Sai Kumar

Salesforce Release & DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience supporting controlled deployments, CI/CD automation and platform operations. Experienced in coordinating Salesforce changes across development, QA, UAT and production environments, with a strong focus on release readiness, deployment governance, dependency management, rollback planning and post-release validation. Hands-on expertise in Salesforce DX, SFP CLI, unlocked packages, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and Gearset practices, with clear communication across developers, testers, business stakeholders and support teams.

DevOps Engineer (Salesforce DevOps Lead) at Sage (2022-02 – Present)

• Lead Salesforce DevOps and release activities across enterprise, multi-org environments, coordinating sprint builds, UAT deployments, production cutovers and post-release analysis.
• Plan deployment sequencing, readiness checks, approvals, release communications, rollback options and production validation with developers, testers, business stakeholders and operational support.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Salesforce DX, GitHub Actions, scratch orgs and SFP CLI for automated validation and controlled promotion of change.
• Manage dependency-aware unlocked package pipelines covering automated versioning, validation, promotion and production deployment.
• Automate pull-request validation, package version increments, Git tagging, environment-specific tests and targeted deployments.
• Implement quality gates including CodeScan, linting, Apex tests, destructive-change handling and metadata integrity checks.
• Create release notes, deployment evidence, implementation guidance and operational documentation to support traceability and governance.
• Establish scratch org pools and automated org provisioning, improving development onboarding and validation efficiency.
• Build Splunk and New Relic dashboards for deployment insights, API usage, environment health and operational reporting.
• Support production release execution, issue triage, smoke testing and post-deployment monitoring, working across teams to resolve release risks promptly.
• Support Power Platform governance and ALM, including environment setup, permissions, solution versioning, dependency validation and automated promotion through Azure DevOps and GitHub workflows.
• Deliver wider platform engineering initiatives using AWS, Amazon EKS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform, including blue-green deployments and automated rollback workflows.

DevOps Engineer at Aventra Systems (2020-05 – 2022-01)

• Managed Git source control, branching and CI/CD pipelines to support repeatable application builds, testing and deployments.
• Used Docker and Kubernetes to deploy, scale and maintain containerised applications across delivery environments.
• Designed and configured AWS infrastructure to improve scalability, resilience and operational reliability.
• Monitored systems, investigated deployment and performance issues, and implemented optimisation actions.
• Participated in Agile planning, reviews and retrospectives, and produced technical procedures, configuration records and requirements documentation.