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💼 Past Experience

Summary of Thomas Kurian Theakanath's Work experiences:Director of IT Infrastructure & OperationsThomas Kurian Theakanath is currently a DevOps Consultant at Kurian, Inc in San Jose, CA. DevOps consultant who can architect, implement and direct/mentor teams to roll out DevOps automation projects and processes, especially in startup environments.project around the following DevOps tool-chain: AWS, Git, Jenkins, Jira/Confluence, Ansible, Artifactory, DataDog/Nagios/Zabbix for monitoring, Hashicorop products: Vagrant, Nomad, Consul and Vault. Senior Cloud Platform Administrator at RMS from September 2013 to August 2014 (1 year) in Newark,CA. Senior Cloud Platform Administrator at RMS from September 2013 to August 2014 (1 year) in Newark,CA.Working on rolling out RMS(one), RMS's SaaS offering on the cloud.Co-founder at Puzha.com from January 2000 to October 2012 (12 years 10 months) in Kochi, Kerala, India. Puzha.com has been a pioneering web magazine in Malayalam language. With other technologists, founded the company and architectsed and implemented the first web magazine and self publishing platform in Malayalam on LAMP stack. The company also launched the largest online book store in Malayalam in association with major publishing houses. Coverage by The Hindu on puzha.com's 10th anniversary: http://www.hindu.com/mp/2010/05/06/stories/2010050651800400.htm.Directorate of IT Infrastructure & Operations Baton Systems in Fremont, California. Manages AWS Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Cyber Security and IT Operations in a startup environment. Expert DevOps Engineer at SAP Ariba from March 2017 to March 2019 (2 years 1 month) in Palo Alto, California. Consultant/SME for monitoring, specifically Datadog.Maintained Cobalt, an in-house CI/CD platform built using Jenkins, Artifactory and Hashicorp suite of products.Supported Docker/microservices based application environments and provisioned related infra in AWS.Rolled out Ansible as a general purpose tool for the team. Evangelized it and trained team members.DevOps Architect at BlackArrow, Inc. from December 2015 to March 2017 (1 year 4 months) in San Jose, CA.Roll out comprehensive monitoring solutions based on Zabbix and Sumo Logic.Senior DevOps Engineer at SleepIQ LABS from August 2015 to December 2015 (5 months) in San Jose, CA.Member of DevOps team that managed build & release platform that used git and multiple instances of Jenkins and Artifactory, on AWS.Expert DevOps Engineer at SAP Ariba from March 2017 to March 2019 (2 years 1 month) in Palo Alto, California.Working on a project to fully automate the operational aspects of an app stack, from AWS infrastructure provision

🎓 Education

Thomas Kurian Theakanath's education has spanned nearly 20 years, giving him the experience and background required for his professional goals. Kurianath's high school education at St. Paul's College, Kalamassery, Kerala, gave him the education and background he now needs to pursue an embroidery career. M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, gave him the skills and experience needed to pursue a career in industrial management. At the University of Calicut, he obtained a B. Tech. from 1985 to 1989, majoring in Production Engineering. This experience and background will help him to pursue an embroidery career as a serious and Ads-Supported embroidery business owner.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Thomas Kurian Theakanath has a wide range of experience in the field of technology. As Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations at Baton Systems in Fremont, California, he was responsible for overseeing the roll-out of DevOps automation projects and processes in a startup environment. His experience with Git and Jenkins allows him to architectural, implement and direct/mentor teams to roll out DevOps automation projects and processes, especially in startup environments. In addition, he is also an Expert DevOps Engineer at SAP Ariba from March 2017 to March 2019. His experience with datadog, support for Docker and Microservices-based application environments, and provisioning related infra inAWS also allows him to excel in this area. Thomas Kurian Theakanath is also a Senior Sofware Engineer/Manager at Yahoo! from January 2007 to September 2013, and a Member Technical Staff (Engineering Operations) at GET IT Mobile Inc. from September 2014 to July 2015. In addition, he has experience with lead the rewiring of UAD (Unified Advertising Datamart), a display advertising data mart and reporting system, into new data centers. This effort also involved migrating ETL jobs to Hadoop based grid computing environment, and involved in sizing and architecting the data pipelines with system components running in multiple data centers.