Technical Director
BEETL UK
Total years of experience :15 years, 8 Months
• Startup Mobile Apps technology platform specializing in social apps.
• Techstack - Ionic, Typescript, Vue.js, Laravel PHP, Vapor, Python ML, Postgres DB, Docker, AWS S3, Lambdas and Redshift, JIRA, Atlassian, Notion and Trello.
• First employee of Beetl. Fully hands-on. Managed- 9 direct reports. 3 in-house members and 6 from dev partners.
• Owner of entire technology and technical infrastructure of Beetl.
• Established tech stack, coded core modules, paired with developers on complex features, enforced processes and best practices, designed SaaS playbook and successfully launched apps on both iOS and Android
• Hired core team, screened dev partners and third party vendors. Established career growth frameworks via regular 1-2-1s.
• Defined OKRs and SLAs, road-mapping in complete liaison with product stakeholders.
• Workshopped Value stream mapping with key stakeholders and designers to generate value driven roadmaps.
• Setup weekly governance reporting transparency of status to C-suite stakeholders, reduced issues, risks & faults backlog to < 10%. Primary decision maker for internal tech spending, creating guidelines to reduce waste and slow upgrades.
• Engineering Manager under financial crime and compliance portfolio, anchoring strategic roadmaps to ensure product adopts and adheres to existing and upcoming risk compliance regulations.
• Techstack - Multi-cloud, multi-tenant and multi-region solution. AWS and Azure, Elastic cloud, Serverless, Lambdas, Step Functions, Java 11/17, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API, Oracle, Postgres, SQL, Maven, Gradle, API Gateway, Github Actions, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, JIRA and Confluence.
• Lead, designed and delivered multi-cloud versions of components with cloud agnostic kafka messaging pipelines and automated deployments in both AWS and Azure. Catering to n-Tier customers with multi-tenant SaaS solutions.
• People Manager for multiple squads based in multi geographic locations. 14 direct reports in 2 squads - 4 US, 4 UK & 6 EU
• Agile ceremonies champion. Setup and imbibed culture of regular 3-amigos sessions to strengthen backlog refinement. Been a vocal leader and people influencer to shift to agile quality mindset.
• Setup KPIs and SLAs for squads both at organizational level and individual levels. Mentored and guided cross-functional teams to accomplish technical aspects of projects with less attrition.
• Reduced budget leaks by 12% by tracking efficiency via project management models and status checkpoints with key stakeholders to enable delivery without overshooting of budget.
• Authored overall tech strategies, deprecation policies and established robust SSDLC with DevSecOps ways of working.
• Successful Engineering Manager for Identity and Access Management squads under shared services portfolio. Delivered roadmaps every quarter and lead two squads in onshore-offshore model. Managed - 12 direct reports. 6 UK, 6 India
• Techstack - Multi-tenant, multi-region AWS, Cloudflare, Java 8/11, Spring boot, Microservices, REST API, Oracle, APIGateway, Gitlab, Newrelic, Packer, Terraform, Ping Identity, PL/SQL, Maven, containers, Kubernetes, LDAP, JIRA and Confluence.
• Delivered OIDC protocol integrations into existing authentication flows. Championed shibboleth IAM Protocol flows for client driven SSOs. Mandated monitoring by setting up Newrelic agents on all components and flows.
• Recruited and build squads from beginning and involved in grooming and shaping teams and setting up habitual release cadence across all squads thereby improving stakeholder management.
• Executed Design sprints to quickly prototype product features and converted them into successful delivery. Been single escalation point for all stakeholders.
• Evangelist of shift-left approach and strict adherence to test pyramid practices. Achieved >50% code coverage on legacy apps by encouraging developers to move towards incremental test driven development.
• Integrated with daily scans for vulnerabilities and security loopholes and imbibed the fixes as part of delivery lifecycle.
• Successfully ramped up new teams with varying competencies across different geographic locations for new projects within portfolio. Mandated training budget allocation for overall project, mandated periodic workshop and training attendance for team members.
• Dev Lead across many scrum teams offshore and onsite, building digital self-service Front office portal with Java Spring micro services, cloud native features and APIGateway on cloud infrastructure allowing brokers and consumers as end-users to integrate with Mortgages Saving Suites.
• Techstack - AWS, Java 8/11, Spring boot, Microservices, REST API, Oracle, Axway, APIGateway, SOAP, XML, Ant, Maven & SQL
• Delivered features at speed by continuously identifying and tackling risks before they become blocking issues. Been vocal leader and people influencer to shift to agile quality mindset. Provided Technical and Program Leadership across whole portfolio at strategic and tactical levels.
• Reduced TechDebt effectively by following 80% product and 20% techdebt work model planned in each sprint. Moved scale percentage based on teams that had legacy issues.
• Evangelist of shift-left approach and strict adherence to test pyramid practices. Encouraged developers to move towards test driven development especially when there wasnt any accepted level of unit testing.
• Championed weekly forums for more smooth liaison with external teams, customer support and product support stakeholder teams. Direct interface between various stakeholders for escalation and relationship management.
• Empowered teams to drive their own code focused review and discussion sessions to reduce friction among team opinions. Saved cost by recommending new tools and alternative software stacks with low license or opensource components.
More Work History
Masters in Computer Science specialising in Software engineering
CGPA 9.0/10. First class with Distinction
CGPA 8.8/10. First class with Distinction