Vivek Kottan Tharamal

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and cloud-native services.
Proven leadership in engineering and DevOps optimization.
Strong background in performance monitoring and tuning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a strong focus on backend architecture and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Other Skills

AJAXAmazon Web Services (AWS)Core JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipDesign PatternsEclipseGo (Programming Language)HibernateJDBCJSONJSPJavaJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptKubernetes

About

Polyglot programmer, primary expertise in Java, GoLang and Python. Extensive experience in server side development, distributed computing, DevOps, Agile practices. Specialization: 1. Distributed systems 2. Open source databases 3. Performance monitoring/tuning 4. Design, development, deployment, management of cloud native services at scale. Good at solution designing, collaboration, prototyping. https://www.vivekkt.dev

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Swiffylabs

Director of Engineering

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Working on building the lending stack, wallet and payments.

Zestmoney

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos

Led the DevOps team and optimised the AWS infra and observability tools.

Principal Engineer

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Creating and maintaining the BE architecture that is robust/scalable/secure/maintainable/extensible etc.
Authoring documentations pertaining to architecture, product flows, tech etc.
Training/Mentoring the team on Golang/Design-patterns/Agile

Morgan stanley

Senior Manager, Technology

Nov 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

TEAM :: Work Platform
● Implemented a service bus with dynamic filter controls to moderate volume
of messages from external systems.
● Implemented CI/CD using inhouse dev-ops tools to achieve faster delivery
cycle.
● Ongoing collaboration with a diverse international team to understand
business requirements and accordingly plan and release features using
agile methodologies.
● Engage in architectural discussions to onboard new upstream systems
TEAM :: GTR
● Worked on different reporting products like Herald, GTRS and Control
Framework.
● Developed end to end trade report reconciliation service in Control
Framework for recon with FCA.
● Created a new prod like environment, PPF, for Herald which involved
creation of more than 300 autosys jobs and a proportional amount of
scripts.
● Worked on BREXIT load analysis on all systems.

Zycus

4 roles

Tech Lead

Sep 2012 – Oct 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Leading a team on technical and managerial front to improvise and revamp the Central Report Management System based on HBase/Hadoop which involved identifying and splitting up the core modules into multiple projects and implementation of robust enterprise design patterns and finally making it fit for release.
Technology used: HADOOP, HBASE, APACHE PHOENIX, NEO-4J, JAVA, J2EE, MVC, JSP/SERVLETS, JMS, SPRING, HIBERNATE, JAX-RS, TOMCAT, JAVASCRIPT and JQUERY.
Key Contributions:
Cleanup codebase and induce most viable robust architecture into the project. Had to surgically split up existing messed up code base into proper robust modules.
Lead a team on technical front to improvise the Tenant Management Engine (Authorization/Authentication Server) of Zycus.
Was responsible for integrating different products of Zycus as well as external ERP integration with Zycus systems.