Vinodh Ravi
| Austin, Texas, US
CORE SKILLS
Develop high performing teams: Excellent
Product management for Internal Platforms: Excellent
Declarative GitOps CI/CD: Excellent
Cloud aware application development: Very Good
Site Reliability Engineering: Very Good
Manage Enterprise scale projects: Very Good
WORK
PNC, SVP, Technology Infrastructure (Site Reliability Engineering) 2019 — current
  • Provide a safe way for developers and operators to deploy cloud native micro services in containerized production environments without affecting real users.
  • Build a fast and easy-to-use query service for large scale event data.
  • Launch a product to measure service availability, uptime, outages and to run blameless postmortems.
PNC, VP, Technology Infrastructure (Infrastructure Automation) 2017 — 2019
  • Reduced time to market by 50% through developer uplift and infrastructure environment build automation.
  • Created simplified developer experiences (UI/API) to manage virtual, container and cloud-native provisioning workloads.
  • Reduced operational spending by 30% by introducing the adoption of open-source tools and promoting a culture of internal product development.
  • Designed access control policies in collaboration with stakeholders in Enterprise Architecture and CyberSecurity.
VISA, Lead Systems Engineer 2012 — 2016
  • Implemented a distributed system framework to orchestrate the server provisioning and configuration management of Linux and Windows instances.
  • Create logging and reporting facilities to analyze application bottlenecks, create incident responses and notifications, feed data to capacity planning systems for real time decisioning and prevent potential failures.
  • Developed APIs to manage authorization for Self Service Automation using Platform Permission Sets within OIM.
  • Acted as a Change Agent by providing leadership and direction to junior team members.
HP Software Services, Technology Consultant 2011 — 2011
  • Developed complex work flows to manage customer self-service apps, cross-authentication, automation and monitoring.
  • Developed web services based interfaces to automate events related to incident, change management and problem management.
Xinify/Digital Celerity, Practice Lead 2005 — 2010
  • Established globally distributed cross functional teams to deliver high quality CA Clarity product extensions.
  • Developed ERP integration offerings on CA Clarity’s on-Demand platform.
General Motors, Onstar R&D, Sr Technologist 2001 — 2004
  • Lead the design of the system specification for the telematics middleware, communication and management infrastructure to support downloadable apps and services.
  • Key contributor to the design of the Onstar Low Cost Platform.
STACKS
Languages: Python, Golang, Java
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Tekton, ArgoCD, Bitbucket
Observability: Humio, OpenTelemetry, DynaTrace, Prometheus, SyslogNG
Messaging & Streaming: Kafka, Rabbit MQ, Redis
Persistence: Redis Graph, MySQL, MongoDB
Experimental/Small Scale: Clickhouse, CockroachDB, NiFi, Spark
PATENTS
System and Method for personalized access to vehicle data services through portals. - Steven J. Ross, Stephen C. Habermas, Vinodh C. Ravi, Jeffrey G. Ravas
Method and System for providing flexible vehicle communication within a vehicle communication system. - Ross, Steven J, Habermas, Stephen C, Ravi, Vinodh C
EDUCATION
B.S. - Mechanical Engineering 1993 — 1997
University of Madras
Advanced Diploma - Network Centered Computing 1997 — 1998
National Institute of Information Technology, Chennai, India
CERTIFICATES
Deep Learning with fast.ai 2020
Prof. Jeremy Howard, USF
Algorithmic Toolbox 2016
UCSD, Coursera
Probabilistic Graphical Models 2006
Prof. Daphne Koller, Stanford University
INTERESTS
Chaos Engineering, Game Days & Psychological Safety.
Unix Philosophy of simple and composable tools e.g. https://k14s.io/
BCI, Mind Uploading and Works of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.