About

Sivakumar Sadhasivannair is a highly accomplished Principal Software Systems Engineer with over 19 years of experience in IT infrastructure and system management. He has extensive experience in overseeing the planning and execution of engineering activities, deploying systems and platforms that meet clients’ specifications, and checking for compatibility issues. Sivakumar is a strategic leader with a proven track record of spearheading cross-functional teams and ensuring that designed hardware/software satisfies project goals. He has shaped 15 junior engineers as DevOps, SRE, and Database administrators, migrated 90% of applications to high-end servers, and migrated an application from physical SaaS and PaaS environment to different cloud platforms (AWS and GCP). With excellent coordination skills, Sivakumar has attained the ability to work with the storage team to integrate data from legacy to new storage systems and with the global team that enhanced 20% of the documentation process through knowledge transfer. Diverse qualities like team development, resource management, server maintenance, and system administration have been some of his positive points during his work tenure. Sivakumar is well versed in application planning, configuration, and operational support to various technologies like Linux, Windows, Apache, Tomcat, Middleware, DevOps, and Cloud. He has evaluated and recommended a standard software toolset for team members to enhance productivity. He values building a strong team by initiating performance and development plans that reduced the attrition rate from 18% to 10%. Currently working as a Principal Software Systems Engineering at Sabre, Sivakumar's major role relies on preparing and presenting technical level business case realization of automation and cloud solutions, liaising with business application teams to gather business requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders to determine operational requirements and goals. He has gained experience in interacting with global customers, development, SaaS, technical, and client’s IT team which smoothened the flawless project delivery on time and leveraged process upgradation. Sivakumar has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Systems from Madurai Kamaraj University, a GNIIT degree in System Management from NIIT, and a BA degree in English Literature from Manonmaiam Sundaranar University. He is skilled in infra, Integration, DevOps, AWS, SRE, Microservices, and GCP.