Ram Jothikumar
Senior Director Of Cloud Engineering at Workday
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRam Jothikumar is a seasoned cloud engineering leader with a decade of experience building scalable cloud platforms and observability solutions for enterprise software. As Senior Director of Cloud Engineering at Workday in the San Francisco Bay Area, he oversees global cloud infrastructure, platform services, SRE, and release engineering with a strong commitment to remote-first, distributed teams. Previously at Splunk, he led Cloud Infrastructure for Observability, built and scaled a 350+ person engineering organization, expanded cloud presence from AWS to Google Cloud, and migrated 600+ microservices to Kubernetes. He drove efficiency and margin gains through platform-wide automation, established security and compliance programs resulting in SOC 2 Type II certifications, and created a Platform Services function to manage high-volume workloads like Kafka. Earlier roles at SignalFx, VMware, Nicira and others shaped his expertise in IaC (Kubernetes, Terraform), CI/CD, and large-scale scalability testing for network and cloud platforms. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech and a BS in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, and is based in the SF Bay Area.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech UniversityBS, Electrical & Electronics Engg, BS, Electrical & Electronics Engg at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
Github Skills (40)
collectors10
counter10
plugin9
integrations9
aws-sdk9
metadata9
client-library9
signalfx9
cpu9
daemon9
python-client9
docker8
python8
api8
disk8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ramjothikumar/docker_env_manager
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
docker-environmentmanage-createupdatedocker
ramjothikumar/puppet_setup
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 17 days
testbedpuppet
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