About

Sumit Nagal is a highly skilled Principal Engineer with over 22 years of experience in the field. He has expertise in building large scale SAAS, microservices, SDKs, and containers, and has hands-on experience in full application lifecycle management from design to delivery, release, monitoring, and availability, using the DevOps model. Currently working as a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, Sumit is leading reliability engineering for the Developer Platform at Intuit. He is implementing Chaos and performance engineering principles on Kubernetes leveraging open source tools like Argo, Choastoolkit, litmus, karate, and Gatling on cloud hosting platforms such as AWS. Sumit has also led, architected, designed, and developed end-to-end engineering solutions for all phases of the SDLC. He has innovated and created solutions for moving quality with shifting left mindset, increased developer productivity, and product quality, and enabled faster time to market for new features by minimizing effort and time to create or maintain code. Sumit has built tools and infrastructure for customer-centric testing, testing in production, pre-production testing with production-like data, automated root cause analysis, functional monitoring in production, and built a data-driven culture to derive the decision. He has been instrumental in the journey of transformation for people, process, and culture on technology from Desktop to online to cloud to mobile to micro-services to container world for product-based companies for Small Business. Sumit's expertise includes leading developer productivity and engineering effectiveness for many large-scale products and platforms. He emphasizes sustainable engineering culture to build delightful customer platforms and establishing operational excellence via SLI/SLO. His technological skills include open source tools such as LitmusChaos, Distro, Argo, Keptn, and Chaostoolkit, platforms such as Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, web services and API development such as GraphQL, REST, SOAP, SDK, J2EE technologies such as JSP, Spring, Hibernate, programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Arora, testing tools such as Junit/TestNG, Maven, Selenium, WebDriver, Gatling, Test-container, and build tools such as Nexus, Github, Perforce, Jenkins, GitOps, logging tools such as log4j, slf4j, Splunk, APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, NewRelic, Wavefront, Prometheus, OverOps, and non