Feb 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As an IT Leadership Team member, oversaw 130 Engineers supporting global financial products in hosted infrastructure. Saved $3 million through a cost-saving Oracle RAC to MySQL Migration program. Directed IT Portfolio Roadmap and Service Delivery for cost efficiency and effective operations across multiple locations. Led agile projects, resolving issues, and providing valuable insights. Managed strong vendor relationships, including assessments, contracts, and negotiations. Fostered high-performing teams and collaborated with Technology Leaders on talent strategies and career growth through appraisal schemes and promotion committees.

Dec 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Exec leader responsible for driving the technology modernization/transformation for the digital payments industry. Led an org of 130+ engineers spread across Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Technology Operations, InfoSec and Product/Application Support(BOC).

Jun 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban district, India

• Aligned IT strategies with organizational goals. Implemented cloud cost optimization and governance, reducing expenses by 20%. Drove tech and cultural transformation with DevOps and SRE charters. Improved product up-time from 60% to 99.99% (from 99.5%) through enhanced incident management. Optimized CI/CD pipelines and images with microservices, achieving four-fold improvement in build and deployment time. Re-architected network stack using AWS Global Accelerator, resulting in 30% application latency enhancement.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Over six years with a pioneering Unicorn Company, I progressed from Senior Manager to Senior Director (Principal Engineering Manager). Led a comprehensive DC to Cloud (Azure) migration across three regions, covering 4,000+ nodes and 20 B2C (AdTech) products. Headed DC Operations, delivering 14 billion Ad Requests per day with a peak QPS of 1 million. Achieved $4 million annual savings through load balancing standardization and cloud-powered platform scaling. Designed and built an end-to-end data center in Beijing, improving performance 2x and saving $2.4 million.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Lead InMobi's journey to Azure Cloud with special focus on cost management, governance, provisioning/orchestration and overall relationship management with MSFT
• DC and Infrastructure owner with an Internet scale production environment. Handled large scale DC migrations with varied complexity+size and instrumental in charting the DC to Cloud strategy.
• Head of Global IT & Networking, NOC and DC Operations; operational owner, key decision-maker and mentor

Jul 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Datacenter Engineering & Operations of Mobile First / AdTech Org. Drove DC infra setup and optimization initiatives in a large scale Grid/Data world. Also responsible for managing Global IT and Corporate IT Engineering.

Jun 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Oversaw operations across 8 global sites of Google India, managing Budget, Architecture, IT Delivery, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Information Security. Collaborated with 40 Global Program Managers, fostering cross-cultural sensitivity. Transformed a 10-member FTE Team for efficient SLA management and achieved 98% InfoSec compliance through education programs. Implemented consistent global Performance Management System within 3 months. Led wide-scale fleet deployment and operations, handling 6,000 devices at Google's scale.

Apr 2008 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• From 1997 to 2001, achieved significant growth at Broadridge and D.E. Shaw & Co. Established a $5 million annual revenue vertical, Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM), and built high-performance teams for three major Data Centers. Strategic decisions saved $500,000 through Data Center consolidation. Recognized as a top-performing leader in associate engagement surveys. Oversaw construction of a second site for over 1,000 associates and implemented employee engagement initiatives like Technology SIG, RIM Working Committee, Centre of Excellence e-Lab, and a Mentorship Program.

Apr 2007 – Mar 2008 · 11 mos

• Managed Internal IT Infrastructure & Operations

Apr 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

• IT Infrastructure Management and Operations

Apr 2003 – Mar 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Lead - Active Directory, Messaging and ESM

Jul 1999 – Mar 2003 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Senior Systems Admin - supported Sun Solaris, Sybase and IT help-desk operations.

May 1997 – Jun 1999 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• SysAdmin

Nov 1996 – Apr 1997 · 5 mos

• C Systems programmer and PC/LAN engineer