Srinath Dronavadhyala

03/2023 – 11/2025

Managed modern AWS SaaS serving over 100 customers, leading a global, distributed team of 7 engineers.
Migration of workloads from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Istio and a GitOps CD pipeline.
Onboarded platform to a 360 Observability solution (Observe), 100% Infrastructure as Code and enhanced developer experience with Cortex
Managed a GCP data platform leveraging Big Query, Cloud Composer, and Looker for seamless data integration and analytics across AWS
Handled Site Reliability (SRE) and incident management functions for multi-tenant infrastructure
Partnered with engineering and architecture leadership to roadmap future state of path to production
Established a Continuous Learning initiative with learning platforms, knowledge shares, demos and mentoring sessions
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Observe, Kubernetes, GitOps, Jenkins

09/2022 – 02/2023

Improved release cycle speed by 30% by implementing a phase of DevOps roadmap for the cloud product suite
Systech provides a packaging and industrial coding, product authentication and traceability solutions.
Technologies: AWS, ECS, Docker, Shell, Jenkins, Datadog, Java, Python

04/2022 – 06/2022

Delivered a cost-efficient, scalable siloed tenancy SaaS for Network Detection and Response (NDR) system driven on AI/ML platform
Improved vendor integration efficiency by 25%developing a scalable, configuration-driven ingestion pipeline handling terabytes of data
Managed Core Engineering Team of 5 and a SaaS operations team of 4 DevOps engineers
Technologies: AWS, ElasticSearch (ELK), Hadoop, AI/ML Pipelines, SysLogs Python, Ansible, Google Suite, Kubernetes

06/2019 – 03/2022

Managed a global engineering team that provides a big data, cybersecurity batch processing data pipeline ingesting network data into the AI/ML/Rule based anomalous threat detection solution handling TBS of data
Engineered a one click self-service customer onboarding accelerating experience from weeks to less than an hour
Led operations team delivering automated solutions for CI/CD, provisioning, onboarding, releases, observability
Rearchitect platform services as we grew from 5 to 80 customers by emphasizing shared, reliable, secure multi-tenant services deployed on immutable infrastructure with a roadmap that made transition seamless to existing and new customers.
Reduced AWS costs by 50% with improved resource utilization plan and a process that continuously tunes capacity and performance improvements
Technologies: AWS, ElasticSearch (ELK), Hadoop, AI/ML Pipelines, SysLogs Python, Ansible, Google Suite, Kubernetes

04/2022 – 06/2022

Lead DevOps and Rapid Response Engineering teams for ADMS, a financial loan document management system on AWS serving hundreds of millions of documents and images
Led migration of workloads from private cloud (Verizon) to AWS, established DR and compliance practices
Reduced release times from several hours to minutes
Managed infrastructure of a microservice based multimodule deployment comprised of dozens of micro-services and close to 750 VMs with 99.9% uptime
Automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration and monitoring using Chef, Vagrant, ELK and Zabbix
Created a five-member cross-functional rapid response engineering team bringing MTTR from 24hrs to 2hrs
Expanded DevOps operations by building a team in India to support Dev and QA organizations
Technologies: AWS, Java, Spring (MicroServices), Chef, Vagrant, Zabbix

2007 – 2015

Managed Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Creo (CAD) Interaction Development Team
Managed Development Team of 6 engineers for Product Point, .NET SharePoint application for SMB PLM. Responsible for integration platform for Creo and other CAD vendors like SolidWorks, AutoCAD etc
Led a team of 2 engineers integrating a PTC acquisition, Arbortext (Dynamic Technical Publication Solution) with Windchill
Technologies: .Net, Java, Windchill, Sharepoint, CAD Integration, PLM

2002 – 20106

ETL solution for a J2EE based Product Data Management (PDM) Migration from Pro/Intralink to Windchill. Moved 35000 customers to Windchill in less than 2 years
Modeled and implemented Pro/ENGINEER CAM model integration with Windchill using UML and Rational Rose to enable seamless data exchange and lifecycle management
Wrote a swing MVC app to create a library of machining strategies
Technologies: Java, C++, Swing MVC, Windchill, Oracle Database, Rational Rose, UML Modeling, CAD, CAM, PDM, PLM

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