Abhas Sureka

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The Randstad, Netherlands20 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams to achieve 43% efficiency increase.
Spearheaded DevOps transformation across multiple locations.
Launched innovative payment solutions in five new markets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with expertise in engineering management and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementDevops TransformationProduct DevelopmentInfrastructure ManagementAgile DevelopmentIt StrategyCustomer ExperienceProgram ManagementApplication Development

Other Skills

CollaborationDevOpsBudget ManagementPerformance ManagementAgile TransformationMarket ExpansionAgile MethodologiesCloud MigrationAgile FrameworkRoadmap PlanningTeam LeadershipSaaS DevelopmentTeam ScalingScrum FrameworkInnovation

About

I’m a Product & Technology leader with a structured, commercially driven, and outcome-oriented approach to building technology that delivers real business and customer value. I’ve partnered with organizations at every stage of scale — from founding and shaping product and engineering teams to scaling them into high-performing, resilient organizations. I operate at the intersection of Engineering, Product, Operations, and Business, translating vision into strategy and strategy into execution. I’ve built and scaled product and engineering teams from the ground up, developed leaders at every level, and helped individuals become the best versions of themselves. I care deeply about culture — creating high-performance environments where accountability, ownership, and psychological safety enable people to grow and consistently do their best work. My focus is on setting a clear product and technology vision, driving engineering excellence, and building systems and teams that scale sustainably. I lead with collaboration, breaking down silos and aligning stakeholders around shared outcomes. Above all, I’m passionate about building valuable products — products that solve meaningful problems, delight customers, and create lasting impact for the business.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Worldline

2 roles

Global Head of Engineering - Cards Acquiring & Authentication

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Hoofddorp · Hybrid

Global Head of Engineering - Cards Acquiring

Feb 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Hoofddorp · Hybrid

Heading the Cards Acquiring division of this French Payment Service Provider (PSP), overseeing a real-time payment processing platform hosted on on-premise data centers, serving e-commerce merchants in retail, gaming, and travel industries across EMEA, APAC, and North America.
Driving collaboration with Business, Product, Operations, Security and Customer Service teams to shape and execute the vision and strategy for the Tribe, comprising multiple cross-functional DevOps value streams across multiple locations and vendor partners.
Leading a diverse team of Engineering Managers, Architects, Engineers, Product Managers and Product Owners to foster a high-performance culture, maintain platform stability and enhance operational efficiencies within the Tribe.
Overseeing the planning and execution of roadmaps and OKRs to drive initiatives focused on revenue growth, compliance, business strategy, operational excellence, security, platform stability, future-state-architecture and technical debt.
Managing a multi-million euro budget, finances and capacity (scaling up and down), vendors (onboarding and offboarding), and IT service delivery.
Launched full service payment offerings in 5 new geographies enabling merchants to offer localized payment options to their end customers.
Spearheaded DevOps transformation and organizational restructuring initiatives to establish a product-led company by implementing end-to-end cross-functional value streams and OKRs.
Introduced Engineering Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as per DORA metrics across all Value Streams to create high performance culture.
Introduced L2 production support and 24x7 support model to enhance customer support across the globe.
Increased engineering efficiency by 43% through leveraging AI, standardizing product development and simplifying platform architecture.
Led end-2-end platform infrastructure migration including on-prem data centers migration and Google Cloud migration.

CollaborationDevOpsEngineering ManagementBudget ManagementPerformance ManagementAgile Transformation+2

Friss

Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Jan 2022 · 6 mos · Netherlands · Hybrid

Led Core Infrastructure and KYC teams in this Dutch scale-up for AWS cloud-based insurance fraud detection product supporting customers in Europe and America.
Introduced Agile framework for software development and quarterly based roadmap planning
Responsible for roadmap planning and execution of 2 teams - internal and external
Advisor to C-suite for restructuring Product and Technology teams

Agile FrameworkRoadmap PlanningTeam LeadershipAgile Development

Visualfabriq - ai enhanced revenue management

Global Development Manager

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Netherlands · Hybrid

Led Technology teams in this Dutch start-up to build and deploy AWS cloud-based revenue growth SaaS product for Retail customers in Europe, UK, Africa and US.
Responsible for setting up end-to-end delivery engine for the organization from the scratch
Scaled up engineering teams by 200% to align with rapid business expansion in different regions
Introduced Scrum framework for software development
Setup internal processes among Sales, Product, Customer Success, Customer Engagement and Technology teams for seamless project delivery and customer experience
Responsible for planning and execution of projects across multiple internal and external teams
Worked closely with C-suite for business expansion and revenue growth strategies

SaaS DevelopmentTeam ScalingScrum FrameworkProduct Development

Hsbc

3 roles

Regional Head of Engineering - UK Cards Issuing

Promoted

Aug 2015 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos · On-site

Headed the Cards Issuing division at this multinational bank, overseeing a real-time card issuing and transaction processing mainframe platform serving over 15 million HSBC UK retail and commercial credit card customers.
Drove the overall IT strategy for the area comprising multiple DevOps teams across multiple locations and vendor partners.
Led a team of IT Leads, Product Leads and Architects towards planning and execution of combined Product and Technology roadmap.
Managed a multi-million pound budget, tracked finances, Capacity Management, Vendor management, IT Service Management, Web and Mobile App, Customer and Staff facing channels.
Launched first-ever products for the bank such as Contactless cards, Virtual cards and Digital Wallets (Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay).
Led DevOps transformation programme towards phasing out Waterfall SDLC methodology to introduce Agile framework via cross-functional DevOps teams.
Led 'Mobile-First' strategy to migrate multiple 'staff facing' service requests / user journeys to the 'customer facing' channels such as Mobile App and Web.

IT StrategyBudget ManagementDevOps TransformationAgile Framework

Senior Program Manager

Promoted

Jun 2011 – Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · On-site

Drove multi-million-dollar programs for Change, Compliance and Digital Transformation in a complex environment through collaboration with 20+ internal and external teams with overall program team sizes of 80-100 FTEs spread across the geographies
Responsible for end-to-end agile planning and execution of various programs as per the agreed scope, time and budget
Setup appropriate governance model, change processes, RAID logs, budget tracker, escalation matrix, and Steerco reports
Key Leadership stakeholders from Business, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Operations, Customer Services, Product, IT and 3rd parties.

Agile PlanningProgram ManagementGovernance Model

Software Engineering Lead

Aug 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · On-site

Responsible for Application Development and Maintenance on Vision Plus (Fiserv’s product for Cards processing).
Lead complex platform wide migrations/upgrades.
Coach other software engineers in the team.
Create end-to-end solution designs.
Code, Test and Deploy applications on Mainframe.
Create functional and technical design documents.
Single Point of Contact for critical production incidents.

Application DevelopmentMainframe Management

Ge capital

Technical Lead

Feb 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana · On-site

Led technical team responsible for application development, maintenance and support on VisionPlus mainframe platform for SBI credit cards.
Onsite co-ordinator to work closely directly with the customers
First point of contact for the end customers regarding any system failures or critical platform issues
Improved customer experience through better technical solutions
Supported offshore teams towards application development and incident management
Subject Matter Expertise of the end-to-end platform
Created end-to-end solution design for customer initiated projects

Application DevelopmentCustomer Support

Tech mahindra

Technical Lead

Jun 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Led technical team responsible for application development, maintenance and support on VisionPlus mainframe platform for GE Money Japan, Czech and SBI credit cards.
Created end-to-end solution design for customer initiated projects
Helped Product teams in converting ideas into projects with technical feasibilities, design and estimates
Worked closely with offshore teams towards application development and incident management
Created best practices of software development for the teams.

Application DevelopmentTechnical Solutions

Capgemini

Software Engineer

Jul 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Member of a team responsible for application development, maintenance and incident support for HSBC Global credit cards.
Code, Test and Deploy applications on Mainframe
Create functional and technical design documents
Resolve SIT, UAT and Production incidents

Application DevelopmentIncident Management