Pawan Dontula

Principal Software Systems Engineer

Dell Technologies•  April 2017 - Present•  Dublin, Ireland

Solutions Engineering Team that builds Edge to Cloud Infrastructure using Agile development. Primarily worked on Native Edge Platform – an edge operations software platform. Developed Blueprints that are purpose built for ISVs in Manufacturing, Retail & Digital Cities. Support the integration of assets from agile teams and manage deployment and release. Deployment and management of diverse edge infrastructure and applications seamlessly. Coding, Testing, Code Reviews, driving Releases alongside Code Promotion using CI/CD. Managed Product testing, Systems Integration, End to End Regression tests on Python. Experienced in VMware Virtualization product suites. Configuring Endpoints, Fabric Groups, Reservations, Blueprints & entitlements. Designing Workflows for automating backup and replication tasks on distributed systems. Automated functional tests, contract tests, integration & End-to-End tests in Python(tox). Followed Scrum at Scale, Agile Framework & Lean Methodology, Kanban, etc.

Sr Software Engineer

Oracle EMEA Ltd•  May 2016 - March 2017•  Dublin, Ireland

Worked on Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM. Managed Product testing UAT, Regression tests on PCA code and log bugs in Bug DB. Developed strategy for cloud migration and implementation of best practices. Expertise in building private & public clouds for Oracle applications. Lead data center projects to migrate physical platforms to cloud environments. Automating ZFS storage array configuration and LUN provisioning for PCA. Assisting the virtualization team with preparing their private cloud infrastructure. Involved in SDLC methodologies like Agile, Scrum etc. Worked on cutting-edge solutions for building software-driven datacenters (SDDC). Involved in Pioneer projects for getting Oracle OpenStack on PCA. Management of repository and version control setup like SVN, Git, GitHub etc.

DevOps Manager

GAVS Technologies•  September 2015 - April 2016•  Chennai, India

Automated integration testing using PowerShell, Puppet, and Python. Develop strategies to migrate VMs from On-Premises to Cloud AWS/Azure. Automation of User Creation and Deletion in Active Directory. Management of repository and source safe setup like SVN, Git, GitHub etc. Act as a support resource to diagnose any import/export or data anomalies or quality problems found. Act as a consultant to development on infrastructure, scalability, monitoring & operational process.