Udhay Kumar

About Udhay Kumar

I\'m a results-driven engineering leader with 22+ years of experience building and transforming R&D organizations across Security, SaaS, Cloud, Networking, telecom, remote access & storage platforms.I\'m passionate about- Leading R&D execution, building high-performance culture, leading cross-functional teams and delivering strategic business goals- Proven ability to build relationships, influence outcomes & drive alignment among diverse stakeholders and execute portfolio initiatives- Brings a rare blend of enterprise engineering leadership and startup product-building experience. Influential Leadership & Strategy: Influential leader with a track record of transforming engineering functions, improving operational efficiency, aligning technology with business objectives and delivering quality results with highly engaged teams, and building teams from ground-up. Business Impact: Successfully led high-volume product releases (30+ releases annually), hands-on implementation of initiatives, optimized costs ($1 Mn savings with Opensource ELK), automation to drive productivity and profitability. Believe that quality and agility can coexist. Execution & Innovation: Hands-on engineering execution, providing technical & strategic directions. Agile & DevOps transformation, multi-platform deployments, optimizing each phase of product life cycle & driving continuous improvement. Key Skills:> People / Project Management> Technical Vision and Strategy> Engineering & Operational Excellence> Stakeholder Management> Direct & Hands-on Leadership> Talent Management> Budgeting and Strategic Resource Management> Cross-Functional & Cross-Cultural Team Leadership> Agile Transformation> Development, QA, DevOps, Support Strategy & execution> Automation-First Approach to QA> Managing multiple Scrum Teams> Ability to ideate - prototype - design MVP - release – iterateTechnical & Domains Skills:Security [Consumer & Enterprise], Cloud, SaaS, AWS, Containerization [Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift], Remote Access, Cloud Storage, Virtualization, Network Security Management, Security Compliance, Security Content [Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing, Cloud-based Security, Reverse Engineering to identify & eliminate infections], Big Data processing using Elasticsearch [ELK/EFK Stack]Open to Senior Engineering Manager and Director of Engineering roles in product organizations and global capability centers.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Mar 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Head R&D function of HPE’s telecom product, leading Development, QA, DevOps and Support teams.# Clearly articulate technical vision both upwards & downwards, drive strategy, and energize teams towards achieving outcomes. Partner with product management to develop and execute strategies/roadmaps that align with business goals.# 30+ releases annually in a complex and demanding environment, across deployment flavors and with competing constraints.# Piloted cloud-native aaS offering with AWS (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK), and containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm# Transformed engineering function into an engaged and self-organized unit with a spine of its own, by bringing engineering excellence, operational effectiveness, synergy with other functions and delivering results. Spearheaded Agile transformation.# Collaborate with product and business teams to channelize costs and balance between revenue-driven projects and new MVP initiatives# 98% score in Inclusive Leadership & People Leader Effectiveness for 3 consecutive years.# Represent Business Unit for University Relations program, engaging with top colleges to hire interns & fresh graduates.# Zero-Hour dev environment via deployment automation across Bare Metal, VMWare, OpenStack, OpenShift/Kubernetes environments. CI/CD pipeline for every PR merged.# Successfully led rearchitecting the product using Microservice Architecture# Instilled automation-first approach to testing, adopted Behavior Driven Development test framework# Reduced support turnaround time - by enabling support function with DevOps-in-a-Box solution that helps them bring up the required environment, troubleshoot, run tests, plugging documentation & pattern of issues at R&D level.# Develop Roadmap by clearly defining the Goals for the team, providing big picture and aligning individual goals.

Education

• Bharathidasan University

  B.E., Computer Science & Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Testlink
• Canoo Webtest
• Software Patents
• Version One
• Security Testing
• Process Improvement
• Selenium
• Perl
• Test Estimation
• Jira
• Test Strategy
• Resource Allocation
• Subversion
• Mentoring of Staff
• Team Leadership
• Linux
• Windows
• Training
• Shell Scripting
• Autoit
• Bugzilla
• Innovation
• Scrum
• Software Quality Assurance
• Jmeter
• Ant
• Test Planning
• Csqa
• Junit
• Test Automation
• Project Management
• Web Testing