Engineering Manager | Software & Quality Engineering | SRE & Platform Engineering | DevOps | Reliability | Security | AI-Enabled Engineering

Chennai

Chennai

Chennai


Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India







BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
M.KUMARASAMY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, KARUR
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Engineering Leader with nearly 14 years of experience across Software Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Quality Engineering, including 4+ years in leadership. I lead cross-functional teams, build reliable and scalable platforms, and partner with global stakeholders to solve technology challenges with a customer-centric mindset. I focus on building strong teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and talent development while fostering ownership and continuous improvement. I bring a strong technical foundation in Backend Applications, AWS, Kubernetes, Automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code in multi-cloud setup. I enjoy simplifying complex engineering problems, improving reliability and delivery, modernizing platforms, and driving measurable business outcomes. More recently, I’ve been guiding teams in adopting AI-assisted engineering practices aligned with organizational guidelines to streamline workflows and improve engineering productivity.
Chennai
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Engineering Manager at Comcast, Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Chennai, • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance application reliability, security, and quality engineering practices. • Delivering multiple initiatives in cost savings, private cloud migration and optimizations. • Mentoring and developing engineers through coaching, performance feedback, and leadership opportunities. • Adopting AI-enabled engineering practices to boost developer productivity and accelerate project delivery.
Development Engineer 4 at Comcast, Oct 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Chennai, • Mentored engineers on Ansible, Terraform, and Python, strengthening automation and cloud capabilities. • Optimized AWS infrastructure costs through cloud efficiency initiatives. • Built auto-healing solutions, achieving zero Sev1/Sev2 incidents from infrastructure availability issues. •Provided technical leadership for DevOps and infrastructure initiatives across teams.
Development Engineer 3 at Comcast, Nov 2018 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Chennai, • Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices across multiple geo regions. • Drove the adoption of Concourse CI/CD across teams with multiple reusable utilities • Developed a Python-based traffic shaping solution across multiple geo regions • Created a monitoring solution that evolved into an organization-wide inner source tool, improving reliability.
Associate Consultant at Virtusa, May 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos
Build And Release Engineer at Temenos india, Aug 2015 - May 2016 · 10 mos
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Dec 2012 - Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, M.KUMARASAMY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, KARUR