Premal Acharya

Background

About Premal Acharya

I have over 17+ years of experience as DevOps and Release Manager including Team Foundation Server, Administration, Azure DevOps, Continues Integration and Continuous Deployments. I have vast experience working for Finance, banking and Insurance domain. I am Certified Azure DevOps Expert and Terraform Associate with hands-on experience in below areas. • Evaluate software release, and engineering process and propose the solution to enhance the existing process and/or establish a new process. • Perform build and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, TFS and Jenkins. • Manage deployments using CI/CD pipeline of Azure DevOps and infrastructure on Azure cloud. • Ensuring timely product release. Work with business and engage in release planning. Attending Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings for UAT and production release approval. • Conduct periodic release process and application audit and ensure compliance. • Evaluate DevOps tools, create POC and propose the best practices for Release, build management and DevOps. • Perform deployments on Production and UAT servers, Configuring and maintaining SIT, UAT, and Production environments, Create release notes and manage software releases across the product lines. • Communicating and coordinating with various teams for effective production release. • Working with PMO, leads, internal stakeholders and teams to ensure timely release. • Predominantly worked in Finance and Insurance and Insurance Broking companies. • Experience of working with Cross Geographical customers - Singapore, USA, Australia