Bharath N Ramachandran

About Bharath N Ramachandran

I\'m a Software Engineering Manager in Product Development with 20-yrs of experience in the areas of Storage & Software. Skilled in Storage Area Network, Management, Operating Systems, Scrum & Agile methodologies, PROFILE SUMMARY Seasoned Agile Product Owner and a Certified Scrum Master. Certification on the “Executive Product Management – ISB” (In progress) Strong Leadership in managing complex projects with excellent People and Program Management Skills. Excellent Coordination and Management Skills with Cross Functional Teams and Engineering Organizations. Exposure to all aspects of project management including code optimization, risk assessments & control, technical feasibility VPLEX & RecoverPoint Engineering Representative for EMC World & Forum. Proven history of improving product quality, timely delivery and work efficiency while encouraging teamwork in a positive atmosphere There are 8-patents which are recognized by Dell R&D. Worked with Quality Engineering, Automation Development, Performance & Scale, Customer Escalation engineering. Used Python for automating the Restful-API’s. Contributed to Code reviews written in Java/Python. Used PowerShell scripting for automating the batch operations on Virtual Machines. Used Dockers, Jenkins and Ansible in automating the continuous development release build testingAREAS OF EXPERTISEProduct Management, People Management, Agile Methodology, Team Management, Release Management, Stakeholder Management, Scale & Performance, Engineering ManagerTECHNICAL SKILLSAWS & Azure Cloud, SCSI/iSCSI, RAID Storage, Fiber Channel, SAN Fabric, Virtualization & Replication, Tape/Disk Backup & NAS/SAN, VMWare, Linux, Windows, DevOps, Git, Maven, Jenkins, Python, Dockers, PowerShell, Ansible

Experience

1. Engineering Group Manager

   HCLTech

   Apr 2021 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

   Heading a team of 20 professionals for DELL-EMC Replication Product development Group including Scale & Performance engineers, Architects & , Product Owners. Demonstrated proficiency in management skills, multi-tasking and recruiting Manage team and responsible for their Goal settings, Individual development, grooming and address issues/grievances proactively. Lead in Define Automation Roadmap & create the Backlog for the automation team End to End ownership of product proposition & releases (main + patch). Helping team in the code review & adhere to the review process. As a Release Manager responsible for leading 7 Scrum Teams for 4 Major Releases Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for the stakeholders. Experience in transforming and practicing agile software engineering practices. Review Test strategy, the test plans and help the team to come up with comprehensive plan. Responsible and Accountable for delivering Product Quality for all releases/milestones. Focused and aligned to meet CI/CD for all new product development Collaborate with Product Management for Road Map creation. Adept at hiring talents and mentoring to build high performing teams Responsible for stakeholder engagement to review the Program updates

Education

• Adarsha Polytechnic, Karnataka Board of Technical Education

  Diploma, Computer Science

  1994 — 1997

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

  1998 — 2002

• Indian School of Business

  Executive Education, Product Management

Skills

• Fibre Channel
• San
• Nas
• Storage
• Iscsi
• Virtualization
• Raid
• Storage Virtualization
• Emc Storage
• Scsi
• Testing
• Tape Libraries
• Storage Area Networks
• Clariion
• Storage Solutions
• Linux
• Backup Solutions
• Dell Computers
• Vmware
• Enterprise Storage
• Vmware Esx
• Scrum
• Disaster Recovery
• Brocade
• High Availability
• Symmetrix
• Dell Poweredge Servers
• Replication
• Solution Architecture
• Brocade Fibre Switches
• Agile Methodologies
• Csm