Anoop Gawande

About Anoop Gawande

With over 18 years of extensive experience in DevOps, SRE, and Agile practices, I am passionate about achieving high-quality outcomes through automation and innovation. I have a proven track record of global leadership in managing both SaaS operations and on-premise deployments, ensuring efficient and effective project execution.Key Highlights:Leadership: Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and managing global SaaS operations and on-premise deployments.Project Management: Skilled in project planning, architecting, and execution using various methodologies, including Agile.Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience in managing SaaS applications, application modernization, Kubernetes, SRE practices, and FinOps.Problem Solving: Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills to address complex technical challenges.Customer Engagement: Excellent customer engagement skills, ensuring client satisfaction and successful project outcomes.My approach combines technical proficiency with a strategic mindset to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement. I am dedicated to leveraging my skills and experience to deliver innovative solutions that meet and exceed organizational goals.

Experience

1. Sr Manager, Sre

   IBM

   Jul 2023 — Present

   Managing Central SRE team for SaaS portfolio of IBM Storage (ISDL). Responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of these products. which includes leading and mentoring a team of SREs, establishing best practices for incident management, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Collaboration with product and engineering teams to design scalable systems, implements automation to reduce manual intervention, and monitors system health. Additionally managing the balance between rapid development and operational stability, prioritise reliability work, and drive the adoption of observability tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Education

• NIT Raipur

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Agile Testing
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Project Management
• Devops
• Test Cases
• Functional Testing
• IT Infrastructure Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Sdlc
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Jira
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Unix
• Test Strategy
• Defect Tracking
• Test Execution
• Integration Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• Virtualization
• Test Planning
• Sql
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Software Testing
• System Testing
• Requirements Gathering
• Cloud Applications
• Test Management
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Quality Assurance