Shashidhar Bomma

About Shashidhar Bomma

EXECUTIVE PROFILESenior technology and platform leader with 25+ years of experience building, scaling, and governing enterprise-grade cloud data platforms. Proven record of leading multi-year platform transformations, defining lifecycle and EoL governance for managed database services, and scaling high-performing global engineering organizations. Trusted partner to Product, PMT, Finance, and Executive leadership for GA readiness, profitability, risk reduction, and customer outcomes across IBM Cloud.EXECUTIVE IMPACT• Platform Governance & Lifecycle Strategy: Owned database version lifecycle and EoL strategy across Elasticsearch and MongoDB balancing rapid supplier release cadences with enterprise customer upgrade commitments.• Risk & Compliance Leadership: Established quarterly EoL governance, 12‐month customer notification standards, and controls to minimize support of vendor‐unsupported versions, strengthening security posture and operational predictability.• Large-Scale Re-platforming: Worked with executive sponsor for IBM Cloud Data Services migration from Classic to VPC, aligning architecture, cost models, and customer migration strategy.• Business Growth & Profitability: Drove platform adoption and expansion resulting in billable growth across strategic enterprise accounts while delivering cost optimization aligned to cloud profitability goals.• Organizational Scale: Built and scaled India Cloud Data Services organization from 3 to 40+ engineers, creating a durable leadership pipeline supporting GA delivery and long-term roadmap execution.

Experience

1. Cloud Data Platform for Data Services Manager

   IBM

   Jan 2016 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Lead engineering and platform strategy for IBM Cloud Data Services, spanning managed databases and cloud data platforms supporting regulated, enterprise-scale workloads.• Scaled the Hyderabad site from inception to 40+ engineers, establishing hiring strategy, leadership bench, and operating model aligned to global delivery.• Worked with executive sponsor for Cloud Databases Platform (CDP) built on Dreadnought, delivered Kafka, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB services; defined phased roadmap for expansion to all IBM Cloud Databases and VPC regions.• Drove multi-year re-platforming from Classic infrastructure to VPC, reducing long-term cost exposure, avoiding legacy IaaS renewals, and enabling sustainable growth.• Partnered with Product Management, SRE, Security, and Finance to ensure GA readiness, version currency, backup/restore reliability, and operational excellence.• Influenced enterprise customer outcomes, contributing to significant consumption growth

Skills

• C
• Storage Area Networks
• Docker
• File Systems
• Software Development
• Ansible
• Storage Virtualization
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Storage
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Cluster
• Operating Systems
• San
• Distributed Systems
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Vendor Management
• Ibm Aix
• Cloud Computing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Devops
• C++
• Puppet
• Kernel
• Chef
• Unix
• Debugging
• Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Go Language
• R-Programming
• Nas
• Netapp
• Nfs
• Perl