Vimal Kumar
Senior Manager, SRE & Automation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVimal Kumar is a Senior Manager in SRE and Automation with 17+ years driving reliability, cloud migrations, and operational transformation across Healthcare IT and enterprise platforms. Based in Bengaluru, he leads global SRE teams at Oracle, overseeing Citrix estates and spearheading OCI migrations while treating internal SRE tooling as product-grade platforms. He combines hands-on infrastructure engineering—evidenced by contributions that improved concurrency and deadlock handling in the popular terraform-provider-oci—with strategic program leadership that embeds SRE and AI/ML for proactive fault detection and automation. Vimal has a strong track record of improving incident maturity, reducing repeat failures, and aligning engineering choices to business KPIs and compliance needs. He pairs technical depth (Linux, monitoring, cloud ops, automation) with an MBA in Business Analytics, enabling data-driven decisions and measurable cost and productivity gains. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who brings system-level reasoning and design-thinking to large, cross-functional transformations.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BCA Computers, BCA Computers at Annamalai UniversityPUC Science, PUC Science at PUC GHSS Easthill, Calicut Kerala state EducationMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Analytics, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Analytics at Amity UniversitySSLC, SSLC at Chinmaya VidyalayaDiploma In Computer Engineering, Diploma In Computer Engineering at NTTF (Nettur Technical Training Foundation)
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
oracle-cloud10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
cloud-services10
oracle10
concurrent10
terraform10
oracle-cloud-infrastructure10
terraform-provider10
concurrency10
orchestration9
orchestra9
error-handling9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
oracle/terraform-provider-oci
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provider
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:27 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Vimal focused on enhancing the Terraform provider for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Their contributions include fixing resource discovery issues, specifically addressing deadlocks and improving error handling within the resource discovery process. Additionally, the user added concurrency control mechanisms to optimize the resource discovery and state generation phases. These changes improve the provider's stability and performance.
bare-metalprovidercloud-infrastructureorchestrationinfrastructure-provider
vimalmeena238/vimalmeena238.github.io
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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