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Sudha Ponnaganti

Sudha Ponnaganti

Head of Engineering Services at CoreOS

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Seniority

21 Years

Hierarchy

Executive

Management Experience

Hiring
Career Path
Leadership
Underperformance
Scaling Team

This is Sudha Ponnaganti. I work as Head of Engineering Services at CoreOS/Redhat. Experienced in establishing Release Engineering, Test Automation, Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Project Management and related groups and grow them. Well experienced in assessing the needs of organization and establishing strategies to match and run organizations efficiently with transparency and metrics. I am excited to be part of the mentor team and also here to learn from others as well.

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  June 5, 2020
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Stories

Keeping The Bar High When Hiring
29 May

Sudha Ponnaganti explains why it’s important to keep the bar high when hiring, and the things she looks for when identifying quality candidates.

Hiring
Scaling Team
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Sudha Ponnaganti

Sudha Ponnaganti

Head of Engineering Services at CoreOS

Performance Management For Underperformers
17 May

Sudha Ponnaganti talks about her approach to performance management for underperformers.

Underperformance
Career Path
Managing Expectations
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Sudha Ponnaganti

Sudha Ponnaganti

Head of Engineering Services at CoreOS

Structuring New Teams
8 May

Sudha Ponnaganti explains how she develops the structure and goals of newly established teams.

Leadership
Reorganization
Sharing the vision
Team processes
Scaling Team
Motivation
Company Culture
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Sudha Ponnaganti

Sudha Ponnaganti

Head of Engineering Services at CoreOS

Experience

Head of Engineering Services

CoreOS

Jul 2017 - current

CoreOS acquired by Red Hat Inc., - Jan 2018 Heading Developer Productivity Platform, Automated Release Tools, Test automation Platform, Embedded Developer Automation for OpenShift Product line in Red Hat., Also Managing OpenShift 4.x release which is based on Kubernetes. Managed Build and Release, Quality and Test Automation teams for Tectonic Product line in CoreOS inc..

Committer

The Apache Software Foundation

Nov 2012 - current

Worked with Apache CloudStack project. Helped to drive QA strategies in the early phases of ACS to bring it from incubation to top project.

Director of Engineering, Engineering Services, Performance Engineering

MuleSoft

Mar 2015 - Jul 2017

Company IPO'ed - March 2017 Application Network / API Led Connectivity Solutions MuleSoft’s flagship platform enables our customers to build an application network where applications, data sources and devices are seamlessly connected by APIs, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Key focus areas: \* Engineering Services / Centralized QE function \* Quality Transition \* Performance engineering \* Tooling improvements \* Automation improvements and Automation enablement \* Build and Release Management & Automation enablement of CI/CD Pipeline \* Quality visibility \* Production metrics and drive towards quality innovation \* Customer audits

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