DIRECTED
Enterprise-wide strategic initiative to modernize application & data platforms with improved performance & scale with yearly savings of $10M.
Cloud Transformation & Cloud Migration of 60 small to medium applications with directly controlling over $19M in cloud spend.
BUILT & LED
Cross functional global teams of 40+ with operating budget of $15M, built multiple center of excellence teams across Software Engineering, Solutions Architecture, IT Operations-SRE, and Infrastructure-CLOUD Engineering across 4 portfolios with active coverage 60+ scrum teams.
MANAGED
24/7 global support for entire suite of financial data platforms serving 250K individual & institutional clients globally with over 10 billion transactions.
TRANSFORMED
Modernized legacy platforms to scale & perform resulting increased customer satisfaction by 25% and savings $6M. Migrated 80% of the platform to cloud to align with cloud first strategy.
A Brief History of Leading Technological transformation
Group Manager/Senior Director, Software & Reliability Engineering - SPGLOBAL Market Intelligence , NJ - Sep 2014 -Feb 2023
Led 40+ employees & 20+ consultants with operating budget of $15M to serve across 60+ scrum teams. Managing multiple teams, managers, leader, architects & principal engineers. Modernized two large platforms MI-Realtime dashboard & Data pipeline ($10M annual cloud spend combined Infrastructure budget), promoted to deliver against very aggressive productivity & savings goals to move towards cloud first strategy and implement strategic projects such as XCEED, IQNEWGEN, PHEONIX, CLOUD1ST, SMART MOVE, and LOADSTONE.
Director, Solutions Architecture & Reliability Engineering - SPGLOBAL DOW JONES INDICES, NY May 2009 - Sep 2014
Created Global Realtime Index Calculation & Publishing platform for SPDJI Division capable of supporting 1 million Indices. Led 20+ employees with operating budget of $9M. Awarded “Exceptional individual achiever” for modernization of Global Realtime Index platform leading business deliver 24K+ Realtime Indices & 1.2M EOD Indices Globally with savings of $13M over 3 years. Setup global datacenter with BTRadianz at NAM & UK to host highly resilient Realtime index platform with network connectivity to 170 exchanges throughout the globe. Spearheaded transformation of infrastructure, site reliability engineering operations for both Realtime, historical & eod index platform into global service organization leveraging secure, scalable, and cost-effective technologies including visualization solutions to meet rapidly growing and demanding business needs resulted in 100% availability of key business applications, enabled speed to market, and reduced operational expense by 51% .
Additional Experience
Franklin Templeton Investments aka LeggMasson– Stamford, CT 03/2003 - 04/2009
Created Portfolio Asset management, Front office systems to effectively manage 250K Separately managed Institutional & individual accounts valued at 860B AUM.
Modernized Order management systems from Mainframe to newer technology to scale & maintain effectively.
Hired balanced talent & provided mentorship; conducted regular 1- 1 regular basis providing ongoing feedback, and consistent mentoring and development for team members to be a better version of themselves; Built team roadmap and translated into engineering goals for team and communicated with stakeholders; Delivering features for business by closely working with PMS, qa, and design; Anticipated, flagged, and resolved blockers within and outside team.
CAPGEMINI [Formerly Aricent] NY Aug 2002 – Sep 2003
Future Software Ltd. , INDIA Sep 1998 – Aug 2002
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Communications Bharathidasan University, Trichy City, Tamil Nādu, India 1998
Axis Technology - Post graduate Diploma in Network Protocols, Telecom software development & J2EE, AWS Architecture Associate, SAFe Agile, ITIL/ITSM foundations, TOGAF, Zachman
