# Usha Ratnam

> Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/usharatnam

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Platform @ Ripple
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Sr Devops Build and Release Engineer @ Yahoo Small Business
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California
❖	Create, manage, and support Aabaco Small Business (ASB)  product builds and releases 
❖	Establish the CI/CD runway to fully automate the build and deployment of ASB products
❖	Mentor/Discuss/Learn along with the team on product needs and tech stack changes. Collaborate with scrum teams within ASB to solve challenges.
❖	CD setup for microservices on Kubernetes with Istio using spinnaker and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana

### Software Engineer @ SEI investments
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Pennsylvania

### Sr Engineer @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore

### Integration engineer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Bangalore
❖	Ensure Makefiles which are written for clearmake are up to HP-UX standards. 
❖	Review of Makefiles, Shell Scripts and HP-UX build and packaging related files.
❖	Enhancement of various tools, written in PERL and shell, used for build and packaging to scale to new requirements and maintain them through defect fixes.
❖	Ensure effective operation of configuration management services. Maintain integrity of software deliveries for diagnostic products of HP-UX. Train developers in CM processes, standards and procedures.
❖	Build and Release engineering in multiple projects and multiple-branches environment for diagnostic products in HP-UX performing sanity tests on these packages before delivering it to QA.  It also involves maintaining ClearCase environment for diagnostic products.

### SCM Project Engineer @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Bangalore
❖    Part of central support team which does both unix and clearcase administration, multisite administration
❖	Being a system administrator we had to maintain nearly 500 UNIX (Linux and Solaris) machines in network. And most of the information is shared using NIS servers for each network.
❖	Responsible for build and release activities for Java based projects in one of the development teams


## Education
### Bachelors of Technology in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous), 530048(CC-13)

### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
SFS School Seethammadhara

### Kotak Salesian school


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/usha-ratnam-19652125

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Source: https://flows.cv/usharatnam
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Last updated: 2026-04-12