PGDM (General Management) · Batch 2026-27
Devika Rajeev
I am an MBA student at XLRI Xavier School of Management with 4 years of experience at IBM working on IBM MQ products across IBM MQ Ops and IBM MQ on Cloud. My experience spans operations management, cloud deployments, automation, and platform development, where I have worked on solving large-scale infrastructure and reliability challenges. I have also led globalization initiatives, driving the translation and localization of IBM MQ across multiple languages to support global users. Passionate about technology and problem-solving, I am now exploring opportunities in product management and strategy, combining technical expertise with business and leadership skills.
Work experience
44 months in total
- IBM44 months
Career highlights
Software developer - IBM MQ Ops
- Sole Globalization Lead for IBM MQ, driving translations into 13 languages over 3.8 years
- Led IBM MQ Kochi operations team, overseeing regressing testing, infra maintenance, systematic patching
- Coordinated core release engineering tasks such as feature and defect merges for several MQ releases
- Managed Fyre infra machines, deployed critical security fixes to ensure reliability.
- Contributed to test infrastructure development and maintenance, developing test cases and maintaining >99.99% production efficiency by analysing and resolving defects before release.
Software developer - IBM MQ SaaS
- Contributed to development and operations of IBM MQ SaaS on IBM Cloud and AWS.
- Contributed to SOC2 security compliance by migrating secrets from COS to Secrets Manager using ESO
- Boosted platform reliability, collaborated with product teams to resolve production bugs.
- Elevated BNPP monitoring by enabling Sysdig metrics to drive customer platform adoption.
- Cut developer downtime by building K8s automation and Jenkins jobs to restore broken stacks.
- Implemented server-side apply for declarative resource management, improving configuration consistency in Kubernetes environments
Achievements
- Qualified for INMO, RMO winner
- Selected among Top 100 global teams (Phase 2) and winner of Phase 1 WatsonX challenge
Certifications
- PSPO1
- Generative AI for Product Managers Specialization ( Coursera)
- IBM Product Owner Certification (Coursera)
- Introduction to Strategy Consulting(BCG)
