Pradeep Kulkarni

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About Pradeep Kulkarni

A Conscientious Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in driving large complex multi-cloud transformation programs in an agile ecosystem by conceptualizing, designing, and deploying best-in-class DevOps services/practices & a strategist for cloud operations, automation, implementing CI/CD pipelines, leveraging precise combination of technical instinct & stakeholder management.As DevOps/CloudOps Architect responsible for managing E2E activities involved in seamless software delivery, system reliability & optimizing cloud infrastructure through comprehensive IaaC solutions for data center server, storage, and networking by leading global diverse multi-tenant teams.Cloud Ops: Architected & delivered E2E cloud (AWS & Azure) infrastructure provisioning through automation for delivering 4 enterprise software products & implemented secure, scalable, reliable networks, compute resources, storage solutions tailored to product-specific requirements.Cloud Containerization: Led the migration of over 90 customer instances to Docker containers using cloud-native container clusters, streamlining end-to-end deployment on AKS and EKS Kubernetes engines. Successfully containerized the entire Metric Stream environment, reducing setup time from 7 days to 1 hour.DevOps: Designed & delivered a next-gen continuous integration & continuous deployment staged pipelines across SDLC right from development to production through implementing standard DevOps tools & processes reducing time to market by 30%.Setting up of COE: Established a DevOps Centre of Excellence, delivering secure, enterprise-wide application containerization solutions. Implemented automated, security-focused frameworks across the DevOps lifecycle, from version control to production deployments.Data Centre Migrations: Championed the delivery of 15+ global cloud transformation programs & migrated 500+ application instances from on-prem non-container to containerized Azure Cloud including server setup, security tools, monitoring systems ensuring.Bagged the prestigious “CTO Award” for implementing end to end the best innovative idea & successful implementation leading huge cost savings & stable environments.