kalairajan swarnam

Director of Engineering

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States22 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led digital transformation initiatives with significant metric improvements.
Built a globally distributed engineering team promoting excellence.
Expert in cloud architecture and API design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and solution architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareIntegration

Other Skills

cloud architectureAPI designdigital sales platformautomation testingengineering efficiencydigital transformationbusiness process analysistechnical consultingworkshop facilitationtechnical solution designuser experience enhancementliaison coordinationB2B solutions designportlet developmentapplication support

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Senior Technology Leader with experience developing engineering roadmaps and a strong track record of executing that roadmap to help business realize its goals. Extensive experience influencing product roadmaps by building partnerships with Product, UX, Marketing, Risk, Compliance, and Business Lines, to help the business realize its long-term product goals. A respected technical leader with experience leading digital transformation initiatives, introducing new technology and course-correcting engineering decisions to align with the changing technology landscape and business needs. A good mentor with a track record of identifying engineering talent and growing a globally distributed engineering team from the ground up, promoting engineering excellence, reducing the cost of development, and encouraging automation.

Experience

U.s. bank

Director Software Engineering

Sep 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I led the development and delivery of a new digital sales platform for the U.S. bank based on cloud architecture, building micro and macro services to replace monoliths, and designed API based on domain-driven development. Advised and guided the team on building a reusable digital sales platform, which has yielded a 200% YoY increase in key metrics.
I am leading the engineering team building acquisition platform for the Retail Payment Services, onboarding 1300+ credit card partners by building a highly configurable platform for releasing 95% of the partner with ZERO engineering involvement.
I increased engineering efficiency by redesigning and rebuilding the automated build process and improving automation testing and monitoring of production and non-production environment. This helped reduce the deployment time by 300%.
I led the technology integration strategy and delivery for the Statefarm- U.S. bank alliance acquisitions track.
I delivered a high-quality digital sales platform that helped improve the digital savings account conversion rate from 37% to 52%, and the digital credit card conversion rate from 45% to 61%.

cloud architectureAPI designdigital sales platformautomation testingengineering efficiencySolution Architecture+1

Cognizant technology solutions

Assistant Manager Projects

Jun 2010 – Dec 2010 · 6 mos

Defining, designing and detailing the technical aspect of the solution and exhibiting accuracy and delivery of the proposed solution.
Developed benefits module for insurance client (Med, Vision, and Dental) to enhance the online user experience.
Act as a Liaison between software testing teams, identity management teams and infrastructure team to coordinate testing and deployment rollouts

technical solution designuser experience enhancementliaison coordinationSolution ArchitectureEnterprise Software

Ibm

Practice Manager

Apr 2010 – Sep 2018 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Acting as a technical consultant and interpreter between IT and business, for clients, IBM Sales teams, and IBM Business Partners, applying expertise in the description of business processes, to translate business needs into functional and nonfunctional IT requirements.
Created strategies and solutions to modernize their digital transformation, commerce solutions, member portals, online banking experience, dealer portal, and other B2B websites for clients in the Midwest region.
Developed comprehensive business cases with cost, service, and benefit dimensions and value proposals for clients and helped with their budgeting and scope decisions.
Led multiple workshops with executive leadership, mid-level engineering leaders, and staff engineers for gap analysis to identify areas of improvement and establish a solid process and engineering solutions/workflow changes to address gaps and improve efficiency.
Facilitated proof of concepts, training, and workshops for engineering teams regarding test-driven development, design thinking, and continuous integration/delivery process.
Developed best practices to upskill and transfer skills across global engineering teams, upskilling teams to achieve business objectives.
Responsible for incorporating cutting-edge technology trends, promoting technology innovation and application, and improving companies' competitiveness.
Responsible for building high-performance teams and managing day-to-day engineering tasks, providing leadership through coaching and feedback, development goals, and performance management.
Being a part of the technical sales team, created several POCs to translate ideas that have been converted into project features

digital transformationbusiness process analysistechnical consultingworkshop facilitationEnterprise SoftwareSolution Architecture

Satyam computer services limited

Team Lead

Mar 2003 – Jun 2009 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Designed and delivered many B2B solutions (forecasting inventory, parts production ) for automotive and manufacturing industry clients using Websphere, Weblogic, Struts, JSF, Oracle, and DB2.
Developed and implemented JSR 168/286 portlets to meet the project specification and requirements.
Responsible for updating the build scripts and generating the deployment packages for application rollout.
Managed a modest team of professional consultant to deliver support of a complex business critical application providing 24x7 support and increased the application availability by 12%.

B2B solutions designportlet developmentapplication supportSolution ArchitectureEnterprise Software