Nitish Srinivas Kulkarni

Experience

• 

  George Mason University

  Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Played a major role in preparing an online web portfolio for the professor which contains all his class schedules and also installing PC operating systems (Windows and Ubuntu) in lab systems. • Updated course materials in online portal every semester.• Assisted Professor in conducting Examinations, seminars.• Graded all the assignments and uploaded them in the portal

• 

  Mindtree

  Apr 2017 - Jan 2022

  As part of Microsoft Capacity Operations Team, worked on building new sustainable Azure Datacenter in Arizona which totally runs on Solar energy with 0% water usage to cool Servers. Lead the project to build Microsoft’s first enterprise Datacenter for ‘Reliance Jio’ and reduced their cluster buildout timelines by 60% and DC Ready to Unrestricted Access of Ring 0 Services buildout in 2.5x times faster than previously built regions. In addition, implemented 6 Azure New global region expansions.Roles:• Team Management: Responsible for 3 modules in Azure buildout and lead a team of 15 to manage the customer deliverables.• Executed Project planning and management tasks to meet customer expectations.• Lead communication with Program managers across Microsoft’s cross functional team to meet project deliverables and improvements. • Partnered with internal teams to discuss code and project improvements to improve buildout timelines. • Code Fix Documentation: Analyzing common faults and working with stakeholder teams for code fix from platform end ensuring stability to the platform.• Business Intelligence: Generating and analyzing Power BI reports to track the status and improvements.• Implemented New Region Buildouts in Azure that were successfully launched under tight deadlines. Show less Worked on building capacity to Microsoft Azure customers from docking servers in datacenters to delivering capacity to customers. During this project, I was responsible for end-end operations for Azure Cluster Control Planes, Autopilot and Pilotfish buildouts, and reduced their buildout timelines by 40%. Implemented Firewall configurations for their private cloud network and reduced their cluster buildout time by 25%. Worked on provisioning Azure core infrastructure to all Azure customers including FirstParty Customers, Bing, Xbox etc. To monitor overall health and progress, I developed a PowerBI dashboard report with KPI metrics• Crisis Management: Ensure to work with multiple Azure internal teams and drive through the closure of issues smoothly by providing systematic updates considering the impact.• Architectural Expertise: Deep dive knowledge in Implementing Azure solutions involving troubleshooting of all the issues.• Root cause analysis: Working closely with Azure core development teams on identifying the root cause of the issue and prepare respective RCAs which helps improve Azure process.• Team Collaboration: Working with various teams like Compute, networking and Storage in AZURE outages and provide live updates to customer improving their experience.• Working on provisioning Azure core infrastructure to Microsoft’s external customers, FirstParty Customers, Bing, Xbox etc • Provide design solution to implement software load balancing services like traffic manager, load balancer, application gateways and diagnose performance and stability related issues.• Business Intelligence: Generating and analyzing Power BI reports to track the status and improvements.• Analyzing the cluster architecture and work on setting up required firewall rules for the cluster flow. • Deploy virtual tenants on clusters a pert of testing to ensure that the build cluster is safe to go live.• Work on meeting the SLAs and investigate on Root Cause Analysis for missed SLA. Show less Team: SFBOT (Service Fabric Build Out)• Responsible for building new clusters in Azure and mitigating the errors in it. • Working on RNM (Regional Network Management) to upgrade the Azure network to latest technology. • Assigning VIPs, VLANs and MAC addresses to the blades in the clusters. • Working with Decomm and Storage team for building new clusters and deleting the older. • Creating the required DNS records for the blades in the cluster. • Working on Azure Automation.• Working on Incident and crisis management tools.Skills: PowerShell, Azure, DNS, VIP, Hyper-V. Show less

  • Module Lead

    Mar 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Azure Engineer– Microsoft Azure

    Nov 2017 - Mar 2020

  • Azure Network Operations Engineer

    Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
• 

  Microsoft

  Jan 2022 - now

  Technical Program Manager II

  As Technical Program Manager 2 at Microsoft, I led initiatives to optimize the server provisioning process for setting up new data centers for Azure. By identifying and implementing opportunities for left-shifting within deployment workflows for AI(Artificial Intelligence) Regions, I significantly reduced manual efforts and accelerated provisioning timelines by 30%.