Kumar Nishant

Experience

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  Tech Mahindra

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

  Technical Associate

  Tech Mahindra is part of the US $15.4 billion Mahindra Group and is a leading global systems integrator and business transformation consulting organization. • Developed data center search optimized tool i.e. DART to achieve 200% improvement • Troubleshot issues for data reclamation, saved an estimated impact of US$ 0.5 Million • Worked with US customers like AT&T

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  Agiliad

  Aug 2012 - Aug 2015

  Senior Software Engineer

  A product engineering startup company with leading in Storage, cloud and virtualization. • Reduced turnaround time for server optimization by 30% • Core team member for POC projects • Worked on RFP response and prepared SoW for software validation and high level design • Improved product quality and automated regression by 30% • Rendered services as an AGILE Engagement Consultant • Facilitated daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, & so on • Worked with US customers like Simplivity corp and Marvell Semiconductor Show less

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  Presso Clean Tech Solutions pvt ltd

  Sept 2014 - Mar 2016

  Co-Founder/Product Manager

  Presso is an app-based laundry services aggregator in O2O space which provides convenient, delivery platform to our customers for ordering laundry services.• Implemented effective customer acquisition and vendor onboarding, resulting in 3000+ customers and 10+ vendors. Achieved exceptional customer loyalty and referrals.• Monitored vital business metrics, devised GO-To-Market strategy, analysed data for stakeholders, resulting in 30% monthly growth in customer acquisition.• Developed SAAS-based supply chain financing product plan for SMEs, presented to VCs, and secured first round of funding. Language & Tools: Python, Postman, Linux, Git, Rest API, Microservices, AWSManagement Utilities: JIRA, Miro, Figma, Confluence, Scrum, Google analytics Show less

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  Cumulus Systems

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2019

  Technical Lead

  * Developed Python automation framework for system performance data verification, including Time series database and Reporting engine. * Generated Revenue of $0.8 million was attained through meticulous research and analysis, resulting in feature streamlining. * Implemented "Customer voice" mechanism to monitor bug counts, resulting in an 80% bug completion rate, up from 30%.Language & Tools: Python, Jenkins & Gitlab (CI/CD), Postman, Linux, pytest, Git, Rest API, Microservices.

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  VMware

  Mar 2019 - Dec 2023

  * Collaborated with developers to implement agile-based scrum tasks, reduce feature scope, and determine release goals based on customer and market value. * Spearheaded the shift from manual to automated testing processes, reducing time-to-market by 40% and increasing scalability threefold. * Performed detailed Root-Cause analyses of publish-related issues which were provided to customer improving business operations by 28%. * Tracking QA deliverables from test planning to execution and delivery of new features in production* Involved in design discussions, code reviews across engineering teams* Reduced production bug slip count to 20% after introducing automated production validation.* Performed comprehensive end-to-end UAT and integration testing to ensure software compliance with specified requirements and expectations. * Automated deployment functionality for efficient deployment on external platforms, reduced timeframe, and streamlined Kubernetes Helm chart integration on Kubernetes cluster. * Developed analytical reports and dashboards to track key performance indicators, resulting in a 15% increase in productivity. * Delivering customer-centric VMware Marketplace solutions and services using SaaS. * Developed the Product Recommendation plan for VMware Explore* Developed product roadmap, authored user stories, monitored JIRA tickets, and delegated tasks to engineering teamManagement · Team Leadership · Agile Methodologies · Enterprise Software · Cloud Computing · SaaS Development · System Architecture · Team Management · Software as a Service (SaaS) · Scrum Master · Linux Show less Worked on building VMware Marketplace.o Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline using GitLab, Jenkins and python.o Implemented Automation Frameworks using pyTest from scratch and decreased 60% of testing efforts by increasing test coverageo Designed a test automation reporting dashboard using Grafana.o Reduced production bug slip count to 20% after introducing automated production validation.o Coordinated testing efforts by allocating resources and managing test case execution.Communication · Teamwork · Requirements Gathering · Analytics · Research Skills · Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) · Presentations · Market Research · Problem Solving · Visio · Python (Programming Language) · Customer Success · Cross-functional Collaborations Show less

  • Sr. MTS / Product Manager

    Apr 2021 - Dec 2023

  • Member Of Technical Staff III

    Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
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  IBM

  Jan 2024 - now

  Staff Engineer - ISL

  Working on IBM Watson AI, Redhat Openshift and IBM storageFusion HCI