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# Adi Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Executive Manager \- Identity Engineering

## About

Highly motivated and results\-oriented technology leader with over 18 years of experience driving digital transformation, cloud migrations, and operational excellence\. Proven ability to lead large, cross\-functional teams in building and delivering high\-quality technology solutions aligned with business goals\. Expertise in cloud technologies \(SaaS, IaaS, PaaS\), Retail Digital Banking, Full stack engineering, and Cyber Security\. Passionate about fostering a collaborative culture and customer\-centric products through efficient and compliant platforms\. In my most recent role as Chief Engineer of User Access Management at Macquarie, I led a team of 75\+ engineers across 4 different timezones to deliver a $130M technology transformation program aimed at strengthening the security posture and controls across a landscape of 3000\+ applications, while maintaining legacy platforms to balance risk and innovation\.

## Location

Melbourne

## Work experience

Executive Manager \- Identity Engineering at Commonwealth Bank, Oct 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Chief Engineer at Macquarie Group, Nov 2022 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Engineering Manager at NAB, Aug 2022 \- Nov 2022 · 4 mos

Full\-time parenting at Career Break, Jul 2021 \- Aug 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Melbourne, Victoria, Parental leave for raising our first born

Head Of Technology at NAB, Mar 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 4 mos, • Led the seamless migration of the internet banking \(IB\) platform \(15\+ applications\) to cloud with minimal customer impact improving performance by two\-fold • Initiated the multi\-cloud strategy for the IB suite of applications thus meeting the regulatory requirement and improving resilience • Retained top talent across the platform by negotiating promotions and salary increases from executive during a hiring freeze • Developed and sought approval for a workforce plan to increase the IB team size from 80 to 150 along with restructuring the existing teams to work more effectively and setting up a site reliability squad • Setup multiple communities of practice across the asset teams in the digital domain fostering camaraderie, learning and collaboration across silos • Defined the IB roadmap for the next 12 months securing 8M\+ in funding for FY22

Manager, Engineer \(Internet Banking\) \- Digital at NAB, Jun 2019 \- Mar 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Melbourne, Australia, \. Secured funding to build the reusable component library thus reducing build times • Embedded patterns for integration, optimising CI/CD, automating testing and performance testing • Hired, retained and cultivated engineers, testers, analysts, tech leads and performance engineers • Consistently received high people leader engagement scores

Project Manager at NAB, Nov 2017 \- Jun 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Melbourne, Australia, Delivered 3 critical risk remediation projects for Digital Channels of the bank\. \- Improved the resilience and performance of the NAB mobile application by 50% impacting 165 million logins per week \- Recognised as the top performer for FY18 by the program sponsor and portfolio director in the Digital and assisted channels stream \- Authored invest cases for FY19 for all risk remediation initiatives across the consumer digital channels covering the NAB mobile application, internet banking and NAB Connect\. Securing \~15M in funding\.

## Education

B\.Technology, Information Technology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology \- SMU

ryan international school

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