Bala Dengale

Work Experience

A seasoned DevOps architect with around 18 years of hands-on experience in design and implementation of enterprise solutions in DevOps, Cloud, Datacenter with Virtualization domain.

July 2016 - Present

Lead System Engineer

Visa Worldwide

📍 Singapore

Part of Distributed System Engineering and Architecture group responsible for Compute infrastructure on-boarding and owner of OS and infrastructure platform tools. Managing infrastructure provisioning end-to-end automatically using open source and enterprise cutting edge technologies.

  • Designed and architected Visa Kubernetes platform for 8+ datacenters and 100+ clusters
  • Ecosystem integration – Observability, Security, Operations
  • Designed and handed over enterprise platforms like Ansible, Chef, Kubernetes
  • End-to-end automation owner for cluster build and container ecosystem management
  • Architected Bare metal provisioning flow with applications like Hadoop, Oracle, Cassandra
  • Managed BAO, Chef and other Orchestration tools platform
  • Supported and Engineered Container platform and related ecosystem

Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, GitOps, ArgoCD, Tetrate, Ansible, Chef, Activiti (BPM Engine), BSA, BAO, HPOO

April 2014 - June 2016

Solution Architect

CloudFX

📍 Singapore

Solution Architect for Orchestration Management and Automation (OMA) division, responsible for customer workshops, requirement gathering, design, architecture, solution deployment, and implementation for CloudFX customers.

  • Architected CloudFX OMA and CloudSelect (Cloud Service Brokerage) Solution for multiple customers
  • Delivered Solution Demo, Technical deep-dive, deployment architecture as part of Pre-sales activity
  • Contributed to proposals, RFP, RFI for various banks and Telcos in APAC region for Cloud Management strategy
  • Involved in multiple projects from customer workshops, requirement gathering, design, implementations, UAT
  • Contributed to product roadmap and design discussion of CloudFX product suites

Technologies: CloudSelect, Cloud Service Brokerage, BMC CLM, BAO, Orchestration Tools

Dec 2013 - May 2014

Automation Architect

UBS

📍 Singapore

Automation Architect for ESTA (Enterprise Strategy Tools Automation) group, responsible for architecture, tools deployment, implementation, and development best practices in UBS environment.

  • Architected BAO Solution in UBS environment
  • Designed tools deployment across datacenters to provide high availability and disaster recovery
  • Developed processes for development, Access Management, Integration with enterprise tools
  • Helped develop operating models and enablements for BAO in UBS

Technologies: BMC BAO, WebSSO, Enterprise Authorization Tools, Disaster Recovery

July 2012 - Dec 2013

Cloud Consultant

BMC Software

📍 Pune, India

Cloud Consultant responsible for end-to-end implementation of BMC products at customer sites like Juniper, BNYM, Telstra, and VISA.

  • Participated in customer workshops to understand expectations as technical expert
  • Worked with Solution Architects to validate deployment architecture considering HA, failover, load balancing
  • Involved in solution design with customers and architects
  • Documented design, implementation, and test plans as part of delivery

Technologies: BMC BAO, BSA, CLM, BMC Remedy, High Availability, Load Balancing

July 2011 - June 2012

Senior Associate Consultant

BMC Software

📍 Pune, India

Cloud automation consultant responsible for BMC BAO, CLM in cloud computing projects including Mobily, KPN, WideXS and 2e2.

  • End-to-end responsible for BAO from deployment to customization in solutions
  • Involved in multiple data center automation integration projects
  • Worked with BMC support for product issues and provided product feedback
  • Integrated with multiple third-party products like Service Now, TSM and VMware
  • Quickly established expertise in cloud automation

Technologies: BMC BAO, CLM, Service Now, TSM, VMware, Cloud Automation

July 2010 - June 2011

Associate Consultant

BMC Software

📍 Pune, India

Data center automation consultant working on BMC and non-BMC product integrations using BAO with ITIL framework in APAC & Europe regions.

  • Created custom automation solutions using BAO, BNA, and BMC Remedy for complete datacenter automation
  • Automated Cisco devices (N1K, N7K, ASA, ACE, VPN) using BAO & BNA
  • Developed IPAM solution using VLSM for elastic IP addresses in datacenter automation
  • Worked on design, documentation, and customer delivery for automation solutions

Technologies: BMC BAO, BNA, BMC Remedy, Cisco N7K, N1K, ASA, ACE, ITIL, IPAM

Nov 2007 - July 2010

Software Engineer

L&T InfoTech

📍 Pune, India

Worked on Microsoft Technology stack for insurance domain application development, production support, and enhancements.

  • Developed insurance applications using C#.NET 2.0 & SQL Server 2005
  • Production support and Enhancement for multiple insurance-related applications
  • Worked with ASP, VBA, VB.NET, C#.NET technologies
  • Contributed to LMS (Lead Management System) project using .Net 3.0 framework

Technologies: C#.NET 2.0/3.0, SQL Server 2005, ASP, VBA, VB.NET, Insurance Domain