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Vindhya Shanmugam

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 24 years of software design and development expertise.
  • Led strategic initiatives impacting GMV and bottom line.
  • Owner of 2 patents in innovative technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in distributed systems and cloud-native applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipDistributed SystemsProduct DevelopmentPaymentsCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

3rd platform technologiesAgile Delivery ModelAlgorithmsCheckoutClient InteractionCloud Native ApplicationsContainerized Distributed PlatformCustomer Experience GrowthCyberSourceData StructuresDevOpsDocker ProductsEngagementEnterprise ArchitectureFeature Delivery

About

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/

Experience

Myntra

2 roles

Senior Director

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Leading Search, Payments, PDP, Size & Fit, Cx Growth, Engagement, Loyalty, Retention & Social Commerce charters at Storefront at Myntra.
SearchPaymentsCustomer Experience GrowthEngagementLoyaltyRetention+3

Director

Jun 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Leading Myntra's Storefront critical Product & Tech charters - Search Experience, Search Relevance, PLP, PDP, Size& Fit, Recommendations, Personalisation, Shopping Cart, Wishlist, User Generated Content, Checkout, Payments and Order Fraud Management.
Search ExperienceSearch RelevancePersonalizationCheckoutPaymentsOrder Fraud Management+2

Visa

Director, Merchant Acquirer & Processing

Feb 2017Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • CyberSource is a global payment solutions provider with 480000 merchants, ~13 billion transactions operating across 190+ countries. Part of CyberSource product development, Global Services provides end to end integrated payment solutions to strategic partners, acquirers & merchants leveraging the highly scalable containerized distributed platform.
  • Lead the technology partner initiative to onboard new payment flows in the CyberSource platform.
  • Re-engineer the legacy Centralized Payment Solution platform that provides customized solution to high volume merchants.
  • Successfully lead multiple business releases for marquee merchants with core payments functionalities around payment acceptance, payment security & Fraud management.
  • Lead & design end to end core payment solutions across the platform for Visa’s strategic acquirer clients in the region.
  • Hire great talent & building high performance product development teams.
Payment SolutionsCyberSourceFraud ManagementPayment SecurityContainerized Distributed PlatformPayments+1

Dell emc

Development Manager

Aug 2009Feb 2017 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Part of 3rd Platform Application Development group as a Development Manager, accountable for end to end design, implementation and delivery of transforming EMC’s mission critical Product Licensing Solution to a Cloud Native Solution using Microservice Architecture, with an estimated cost budget of 30 million dollars with 400 million ROI in 5 years, which went live in August 2015.
  • Engineering highly scalable Cloud Native Applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS, using state of art Spring (Spring Boot/Spring Cloud) frameworks & Java/J2ee stack.
  • End to End engineering accountability of delivering products on EMC’s licensing cloud platform using Agile delivery model.
  • Led re-factoring of Vacation Management Application used in the India COE (~4000 employees) from a Java Swing based application to a microservice enabled architecture with a brand new Web UI in 8 weeks having a cost impact of 1 million dollars.
  • Led EMC IT Core Innovation Group, pioneered multiple innovative ideas and driven critical proof of concepts across new technology platforms, deriving business value to the organization.
  • Winner at the EMC’s Annual Global Innovation Conference 3 times in a row ( 2013, 2014, 2015 ).
Cloud Native ApplicationsMicroservice ArchitectureAgile Delivery ModelSpring FrameworkPivotal Cloud FoundryCloud Computing+1

Infosys technologies ltd

2 roles

Development Manager

Promoted

Jul 2006Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Responsible for managing end to end feature delivery for GGSN Product for Nortel Networks GPRS network consisting of 15 members.
  • Involved in design estimates, high level and detail designing of GGSN features
  • Work with the clients in refining the requirements, preparing the estimates, project timelines & delivery
  • Handle support and maintenance activities for the product
Feature DeliveryClient InteractionSupport and MaintenanceProject ManagementSoftware Development

Developer, Technical Lead

Aug 1999Jun 2006 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Software Developer & Technical Lead for PDSN/GGSN Product Development for Infosys - Nortel Networks
  • Design and Development of the GGSN/PDSN product features.
  • Involved in SME activities and technical reviews (FN, HLD and DD) prepared by the team members
  • Involved in feature development to enhance the current OMs to fully characterize the data call models for the PDSN.
  • Resolve software deficiencies on the products reported by the product test and defects received from the customer site
Product DevelopmentTechnical ReviewsFeature DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Education

Bharathiar University, Coimbatore

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronics and Communication

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Avila Convent Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Jan 1983Jan 1995

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