Jayan Kandathil
Senior Manager (Platform Engineering) @Telesat
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Manager (Platform Engineering) @Telesat
Ottawa, ON, CA
Built a team that is responsible for Telesat\'s DevOps & Cloud platform, associated cloud services plus test & release management- Led the successful effort to migrate multiple self-hosted DevOps tools to vendor-hosted SaaS- Helped evangelize the idea of a \"platform\" of DevOps tools and services for the whole company rather than each individual DEV team running its own toolset- Championed an observability platform that included performance metrics, visualization dashboards and log aggregation- Helped introduce \"Sec\" to DevSecOps with tooling that facilitated the \"shift-left\" approach to security, including SAST on the code side and CVE vulnerability scanning on the artifact side- Introduced an \"evergreen\" strategy of scheduled monthly upgrades for VMs, OS, applications, and Kubernetes clusters- Responsible for IT procurement of DevOps tools and services, license renewals, related budgeting and vendor management
EDUCATION
Eastern Illinois University
MBA, Management Information Systems
Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur
BFSc, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Oceanography, Microbiology, Statistics
SKILLS
ABOUT JAYAN KANDATHIL
Leadership philosophy is that it\'s about facilitating, mentoring, advising, guiding, training, coaching, and making obstacles go away so people can get their work done.
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