Headline

Senior Engineering Manager & Product Owner | Solution Architect | Cloud Native Platforms, Data Engineering, 5G & Telecom | Java, Spring Boot, J2EE, Python, Kubernetes, OCI, AWS, DevSecOps

About

Senior Engineering Manager and technical delivery leader with 20 plus years of experience shaping and delivering AI-enabled cloud-native platforms, data engineering, 5G Telecom systems and enterprise applications. Led teams that design, build, modernize, secure, and operate high-performance, highly available customer-facing platforms. My experience includes cloud-native 5G Network Exposure Function delivery, Oracle Unity Customer Data Platform infrastructure, OCI regional deployments, AWS-hosted applications, disaster recovery, production releases, incident management, and customer integrations. • Contribute to AI model evaluation for engineering use cases, assessing model responses against task requirements. • Build AI agents and reusable Codex skills for engineering workflows, targeting a 30% productivity improvement. • Lead architecture and engineering delivery for cloud-native data and telecom platforms, aligning product requirements, engineering capacity, dependencies, and production readiness. • Delivered OCI data-center platform setup for an APAC region, enabling onboarding of region-specific customers. • Delivered geo-redundant platform availability of 99.99% with zero traffic loss during in-service upgrades and rollbacks through disaster-recovery readiness, observability, and release governance. • Lead and mentor a 15-member engineering organization delivering quarterly releases, Critical Patch Updates, third-party library upgrades, and customer-specific fixes. My technical ecosystem includes Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs, microservices, Geo-redundancy, OCI, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, ETL, Data Lake, Disaster Recovery, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Prometheus, Grafana, SRE, Observability, Release Management. I am currently pursuing PhD in Artificial Intelligence, with interests in machine learning, image processing, and applied AI for engineering productivity. Previously, I led engineering for Apptio’s AWS-hosted IT Financial Management Foundation and managed Credit Suisse’s Java and Big-Data Data Service Layer platform for Risk and Finance IT, including BCBS 239-aligned risk-management work, platform onboarding, operational governance, and DevOps adoption. I welcome peer conversations on cloud-native platforms, data systems, 5G, production engineering, distributed systems, and technical leadership.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

codex

mcp

openai

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Oracle, Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, • Lead solution architecture and delivery for AI-enabled, cloud-native data and telecom platforms, including Oracle Unity Customer Data Platform (OUDP), a Hadoop-based CDP, and Oracle Communications 5G Network Exposure Function (NEF) and APIGW products. • Coordinate Product Management, Architecture, Cloud Operations, Customer Engineering, and Support to align platform requirements, integration dependencies, production readiness, and customer escalations. Selected Data Platform Project: Oracle Unity Customer Data Platform (OUDP): Big Data customer data platform that unifies behavioral, transactional, and demographic first-party data into a real-time customer view, enabling machine-learning-driven and data-informed business decisions. • Lead and mentor an engineering team delivering four major quarterly releases annually, Critical Patch Updates, third-party library upgrades, and customer-specific patches. • Serve as Product Owner for assigned initiatives; review and prioritize feature backlog items, align engineering capacity and dependencies, and plan quarterly roadmap delivery. • Established platform, workflow, Hadoop-cluster, and OCI-infrastructure monitoring; authored operational disaster-recovery runbooks for Cloud Operations and managed PagerDuty escalations in line with defined SLAs. • Hired and mentored the India Development Center engineering team and helped implement a DevSecOps model for feature delivery and release deployment. Selected Telecom Platform Project: Oracle Communications 5G NEF and APIGW: Cloud-native telecom platform delivery spanning 5G network exposure, API gateway capabilities, and production reliability. • Lead end-to-end technical delivery using Java, Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Prometheus, and Grafana. • Delivered geo-redundant platform availability of 99.99% with zero traffic loss during in-service upgrades and rollbacks; lead disaster recovery, observability, and release readiness.

Sr Engineering Manager at Apptio, May 2020 - Jan 2021 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, ITFMF is a core application of Apptio in Technology Business Management (TBM) domain, deployed in AWS cloud infrastructure. In the capacity of Engineering Manager, owned the Engineering responsibilities of IT Financial Management Foundation (ITFMF) application. • Led and managed highly skilled senior engineers in – Application design & development. • Hired, trained, and mentored engineers including – Performance management and coaching • Escalation Management, Prevention & Stakeholder Report Out • Worked with Customer Support and Operations teams in addressing production environment issues.

Vice President at Credit Suisse, Jan 2016 - May 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Led the Data Service Layer (DSL), a Java and Big Data ETL/Data Lake platform supporting Risk and Finance Technology, including BCBS 239-aligned risk-management delivery. - Designed and delivered risk-management solutions aligned with Basel BCBS 239 principles. - Managed platform production operations, incident resolution, and SLA-driven support for Risk and Finance business users. - Established process improvements, including SOPs, a global platform-support model, escalation SLAs, and root-cause-analysis practices. - Partnered with cross-functional teams to onboard Credit Risk systems and support enterprise adoption of the platform. - Served as Budget Holder and Resource Manager; contributed to global resourcing strategy and execution.

Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle India, Dec 2013 - Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Design and Development of Software Products.

Advisory Software Engineer at IBM, Apr 2012 - Dec 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore, Design and Development of Software Products.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Pondicherry University

M.S, Software Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani