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Bharath Ram Nathamuni Sampath

Engineering Leader | Skilled in building High Performance Teams | Expert in Technical Program Management | Agile Evangelist | Passionate Technology Enthusiast

Chennai

21+ years of work experience

MX
Dec 20241 yr 5 mosPresent

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Provide regional engineering leadership for enterprise Open Banking platforms supporting regulated partners. • Partner with U.S. platform owners to align roadmaps, releases, and delivery execution across regions. • Define and execute AI-assisted and agentic engineering strategy for API design, code generation, testing, and governance. • Establish delivery governance, security controls, auditability, and compliance standards. • Scale and mentor engineering leaders while strengthening delivery discipline and culture.
Matrimony.com Limited
Sep 20222 yrs 3 mosNov 2024

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Senior engineering leader for large consumer-scale digital platforms with millions of users. • Led multiple cross-functional engineering teams. • Partnered with global business leadership to align engineering execution with strategic goals. • Drove organization design, leadership development, and succession planning.
FIS
Dec 20174 yrs 10 mosSep 2022

Chennai Area, India

Led eleven distributed cross functional teams of Managers, Lead Engineers, Testers and Business Analyststo deliver high quality UI solution for Banker and Teller operations in continuous batches of program increments aka Releases. Continuous collaboration with Product Management and Line of Business to groom and maintain feature backlog, plan and create release roadmaps, Program Increment planning and features deployment. Working closely with System Architects and Lead developers to ensure seamless continuous deployment of solution increments by automating build deployments and integrating unit test executions. Owning "shifting" left of all NFR related activitities such as Security scans (Blackduck, Veracode and SONAR), automated integration tests along with performance monitoring and optimization. Successfully implemented Engineering best practices such as Test Driven development (TDD), Pair programming (XP) and Lean. This helped in reducing overall defect count by 35%. Continuously and seamlessly delivering industry leading solution features to more than 150 banks using CICD tools . On- demand go-live and feature toggling to ensure continuous delivery.
HCL Technologies
Dec 20125 yrs 1 moDec 2017

Greater Chennai Area

 Led teams across broad technical, hospitality/Gaming disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.  Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.  Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.  Developed and successfully followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority. Conducted Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.  Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning.  Effectively communicated the progress to senior management. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Aug 20057 yrs 5 mosDec 2012

Greater Chennai Area

Worked on maintenance projects for three of Harrah’s applications involving 24/7 production support. Responsibilities include, 1. Lead/Co-ordinate a team of 7 (onsite and offshore) for maintenance of three different applications with a variety of technologies 2. Ensure quality/schedule adherence by meeting stringent SLA’s including weekend and 24/7 support call rotations 3. Have worked on design, development, testing and maintenance 4. Have developed tools to improve application productivity (PERL, Unix shell scripting)

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech, Artificial Intelligence

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

20242 yrs2026
Panimalar Engineering College

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

Panimalar Engineering College

20014 yrs2005

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Headline

Engineering Leader | Skilled in building High Performance Teams | Expert in Technical Program Management | Agile Evangelist | Passionate Technology Enthusiast

About

Technology and engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling mission-critical platforms and global engineering organizations across fintech, regulated enterprise systems, and consumer internet. Proven leader of large India-based engineering teams operating in close partnership with U.S. leadership. Currently driving AI-first and agentic engineering transformation for Open Banking and platform modernization. Pursuing M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from BITS Pilani (2026).

Location

Chennai

Work experience

Senior Manager - Software Engineering at MX, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Provide regional engineering leadership for enterprise Open Banking platforms supporting regulated partners. • Partner with U.S. platform owners to align roadmaps, releases, and delivery execution across regions. • Define and execute AI-assisted and agentic engineering strategy for API design, code generation, testing, and governance. • Establish delivery governance, security controls, auditability, and compliance standards. • Scale and mentor engineering leaders while strengthening delivery discipline and culture.

General Manager of Product Engineering at Matrimony.com Limited, Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • Senior engineering leader for large consumer-scale digital platforms with millions of users. • Led multiple cross-functional engineering teams. • Partnered with global business leadership to align engineering execution with strategic goals. • Drove organization design, leadership development, and succession planning.

Senior Project Manager( Technical Program Management) at FIS, Dec 2017 - Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos, Chennai Area, India, Led eleven distributed cross functional teams of Managers, Lead Engineers, Testers and Business Analyststo deliver high quality UI solution for Banker and Teller operations in continuous batches of program increments aka Releases. Continuous collaboration with Product Management and Line of Business to groom and maintain feature backlog, plan and create release roadmaps, Program Increment planning and features deployment. Working closely with System Architects and Lead developers to ensure seamless continuous deployment of solution increments by automating build deployments and integrating unit test executions. Owning "shifting" left of all NFR related activitities such as Security scans (Blackduck, Veracode and SONAR), automated integration tests along with performance monitoring and optimization. Successfully implemented Engineering best practices such as Test Driven development (TDD), Pair programming (XP) and Lean. This helped in reducing overall defect count by 35%. Continuously and seamlessly delivering industry leading solution features to more than 150 banks using CICD tools . On- demand go-live and feature toggling to ensure continuous delivery.

Project/Program Manager at HCL Technologies, Dec 2012 - Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo, Greater Chennai Area,  Led teams across broad technical, hospitality/Gaming disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.  Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.  Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.  Developed and successfully followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority. Conducted Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.  Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Worked with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning.  Effectively communicated the progress to senior management. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.

Technology Lead at Infosys Technologies Ltd, Aug 2005 - Dec 2012 · 7 yrs 5 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Worked on maintenance projects for three of Harrah’s applications involving 24/7 production support. Responsibilities include, 1. Lead/Co-ordinate a team of 7 (onsite and offshore) for maintenance of three different applications with a variety of technologies 2. Ensure quality/schedule adherence by meeting stringent SLA’s including weekend and 24/7 support call rotations 3. Have worked on design, development, testing and maintenance 4. Have developed tools to improve application productivity (PERL, Unix shell scripting)

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Artificial Intelligence, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Panimalar Engineering College