ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

B.Tech. (Electrical): Kerala University

M.Tech. (Electrical): IIT-Chennai

PROFILE SUMMARY

Senior Technology Leader with extensive experience driving enterprise engineering, cloud transformation, and large-scale technology operations across banking, retail, telecom, healthcare, and technology domains. Proven expertise in multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure and VMware, cloud migration, SRE, infrastructure modernization, DevOps, and high-availability platforms. Strong background in Java, microservices, APIs, data platforms, AI/ML, and enterprise application development, combined with leadership of global engineering and technology teams. Has held senior technology leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase, Walmart, VMware, Citrix, Amazon, and Alcatel Lucent, delivering complex global transformation and technology programs.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

1 years

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

J P Morgan Chase
Executive Director and India Regional Head Run Time Compute Current
- As the executive director of Registry and GAIA framework, in charge of developing and maintaining platform applications related to multiple line of business like Asset and Wealth Management, Corporate and Investment Bank, Consumer and Community Banking etc.
- Direct Quantum Computation ready applications, including Post Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computation algorithms and low latency applications using Rust, C/C++. Block encoding etc.
- Responsible for developing low latency applications and integrating with both internal and third party API’s like ICE Data Services, Continuous Evaluation pricing (CEP) and fund transfer pricing methodologies used by Corporate Treasury and Chief Investment Office. Interface with multiple lines of business that consume the pricing data like Card Services, Asset and Wealth Management, taxation etc.. Work with quant model risk associates to maintain applications related to interest rate risk reporting. Govern and enforce rule and policy engines. Interface with pricing vendor applications like Bloomberg, Reuters and ICE
- Responsible for maintaining API’s related to complex bilateral derivative transactions, and risk evaluations tools related to Cycle day interest calculator. Lead cross functional projects to implement new transfer pricing and funding frameworks govern consistent application of policies and communicate changes across teams.
- Responsible for ensuring resiliency across the run time compute environments for the above applications. Handles development and delivery of Hybrid cloud platforms including Vmware, AWS and Azure. Responsible for project deliveries related to Infrastructure development and deliveries, containerisation and release management. Build high performance teams and enable Global initiatives for Runtime compute.

Walmart
Director of Engineering & Head In country Business operations Jan 2021 - Aug 2023
- The scope of responsibility included, Managing platforms engineering teams for SaaS applications, driving Site Reliability and operational stability . Minimising total cost of ownership, developing processes for Business Continuity and Disaster recovery. Engaged in integrating audit and compliance goals like. SoX, HIPPA, FEMA and PCI into products developed. The systems are developed in Spring, Java , Redis, Kafka,. Azure SQL & Onprem Oracle. The product is hosted in Azure and On premise, servers. Intelligent pricing calculations are arrived at using Data analytics systems using Terra-data, Snowflake, Hadoop, Hive, Presto and Python based AI/ML, feeding into pricing algorithms. Infrastructure hosted in Azure, GCP and VMWare.
- Hands on inclusive leadership to drive multi cloud initiatives across Walmart. Design and drive availability, disaster recovery and compliance for large scale systems, stores and international platforms of Walmart. Drive Site reliability operations across Walmart. Provide strategic direction for development of monitoring systems for multi cloud initiative. Develop processes and tools to troubleshoot GCP and Azure infrastructure.

Vmware
Senior Manager Cloud Operations Apr 2020 to Jan 2021
- Designed and implemented API integration framework for AWS and Azure framework using Java, Spring J2EE. Work includes designing parametric API’s to control and distribute traffic ingestion to multiple cloud providers serving the workloads. As part of this role led cloud adoption, service delivery, Cost Engineering (FinOps), automated deployments, migrations from on-prem to cloud and IaaS. Architected and implemented highly scalable, distributed systems, on AWS and Azure. Analytics framework uses Snowflake, Amazon Redshift Hadoop and Hive.

Citrix
Senior Manager – Cloud Operations Unified Cloud Engineering May 2019 to Jan 2020
- Bestowed with the responsibility of managing Unified Cloud Engineering division of Citrix. The scope of work includes, cloud adoption, service delivery, Cost Engineering (FinOps), automated deployments, migrations from on-prem to cloud and IaaS. Architected and implemented highly scalable, distributed systems, on AWS and Azure. Hands on experience in Virtualization, load balancers, net scalers and SecOps.
- Bestowed with the additional responsibility of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Disaster Recovery, Cost Engineering and SOC2, Fed Ramp and HIPAA Compliance. Formulate and maintain SLA / OLA for service delivery. Led SOC 2 audit in Citrix, with the external auditor Coal Fire

Beckman Coulter
SW Development Manager – Cloud and Data Platforms Dec 2016 to Apr 2019
Entrusted with the responsibility of managing the development of applications for Life Sciences and global health care systems, at Beckman Coulter. The platform enables real time ingestion, from multiple medical and diagnostic instruments, into Amazon Cloud. The data is then served to multiple data processing systems for diagnostic purposes. The applications are developed in JAVA using Spring framework on Amazon cloud. The system is integrated with data analytics engine developed using Hadoop, Hive, Presto and Sqoop. The products are hosted in AWS cloud across multiple data AZ’s, and uses scaling features like AutoScaling, BigData Clusters, DMS, Aurora, KMS etc. Faster turn around is achieved using agile methodology. CI/CD achieved using Jenkins. Real time message processing done, through Apache Kafka and JMS..

General Electric
Senior Software development manager Nov 2014 to Apr 2016
- Bestowed with the responsibility of SW development for GE Transportation, Onboard Systems division. In charge of development of Location Based Monitoring Systems, using Google S2 libraries. The applications developed primarily retrieves real time data from locomotive control systems and communicate over satellite, cellular and WiFi network to centralized data centers. Automated off-board systems, provide case based reporting using pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Data acquisition and processing done for GPS based tracking, cruise control, fuel quantity, power distribution, loco operating parameters, Emergency brake, other operational alerts etc.
Technologies used : Core Java, J2EE, Oracle Enterprise, Hadoop
- Development of Greenfield project : IP based video and audio reporting platform for accident analysis and track data reporting. Six dedicated IP based high definition cameras and Microphones simultaneously record frames from inside and outside of the locomotive at 30 fps, along with other monitored parameters onto a primary storage device, which is further persisted into crash hardened memory, along with other monitored parameters like Horn, bell, brake, power and GPS information. Application used for accident analysis by many North American Railway majors. Planned for roll out in SEA, ANZ and other areas.

Amazon
Engineering Manager Since Aug 2011 to Dec 2013
- Engaged in development of of Amazon marketplaces like, france (amazon.fr), Spain (amazon.es), India (amazon.in), UK (amazon.uk), China (amazon.cn) etc. Responsibilities include development and certification of services including ordering and charging services, subscription services, publishing services and payment workflows. The applications were developed using Spring, Java, J2EE and Oracle
- Cluster management of servers in cloud using Kubernetes, docker containers and monitoring tools like Nagios and Sensu
- Primary responsibility as a people manager, involves, building a world class connected devices engineering team in India. As a part of this activity involved in hiring, man power allocation, performance appraisals and compensation planning of resources in India.
- Generate Dashboards, metrics etc. of field engineering performance, for executive management evaluation.

Alcatel Lucent Technologies
Technical Manager (R&D). Regional Manager, Customer Advocacy, India Dec 2005 to Feb 2011
As Technical Manager R&D( OSS MRP & NMS Division), Bangalore
Highlights
✓ Engaged in Management and development of features for Optical Network Management Systems. Involved in complete major releases of Multi regional Provisioning Manager (MRP), developed exclusively for Deutche telecom. Handled technical planning, scoping, budgeting, resource allocation, cost control, vendor development, performance management and financial alignment. Projects / Assignments Undertaken ✓
- Management and Development of:
Features for fault management systems for SDH, DWDM and SONET Network elements.(SOA, CORE JAVA, XML) Development of REST and SOAP services for performance data subscriptions (JAVA, XML, REST) Features for Northbound interface (NBI) as per G7 standards.
LCAS (Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme) for Ethernet over SDH.
Alarm Surveillance Systems.( JAVA, XML, SOAP, MySQL)
Development of device drivers for PCI, Ethernet ,USB and serial interfaces.
As Regional Manager Customer Advocacy, India/ SriLanka, Maldives and Bangladesh
✓ Involved in Due Diligence phase of Managed Services contract between major service providers in India and Alcatel Lucent. Lead customer front end operations, and acted as primary coordinate between customers and internal business divisions like R&D, TEC, TAC and Quality divisions.
✓ Actively involved in HW and SW development of:
- DWDM and SDH components like TRBD 1111, TRBD 1121
etc... - Add Drop Mux ( SYNTH 16) for SDH NE’s -
9400 Microwave Packet MPR systems.

Sun Micro Systems
Engineering Manager Java WebServices Aug. 2004 to Nov 2005
- Development of webserver release 6, using Java, html/CSS and Java script
- In this capacity, was involved in project and program management of feature development of Java webserver. Participated in discussions and planning of outsourcing contract with Wipro Technologies, for automation of Webserver stress test cases.
- Distinction of successfully developing future releases for Java WebServer .next releases , Service Pack 6.1, Web Proxy Server 3.6 SP3 and Java WebServer Emergency Rel.6.0 SP9.
- Involved in program management, resource allocation, planning and development
Projects / Assignments Undertaken ✓
Development of features for Webserver.
✓ Co-ordination with the Bigapps Team for setting up of real time customer scenarios in IEC. It included set up of Vignette & Broadvision applications in IEC.
✓ Handling of CallCutter project for WebServer, including working with Customer Support Team and Sustaining groups in this regard.(JAVA , Apache, Toncat, JBoss)
✓ Development and testing of features for ECC. Develop test automation suite for testing ECC features.
✓ Entrusted with Program Management responsibilities for PQE, post-restructuring, entailing:
✓ Release management of Java WebServer Service Pack 6.1 SP3, Web Proxy Server 3.6 SP6 and Java WebServer Emergency release 6.0 SP9.
✓ Project planning, estimation & scheduling of Java Enterprise System Release 3 & 4 as well as the WebServer.next Interim release 3.
✓ Project planning activities for 6.X Service Packs in co-ordination with scheduling activities for emergency releases.

Wipro Technologies
Systems development manager & Onsite Coordinator Sep 2000 July 2004
Projects / Assignments Undertaken ✓
Functioned as:
- A primary contact for the product team, managed Wipro/GE tools & processes for product release. Prepare preliminary content for product & field training materials.
- Technical Engagement Manager for the Samsung Electronics-Wipro tie up (Dec’03 to July’04).
✓ Successfully carried out inter-operability tests of Samsung Z200 hand sets on European telecom networks. Involved in development of test scenarios for live streaming applications, Excecuting test cases. Automation of test cases, benchmarking performance of Samsung mobiles against Nokia and Sony Ericsson.
✓ Generate SOW for each of the work association.
✓ Co-ordination with APAC and EMEA teams for cementing alliance with Ericsson & Wipro, as part of which Wipro developed telecom software running on Ericsson hardware & software platforms.
✓ Project estimation for testing of AIMS on Vodafone network-Germany & Spain, and TIM Networks-Italy. ✓ Technical Development Manager for the GE-Wipro Tie up (Oct’00 to Dec’01), with a team of 22 for:
✓ Design & development of:
- QCM braking system communicating with i960 using HDLC protocol over an RS-422 link.
- Embedded software for locomotive control systems for GE Transportation Systems using Intel i960 micro controller /iRMX OS and Unix / C.
- DASH-8 Security algorithms for communication between various control devices as well as the GE Central Locomotive Controller.
- Value added features for DTMF detection.
- Features for Ericsson Air Interface Mobile Simulator.
- Air Interface Mobile Simulator (AIMS), an end-to-end test tool for core networks complying with 3GPP standards.

Dept of Atomic Energy, NPC Mumbai
Scientific Officer Feb’92 to May 2000
Projects / Assignments Undertaken ✓
Development of:
- Soft panel to replicate control panel for testing of simulator
- Porting of RAPS-2 Simulator from Unix to Windows-NT
- PC-based multi format graphic display system
- Communication software between host and six I/O computers
- Command Interpreter System for simulator environment