Sai Saran Tankala
Summary
Accomplishments
Led automation of GDPR solution deployment for HCM products in
20+ datacenters
Led E2E cycle of Certification Validation Framework
(100+ Cert modules)
development to rollout for HCM Products and Platform
Led Application Maintenance Services for Career SaaS solution provider having more than
100+
customers
Led E2E development and managed services for guest facing
‘Mobile-Check In’
solution
Led Application Maintenance Services for Commercial Insurance Underwriting Solution with annual revenue of
$3 billion
Anchored key candidate
CMMi Level 5
Certification projects for global outsourcing IT Serveices Provider
Domains
Cloud Based HR Solutions
Hospitality Solutions
Banks & Insurance Solutions
Manafacturing Solutions
Real Estate Audit Solutions
Engagements
Marriott International
AIG
CIT
TMP Worldwide
Volvo
End Users
Internal Teams
Engineering Teams
Operation Teams
Business Teams
Executive Teams
Processes
- Waterfall
- Scrum Agile
- CMMi Level 5
- ITIL®
- PMP
- Cross Functional Teams
- Agile Development & Scrum
Employment & Education Credentials
SAP Successfactors (April 2016 - Present)
Mindtree (Mar 2006 - March 2016 )
Worked in India with IT services companies like Kanrad, Kshema and Mindtree between 1997-2006
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-P01)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Certified Scrum Master
- ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery with the SAP HANA Platform
Indian Inistitue of Advanced Management
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA)
Business Administration, Management
Andhra University
Bachelor of Sciences
ChemistryExperience
Scrum Master & Program Manager
Project1: Led Certification Service (Client server solution) for Successfactors Product stacks (50+ server stacks), provides ability to validate layers of OS, Web, App and DB per Architecture, Operations standards and integration points. Service has the ability to validate over 1000 servers remotely in 1-2 hours through API and gather validation report. 100+ Engineers use this service with more than 2000 certifications per month for new data center build outs and expansion of existing ones. Service Design, development and delivery implemented in Agile model (Tools & Technology: SAPUI5, PHP, Bash, Inspec, Selenium, Git)
Project2: Led UCS Bare-Metal (SLES, Windows) and Virtual Machine Provisioning Automation services, provides ability to provision and deploy with OS and validates with certification through API calls. This service enabled reduction of 3-4 weeks of manual effort per each data center site development. Service developed in Agile model (Tools & Technology: Python, Chef, Rundeck, Git)
Project3: Led GDPR E2E stack build Automation Service, enabled successful deployment across datacenters (solution delivery enabled deployment saving 12+ weeks of deployment effort across multiple sites saving significant effort and rework). Service delivered in combination of Agile and Waterfall models (Tools & Technology: Chef, Python, Rundeck, Apache, Tomcat, Java, Hadoop & MySQL)
Project4: Led implementation of Windows Virtualization and MSSQL End to End Automation (Tools & Technology: Chef, Rundeck, WinRM)
Project5: Led implementation of AFWLite framework, which provides ability to deploy entire Platform and Product Deployment Automation Framework in single Virtual Machine to develop isolated/lab environments where integration points are not available and use as validation environment for changes to primary framework, (Tools & Technology: Docker Containers, Chef, MySQL, Rundeck)
Project6: Led CICD pipeline implementation, which has ability to retrieve code, build, perform validation certification and deploy to QA and subsequently to Production (Tools & Technology: Jenkins, Ruby, Groovy, Inspec)
Responsibilities:
In these projects, played role as Scrum Master in assisting Product Owner & 10+ global team members for Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Standups, Sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospects) and successful agile techniques such as user stories, TDD and continuous integration Enabled team to resolve Program/Project impediments, improve transparency, facilitate remediation, decision making, conflict resolution and highlight risks with leadership Coordinated Program roll-outs & provided Automation support coverage for multiple development and Operations teams with measurable SLA. Conducted Program reviews and status reporting of initiatives to leadership and stakeholders
Delivery Manager
Project1: Led Development and Support Services of cloud based enterprise solution, which enables guests to perform reservation Check-ins across 3000+ properties
Project2: Led Development and Support Services of cloud based enterprise solution, which enables booking Meeting rooms
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Managed Service relationship with Cloud Infrastructure provider (Rackspace), Single point of escalation to ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction (including business teams) for multiple portfolio of (small and large) projects with 5+million revenues with timely completion with <10% change variance and with 45% gross margin Delivered multiple small projects (<6 months duration) with predefined milestones and Fixed Price SoWs within under budget Supported pre-sales teams in defining and evaluating proposals (RFP) for new customer acquisition efforts and bidding for larger project contracts with existing customer base Managed development and QA teams of 60 members across multiple geographies
Tools and Technology: Java, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, Linux, Tomcat, Apache, SVN
Customer: Marriott
Delivery Manager
Project:Led Development and Support Services of SaaS solution, which enables brand activation and talent acquisition solution (framework to manage career site) for 100+ customers
Responsibilities:
Single point of escalation for large SaaS solution development and maintenance services Responsible for Planning, Scope Management, Estimations and delivery of milestones and achieve Acceptance criteria Responsible for contract definition, SLA negotiations and deliverables Managed teams ranging 25-30 members of team across multiple geographies
Tools and Technology: Microsoft .Net C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server, VSS
Customer: TMP Worldwide
Delivery Manager
Project1: Led multi-year application maintenance and development support for commercial insurance solution, which services underwriting commercial insurance policies. Supported 100+ underwriters servicing 1000+ policies and generating revenue of $3billion. Managed approx.500-700 support requests/changes per month. Implemented efficient SOPs to enable >95% SLA and deliver enhancements on time with no defects
Project2: Led development of Data Warehouse solution which integrates 20 enterprise wides data marts into single Data Warehouse solution with finite reporting capability
Responsibilities:
Responsible for AMS and Development Services and single point of contact for multiple stakeholders Managed teams ranging 20-40 members across multiple geographies. Developed Proposals, Estimations, scope management and SoW definitions
Tools and Technology: Visual Basic, Sybase, Oracle, ETL Datastage
Customers: AIG, CIT
Education
Indian Inistitue of Advanced Management
Andhra University
Interests
TBD.