Niteeshkumar E

DevOps and Release Engineer with 3.5+ years of hands-on experience across the software delivery lifecycle, spanning code integration, CI/CD execution, multi-environment deployments, release governance, and production release coordination for enterprise financial services applications. Proven ability to manage baseline-driven release workflows, automate repetitive deployment operations, coordinate across development and operations teams, and support consistent, low-risk releases across INT, UAT, and PROD. Actively strengthening cloud-native delivery expertise through hands-on learning projects covering containers, Kubernetes, and cloud platform deployment practices.

Software Engineer — Release Management - CGI - Bengaluru

(2023-01 - 2026-03)

Client: Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (Daimler)

• Owned end-to-end release execution across 3 controlled environments (INT, UAT, PROD), coordinating approved baselines, change approvals, and go-live communications for a portfolio of 5+ concurrent applications.
• Delivered 50+ production releases over 3 years with a release-process defect rate maintained at <1%, supporting a high-compliance financial services environment with strict change-management controls.
• Built and maintained 15+ parameterised Jenkins deployment jobs for Windows (RDP) and Linux server targets, reducing per-release setup time by ~40% through environment-based pipeline configuration.
• Automated 10+ recurring release operations — including pre-deployment backups, file uploads/downloads, build preparation, and post-deployment validation — using Shell/Batch scripts and scheduled jobs, cutting average manual release effort by ~30%.
• Managed Git/GitLab repositories, baseline branches, and merge-conflict resolution across 5+ application streams, enforcing branch protection rules to prevent unapproved artifacts from reaching UAT or PROD.
• Authored deployment runbooks and step-by-step release instruction notes for UAT and PROD, enabling system administrators to execute after-hours deployments independently with zero escalations.
• Managed Jira release tickets and ServiceNow change/incident records end-to-end, ensuring 100% audit compliance for all production deployments, including approvals, evidence, and post-release closure.
• Deployed Oracle Forms, Progress/OpenEdge files, SQL delta scripts, configuration files, and application artifacts based on per-release delta.
• Awarded CGI 2024 Spot Award for outstanding contribution to enterprise release delivery and deployment operations.

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering - Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College (2018 - 2022)

Class XII - Sri Chaitanya Junior College (2015 - 2017)