Gaurav Kumar

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ABOUT GAURAV KUMAR

Senior leader having extensive experience in Cloud transformation and operations. Multi year experience with application development and operations for Ingenium and Guidewire platforms. Have managed DevOps, release management and Cloud operations management. Deep expertise with creating and managing application and cloud contracts. Technical background and have overseen multiple platforms starting from mainframe to cutting edge Kubernetes on various cloud platforms. Extensive implementation knowledge on DevOps, FinOps and Observability practice. Advocate for doing it the right way and manage the scalability. Proficient with consulting for enterprise Observability framework to set up to provide best ROI on implementation and leverage. Enthusiastic about sharing my experience and helping leader shape their governance the right way. Awarded people leader and nominee for CTO awardPrior Experience :Responsible to stand up DevOps based solutions. Led IBM SRE team working primarily with Agile DevOps methodology and enabling streamlined enterprise releases for cloud based platform.AWS Solution Architect AssociateSolution Management with senior most leadership to enable Development, QA, DevOps, Network, DBA, security and other peripheral teams to achieve a technical and functional cadence to achieve quicker release to production.Strong technical and managerial skills. Agile and thought based leader. Love to work with teams to solve complex problems across components and technologies. Expertise in mainframe technologies enable me to help see end to end layout for projects struggling with legacy world problems and help them modernize to current Agile DevOps world.Love taking on challenges and making sure to find a simple solution for stakeholders to drive a decision.I work with transformation leaders to plan and solve the bottlenecks in releases around DevOps technical stack and overall release planning as well.Certified IBM Agile explorer and my transformation strategies are aligned with distributed and scaled Agile principles.I have demonstrated history of working in the Information technology and services industry using thought leadership and a penchant to take up challenges.I believe in continuous learning to enable confidence surge. My experience stack : Legacy to latest world. Waterfall to Agile. Mainframes, DevOps, IBM Cloud, AWS. Guidewire certified.Managed Banking and Insurance projects for reputed clients with strong delivery results.Goal : To continuously put in effort to become a better Leader.