management (FinOps), Platform Engineering, Infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability engineering. Most of my recent experience involves infrastructure provisioning and workload enablement for public cloud (AWS mostly), IaaS, and PaaS. I have also lead efforts to refactor monolithic applications to microservices, kickstarting Automation CoE in 2 different companies, starting DevOps practice at one and pivoting DevOps to DevSecOps in another. Here are some of the more significant things I\'ve been doing recently:* Head of Platform Enginnering, cloud enablement, and DevSecOps: Was responsible for pivoting the company from DevOps to DevSecOps, provide AWS services in an Infrastructure-as-Code manner, and provide platform engineering services to all of the enterprise.* Lead Architect on an architectural refactoring effort moving from a large monolithic benefits application to a Microservices architecture.* Lead Architect on designing an observability solution using Elasticsearch.* Consulting architect for another portfolio at my company that is migrating to Microsoft Azure. My role includes helping them design their CI/CD pipelines.* Founder and Technical convernor for the DevSecOps community of practise at my current company.* In 2018, designed the DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline for our electronic billing application that was being refactored from a monolith to microservices. The architecture and libraries from this project is used across multiple other portfolios and applications.* As Lead Architect, worked with software security and global information security groups at my company to develop a container security and scanning practice.* Introduced the practise of Chaos testing at my current company. Also led the evaluation of various Chaos test tools.* Was part of a team of architects that were responsible for adoption of PostgresSQL at ACI Worldwide. Specialties: Microservices, Enterprise Architecture, Elasticsearch, Messaging, PostgresSQL, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Container Security, Minimal images, Chaos testing, performance testing, DAST, SAST, Java, Spring Boot.Past life: WebSphere Portal v6.1, WebSphere Application Server v6.1, Weblogic Server v10x, DB2 UDB 9.1, IBM Directory Server v6.1.
Experience
Executive Director - Infrastructure Services - Cloud
Oct 2022 — Present
Education
Regis University
MS, CIS
2007 — 2009
University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
MBA, Finance
2011 — 2013
University of Mysore
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
1994 — 1998
Skills
- Oracle
- Sql
- Java
- Unix
- Software Development
- Websphere Portal
- Weblogic
- Websphere Application Server
- Soa
- Tomcat
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Architecture
- Db2
- Solution Architecture
- Tivoli Directory Server
- Web Services
- Rest
- Agile Methodologies
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