Sujith Kakkamvalli

Sujith Kakkamvalli

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - VP

Hyderabad

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About

Infrastructure and Platform Operations leader with 18+ years building, running, and scaling enterprise-grade Linux (RHEL 7/8/9) and Windows platforms for global, mission-critical environments. Currently VP - Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Wells Fargo, owning platform reliability, service governance, and operational excellence for a 14-16 person engineering organization.

Skills
Kubernetes
Linux
Docker
OS engineering
technology Lead
windows
bash
Experience

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Wellsfargo

Mar 2016 to Present
  • Wells Fargo
  • VP – Lead Infrastructure Engineer | March 2016 – Present | Hyderabad, India
  • • Executive ownership of infrastructure and platform operations, owning enterprise server and appliance
  • infrastructure across RHEL 7/8/9 and Windows, leading a 14–16 member engineering organization supporting
  • mission-critical banking platforms under strict uptime and regulatory compliance requirements.
  • • Led design and implementation of core infrastructure for a newly built data center — architecture standards,
  • build frameworks, and operational readiness controls — that streamlined server and appliance provisioning
  • versus the prior process.
  • • Owned platform lifecycle management across the enterprise server fleet, including OS builds, appliance builds,
  • patching, and break-fix support, consistently meeting SLA targets while reducing incident volume and improving
  • mean time to resolution.
  • • Drove Operational Excellence programs, driving process optimization and automation initiatives that reduced
  • manual operational effort and improved team productivity, measured through KPI dashboards presented to senior
  • leadership.
  • • Owned capacity planning and talent development across the team, including workforce strategy, utilization
  • planning, and succession planning — strengthening bench strength and reducing backfill time.
  • • Served as executive escalation point and technical sponsor for enterprise infrastructure incidents and delivery
  • challenges, partnering with global stakeholders on platform investment roadmap
Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Osmania University

Jun 2004 to Jun 2007
Certifications

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