Vinodh Somakumar

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Aug 1995 - Apr 1997

  ASA
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  HCL Technologies

  May 1997 - Dec 2006

  Program Manager

  Growing up from the Member Technical Staff to Program Manager, I have played multiple roles in HCL Technologies, working across Operating System areas such as Filesystem, Core Networking, Telecom & Optical Networking domains - SONET/SDH, LCAS, Virtual Concatenation. Worked on Embedded systems and on RTOS such as VxWorks. Worked on Board Bring-up on a SONET Optical OC-192 Framer chip.

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  IBM

  Dec 2006 - Dec 2021

  * Strategic Planning/Execution and Delivery Management of Enterprise Systems Development - z15(3Q/2019 GA) and z14(4Q/2017 GA). * Leading teams contributing on Z Cloud enablement - > Migration of IBM Cloud Private Master/Proxy Nodes on Z/Secure Container, GlusterFS on ICPv3.2, Vulnerability Advisor, Cloud AutomationManager > UPI-based OpenShift 3.11/4.2 enablement on Z over z/VM & NFS/Open SDN, On-prem HyperProtect Virtual Server w/ Secure Build/BYOI &PKCS11 > Development of Secure Service Containers(SSC) for Z/LinuxONE, the single-most unique differentiation for IBM Cloud on Z, around Secure Cloud, and Dynamic Partition Manager(DPM), the Infrastructure Management of Choice for LinuxONE-based Cloud. > Unified Storage Management for Cloud & Enterprise Z in DPM, OpenStack enablement on DPM, VLAN Tagging. > Trusted Boot and Bring-your-own-key Support in SSC, Virtual MAC Networking, Client Application Modernization using z/OS Connect & DevOps* IPV6 Support in OSA Adapter, SSL/TLS Support, Hot Plug support for I/O Adapters, PCIe-based NVM Express Enablement * IBM Academy WG Solution Guide for OpenShift 4.X on Z, on Strategy, Reference Architecture, Architectural Guidance on Storage/Networking * Base CEC Firmware, Storage & Networking I/O Firmware, Virtualization Management, Secure Containers, Parallel Sysplex, Z Emulation on Desktop and Z Middleware - TxSeries & CICS TG Show less PMP-Certified Senior Development Manager, AIX OS Development, Virtualization(Power) and System Performance(Power) Involves Strategic Planning, Direction Setting, End-to-End Program Management of Operating System & Kernel Development projects, across Base OS, Power Virtualization VIOS, Networking(TCP/IP), Cluster Computing, High Availability, Security and Filesystems. Extended Role includes End-to-End Program Management of Performance Analysis and Optimization of Power Hardware, AIX/Linux OS, Power Virtualization and Industry standard Benchmarking projects. Show less

  • Program Director, Managed Private Cloud for IaaS - Redhat Solutions, Storage & Network technologies

    Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Program Director, IBM Z Development Lab - Firmware, Cloud, Middleware Development

    Nov 2016 - Jul 2020

  • Senior Dev Manager, India Software Labs

    Jun 2011 - Oct 2016

  • Development Manager, India Software Labs

    Dec 2006 - Jun 2011
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  Kyndryl

  Nov 2021 - Jun 2022

  Program Director, Cloud Offerings Architecture - Network, Security, Multi-cloud Managed Services
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  Kyndryl

  Feb 2023 - now

  Director, Offerings Architecture - Security and Public Cloud(AWS, Azure, Google Cloud),
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  Kyndryl

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  Director, Offerings Architecture