Profile
Experienced engineering manager and DevOps platform lead with a strong technical background in building and operating CI/CD platforms in hybrid cloud environments. Combines hands-on engineering expertise with people leadership and product ownership.
Proven track record in modernizing build and release platforms, improving engineering practices and enabling reliable delivery of enterprise software under strict compliance requirements.
Experience
- Led and coached a team of engineers, focusing on performance management, professional development and team effectiveness.
- Owned the CI/CD platform architecture and evolution across Azure, AWS and on-premises environments.
- Drove improvements in engineering practices, including CI/CD adoption, automated testing and integration of AI in the development lifecycle.
- Acted as key interface between DevOps, Product Management, SecOps and leadership.
- Led platform modernization initiatives, including migration to Kubernetes and transition from Jenkins to GitLab CI/CD.
- Designed and maintained container-based build and test environments using Docker.
- Integrated security and compliance tooling such as BlackDuck, Polaris and code signing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Contributed hands-on to infrastructure automation, pipeline design and troubleshooting.
- Ensured predictable and compliant release delivery, with no missed releases due to DevOps or compliance-related issues.
- Owned and prioritized the DevOps backlog and translated stakeholder needs into actionable user stories.
- Defined and maintained the roadmap for CI/CD improvements, platform stability and release reliability.
- Collaborated closely with development, operations and management stakeholders.
- Contributed hands-on to automation of build, test and infrastructure processes across AWS and Azure environments.
- Strengthened alignment between platform strategy and engineering execution.
- Developed automation and tooling supporting CI/CD pipelines and release workflows.
- Maintained infrastructure and frameworks across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Facilitated Agile processes and improved team collaboration and delivery effectiveness.
- Developed and maintained automated test environments and supporting frameworks.
- Created automated GUI tests and defined test plans and test cases.
- Organized and coordinated test cycles supporting product releases.
- Worked as consultant in roles including Test Manager and product specialist.
- Developed automated GUI tests and executed load and stress testing.
- Delivered training and supported acceptance testing processes.