Badari Gudivada

• Lead a globally distributed service build and delivery team to build SAP's cloud-based products. Technical leader and overall SPOC for build and service delivery.
• Assess product architecture, layout design in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
• Directly responsible to lead cost and capacity optimization efforts for the product.
• Delivery of quality builds with reduction in time to market.
• Transformation of the build and delivery organization to a devops organization.
• New technology adaption in cloud build and delivery.

Achievements:

• Successfully build and delivered SAP SuccessFactors products in more than 28 private public cloud locations as SAAS on multiple platforms (legacy, open stack, Azure, AWS etc.) to more than 7000 customers and 49 Million end users that includes new location build and adding new functionalities in the products.
• Strategically hired talented engineers with devops mind set and background, developed talent in the team, created devops culture, increased diversity.
• Improved build quality by achieving near zero build related incidents in post-production thru improved automation, improved requirements, improved collaborations and documentation.
• Successfully implemented big data using Apache Hadoop platform in 28 data centres to have GDPR compliances in SAP SuccessFactors products.
• Organized all build functions around partnerships to better support business unit goals.
• Developed build standards and policies designed to streamline build and service delivery.
• Coordinated new hire recruitment, training and development.
• Collaborated with manufacturing and supply chain management.
• Reviewed and negotiated contracts with carriers to optimize shipping costs.
• Coordinated with multiple departments to ensure seamless service delivery across all touchpoints.
• Optimized resource utilization, identifying opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency improvements.
• Developed comprehensive reporting systems that tracked service delivery progress transparently and efficiently.

Run day to day IT operations & Business Application support.

• Problem management, root cause identification, escalation.
• Continuous improvement and implementation of best practices such as ITIL.
• Led Installation, maintenance, upgrade of infrastructure, servers, business applications, web services; monitoring IT systems, corporate applications.
• Led IT Projects.

• Developed comprehensive engineering documents for all projects.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project requirements, establish goals, and develop actionable strategies for success.
• Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.

Successfully worked on implementation and movement of 4 mission critical data centers.

• Supported an infrastructure with more than 4 Millions of active users and achieved more than 99.99% availability.

• Proactively identified security vulnerabilities in application code, implementing necessary measures to mitigate risks.
• Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.