About

Srikanth Janardhan is an innovative and passionate Senior Manager at Cloudera with over 10 years of experience in software test automation and performance engineering. He has a proven track record of building motivated teams and managing multiple complex projects involving collaboration with multiple teams across multiple geos. Srikanth has successfully delivered quality for complex and large software through ingenious innovation and implementing strategies for creating automation frameworks, simulators, process improvements, and gathering customer feedback. As a Senior Manager at Cloudera, Srikanth's responsibilities include planning, mentoring & coaching, hiring, product strategy, performance management, test automation, framework development, shipping various releases, defining clear OKRs, improving delivery using agile methodologies, improving & increasing tests based on historical escalations, optimizing quality processes, generating ideas and more! He is the Release Lead for on-prem releases of CDP in On-Prem and Private Cloud form-factor across multiple teams and a core member in interactions with PgM, PM, Dev, Docs et al. Srikanth also led the development of MeterGuru, a software service that brought visibility and a path to improve Metering test coverage for all network configurations and lifecycle operations in the public cloud. In his previous roles at Cloudera, Srikanth led a team of 12+ engineers for the quality of Platform & Operations area of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) involving Cloudera Manager, Control Plane in Private Cloud, Management Console in Public Cloud, Cloudbreak, Connectivity Access Management, HDI, and Apache Ambari on the Hybrid cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, Openshift, RKE and on-prem. He also led the upgrade/migration quality & automation efforts from legacy CDH and HDP to CDP, bootstrapped and set up the team from scratch for the Control Plane in Private Cloud, delivered agile releases on Public Cloud from 2 weeks to 2 days, and led the initiative to gather insights based on customer escalations and code coverage. Srikanth holds a B.E. degree in Information Science from the National Institute of Engineering. His tech stack includes test, SDET, AWS, product manager, Python, Javascript, Azure, Senior Software Engineer, GCP, Software Engineer, and UI. With 11.27 years of relevant experience, Srikanth is a valuable asset to any organization.