Ajay J

Senior Release Engineer

RXO • Período integral

Jun 2019 - Dec 2025 • 6 yrs 6 mos

Led enterprise-scale release cycles across 5–6 multi-environment applications spanning Development, Staging, UAT, Production, and Demo systems — ensuring consistent delivery and deployment governance. Reduced enterprise release deployment time from 3 hours to 30 minutes (85% faster) through Octopus Deploy optimization. Coordinated release governance with Change Advisory Board (CAB) reviews in ServiceNow to ensure compliance and traceability. Led release coordination for biweekly production deployments, tracking dependencies across Development, QA, Infrastructure, and Management teams to prevent release-day blockers. Streamlined environment provisioning and automated emergency patch deployments by implementing Infrastructure-as-Code scripts, directly enhancing system stability and deployment responsiveness. Sole owner of Octopus Deploy administration and release delivery, reducing manual effort and improving deployment confidence by governing release readiness, approvals, environment promotions, and rollback plans. Directed cross-functional technical teams in biweekly enterprise application releases, demonstrating leadership by aligning deployment processes, risk mitigation, and Octopus Deploy/ServiceNow tool chain integration to consistently achieve 99.8% release success rate across five staging environments. Owned structured release readiness for company’s enterprise releases, governing multi-environment releases by verifying release checklists, application builds, configuration completeness, and deployment asset integrity (including DACPAC/SQL packages and deployment packages) met production-ready in Octopus Deploy. Acted as the final go/no-go owner before stakeholder communication, driving a 35% reduction in post-deployment defects while maintaining 99.8% + deployment confidence through rollback readiness and CAB-governed approvals.

Data Foundation ETL Intern

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 • 2 mos

Internship focused on Data Foundation and ETL processes within the healthcare insurance sector, assisting with data integration and management tasks in a professional environment.

Senior Release Analyst

Capgemini • Período integral

Sep 2014 - May 2017 • 2 yrs 8 mos

Managed B2B e-commerce service releases using Agile methodology. Automated release processes with Atlassian Bamboo and Linux scripts, reducing package delivery time by 90%. Optimized production server releases and performed POCs for Hybris architecture log separation. Provided training on deployment automation to over 50 colleagues.