Results-driven, practical, and hands-on VP of Product and Engineering who builds and motivates small, high-performing engineering teams. Collaborates professionally with individuals from a broad array of backgrounds and cultures. Committed to rapidly and efficiently completing projects by leveraging team-based frameworks to fully utilize available engineering talents.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
VP, Product and Engineering
SELLinALL (Graas Pte Ltd)
03.2023 - Current
Collaborating with executive leadership, develop and execute the product engineering roadmap and aligning it
with company's overall business objectives and long term vision.
Drive agile software development methodologies and foster a culture of continuous improvement and rapid iteration.
Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle from ideation to delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality
releases
Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering team providing mentorship coaching and performance feedback.
Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation and knowledge sharing within the engineering organization.
Work closely with product management and design teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and establish development milestones.
Senior Manager , Data Scientist
SELLinALL Pte Ltd
03.2021 - 03.2023
Leading and mentoring multiple small teams of highly skilled Data Analysts , Machine Learning Engineers & Ecommerce backend and frontend integration specialists
Developed dashboards with various actionable insights to increase sales and boost profits of ecommerce sellers
Lead and delivered a broad spectrum of e-commerce integrations ,including different warehouse management systems,shipping careers,ERP systems ,as well as various frontend integrations ,including marketplaces and e-commerce website hosting services
Delivered scalable data and AI/ML architecture by understanding client requirements and collaborating with technical architects and lead developers
Developed and implemented quality controls and standards to ensure trust towards the data.
Responsible for managing and prioritizing the program backlogs and ensuring their successful implementation according to product management's strategic goals and priorities
Worked with technical architects and lead developers to conceptualize the architecture, then broke it down to develop the best technical solutions.
Analyzed alternative design approaches , and concluded ADR (Architecture Decision Records) by listing the pros and cons of each.
Ensured overall product quality by coordinating with Quality Assurance leads .
Reviewed the deliverables against the set of product standards defined and ensure various product standards including performance, security, SDLC, operations & support, licensing are met
Adopted the DevOps movement , standardizing and automating the testing infrastructure ,connecting the development , test and operations team to work cohesively
Lead customer, presales technical enablement sessions and also being the connector & aligner between developers and other stakeholders of the product
Aligned with the compliance road map and delivered the US CIP rewrite in the new stack of RESTful services on time
Played a crucial role in the design and development of the compliance decision model – a prominent compliance platform capability
Lead the design and able to deliver the CIP expiry batch as book keeping batch which later be customized for other batch jobs like FATCA future actions reminder
Proactively worked with various data monitoring and dashboard teams to setup regular CIP Pass rate monitoring in live
Worked with various product teams like consumer onboarding, merchant onboarding, account services for smoother integration of compliance decision services developed
Utilized the decision model expertise, enable various compliance scrum teams to develop quickly the features like PaypalHere, Debitcard etc with less effort
Created and maintaining the continuous integration environment including the pre-commit and post-commit Jenkins jobs for the owning compliance component
A4 Analyst
(Document Management and Workflow) Barclays Capital Services Pte Ltd
03.2010 - 07.2013
Produced a proof of concept plan and successfully completed the POC to enable the DMnW as straight through payment processing solution.
Lead all the communications with Regular Payment Service on MQ request, response message formats, test data environments and played a crucial role in enhancing the administration system to a payment system
Understood and learnt the Kerberos authentication mechanism and Barclays security tool kit api, enabled the single sign on capability for the application. Worked with RR Donelley server maintenance team to have an understanding of protocols for sending and receiving images, implemented the archival solution for the images attached to the cases in the workflow.
Altered the build and package scripts to have a single build for all the various environments like SIT, UAT, Live Mirror ,PT, Disaster. Maintained the continuous integration environment of the application and push the practice of peer review before code commits.
Acted as point of contact for BU and proactively answer the customer queries and drive the customers issues to resolution.
Software Consultant
(Citibank)AIT Software Services Pte Ltd
09.2007 - 02.2010
System Analyst
Tata Consultancy services private ltd
04.2006 - 08.2007
Software Consultant
Tavant Techonolgies private ltd
05.2005 - 04.2006
Member Technical Staff
HCL Technologies private ltd
01.2004 - 04.2005
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Madurai Kamaraj University
India
04.2003
Skills
Cloud-Native Development : Containers (Docker), Orchestration (Kubernetes), Microservices, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Team building : High-Performing Teams, Recruitment, Onboarding, Mentorship, Coaching, Professional Development, Collaboration, Inclusive Work Environment