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Tapan Chitkara

Senior Engineering Manager at Albertsons | Ex - Oracle | Ex - Dell Technologies

Bengaluru

19+ years of work experience

Albertsons Companies India
Dec 20259 moPresent

Bengaluru

Managing Developer Enablement team which manages both DevOps COE and Self service Infra provisioning and cicd maturity portal.
Oracle
Feb 20241 yr 11 mosDec 2025

India

Dell Technologies
May 20212 yrs 9 mosJan 2024

Working as a Sr Engineering Manager for a Backend Team and Helping/Learning design architecture, Sizing and Product tech Stack recommendations (Open Source) for Digital Transformation journey to a North Star Vision • Built a global team for Global Order Status Search with a mix of Dell and vendor resources, driving modernization and product model adoption as part of Digital transformation, through cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices, data driven insights. • Driving Architectural discussions to arrive at a scalable solution that can support quick wins as well as long term vision. • Mentor, Coach and Build innovative global staff by hiring, training, conflict resolution, performance coaching and talent management.
Dell Technologies
Oct 20191 yr 8 mosMay 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

• Managed and led the team of technical Platform Engineers and DevOps to define Roadmap for modernization of Integration Platform (Monolith to Cloud Native Architecture). Worked on the system architecture, Sizing, Procurement, Setup, configure and manage the Cloud native platform (Created Private PAAS for hosting Microservices and Messaging Platform on containers using Dockers, Mesos/marathon, Kubernetes for orchestration with ELK Logging Framework and Hashicorp Products for Service discovery and password management). • Helped Setup full CI/CD pipelines so that each commit a developer makes will go through standard process of software lifecycle and gets tested well enough before it can make it to the production. • Helped teams across Org for various applications to setup platforms right with Open source Tech Stack from scratch which includes System architecture, Server procurement, initial setup, application maintenance and support. • Helped individual teams to set up their repositories in GITLAB and maintain their code and help them setting up jobs which can make use of CI/CD environment. • Hands on Experience in Setting up and managing Various NoSqL Db’s like Elastic Search, Mongo DB, Cassandra etc. • Designed and integrated Scale IO based persistence storage across dockerized platform to enable running Oracle/Mongo Db’s on Dockers. • Hands on Experience with Setup and managing Messaging, Caching Platform Clusters like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis etc. • Well verse with all major Open Source tech stacks for Messaging, Monitoring, Deployment, Docker/Containers, NoSql’s for implementation. • Hands on Experience in Stream Data Processing (CDC – Change Data Capture) using Apache Kafka Streaming - Debezium and StreamSets for Oracle CDC.
Dell Technologies
Jun 20172 yrs 5 mosOct 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Infrastructure Architect for sizing, building and maintaining Private Cloud native ecosystem with Open Source Stack.
Infosys
Aug 20124 yrs 11 mosJun 2017

Jaipur Area, India

• Worked as Technical Architect for Risk and Capacity Assessment for Infrastructure supporting Siebel Enterprise like Unix, Network, Storage, Wintel, Database, Siebel Applications etc. • Worked as Tech Lead in Siebel Administration and worked on Siebel Upgrades (open UI), Production sizing, Siebel Infrastructure Architecture proposal, High Availability Architecture Setup, Creating Design Documents etc. • Installing, clustering, load balancing and maintaining Gateway Server, Siebel Server, SWSE, User and Mobile Account Setup. • Proposition of End to End Architecture for Siebel Implementation • Carried Out End to End installation of Production Setup individually. • Responsible for Setting up Server Component Groups/Enabling Components Monitoring Server Tasks and troubleshooting Application Administration and Server Administration • Carried out Repository and Non Repository Migrations from DEV to Various environments. • Implemented OAM - LDAP Authentication process for the application. • Created a reusable piece of code for all non-repository migration and automated the complete migration using the Script and reusable code. • Created Server Monitoring shell Scripts and Alerts for system failures or notifications
IBM
Mar 20126 mosAug 2012

Tech Lead - Siebel System Administrator
Fujitsu India
Mar 20102 yMar 2012

Noida

Aug 20096 moFeb 2010

Mumbai

Jul 20072 y 1 moAug 2009

Noida

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Education

University of Rajasthan

B-TECH, Computer Science

University of Rajasthan

20034 yrs2007

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Headline

Senior Engineering Manager at Albertsons | Ex - Oracle | Ex - Dell Technologies

About

I am a proactive and achievement-oriented professional with nearly 18+ years of rich & extensive, national & international experience in Strategic Technical & Solution Architecture and People Management. Cloud Platform Architect & Senior Apache Kafka (Connect, Streams)/ Elastic Search Developer, with exposure in leading productive cross-functional team using interactive and motivational leadership that spurs people to willingly give excellent results. Pivotal in identifying underlying risks, deficiencies, and opportunities at forefront with exposure in developing strategies for centrally managing sensitive properties & environment variables in multi-regional, cloud-native environments using Spring Cloud Config Server and Engineering of efficient distributed caching solutions that improve performance. Successfully developed and maintained tools, solutions and micro services associated with deployment while ensuring compliance with standards.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Portkey

Work experience

Senior Enginering Manager at Albertsons Companies India, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mo, Bengaluru, Managing Developer Enablement team which manages both DevOps COE and Self service Infra provisioning and cicd maturity portal.

Senior Software Development Manager at Oracle, Feb 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, India

Sr Engineering Manager at Dell Technologies, May 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Working as a Sr Engineering Manager for a Backend Team and Helping/Learning design architecture, Sizing and Product tech Stack recommendations (Open Source) for Digital Transformation journey to a North Star Vision • Built a global team for Global Order Status Search with a mix of Dell and vendor resources, driving modernization and product model adoption as part of Digital transformation, through cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices, data driven insights. • Driving Architectural discussions to arrive at a scalable solution that can support quick wins as well as long term vision. • Mentor, Coach and Build innovative global staff by hiring, training, conflict resolution, performance coaching and talent management.

Consultant / Technical Sr Manager at Dell Technologies, Oct 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Managed and led the team of technical Platform Engineers and DevOps to define Roadmap for modernization of Integration Platform (Monolith to Cloud Native Architecture). Worked on the system architecture, Sizing, Procurement, Setup, configure and manage the Cloud native platform (Created Private PAAS for hosting Microservices and Messaging Platform on containers using Dockers, Mesos/marathon, Kubernetes for orchestration with ELK Logging Framework and Hashicorp Products for Service discovery and password management). • Helped Setup full CI/CD pipelines so that each commit a developer makes will go through standard process of software lifecycle and gets tested well enough before it can make it to the production. • Helped teams across Org for various applications to setup platforms right with Open source Tech Stack from scratch which includes System architecture, Server procurement, initial setup, application maintenance and support. • Helped individual teams to set up their repositories in GITLAB and maintain their code and help them setting up jobs which can make use of CI/CD environment. • Hands on Experience in Setting up and managing Various NoSqL Db’s like Elastic Search, Mongo DB, Cassandra etc. • Designed and integrated Scale IO based persistence storage across dockerized platform to enable running Oracle/Mongo Db’s on Dockers. • Hands on Experience with Setup and managing Messaging, Caching Platform Clusters like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis etc. • Well verse with all major Open Source tech stacks for Messaging, Monitoring, Deployment, Docker/Containers, NoSql’s for implementation. • Hands on Experience in Stream Data Processing (CDC – Change Data Capture) using Apache Kafka Streaming - Debezium and StreamSets for Oracle CDC.

Sr Advisor, Solution Architect at Dell Technologies, Jun 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Infrastructure Architect for sizing, building and maintaining Private Cloud native ecosystem with Open Source Stack.

Siebel Admin - Technology Lead at Infosys, Aug 2012 - Jun 2017 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Jaipur Area, India, • Worked as Technical Architect for Risk and Capacity Assessment for Infrastructure supporting Siebel Enterprise like Unix, Network, Storage, Wintel, Database, Siebel Applications etc. • Worked as Tech Lead in Siebel Administration and worked on Siebel Upgrades (open UI), Production sizing, Siebel Infrastructure Architecture proposal, High Availability Architecture Setup, Creating Design Documents etc. • Installing, clustering, load balancing and maintaining Gateway Server, Siebel Server, SWSE, User and Mobile Account Setup. • Proposition of End to End Architecture for Siebel Implementation • Carried Out End to End installation of Production Setup individually. • Responsible for Setting up Server Component Groups/Enabling Components Monitoring Server Tasks and troubleshooting Application Administration and Server Administration • Carried out Repository and Non Repository Migrations from DEV to Various environments. • Implemented OAM - LDAP Authentication process for the application. • Created a reusable piece of code for all non-repository migration and automated the complete migration using the Script and reusable code. • Created Server Monitoring shell Scripts and Alerts for system failures or notifications

Siebel System Administrator at IBM, Mar 2012 - Aug 2012 · 6 mos, Tech Lead - Siebel System Administrator

Consultant at Fujitsu India, Mar 2010 - Mar 2012 · 2 y, Noida

IT Analyst at Deliotte, Aug 2009 - Feb 2010 · 6 mo, Mumbai

Software Engineer at Birlasoft India Limited, Jul 2007 - Aug 2009 · 2 y 1 mo, Noida

Education

B-TECH, Computer Science, University of Rajasthan