Parani Kumar

Background

About Parani Kumar

With 17+ years in IT, I began as a developer specializing in C#.Net, SQL Server, ASP, and VB6. Over time, I transitioned into consulting roles, focusing on migration and upgrades as a technical solution lead for various business-critical applications and products. Currently, I specialize in architecting, implementing and upgrading observability solutions for IoT products and services, using tools like Elasticsearch, Redgate, Tanium, AppDynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana within DevOps solutions. I have extensive experience in software strategy, design, development, enhancement, testing, and deployments, including system support and operations. My work includes significant onsite experience in the USA and Canada, collaborating with core business and IT users. Key areas of expertise: • Observability solutions, which are part of the DevOps tools chain, including logging, metrics monitoring, APM, synthetic monitoring, ML, and AIOps for cloud-native IoT platforms. • Architecting and implementing observability and AI tool solutions in collaboration with system and enterprise architects. • Coordination with vendor professional services and architects for solution implementation and on-premises to cloud migrations, including evaluating and solutioning SaaS as fit. • Extensive experience in operations and support services for on-premises business-critical applications. • Leading operations teams, setting objectives, and mentoring for productivity and efficiency improvements. • Cost optimization of observability tools. • Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Services, AWS, GitLab, AKS, and RedHat OpenShift for various business and engineering needs. • Implementation, upgrades, and software currency maintenance of tools like Elasticsearch, AppDynamics, Splunk, Redgate, and Tanium. I am passionate about exploring AI tools and services, continuously improving my knowledge of DevOps practices, and increasing ROI through effective use of observability tools within DevOps solutions.