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Nithin Agaram

Nithin Agaram

Fremont

Summary

More than 10+ years of professional experience in IT infrastructure field as a Release Engineer, Release Management, DevOps/Automation Engineer, Linux Administrator and System Administration

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Release Manager

Gap Inc (Consultant from Nisum)
04.2018 - Current
  • Coordinated with Project Managers and Technical Managers to receive inputs regarding various stages of a planned project release.
  • Devised and implemented automation solutions for all aspects of Release engineer activities, such as automatic change creation in ServiceNow and database deployments in pre-production.
  • Implemented and utilized release management tools that allow teams to plan, manage, and control the release schedule and track the status of each release.
  • Worked closely with QA and project teams to identify, create and/or implement processes to efficiently manage the release and testing of various applications.
  • Ensured adherence to the release management process by various teams and drove continuous improvements in processes to ensure release readiness.
  • Worked closely with program/project management and change management to ensure smooth transition and awareness of release prior to deployment.
  • Handled multiple project releases with high priorities and maintained a release calendar for the program.
  • Led migration of CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions (GHA), enabling faster, more efficient, and cloud-native deployments.

Automation Engineer

Gap Inc (Consultant from Nisum)
06.2015 - 03.2018
  • Built out all original program infrastructure on VMWare and OpenStack in on-premise data centers for Gap's global inventory/supply chain system from proof-of-concepts to massive scaling out for successful go-lives of Gap Outlet, Gap, Banana Republic, BRFS, and Old Navy globally.
  • Developed, maintained, and supported CI/CD pipelines for numerous applications from an SCM commit to production deployment.
  • Successfully created a pipeline for a Spring/Node web application using Chef, Gradle, and Electric Commander.
  • Migrated pipelines for microservices from Electric Commander to Jenkins, leveraging Chef and Gradle to improve deployment efficiency and scalability.
  • Gained strong expertise in automation and build tools such as Chef, Docker, Ruby, Shell, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, and Electric Commander.
  • Used Docker containers to quickly deploy Linux-based applications and built scalable environments for microservices.
  • Built deployment pipelines with zero downtime using Blue-Green Strategy.
  • Automated regression and performance testing before deployments and coordinated deployments across products before transitioning to DevOps product teams..

Education

Master's - Computer Science

University of Michigan Flint
Flint, MI
05.2015

Skills

  • Project coordination
  • GIT
  • Agile project management
  • Jira
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Automated deployment processes
  • System configuration management
  • Release Process
  • Linux
  • Release Management
  • Change Management Process
  • Vendor management
  • Release planning
  • Release scheduling
  • Jenkins
  • GHA (GitHub Actions)
  • Docker
  • Ruby
  • Bash
  • Cloud
  • Artifactory
  • Version control systems
  • Supporting deployments

Timeline

Release Manager

Gap Inc (Consultant from Nisum)
04.2018 - Current

Automation Engineer

Gap Inc (Consultant from Nisum)
06.2015 - 03.2018

Master's - Computer Science

University of Michigan Flint

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