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IIMK SMP Batch15 || Ex Delivery Head- India at Lastminute II Ex Groupon || Ex Honeywell

About

With around 19 years of experience in managing, designing, and implementing medium to large-scale retail (Omni-channel) and Online Travel Agency (OTA) applications using microservices-based architecture, I have expertise in technologies like Spring Boot with Spring Cloud and Netflix OSS, AWS with Java. Currently, I am the Delivery Head (Sr. Engineering Manager) at Lastminute India (Bravo Ventures India Private Limited), where I drive two key products: an in-house BedBank for the Lastminute.com portal (B2C) and a B2B platform acting as a Destination Management Company (DMC). Previously, at Lowe's, I served as a Senior Engineering Manager, creating a platform for configurable and customizable product catalog onboarding and end-customer sales. This platform utilized the latest tech stack, including Spring Boot with reactive programming, React with Redux for improved user experience, and modern BDD tools along with Docker and Kubernetes for seamless integration and deployment. Additionally, I contributed to the Advanced Technology Project Initiative, conducting various POCs in augmented reality for instruction-based pick-put workflow solutions. My extensive experience includes designing microservices, developing migration strategies, evaluating business cases, defining software stacks for new proposals, enabling teams in new technologies, conducting POCs, generating skeleton code, and establishing coding standards to ensure quality. Key Technologies: Spring Boot, Netflix OSS (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Ribbon), microservices, Docker, Entity-Based Model-Driven Development, Mule, RabbitMQ, Git, Bitbucket, Mockito, Cucumber, Hibernate, Mule.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

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Work experience

AVP at Standard Chartered GBS, Oct 2024 - Present · 1 y 11 mo, Bangalore

Delivery Head-India at lastminute.com, Mar 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I am overseeing two products: Global Hotels (GH) and the GH B2B platform. Global Hotels (GH): This in-house bed bank for the Lastminute portal supports hotel search, product and price details, booking, and post-booking processes for the selling side. For property onboarding, we have the Extranet AHUT applications, which allow suppliers to create, delete, and update property information, commonly known as ARI (Availability, Rates, and Inventory) data. GH B2B: This platform provides a single point solution for other OTAs, offering hotel search, price details, product catalog, payment gateway, static and dynamic content, booking and post-booking facilities, auditing and tracing, and security apparatus. All functionalities are available as on-demand APIs and can be customized to meet customers' needs.

Engineering Manager II at Groupon, Nov 2022 - Mar 2023 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Managed the team to handle the Groupon's retail and e-com business for facilitating service booking, coupon generation, service scheduling and invoice reconciliation. Migrated Ruby On Rails applications to Micro service based application with Java and SpringBoot.

Senior Engineering Manager at Lowe's India, Aug 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, India, Designed and Developed a configurable selling platform that standardise and simplifies experiences for configurable products across different categories. The platform focuses on both product on-boarding and selling experiences, accelerating turnaround time by providing a common platform that seamlessly interacts with various external and internal tools with common and autonomous handshaking. Defined the tech stack and overall architecture, proposed end-to-end solutions to align with the product vision roadmap, and defined the MVP and sprint-wise work backlog.

Information Technology Specialist at HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LAB PVT LTD, BANGALORE, Jun 2016 - Aug 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos, https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Honeywell+Technology+Solutions+Pvt.+Ltd./@12, Work as a technology specialist With Honeywell Engineering. As part SAR applications my responsibilities here are, Understanding functional requirement, Come with technical solution, do POCs or Pilot concept, get approved by the product owner, full fledged development, unit and integration testing, deployment and production assistance.

Application Architect at IBM, Dec 2011 - May 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos, I worked as an solution architect. Any major issue with in my application tower and the application team does not have a solution, I take care of that. Take initiatives to suggest new mechanism and solution to existing application to enhance performance and usability. All kind of new solution, tools and application prototypes that we do in our application tower, are either done by me or under my supervision.

Application Architect at IBM, Nov 2011 - May 2016 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, I work as an solution architect. Any major issue with in my application tower and the application team does not have a solution, I take care of that. Take initiatives to suggest new mechanism and solution to existing application to enhance performance and usability. All kind of new solution, tools and application prototypes that we do in our application tower, are either done by me or under my supervision.

Education

Senior Management Programme, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode