غانيش ناجاراجان, Technical Director

غانيش ناجاراجان

Technical Director

BEETL UK

البلد
بريطانيا العظمى - City of London
التعليم
ماجستير, Computer Science
الخبرات
15 years, 9 أشهر

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الخبرة العملية

مجموع سنوات الخبرة :15 years, 9 أشهر

Technical Director في BEETL UK
  • بريطانيا العظمى - London
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ مارس 2023

• 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 في RELX LexisNexis Risk Solutions
  • المملكة المتحدة - لندن
  • يناير 2022 إلى مارس 2023

• 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.

Engineering manager في RELX Elsevier Limited
  • المملكة المتحدة - لندن
  • أغسطس 2019 إلى يناير 2022

• 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.

Development Tech Lead في Sopra Banking Software
  • المملكة المتحدة - لندن
  • فبراير 2015 إلى أغسطس 2019

• 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

Senior Software Developer في Medical Research Council
  • المملكة المتحدة - لندن
  • يناير 2013 إلى يناير 2015
Computational Biologist في Isogenica Ltd
  • المملكة المتحدة - لندن
  • أغسطس 2011 إلى يناير 2013
Senior Software Developer في Infosys Technologies LTD
  • المملكة المتحدة - لندن
  • أغسطس 2007 إلى أغسطس 2010

الخلفية التعليمية

ماجستير, Computer Science
  • في The University Of Edinburgh
  • أغسطس 2024

Masters in Computer Science specialising in Software engineering

ماجستير, Masters of Science in Computer Science,
  • في University of Edinburgh
  • أغسطس 2011

CGPA 9.0/10. First class with Distinction

ماجستير, Masters of Science in Information Technology,
  • في ANNA UNIVERSITY
  • أغسطس 2007

CGPA 8.8/10. First class with Distinction

Specialties & Skills

Agile Project Management
Programme Delivery
Strategic IT
Servant Leadership
System Architecture and Design
SPRING BOOT
Mobile apps Development
Team Collaboration
Databases
Data Engineering
SQL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)

اللغات

الانجليزية
اللغة الأم

العضويات

Association of Coaches
  • Member
  • October 2021

التدريب و الشهادات

People Coach and Mentor (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
October 2021
HBR certified Leader (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
February 2022
RELX Elevate Leadership Program (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
May 2021
Agile Software Professional (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
January 2018

الهوايات

  • Angel Investor
    Regularly engage with startup founders on their products and services