Seasoned Technology Leader with over 2 decades of experience building and operating large scale technology platforms with broad and deep experience in Cloud Engineering, Containerization, Clustering Technologies, Autonomous Cloud Management, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps, large scale Infrastructure/Platform Engineering, PaaS, Monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering. Very seasoned and skilled in talent development – attracting, developing & retaining talent, creating high productivity teams and effective leadership with large span of control. Thoroughly understand the dynamics of geo-distributed teams and have demonstrated expertise creating teams ground up, planning, executing and delivering high-impact outcomes with global and diverse teams.As a Director of Engineering in PayPal, leading a global team of 70+ FTEs including Engineers, Sr.Architects, and Sr. Managers across APAC and Americas, responsible for Container Platform - Mesos, K8s & GKE cluster management, Container Orchestration for critical stateless and stateful workloads at scale (>300K containers) & Deployment Experience, Infra PaaS (Rack onboarding, Baremetal-as-Service, VM-as-a-Service), Local & Global Traffic Management and DNS automation, Operating Systems Image Management, Push and Pull based Infrastructure & Application Configuration Management, Kubernetes and Mesos Clustering that are most foundational and critical part of running PayPal, that we call the “engine room” of PayPal. Very successfully leading the teams through the transformation of managing PayPal’s internet scale fleet with strong grounding on PaaS, Infra-As-Code and DevOps principles keeping security, availability, and reliability at the core of everything we do. As a Site Lead for PayPal Site Reliability and Cloud Engineering portfolio in APAC region, leading a team of 300+ across India and China. Established a very thriving organizational culture and contributing to a number of site level initiatives to drive the best technical outcomes, people engagement, innovation, wellness and one-team behaviours to win as One Team!