Remy Kumar

About Remy Kumar

Work Authorization: US CitizenLocation: Louisville, Kentucky / Cincinnati Tri-State / KentuckianaTechnology Leader specializing in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), DevOps, AlOps, Infrastructure (Platform/Systems/Database Engineering), Chaos/Resilience Engineering, Performance Engineering, and Support Operations.19+ years of diverse experience in project/product management, leadership, executive, and technical roles spanning industries such as Healthcare, eCommerce, Banking, and Product/Start-ups. A dedicated and driven professional committed to continuous learning and extensive hands-on expertise.Held key roles such as Director, Engineering Manager, Principal SRE, Architect, Product Owner/Manager, Staff Infrastructure/Performance Architect, Developer, Linux Engineer/Administrator and more, with a successful track record in delivering complex projects, IT transformations, Cloud migrations, and winning accolades. Advocate for innovation and streamlined processes in project and OKR executions.Spearheaded and successfully executed both strategic and tactical multimillion-dollar projects in the United States, Poland, India, and Singapore. Additionally, managed globally distributed teams operating across different time zones, employing follow-the-sun and onshore-offshore models.Led training, mentoring, and implementation initiatives across various technology domains in SRE, DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, Cost Optimization/FinOps, Operations, Incident management, Failure mode analysis, Resiliency patterns & architecture, IaC, Observability/monitoring, CI CD, Prod Support, Performance & Chaos Engineering and IT Infrastructure. Proficient in managing Production operations - triage calls, troubleshooting, outage calls, incident and problem management, postmortems, and War room discussions, consistently providing RCA/PM (Root Cause Analysis/Post Mortem) and Solutions with patience and expertise. Also, specialize in crafting product strategies and roadmaps for Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure & SRE, DevOps Organizations, and executing them effectively.Utilize AI and machine learning algorithms to create tools that bolster DevOps and SRE functions, aiming to reduce incidents, facilitate self-healing processes, and expedite deployments and automations. Evangelize widespread adoption of these tools at an organizational level. Passionate advocate for wildlife conservation, national/state parks, and autism awareness. Committed to continuous learning, possessing empathy, and fostering empowerment as a leader.

Experience

1. Director - Sre, Infrastructure Devops, Cloud and Data Engineering

   GE Aerospace

   Apr 2024 — Present

   People and technology leader responsible for hosting the Cloud Infrastructure and Databases for GE Aerospace embracing DevOps culture end-to-end• Head teams of technologists that will design, architect, develop, build, ship & handle operations for a wide range of applications, services, workloads, databases, data warehouses used by all GE Aerospace employees and contractors/vendors • Fostering the teams in a SRE/DevOps culture and building a collaborative environment between Development, Product and Ops teams • Leader for Site Reliability Engineering Team for mission critical digital applications, productivity tools, Cloud Infra and Databases • Responsible for standardizing & delivering CI/CD DevOps pipelines for multiple technology Orgs • Facilitate and maintain Data warehouse/Data lake services & solutions for Data Analytics teams • Empathetic Leader with cross functional teams across multiple geographies consisting of FTEs and contractors • Established a transparent and highly visible Scrum framework across multiple cross-functional teams. Played the roles of Product Owner & Scrum Master as it deemed required • Product Owner for multiple home grown products/tools/applications

Education

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  High School Diploma, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Executive Education, Artificial Intelligence : Business Strategies and Applications

• College of Engineering, Guindy

  Engineer’s Degree, Electrical & Electronics

  2002 — 2006

• Linux Academy

  Cloud Technologies, Linux Training

  2017 — 2021

• Columbia Business School

  Executive Education - Python for Managers, Computer Science

• University of Chicago

  Professional Course, DevOps

Skills

• C
• Unix/Windows Administration
• Solution Architecture
• Unix Shell Scripting
• System Capacity Planning
• Enterprise Architecture
• Javascript
• Business Analysis
• Performance Analysis
• Performance Tuning
• Sql
• Java/J2ee Performance Tuning
• Server Architecture
• Java
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Unix
• Pl/Sql