Suhas Chatekar Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Lead a diverse team of 50+ working across many technologies delivering digital products and platforms to all Delinian businesses and clients. - Delivering a strategic finance transformation programme involving complete automation of the Sales Ops process by integrating CRM and finance systems and enhancing the quality of master data- Spearheading the Generative AI initiative by setting the vision, working with business stakeholders on idea generation and fail-fast innovation through delivery of PoCs/MVPs and future product roadmaps- Modernised a 15-year-old semantic search platform taking it from a legacy on-prem monolith to a modern, service-oriented, cloud-native platform. - Enhanced the security posture of the Digital Platforms portfolio by removing vulnerabilities through application modernisation, proactive patching of issues and engineering practices that kept security at the front and centre. - Built multiple high-performing engineering teams by creating an environment of trust and by encouraging team members to deliver to their potential

London, England, Gb

Moved laterally into the role to lead architecture within a newly formed business division of Collinson called ValueDynamx. Reporting into the CTO and responsible for tech strategy, architectural practices/frameworks and development of new propositions• Developed key pillars of tech strategy aimed at unifying product lines, modernisation, making data more accessible giving ValueDynamx an edge over the competition• Within the first few months in the role, progressed a number of new propositions from idea/concept stage through discovery, analysis and solution design to ready for the development stage• Delivered new cloud-native propositions in record time and significantly lower cost • Support commercial teams with pre-sales solution architecture/design, perform vendor technical due-diligence etc.

Working with senior business leaders and CXOs to help establish Collinson as an innovative and forward-thinking organisation. This includes identifying new and emerging technology trends, regulatory/commercial changes that present an opportunity or threat to Collinson. Validation of new business opportunities and threats through rapid prototyping, MVPs and pilots. - Enabling technology-led innovation and induction of new product ideas - Deliver rapid prototypes and MVPs around chatbots, open banking, blockchain and several internal Collinson business challenges - Co-authored a white paper outlining opportunities for Blockchain in the loyalty industry - https://bit.ly/suhas-bc-paper

Moved laterally across different roles – from hands-on development to architecture to technical product management. - Brought visibility into the technology decision-making process by introducing the Technical Design Authority and Technology Risk Register in collaboration with the Head of Architecture - Built and mentored a self-sufficient product team of developers, testers, business analysts and technical architects- Led the technical delivery and cloud native architecture of an airport dining programme serving millions of users by coordinating across 7 geographically distributed teams- Designed the technical solution and integration approach for the UK's first card-linked rewards programme for the travel sector- Solved a long-pending SSO problem by designing and delivering an Open Id Connect based identity and SSO solution - Collaborated with cross-functional teams leading technical, operational and security assessment in vendor/supplier selection

Dublin 2, Ie

Helped one of the biggest retailer in the UK to operate during the heavy trading days like Black Friday without any downtimes and without any significant latency. In charge of the review and re-architecture of middleware infrastructure (IBM Websphere MQ) and e-commerce system (IBM Websphere Commerce) deployment. My key achievements in this role are- Successfully identified several critical issues in the middleware design by working closely with middleware SMEs and got approval from the client on the plan to fix the issues- Designed various new topologies of IBM Websphere Commerce and associated load tests to collect key stats for each topology - Lead the actual load test exercise, analysed the stats and made recommendations on the right topology to be used

London, England, Gb

- Led a team of about 12 developers & testers, creating a benefits-management platform - Modernised the legacy platform by introducing a secure REST APIs layer that reduced third-party integration time- Significantly improved automation testing practice, increasing code coverage of tests from about 30% to over 80%- Reduced build times from 30 mins to less than 5 mins and deployment times from hours to minutes using build & deployment automation

Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

- Transitioned product development methodology from waterfall delivery, manual test and build to modern software engineering practices like Agile/Scrum, TDD and Continuous Integration- Led the implementation of automated tests for a data marketplace platform for one of the world’s biggest technology companies

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

- Led team of developers and testers, delivering an instant messenger policy management and a membership management platform- Introduced modern software engineering practices like Agile/SCRUM, continuous integration and test automation- Conducted code and design & sessions and mentored team members- Architected solutions for prospective clients in the capacity of solutions architect during pre-sales phases - Recipient of annual excellence award

Evanston, Il, Us

Wayne, Pa, Us