Makrand Kulkarni

About Makrand Kulkarni

Over 23+ years of experience in Information Technology with past 13 years in leadership role. Worked with global teams responsible for the IT infra - engineering and operations of Server Virtualization, Enterprise Storage and Backup platforms. Proven skills in building and managing cross functional engineering teams responsible for service delivery, administration, automation, project deliveries with established multinational setups. Led technology IaaS platforms like backup, storage, and server virtualization in line with organization goals and objectives to achieve enhanced programmability/infra-as-a-code, reduced complexity, and cost optimization through continuous improvement. Adopted Agile and working in product and services model in line with DevOps principles. Experience in managing IT operations, delivering self-services capabilities, change and incident management. Understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipeline, and experience in driving operational excellence. Completed one-year Senior Management Program from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Experience

1. Sr Engineering Manager - Compute & Storage

   Target

   Apr 2012 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Target Corporation, Bangalore - Sr. Engineering Manager2012-04 - Current Private Cloud - Compute and Storage • Responsible for staff of 20 compute(Virtual Machine As a Service), Storage and Kubernetes engineers part of Cloud and Compute team responsible for plan-build-run of VMware 7.0 virtualization platform comprised of 1500 Dell hosts, VMs, 26PB of NAS and Object storage hosting business critical applications, databases, metric pipelines, and infrastructure services across Target\'s data centres and distribution centres, in partnership with global teams. Responsibilities included:o Build self-service offerings for our users to seamlessly manage their Virtual Machines and storage.o Consult, planning, software development, support and operations and develop a solution to suit user needs. o Manage multiple projects for new capabilities, stability and growth of the platform• Developing and maintaining constructive dialogue with all business segments, engineering managers, product managers, senior leadership and engineers that leads to progressively improved products with self-service capabilities and efficient day-to-day IT operations and security with right alerting, monitoring and observability metrics• Provide leadership oversight and work directions over technical area and maintain knowledge of product-line for area of assignment and manage RCAs, SLAs and KPIs• Partner with portfolio teams in driving strategic priorities of platforms. Ensure production stability through IT services management and drive more reliability and efficiency within the platform and improve the compute and storage utilization. • Capacity planning of the HW and SW - server, storage, backup infrastructure and VMware licenses • Develop roadmap/OKRs with focus on, Efficient Operations, Programmability, Self-Service offerings, and Stability that ensures approach towards initiatives/projects aligns with goals and organizational roadmap of L&M and vendor footprint reduction.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

  Senior Management Programme, Blended Learning

  2018 — 2019

• Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

  Msc(Elex & Comm), Electronics

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Data Structures
• Pro Engineer
• Sql
• Introducing New Products
• C
• Programming
• Java
• Market Research
• C++
• Analytics
• Corel Draw
• Ace Equity
• Crisil Research
• Prowess Iq
• Autocad
• Automation
• Capitaline
• Industry Outlook
• Economic Outlook
• Microsoft Office
• Engineering
• Six Sigma
• Matlab
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Team Management
• Ansys