Ritesh Srivastava

About Ritesh Srivastava

I’m an engineering leader who has spent over 20 years helping teams build reliable, scalable, and efficient platforms that actually make delivery faster and operations calmer. My work has consistently sat at the intersection of platform engineering, DevOps transformation, cloud operations, and automation — where the real value comes from removing friction, improving trust in systems, and enabling teams to move with confidence.Over the years, I’ve led enterprise cloud platform delivery across multiple products, built and scaled CI/CD automation, driven Infrastructure as Code adoption with Terraform and Ansible, and helped standardize cloud environments through self-service provisioning. I have also owned end-to-end patching strategy and lifecycle management for Oracle middleware across SaaS and on-prem environments, with a strong focus on stability, consistency, and secure-by-design execution. One of the most meaningful parts of my journey has been seeing how the right engineering choices can change how teams work: release throughput improved sixfold, execution efficiency improved by about 50%, and triage time was reduced from 1–2 days to around 30 minutes through automation and workflow redesign.I’ve always believed that great engineering leadership is not only about systems, but about people and momentum. That is why I have invested deeply in mentoring engineers, strengthening CloudOps practices, and creating cross-functional alignment across security, release, platform, and operations teams. I’ve also worked closely on AI-enabled observability and RAG-based failure detection workflows, using modern approaches to make incident analysis faster and more intelligent — reducing triage effort by about 70%. Along the way, I’ve helped drive below innovations built through containerized workflows to improve platform efficiency.SPOTi, a self-service provisioning platformCOMET, a Kubernetes-based execution tool What energizes me most is building the kind of environment where engineers can ship faster, systems stay dependable, and business teams feel the difference in day-to-day execution. I’ve trained 1,800 people on OCI and cloud adoption through the OCI Ambassador Program, delivered 1,700 tests in three months for IBM DataPower, and contributed across quality, automation, reliability, and cloud modernization in every stage of my career. I bring a practical leadership style grounded in ownership, clarity, and measurable outcomes — and I’m always interested in using technology, including AI, to create simpler, stronger, and more scalable ways of working.

Experience

1. Manager-sw Development

   Oracle

   Sep 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   16+ years of experience in the IT industry, currently working as a Manager, Software Development in Oracle India Pvt Ltd, focused mainly on Oracle SOA. Working experience in Cloud/SaaS platforms, QA Management & Testing life cycle and Sustaining delivery models. Prior working experience includes managing Datapower B2B Appliances in IBM-ISL. Passionate about working on Cloud native technologies like Terraform & Ansible along with building pipelines for E2E execution of Product Testing.

Education

• Indian School of Business

  Leadership with AI

• Jiwaji University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2001 — 2005