Vindhya Shanmugam — Director of Engineering
24 years of strong software design & development expertise in building large scale distributed systems from scratch. Well versed in Retail, Ecommerce & Payments domain. Successfully led strategic key initiatives with high impact to the GMV & bottom line. In depth technical expertise in system design & architecture having knowledge on several frameworks & technologies - Containers, Microservices, Cache's - Redis, Aerospike, Hazelcast, relational datastores, NoSQL datastores - Cassandra, Mongo, Neo4j, Search engines - Solr, Elasticsearch, Streaming platforms - Storm, Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Java & related frameworks, App development platforms & frameworks, build & deployment tools etc. Expert in strategizing long term & short term Vision, Goals & Roadmap for product & tech charters. Have demonstrated ability to create goals & roadmap for stabilising the platforms, improving the SLA's, refactoring solutions, identifying design gaps and making the right technology choices. Exposure to handling large teams 75+. Ability to hire great talent across all levels, mentoring and building high performance product development teams from scratch. Groomed & coached team members to the next levels. Excellent communication skills & highly collaborative in driving product roadmaps with business, driving technical solutions with architects & leads, coming up with estimates, planning and delivering on time & quality. Exposure to streamlining Org wide process gaps, influencing stakeholders, drive complex process initiatives, engineering best practices, taking the right decisions for improving faster time to market & building world class engineering platforms. Passionate about Innovation. Has successfully mentored & led strategic innovative Ideas for hackathons, patents & blogs. Owner of 2 patents. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10304061B1/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US10769649B1/
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 26 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Leadership
- Distributed Systems
- Product Development
- Payments
- Cloud Computing
- Software Development
- Project Management
- Technical Leadership
Career Highlights
- 24 years of software design and development expertise.
- Led strategic initiatives impacting GMV and bottom line.
- Owner of 2 patents in innovative technology.
Work Experience
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Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
at Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School