Binoy Fernandez

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India20 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 18 years of technology industry experience
Expert in leading cloud engineering teams
Proven track record in delivering scalable solutions

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud engineering and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud EngineeringDatabase ManagementNetworkingArchitectureMicroservicesProduct Engineering

Other Skills

Kafka ConnectApache KafkaDatabase IntegrationNetworking ServicesCloud InfrastructureCloud Native TechnologiesAWSArchitecture DesignServerless TechnologiesTalent ManagementElasticsearchWebSocketsLong-PollingSQL GenerationReporting Module

About

I have over 18 years of experience working in the technology industry. I am passionate about leading transformation projects and learning modern technologies. I bring in a strong technical background, excellent organizational skills, effective communication skills and a client-centric focus.

Experience

20 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Engineering Leader at Confluent

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsible for leading the Connect Database & Data Warehouse team in the Connect Engineering organization.
Kafka Connect allows you to build connectors to integrate Apache Kafka with other applications and data systems.

Kafka ConnectApache KafkaDatabase IntegrationCloud EngineeringDatabase Management

Salesforce

Director of Software Engineering

Dec 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsible for leading the Connectivity and Edge teams in India, part of the Kernel Cloud organization.
Our group delivers foundational networking services across Salesforce data centers and public cloud that are secure and scalable.

Networking ServicesCloud InfrastructureCloud EngineeringNetworking

Pegasystems

4 roles

Director, Cloud Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Dec 2020 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsible for leading the Cloud engineering organization with an engineering staff of 40 members, including engineering managers, product managers, scrum masters and technical architects.
Responsible for overseeing design/architecture, development, delivery & support of multiple services used to manage and operate Pega Cloud services, leveraging Cloud native technologies and Amazon Web Services.
Led the architecture and roadmap for the next generation of the Control Plane for Pega Cloud services, providing product leadership and technology strategy.

Cloud Native TechnologiesAWSArchitecture DesignCloud EngineeringArchitecture

Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Led the group responsible for delivering fleet wide automated infrastructure, platform and applications upgrades on Pega Cloud services.
Defined the roadmap for evolving the architecture of Pega Cloud services from a monolithic design towards microservices and using serverless technologies.
Architected and delivered one of the first microservices running on Pega Cloud services.
Responsible for all aspects of talent management, including, but not limited to, hiring, performance and compensation management, and training and development.

MicroservicesServerless TechnologiesTalent ManagementCloud Engineering

Architect / Manager, Cloud and Product Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Delivered a proof of concept implementation for distributed search in the Pega platform using Elasticsearch that is now the default search implementation in the Pega platform.
Led the design and implementation of a real time notifications module in the Pega platform, using WebSockets and Long-Polling as the transport mechanisms.
Led the architecture initiative to componentize/modularize the Pega platform.

ElasticsearchWebSocketsLong-PollingCloud EngineeringProduct Engineering

Principal Engineer / Associate Architect, Product Engineering

Jan 2011 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Designed and implemented the SQL generation and reporting module for the Pega platform, compatible with Oracle, DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
Delivered a proof of concept support in the Pega platform for PostgreSQL database that has now become the default database engine for Pega Cloud services. (Received Chairman’s Award)

SQL GenerationReporting ModulePostgreSQLProduct EngineeringDatabase Management

Oracle india private ltd

Senior Applications Engineer

Apr 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsible for the design and development of product enhancements (Oracle EBS Projects, Property Manager 11i/R12), working with customers and resolving customer issues, enhancing the application performance, and conducting knowledge transfer sessions.