Blessen Jacob

Director of Engineering

23 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in building high-performing engineering teams.
Proven track record in cloud-native architecture.
Led significant eCommerce migrations to AWS.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Leader in eCommerce and Cloud Infrastructure.

Contact

blessenjacob@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipCloud-native ArchitectureSite Reliability EngineeringCloud ApplicationsSreEnterprise ArchitectureCloud DevopsCloud ArchitectureDevopsEcommerce ManagementCloud Migration

Other Skills

AJAXAWSAccount ManagementAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Architectural DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)AutomationAvailabilityChefClpudCommunicationDB2DatabasesDevSecOps

About

Accomplished Engineering Leader with experience in building & implementations across eCommerce, Automotive, FinTech, Digital Electronics, EdTech and Consumer tech , spear headed platform engineering, SRE/DevOps/CloudOps, and infrastructure, driving the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure platforms for high-growth technology organizations. Proven expertise in building and leading high-performing engineering teams, architecting cloud-native solutions, and aligning infrastructure strategies with business goals. A strategic thinker and hands-on technologist, adept at modernizing legacy systems, implementing infrastructure as code (IaC), and establishing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and observability frameworks. Skilled in fostering cross-functional collaboration, optimizing developer productivity, and championing a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement. Extensive experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments, with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, service mesh architectures, security compliance, and cost optimization. Recognized for driving platform transformations that reduce operational overhead, accelerate delivery, and scale engineering organizations efficiently.

Experience

23 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Saviynt

Senior Director of Engineering

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Hybrid

Director levelLeadership DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud-Native ArchitectureReliabilityAvailability+3

Sony

Director of Engineering

Jul 2020 – Aug 2025 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Leader at PlayStation division for Engineering & Technology [ Platform Technology Group , Enterprise Technology Group . Global Enterprise Architecture team ]
Envisioned new technology trends and strategy at GISC for Sony global initiatives , managed a large organization , spanning multiple hierarchy
1. Direct responsibility of SRE / DevOps / DevSecOps, QAE , Security , Production & Platform Architecture, Engineering & Implementation at GISC-SIE (PlayStation PSN Platform) ,
2. Additional Technology delivery responsibility for (PlayStation Multi-Platform & eCommerce Stores - PlayStation Direct - US & EU) for GISC-SIE

Hybrid CloudSite Reliability EngineeringGo (Programming Language)Program ManagementManagementSRE+7

Standard chartered bank

Director of Engineering

Apr 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Manage overall delivery of Platform Engineering, Big data Engineering and Cloud DevOps/SRE teams
Lead Engineering delivery of B2B eCommerce Platform as Cloud implementation on AWS using (EKS, on-perm Kubernetes, API – Gateway, Cognito, RDS MKS , ELK , Big-data using AWS Data-lake, Cassandra , Mongo , Elastic Search ) , Ambari Hadoop cluster management
Additional delivery responsibility to Lead Big-Data platform implementation engineering using Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Spark computing frameworks and HortonWorks on public cloud .
Establish DevSecOps practice on AWS & Azure cloud, includes responsibility to implement CI-CD for application and big-data, build in-house cloud management orchestration platform, use Terraform & Chef as CM tool framework
Evaluate Vendor managements and contract conceptualizing, Managed capital funding requests of up to $1 million from project approval to project closeout
Built people competency of 30+ Engineers & Architects by hiring, reviewing skills and oversee complete organization technology competency,

Hybrid CloudEnterprise ArchitectureSolution ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (AWS)System ArchitectureCloud DevOps

Tekion corp

Engineering Leader

Apr 2016 – Apr 2019 · 3 yrs · San Ramon, California, United States

Architected , Designed and conceptualised Tekion’s pilot multi-tenant cloud architecture, , network architecture and platform architecture , build Devops as practise , delivered pilot platform and enable complete cloud infrastructure until GA

TerraformArchitectural DesignEnterprise ArchitectureSolution ArchitectureDatabasesCloud Applications+4

Scholastic

Senior Manager - e-Commerce & Digital Engineering

Aug 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Manage B2C eCommerce platform for Scholastic back to school web interfaces
Lead migration project to migrate 5000+ servers from traditional data-center to AWS cloud using chef , terraform and vmware as framework, responsible for Architecture, Design and implementation and establish operational efficiency
Leads implementation efforts for transformation of Infrastructure to cloud and establish DevOps teams
Lead internal development team and external vendors in E-Commerce SDLC
Managed Shared services platform implementations
Successfully lead, managed both as capacity of Product Owner and Technical Architect to migrate Complex Websphere applications which brings in revenue 300+ Million and 15+ Million revenue-based applications also oversaw migration of 40+ Open source applications to AWS cloud

Site Reliability EngineeringPython (Programming Language)Solution ArchitectureSREAutomationDevOps+2