Pankaj Saxena — CEO
I am a metrics-driven & result-oriented technologist with ~24 years of experience in building scalable, fault-tolerant, Secure & highly available solutions in native & multi-cloud environments to cater to business needs. Summary Cloud Financial Management: Managed the cloud cost for enterprise customers in Oracle. In the current org, established the financial discipline & brought down the monthly cost from 12 CR per month to 3.7 CR per month. Scalable Systems: Extensive experience in building scalable systems that could serve 1M requests per minute (web application) to running ~25000 interactive classes in current org. Tech Standardization: Extensive experience in defining and executing technology roadmaps and leading digital transformation initiatives. Choose the right technology considering the business need, scalability, security & operability to ensure consistency, compatibility, and integration across diverse systems and platforms. This helped in reducing the cost by ~60% Customer First Approach: Regular reviews of various operational & Business KPIs to understand customers' & business needs. Security & Compliance:No high-security incidents reported in the last 1 year. Managing system, application, cloud security (network, storage, IAM), VAPT, OSINT etc. Implementation of Governance compliance & security standards. Leadership:Strong leadership with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all organizational levels. Built the team from 3 to 170 people. Hired leadership roles for diversified portfolios. Migration of services (Multi-cloud / Open Source): Migration of services among multi-cloud environments & also migration of managed services like MongoDB, Kafka and VPN to in-house. Vendor & partner management: Managing 30+ tech vendors & multiple partners. KEY SKILLS Technology • Architecting & building highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant Internet-based & Native Cloud Solutions • Automated CI/CD using Infrastructure as Code & and other deployment engines • Infrastructure management using various DevOps tools & and techniques • Performance and security Engineering (Cloud Security, VAPT, InfoSec), Microservices, Terraform, Kubernetes etc. Leadership • Thought leader provides direction considering a balance between business priorities, technological enablement and cost. • Working with enterprise customers for onboarding and migration • Inspirational Leadership • Creates a culture of high performance, where coaching and feedback standards are the norms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS cloud infrastructure expert with a strong focus on security and cost management.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 21 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Cloud Migration & Cloud Cost Management
- Technical Leadership
Career Highlights
- Reduced cloud costs from 12CR to 3.7CR monthly.
- Built a team from 3 to 170 members.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II certification for cloud security.
Work Experience
Nielsen
Vice President - Technology (1 yr 11 mos)
BYJU'S
Head of Platform Engineering, SRE, Tech Support, Security & Compliance (1 yr 9 mos)
Oracle
Senior Director - Cloud Operations (6 yrs 3 mos)
Yahoo
Director - Search Production Engineering & Operations (2 yrs)
Sr. Engineering Manager- Search Production Engineering & Operations (6 yrs 5 mos)
Cadence Design Systems
Sr. System Engineer (1 yr 4 mos)
Vinciti Networks
Sr. System Administrator (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
M.Sc at Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Kanpur University, Kanpur
B.Sc. at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning