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Smitesh Sathidevi

Director of Engineering

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India22 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in architecting scalable microservices solutions.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing engineering teams.
  • Strong leadership in driving technology strategy and execution.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech architect with expertise in scalable microservices and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesData Engineering

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Event Driven ProgrammingAWSAPIsDevOpsServiceNowEnterprise ArchitectureSystem ArchitectureDistributed SystemsJavaDesign PatternsSoftware DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsAgile MethodologiesJUnit

About

Experienced in shaping and influencing businesses and teams with technology, leadership and growth mindset. Drove strategic technology direction and execution maturity while being at multiple leadership roles spanning across global and regional levels in federated organizations. I believe in continuous learning and am grateful for all the opportunities I have had towards building and shipping products and platforms while developing teams focused on delivery, execution and craftsmanship. - Directed and managed distributed architecture and product engineering teams across multiple geographies - Expertise in Domain driven design, Data Engineering, Microservices and event driven architectural styles - Foster collaboration and building relationships across organization to achieve broader goal together - Mentored, coached and influenced teams on craftsmanship, execution and operational excellence - Focused on hiring, retaining and growing talent while fostering strong engineering culture and values - Led continuous experimentation and prototyping with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Passionate about building products, self-organising teams, cloud architectures, performant and resilient systems

Experience

22 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

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Director Software Engineering

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Aegon

2 roles

Global Lead Architect

Jan 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Engineering and Architecture

Director Technology

Jan 2018Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Architected Event driven Microservices based life insurance platform from scratch for ecommerce scale transactions with throughput well above thousand TPS and reducing new product launch times from months to weeks.
  • Bootstrapped Data Engineering team and developed Serverless Data Platform using Lambda architecture with data-pipelines and publication sets addressing Data accessibility, analytics, regulatory reporting and Insights
  • Piloted a Self-service PWA app leveraging APIs for policy servicing that reduced customer service calls by 80%
  • Worked closely with CTOs on Technology Strategy, Roadmap and Governance within various business units
  • Building Engineering teams within various business units in South-East Asia
  • Lead Architecture and Solution design for Finance Transformation and IFRS 9/17
  • Managed Hiring, interview processes and referrals to hire great talent across engineering teams
Amazon Web Services (AWS)MicroservicesData Engineering

Linkedin

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2014Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building next generation products and platforms for LinkedIn

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Development Manager

Aug 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Extended capabilities of existing interaction platform by designing and developing support for adding new channels of collaboration within a customer interaction.
  • Lead critical initiative in solutioning / implementing Cobrowse (Screen share on the web) as a channel of collaboration within the existing platform.
  • Managed and lead couple of engineering teams working on key product initiatives around Analytics and Social collaboration.

Canvera.com

Technology Manager

Aug 2009Aug 2013 · 4 yrs · Bangalore

  • Conceptualized and architected the storage infrastructure for Canvera.
  • Built and enhanced order processing workflows and image rendering engines.
  • Designed and developed revenue generating micro e-commerce sites and respective order-fulfillment engines.

Newscale inc. (acquired by cisco)

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2008Oct 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore & San Mateo, CA

  • Prototyped 'Promote to Production' module for product entities in newScale's RequestCenter product.
  • Productized 'Promote to Production' module as CatalogDeployer for deploying a catalog of RequestCenter entities across various deployment sites.
  • Developed an auto sync-build-deploy tool for continuous integration with email-notification capabilities on failure.

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2005Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore & San Mateo, CA

  • Re-engineered existing ColdFusion modules (Service Administration, Service Designer and Service Community) to Java/J2EE framework for Scalability, ease of maintenance and saving ColdFusion licensing cost.
  • Designed, Implemented and maintained an XML/Http based Import/Export API for all product entities.This was used for migrating product entities across different versions of products.
  • Conceptualized, designed, developed and maintained Velocity based code generator for generating DAO Layer along with Junits for CRUD operations, to be used while re-engineering.

Tavant technologies

Software Engineer

Mar 2004Oct 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Designed, developed , integrated and tested several incremental releases for Appraisal Engine and Document Engine(core modules of a distributed Loan processing system containing more than 15 different engines working as part of loan orgination and processing workflow).
  • Created / Integrated infrastructure tools to facilitate static code analysis, continuous integration, code coverage and junit testing.

Churchill ssi (acquired by sap labs)

Software Engineer

Aug 2003Mar 2004 · 7 mos · Bangalore

  • JABuilder was a part of JAutomator (product) that allowed additions, removal and modifications to migrated Java forms (from Oracle forms) using JDeveloper as an IDE using its drag and drop features. Designed and implemented several drag and drop components for the Java Forms.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

MS — Software Systems

Cochin University of Science and Technology

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 1998Jan 2002

Chinmaya Vidhyalaya, Bokaro Steel City

High School — Science

Jan 1986Jan 1998

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