Girish Kulkarni
Devops Practitioner | Platform engg Lead | Program/ Project management | Cloud Specialist
- Role
- Associate Director at Cognizant
- Location
- Pune, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Girish Kulkarni
With over 20 years of diverse experience in IT infrastructure, cloud solutions (Azure, AWS), and digital transformation, I excel in leading large-scale projects and cross-functional teams in various industries including communication, retail, and finance.• I am adept at driving operational efficiencies, embracing innovative technologies, and fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.• Leading high performing cross functional teams for customers in various geographies• Possess a strong Domain Expertise in Communication, Retail, Banking/Finance and Technology.• Project Finance management experience in accounting, budgeting, billing, Cost reductions, Marginoptimization, revenue projections and forecasting.• Expertise in Unix/Middleware/Devops technologies, Cloud, Digital transformation, Engineering & Design, Datacenter/Cloud migrations, Automation, project management, delivery and support.• Managed multimillion projects and teams of people consisting of Infra Engineers, DevOpsEngineers, Developers, testers and Cloud Engineers.• Embraced cloud technology – Azure, AWS, migrated applications resulting in Hybrid Cloud Services.• Evangelize DevOps strategy with stakeholders across various development, operations and qualityteams at various levels of the organization.• Managed DevOps Platform Engineering team supporting Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, TFS,Azure Devops, Ansible and multiple test tools.• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to translate technical information into businessterms and communicate at all levels within the organization.• Experience in complex end-to-end infra migration /integration & decommission projects.
Experience
Associate Director
Oct 2021 — Present · Pune, IN
Devops Platform Engg, Lead, Service Delivery
Education
Mumbai University Mumbai
Diploma, Mechanical Engineering
1995 — 1997
MS Bidve Engg College
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
1998 — 2001
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Unix
- Websphere Application Server
- Requirements Analysis
- Service Delivery
- Unix Administration
- Itil
- Project Management
- Team Management
- Itil Certified
- Vendor Management
- Red Hat Linux
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