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Siju Vellam Podichintavida

Siju Vellam Podichintavida

Senior Vice President
Singapore

Summary

Dynamic Senior IT Executive with 23 years of experience leading large-scale teams, technology transformations, infrastructure projects, and operations. Proven ability to drive New Gen technology adoption, streamline processes, and optimize costs across platforms. Expertise in data Centre migration, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD and automation. Adept at managing large teams and budgets, with a strong track record of enhancing operational efficiency and improving application availability.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Senior Vice President

Citi Bank
04.2008 - Current
  • Meet with senior business leaders to explore, present, discuss, and enable strategy and initiatives
  • Managing the Citi Bank Asia Infrastructure team and ensuring project execution around the world
  • Leading the PaaS team and assisting the adoption of New Gen Technologies
  • Leading the infrastructure team in migrating multiple data centers around the world to strategic data centers, allowing Citi to take advantage of emerging technologies and cost
  • Four major data center migrations have been completed successfully, and a fifth is currently underway
  • Develop, coach, and provide feedback to teams/peers through regular discussions
  • Managing the infrastructure team to increase the availability and resiliency of all critical applications while minimizing business impacts
  • Created evaluation tools, dashboards, and reports to monitor metrics related to initiative implementation and effectiveness
  • Led the infrastructure team in re-engineering all critical applications to increase availability and performance
  • 95% of Citi's applications were migrated from legacy platforms (AIX/Solaris/HP Unix/Web Logic/Sybase, etc.) to strategic platforms (Open Shift/Linux/Windows/Tomcat, etc.) under my leadership

Unix Administrator

Emerio Global Soft
08.2006 - 03.2008
  • Supported HP UNIX, MC Service Guard, and Veritas volume for Emerio Global Soft (Client Citi Group Singapore)
  • Worked on a variety of corporate and mission-critical applications, analyzing and resolving complex issues in the compute platform
  • Increased infrastructure availability through enterprise-wide planning & extensive testing

System Programmer

HCL Technologies Singapore Pvt Ltd
06.2005 - 07.2006
  • Supporting HP UNIX, Windows, MC Service Guard, Veritas volume manager, HP Storage, San, and Backup libraries
  • Led the implementation and quality assurance of server technology

Senior Executive Data Center IT

IDEA Cellular Limited
03.2005 - 05.2005
  • As a senior executive with IDEA cellular limited, my role was to help escalation from team members for HPUX/HP Storage/SAN and Backup Infrastructural issues

L2 Support Engineer

HP India (Contract)
08.2004 - 02.2005
  • Supporting HP UNIX servers, storage, networking, and backup infrastructure in the IOCL Corporate datacenter

Customer Support Engineer

HCL Info system
06.2001 - 07.2004
  • Supporting Unix and Windows server support to a variety of customers across northern India

Education

Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security And Forensic Computing

University of Portsmouth
Singapore, Null, Singapore
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

State Board of Tech Education
India
04.2001 -

Skills

Leadership & Team Management

Strategic Roadmap & Budget Planning

Solution Architecture & Innovation

IT Infrastructure & Cloud Migration

CI/CD Tools & Automation

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Certification

ITIL V3 Foundation

Timeline

Senior Vice President

Citi Bank
04.2008 - Current

Unix Administrator

Emerio Global Soft
08.2006 - 03.2008

System Programmer

HCL Technologies Singapore Pvt Ltd
06.2005 - 07.2006

Senior Executive Data Center IT

IDEA Cellular Limited
03.2005 - 05.2005

L2 Support Engineer

HP India (Contract)
08.2004 - 02.2005

Customer Support Engineer

HCL Info system
06.2001 - 07.2004

Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security And Forensic Computing

University of Portsmouth
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

State Board of Tech Education
04.2001 -

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