Active Technical Initiatives

Strategic Investments & Growth

A career transition is a deliberate investment in depth, not a gap. Since Jan 2026, I've treated this as structured, full-time work: certifications, hands-on projects, technical writing, and wide reading — all logged below as it happens.

Leadership Experience

Career Track Record

1. VP Level

   Vice President — Site Reliability Engineering

   JPMorgan Chase • Hyderabad, India

   Directed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for enterprise observability platforms across APAC and EMEA, leading the operations, strategy, and engineering of large-scale enterprise level Splunk, ELK/EFK, and Kafka based streaming platforms processing petabytes of telemetry data.

   • Enterprise Platform Ownership: Directed end-to-end Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and operations for enterprise-scale Splunk, ELK/EFK, and Kafka-based data streaming platforms processing petabytes of events / telemetry data. Delivered highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient services—including centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, intelligent reporting and operational analytics—supporting thousands of mission-critical banking applications while driving operational excellence, platform reliability, and an exceptional user experience.
   • SRE Culture & Frameworks: Championed SRE methodologies by establishing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, systematically eliminating toil and maximizing platform uptime, stability and performance. Reduced incident ticket volume by ~30% while significantly accelerating Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
   • Cloud & Resilience Modernization: Modernizing Splunk on-premises platforms to AWS utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Game Days, Chaos Engineering (Gremlin), and automated disaster recovery workflows.
   • ITSM & Governance: Drove operational excellence across incident, problem, change, blameless postmortems and capacity management while ensuring regulatory compliance, audit remediation, and FinOps cloud cost optimization.
   • AI Innovation & Engineering Leadership: Hands-on experience on AI-driven operational tools, including alert correlation algorithms and self-service support chatbots. Remained hands-on with Python automation, custom observability dashboards, and architectural reviews.
   • Forming Agile team : Spearheaded the formation and Agile transformation of a dedicated SRE team, navigating all stages of group development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing). Acted as de facto Scrum Master to establish sprint cadence, facilitate core Agile ceremonies, and foster a delivery-focused engineering culture.
2. AVP Level

   Assistant Vice President — SRE & ITAO

   Deutsche Bank • Pune, India

   Spent over seven years leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), IT Application Ownership (ITAO), and Platform Engineering for mission-critical global banking platforms, spanning cloud-native SaaS applications, anti-financial crime systems, payments, sanctions screening, and enterprise integration services. Drove reliability engineering, cloud transformation, security, operational excellence, and large-scale modernization initiatives across both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and on-premises environments.

   • Cloud-Native Platform Engineering: Led SRE and ITAO for a GCP-hosted, API-first, microservices-based SaaS platform, delivering enterprise-grade reliability, resilience, security, and scalability while integrating with APIGEE, NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India), Razorpay, Digio, and other strategic fintech ecosystems.
   • Reliability Engineering & Operational Excellence: Established SLI/SLO frameworks, error budgets, proactive observability, incident management, postmortems, and automation strategies to improve service reliability, eliminate operational toil, and accelerate engineering delivery.
   • Enterprise Architecture, Security & Governance: Architected resilient cloud environments using Terraform, Shared VPCs, IAM, network segmentation, and automated Disaster Recovery while leading ITAO governance across audit readiness, regulatory compliance, vulnerability remediation, release certification, and secure software delivery.
   • Production Engineering & Platform Modernization: Directed production management for high-volume sanctions screening and case management platforms, delivering performance optimization, CI/CD modernization, infrastructure upgrades, zero-downtime data center migrations, capacity planning, and regional disaster recovery programs.
   • Strategic Technology Leadership: Partnered with engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to improve platform architecture, accelerate time-to-market, enhance operational resilience, resolve systemic production issues, and scale enterprise platforms supporting global Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) operations.
3. Technical Leadership

   Technology Lead / Delivery Lead

   Infosys • Bengaluru, London, Zurich, Singapore

   Spent nearly a decade delivering production engineering, middleware integration, and enterprise platform support for global tier-1 financial institutions, including UBS, RBS, and Capital Group. Worked across Bengaluru, London, Zurich, and Singapore, leading mission-critical financial messaging, (payment, FX and security), financial gateways and payments routing / integration platforms while driving operational excellence, platform resilience, and engineering transformation.

   • Enterprise Financial Messaging & Platform Ownership: Led ITSM streams (Incient, Change, Transition and Relase management) for mission-critical SWIFT messaging, payment processing, securities settlement, and sanctions screening platforms, ensuring high availability, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted global banking operations.
   • Middleware integration & Subject Matter Expertise: Served as the technical lead and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for enterprise middleware technologies including SWIFTNet (SAA, SAG, SNL), FircoSoft, IBM MQ, Apache Tomcat, and related integration platforms, providing architectural guidance, performance tuning, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
   • Production Engineering & Operational Excellence: Directed incident management, root cause analysis, performance optimization, proactive monitoring, automation, and problem management, significantly improving platform stability, operational efficiency, and service availability across globally distributed production environments.
   • Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Service Governance: Led disaster recovery planning, infrastructure migrations, regulatory audits, change governance, release management, and ITIL-based service management practices, strengthening business continuity, operational resilience, and enterprise compliance.
   • Global Stakeholder Leadership & Technical Consulting: Collaborated with engineering teams, infrastructure groups, vendors, and business stakeholders across Europe and Asia to deliver platform modernization initiatives, mentor support teams, resolve complex production challenges, and continuously enhance enterprise service delivery.
4. Software Consultant

   Software Developer

   Netsys Consulting • Bengaluru, India

   Engineered enterprise J2EE applications supporting e-commerce and HR platforms for over two years, building a strong core foundation in application architecture, Object-Oriented Design, and backend solution engineering.

5. Faculty

   Teaching Staff / Computer Science Lecturer

   Scholar Academy of Computer Education • Kalaburagi, India

   Initiated career teaching fundamental computer science and programming concepts. Established early competencies in technical communication, mentoring, and leadership.