About

Gajendra Shankar is a highly experienced Technology Manager/Architect with over 15 years of experience in the field of DevOps. He is currently serving as the Vice President - Devops at Morgan Stanley, where he is responsible for recruiting, managing, mentoring, and professionally managing distributed teams of DevOps/Release Engineers and Product Owners who manage the lifecycle of all the third party applications used in the enterprise. Gajendra is an expert in a range of solutions such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, RPA, Kubernetes (Docker), Jenkins, and Git. He is also an automation architect who is responsible for driving end-to-end automation strategy for the group using powershell, python, and RPA. Gajendra is known for building a culture of Engineering excellence by starting and scaling DevOps at an enterprise level with a focus on CI/CD, Microservices, containers, and Cloud. He is proficient in languages such as Java, Struts, Build Tools like Ant, Perl, Shell Script, MSBuild, Gradle, CI/CD Tools like Hudson, Jenkins, Cruise Control, Version Control like SVN, CVS, Git, MSTFS, Configuration management like Chef, Ansible, Operating System like Linux, Windows XP, 2003, Windows2008, Database like Oracle 10g, Cassandra, Clouds Used like OpenStack, AWS, and Azure, and Containers like Docker, Kubernetes. Gajendra has worked with top-notch companies like Wells Fargo and Target in the past. At Wells Fargo, he served as a Technology Manager responsible for managing, mentoring, and professionally managing distributed teams of DevOps/Release Engineers and Product Owners who manage the lifecycle and automated deployment using Puppet and HPSA of all the third party applications used in the enterprise. At Target, he worked as a Technical Architect Devops responsible for implementing the fully automated CI/CD process using Jenkins as the Integration server and ANT and Gradle as the build tool for applications deployed on AWS. Gajendra holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Engineering from MIT Muzaffarpur, where he specialized in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. He also attended Manava Bharti for a brief period. Overall, Gajendra Shankar is a highly skilled and experienced DevOps expert who has made significant contributions to the industry.