Shanker Perumal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

26+ years in software product development.
Expert in engineering leadership and team management.
Proven track record in delivering impactful business outcomes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Software Development expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipSoftware EngineeringEngineering ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAzureC/C++/VC++CassandraContinuous IntegrationData StructuresDockerDojoEclipseFlinkHibernateJavaJavaScript

About

Hands-on technology leader with 26+ years of extensive experience in software product development, of which 19+ years experience is in engineering leadership. Currently working as Senior Director of Engineering at Visa in the area of Cross-Border Payments for Accounts & Wallets.

Experience

Visa

Senior Director of Engineering

Nov 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

Senior Director of Engineering in Visa, leading product development for Visa Direct Cross-Border Payments for Accounts & Wallets, and managing multiple teams, including people managers.
Leading 7 teams (& growing) across multiple initiatives. Currently delivering new roadmap capabilities in Visa Direct product in the payments domain, with a large focus on building & enhancing the account & wallet partner network across 70+ countries through network partner integrations.
In earlier Bill Pay product, delivered features like Participant Onboarding, Merchant & User Enrollment, Mandate, Request for Payment, Payment Initiation, Biller Integration, Active-Active with affinity routing etc.
In earlier Real-time Payments product, delivered features like Participant Onboarding, Portal, Real-time Data Pipeline & Analytics, Simulator.
Role involves end-to-end ownership, delivery & accountability, including global teams.
Experience in building scalable, resilient and high performing systems & microservices.
Experience in hiring and building product development teams in a high growth environment, and in mentoring and developing talent & leaders. Additionally, owned the vendor management for contingent workers part of the team.
In addition to Development, also led the DevOps initiatives for the larger team for a year.
Strong experience in driving delivery of impactful business outcomes by collaborating closely with multiple product development teams & cross-functional teams across geographies.
Technology Stack: Java, REST Services, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka/RabbitMQ, MySQL/DB2, Flink, ReactJS, Docker, Kubernetes.

JavaREST ServicesSpring BootHibernateKafka/RabbitMQMySQL/DB2+6

Walmart labs

Senior Manager II - Software Engineering

Nov 2018 – Oct 2019 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Senior Manager II – Software Engineering in Walmart Labs, led product development for Partner Services org.
Led 4 teams in parallel for multiple initiatives. Delivered new partner services features used by multiple Walmart products in the Retail domain.
Led initiatives/features for suppliers/sellers like New Partner Onboarding Experience (User Management, Workflow Management, User Agreements, Helpdesk, Legacy to Email migration), Review Management, Role Management etc.
Role involved complete end-to-end product ownership, delivery & accountability.
Experience in building scalable, resilient and high performing systems & microservices.
Experience in hiring and building product development teams in a high growth environment, and in mentoring & developing talent.
Strong experience in driving delivery of impactful business outcomes by collaborating closely with multiple product development teams across geographies.
Technology Stack: Java, REST Services, Spring, Kafka, Cassandra, Azure.

JavaREST ServicesSpringKafkaCassandraAzure+2

Intuit

Senior Development Manager

Dec 2014 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Senior Development Manager in Intuit, led product development for multiple subscription & billing platforms and teams.
Led 4 teams in parallel for multiple initiatives. Delivered new subscription & billing management features across 3 different billing platforms used by multiple Intuit products.
Led initiatives/features like Customer Conversion, Billing History, Restricted Party Screening, Direct Debit, Address Standardization, Identity Data Sync, Country Onboardings, Order Fallout, Bank Account Tokenization, AWS Enablement, HA/DR etc in the platforms.
Also led development of a new automation framework for end-to-end integration testing & finance evidence validation.
Role involved complete end to end product ownership, delivery & accountability.
Experience in building scalable, resilient and high performing systems & microservices.
Experience in hiring and building product development teams, and in mentoring & developing talent.
Experience managing & delivering features with engineering teams having a mix of regular & contractor engineers.
Strong experience in driving delivery of complex & impactful business outcomes by collaborating closely with multiple product development teams & cross-functional stakeholders across organizational boundaries & geographies.
Strong execution track record, coupled with hands-on technical expertise & analytical skills.
Technology Stack: Java, REST / SOAP Services, Spring / Spring Boot, Hibernate, JMS / ActiveMQ, Mule ESB, AWS.

JavaREST ServicesSpringSpring BootHibernateAWS+2

Ibm india software lab

Senior Engineering Manager / Release Manager

Jul 1999 – Dec 2014 · 15 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Senior Engineering Manager in IBM Rational, led product development for multiple products & teams over the years.
Played Senior Engineering Manager role for product development across 3 IBM Rational software products - IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Performance Tester & IBM Rational Functional Tester. Led development, functional testing and sustenance across development teams in India, US & France labs. New capabilities delivered to enable customers to perform functional, performance & mobile automation.
Role involved complete end to end product ownership, delivery & accountability.
Experience in hiring and building product development teams from scratch, and transitioning product ownership to India lab.
Also had earlier played Development Manager role for product development & sustenance of 2 other product teams in the Host Integration domain of IBM Software Middleware portfolio – IBM Rational Host On-Demand and IBM Personal Communications.
Technology stack: Java, Eclipse, Dojo, JavaScript, C/C++/VC++.
Involved in Project Proposals (RFPs), Transition Management, Product Delivery etc.
Apart from core engineering management, also took on various additional responsibilities like Quality Software Engineering (QSE) Development Top Gun, and Security Lead.