Shobhan Challa

About Shobhan Challa

Seasoned Engineering Manager with hands-on experience in developing and delivering large-scale, enterprise-ready, distributed software for Saas/Cloud and On-Premise. Specializes in cloud technologies, enterprise software design with a deep understanding of modern technology concepts. Proven track record in: Technically leading complex, distributed and On-Premise solutions. Building a technological roadmap and driving the team towards the development efforts with high quality. Hands-on working experience in Front-end, middleware and Backend technologies. Project Management, Transition of projects and Resource management across the Geographies Specialties: Back-end Design & Architecture, Scalability, BigData technologies - Apache Spark, Elastic Search (ELK Stack), Scala, Hadoop stack (HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Spark, PySpark etc), Cloudera, HortonWorks Cloud Technologies: AWS, Google Cloud Platform NoSQL technologies - MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, CouchDB, Redis, HBase, etc Backend Technologies - Java, Docker, Kubernetes,Perl, Python, Expert in Refactoring systems. FrontEnd Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript Frameworks - Angular JS, Vue JS, RESTful Web Services

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Jan 2015 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading R&D team of 22 engineers on the development for one of the enterprise products of HP Software Achievements: Developing key talents within the team, Leading a team size of 22 engineers in the Development and CPE (Current Product Engineering) Built a double-digit team within a span of 6 months Responsible for planning the product releases along with support for new technologies for monitoring Working closely with the customers for developing specific monitoring use cases. Working with Support and CPE teams to make sure that delivery SLAs are met. Add new monitoring capabilities to support technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, SAP CCMS, IPMI (IntelligentPlatformManagementInterface), VMware vSphere, etc Building a technological roadmap and leading the development effort towards it. Working with Vendors on Contract engineers along with defining the SOW\'s. Lead a team of engineers along with contractors to develop a new Frontend framework for the existing product and migrating top 25 monitors to the Angular UI from the traditional Java UI.