Bio

Big-picture strategic thinker and impact-driven software engineering leader with 20+ years of demonstrated accomplishments leading the design/delivery of reliable, scalable, and sustainable technology solutions for complex and ambiguous problems in multiple industry verticals including digital media, insurance, telecom, and retail. As a hands-on technology leader with a collaborative and empowering approach to leadership, I am known for deep customer empathy, strategic thinking, creative problem-solving aptitude, solid system design and architecture skills, unwavering focus on aligning technology strategy with business goals, excellent influencing and collaboration skills, and building and growing collaborative high performing teams while aligning them on purpose and impact. Specialities:- Technical: • System design and architecture • Data structures and algorithms • Coding, code-review, CI/CD • Instrumentation and monitoring • Microservices, API, Containers, Distributed Systems • C#, .NET, JavaScript, Java, REST, SQL, NoSQL • Messaging middleware & ESB(RabbitMQ, Camel, Mulesoft) • AWS cloud computing(EC2, S3, RDS, ECS,EKS) • BI, Data Lake, Analytics and Reporting(Hadoop, HDP, Qubole, Hive, Snowflake, Looker) • Salesforce CRM(Sales/Service cloud) & MS Dynamics Leadership: • 10+ years of technology management • Ideation, planning and execution of strategic initiatives • Inspiring and motivating engineering talents • Executive communications • Global stakeholder relationship • Influencing & mobilizing cross-functional teams • Vendor selection and management People, process and program management: • Hiring, growing & retaining top talents. • Performance management, mentoring and coaching • Agile methodologies (Scrum & Kanban) & DevOps • Program management • Change Management • Budget management • KPI definition and tracking • ITSM, incident management & SRE Strategy & Portfolio: • Business oriented technology strategy • Customer Insights and Analytics • Enterprise applications & business systems • Sales & Service Analytics • Sales, Marketing, Financial & HR applications