# Dhanyakumar Gowdra > Platform Services - IoT Cloud Platform Manager Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dhanyakumar Innovative leader with extensive background in both Engineering and Operational aspects of a SaaS based IoT platform delivering multiple product releases in a fast paced distributed environment. 4+ years of management experience in Development of Product and Solutions for large Enterprise brands in the space of IoT and Messaging. * Experience in developing, deploying and maintaining operations of mission critical systems requiring high availability and resiliency. * Extensive experience in designing and developing distributed systems involving clustering, authentication, redundancy and scalability. * Experience in troubleshooting production environments with huge activity under heavy loads. Expertise with root cause analysis and resolution under pressure situations. * Developed tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale Unix/Linux environment. * Provided technical leadership to distributed teams (on-site, offshore) on challenging development projects. * Monitoring focus - Influenced instrumentation of key performance indicators from the project get-go and drove to complete monitoring . * Automation - develop applications and tools to monitor, automate and reduce perpetual reoccurring tasks for NOC (Network Operations Center). * Lead Application Management / DevOps / Site Reliability engineers on multiple, currently deployed, highly scalable and available server solutions for Messaging platform. * Cloud computing Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) a cloud technology and Docker a containerization technology / virtualization. * Knowledge of Apache Cassandra as a distributed data store and Configuration Management tools Chef and Puppet. * Followed and enforced best practices in software development, change management and architecture with emphasis on Continuous Improvement​. ## Work Experience ### Platform Services - IoT Cloud Platform Manager @ Cisco Jan 2018 – Present | United States ### SR ENGINEER @ Cisco Jasper Jan 2016 – Present | Santa Clara, CA ### Tech Software Engr @ Syniverse Technologies Jan 2009 – Present | Campbell, CA ### TSE @ Syniverse Technologies Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### Software Engineer @ VeriSign Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 ### Software Engineer @ LightSurf Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 ### SE @ Netkraft Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering JMIT ### Pre University Course in Science stream G.C.J.C Anagodu ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dhanyakumar-gowdra-62065912 --- Source: https://flows.cv/dhanyakumar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dhanyakumar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10