Anil V.

About Anil V.

Strategic Software Engineering Leader and MBA Candidate focused on the future intersection of technology, business strategy, and ethical AI.I specialize in enhancing developer productivity, automating enterprise-scale processes, and fortifying security posture. My leadership style is collaborative and data-driven, consistently translating technical excellence into measurable outcomes like cost savings, accelerated project timelines, and mitigated operational risks.I am currently pursuing my Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Colorado Boulder to merge my deep expertise in Cloud Technologies (GCP, Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), and Agile practices (SAFe Certified Scrum Master) with advanced business strategy and finance.Additionally, I am honored to co-lead The AI Collective – Boulder Chapter, driving community conversation around the social, creative, and ethical dimensions of AI. My passion is to ensure technical innovation is always guided toward both business value and human flourishing.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Ford Motor Company

   May 2023 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Leadership: Led a team of Software Developers and DevOps specialists, delivering high-quality toolsand solutions to downstream teams, ensuring customer satisfaction and business growth.• Standardization: Standardized source code compliance with tools like Fossa and SonarQube, and spearheaded the transition to GitHub Cloud, streamlining repository management and improvingdeveloper workflows.• Productivity: Championed developer tools such as DevContainers and GitHub Copilot for VSCodeand IntelliJ, significantly enhancing the developer experience and productivity.• Infrastructure: Managed 20 bare metal servers (Intel and AMD) running RHEL, using Ansible forconfiguration and overseeing SRE responsibilities to ensure smooth internal operations.• Agile Coaching: Acted as the SAFe Agile coach for the team, implementing agile practices such asdaily standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Increased developer efficiency by 30% and team velocity by 35% over three PIs. Represented the team at PI planning, facilitating feedback between stakeholders and the team.• Security: Drove the adoption of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, improving security and streamlining secret handling processes across teams.• Documentation: Developed comprehensive internal software documentation, improving knowledge sharing and reducing onboarding time for new team members.

Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering

• University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• Ramaiah Institute Of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering

Skills

• Java
• Wireshark
• Gsm
• Python
• Android
• Operating Systems
• Linux Os (Red Hat Linux/I386 7.3)
• Perl
• Oops
• Linux
• Oop
• Algorithms
• Network Security
• Eclipse
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Ipsec
• C++
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Ssl
• Snmp
• C
• Programming
• Tcp/Ip