Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

Apr 2020 – Nov 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Key Responsibilities :
• 1. Production Environment Setup & Management:
• Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant production clusters across various environments.
• Ensure scalability, security, and stability of the OBCS platform by configuring robust infrastructure on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).
• 2. Release Management & Automation:
• Oversee and manage the release pipeline for monthly updates and new innovations in OBCS, ensuring timely and error-free deployments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, testing, and deployment processes, enhancing the efficiency of production releases.
• 3. Monitoring & Observability:
• Implement and configure monitoring solutions such as OCI Logging, OCI Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and OCI Monitoring V2 for real-time visibility into the health of applications, infrastructure, and databases.
• Build and maintain Grafana dashboards to track key performance metrics, detect anomalies, and generate actionable insights for system improvements.
• 4. Incident Management & Resolution:
• Monitor production systems 24/7 and respond to incidents promptly, minimizing downtime and ensuring high availability of services.
• 5. Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning:
• Conduct regular capacity planning and system performance tuning to meet growing demands while maintaining optimal performance.
• 6. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity:
• Develop and test disaster recovery (DR) plans to ensure business continuity and data integrity during failures or natural disasters.
• 7. Security & Compliance:
• Ensure compliance with internal security standards and external regulatory requirements by implementing and monitoring security controls.
• Perform regular security audits, vulnerability assessments, and implement security patches and updates to protect OBCS services.

Mar 2011 – Apr 2020 · 9 yrs 1 mo

• Key Responsibilities
• 1. Provide leadership to the engineering team in the product functional/technical areas
• i. Retail banking, Trade Finance, Islamic Finance,Messaging, Process Framework, Lending
• ii. JAVA J2EE, SOA, Web Services, BPEL, BPMN, Oracle PL-SQL,OBIEE
• 2. Ensure project management practices effectively leverage (and manage) best practices in SDLC and quality assurance
• 3. Manage the execution of individual programs using agreed project management methodologies
• 4. Communicate clearly with project teams with regards to the activities necessary to formulate plans. Conduct project review meetings and track the progress against the milestones set
• 5. Manage the risks, including the development of contingency plans
• 6. Ensure resources are effectively planned, approved and allocated
• 7. Execute project management process including scope definition, scheduling, human resource and material planning and allocation, risk management planning, cost and budget management and quality assurance
• 8. Build and maintain high performance engineering teams

Jan 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Project Details:
• Intellect Origination - SME
• Cash Management Systems (CMS)
• Intellect Core Banking System(CBS)
• Roles & Responsibility
• Complete Domain responsibility for SME Lending Suite and Core Banking
• Direct supervision of 3 Project Leader. The team-size of the project is around 35.
• Scoping - Requirements Gathering, Planning, Scheduling, Tracking, Delivery, Controlling tasks and status reporting. Identifying projects risks and planning risk mitigation.
• Planning and Scheduling - Working with Project Monitoring Committee to identify and prioritize the tasks for ensuring timely deliveries.
• Resource Management – Planning and arranging Resources, both Software and Hardware
• Application Scalability & Fine tuning – Leading the team to get the product certified on several technical parameters like User concurrency, Load, Response, Scalability, Bandwidth and Application Security.
• Interface / Migration - Leading the team to get the product interfaced with several leading systems to ensure STP.

May 2000 – Jan 2010 · 9 yrs 8 mos

• Loanflo Origination - SME
• Cash Management Systems (CMS)
• Core Banking System(CBS)
• Roles & Responsibility
• Complete Domain responsibility for SME Lending Suite and Core Banking
• Direct supervision of 3 Project Leader. The team-size of the project is around 35.
• Scoping - Requirements Gathering, Planning, Scheduling, Tracking, Delivery, Controlling tasks and status reporting. Identifying projects risks and planning risk mitigation.
• Planning and Scheduling - Working with Project Monitoring Committee to identify and prioritize the tasks for ensuring timely deliveries.
• Resource Management – Planning and arranging Resources, both Software and Hardware
• Application Scalability & Fine tuning – Leading the team to get the product certified on several technical parameters like User concurrency, Load, Response, Scalability, Bandwidth and Application Security.
• Interface / Migration - Leading the team to get the product interfaced with several leading systems to ensure STP.

May 1998 – Apr 2000 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

May 1997 – May 1998 · 1 yr · Chennai Area, India