About

Naresh Kumar is a highly experienced Sr Release Engineer with over 8 years of experience in configuration, build and release management, source code integration, continuous integration, and administration. He has extensive experience in the banking and financial domain and has worked with some of the leading companies in the industry. Naresh has a proven track record of proposing and implementing best practices and methodologies of SCM, mentoring/training team/s on build and release process, and identifying and automating the manual process in configuration management. He is adept at working as an admin for version control tools and administering JIRA tool for project management. Currently, Naresh is working as a Sr.Release Engineer at Netgear, where he is responsible for managing the release process, identifying and resolving issues, and implementing continuous integration and delivery. He is also working on identifying and automating manual processes to improve efficiency and reduce errors. In his previous role as a Release Engineer at Hewlett Packard, Naresh was responsible for working on Network Security product called ClearPass. He was responsible for branch and build creation for each release and maintain OSS review process. He also worked on build patches with the help of Jenkins and shell scripting and implemented auto merge and branch diff scripts using Python and Jenkins with the help of automation team member. Naresh also worked on CI/CD implementation with the help of Jenkins and streamlined the build process to make it more robust. Naresh has also worked as a Configuration Release Analyst at FIS, where he worked on Banking and financial services and mostly on Atlassian tool set, which includes JIRA, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible, Crowd, Confluence, and Bitbucket. He identified gaps and automated the process and worked on code integration. Naresh holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Sir Vishveswaraiah Institute of Science and Technology and a Diploma in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from S.G.P.R. Govt., Polytechnic College. Naresh is proficient in a variety of technologies, including Javascript, CI/CD, Integration, Jenkins, NodeJS, ReactJS, Bamboo, DevOps, test, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Ansible, designer, Python, Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineer. With almost 10 years of relevant experience, Naresh is a highly skilled and experienced professional who can make a significant contribution to any organization.