Leadership of the Professional Services teams in North America, APJ and Middle East. Responsible for a services delivery staff of about 700 with a revenue of around 70M annually. Specialized in integration and BPM solution delivery with emphasis on enterprise scale, high availability and high performance. Pioneered the DevOps work in the webMethods Integration area with tools and thought leadership around automation, testing, deployment and Continuous Integration and Delivery.Managed customer interactions and projects of very significant size across multiple geographies.Established and managing the Custom Development and Expert Services teams catering to unusual, time-sensitive and challenging customer needs. Team was distributed over 5 countries and focused on customer Co-Innovation and mission critical and high visibility projects as well as solution delivery for customized products.

Relocated to Bangalore to scale the offshore delivery center for Professional Services – Team grew 400 in 3 years and became the largest webMethods team worldwide catering to global customers with revenue impact of 30M Euros annually.

Responsible for Services delivery team in North America for Integration, SOA/API, B2B and BPM. Responsibilities included Enterprise architecture, Resource planning, project coordination, sales and pre-sales support, strategic product and solutions consulting and oversight of critical customer engagements.Known in the technical community for extensive accomplishments in the areas of continuous integration and delivery and DevOps expertise. Co-authored PRIME methodology content for Systems High Availability, Distributed Development and Deployment strategies for complex systems and off-shore development approaches in large projects using agile approaches.Establishment of Software AG Labs, an incubation initiative for field contribution to product and collaborative development for newer technologies. Thought leadership on R&D and product alignment with customer needs and internal coordination for release of features/functions.Author of several products in the integration space. Major technical achievements:• webMethods TestSuite – a test automation product for webMethods used by 250 customers worldwide• webMethods Profiler – an APM tool for webMethods using java bytecode instrumentation• WmPipelineCapture – transparently record and replay live transactions in the Integration platform• Eclipse plugins for test automation and application performance management and CI/CD integration.• Several automation libraries like wmanttools and wmbuildtools. Strong skills with java technologies. Specialized in the areas of performance tuning with JVMs, DevOps with CI/CD for webMethods, automation and testing.

Platform architect for Global Competency Center, responsible for advising customers on implementation guidelines, presenting to user groups & international conferences, liaising with technical journals.Authored methodology content for Systems High Availability and Distributed Development and Deployment strategies for complex systems. Specialized skills on performance tuning and application architecture with emphasis on performance and availability.Key architect for critical frameworks for test-driven development approaches and performance monitoring solutions for the webMethods suite of products.Authored methodology content for off-shore development approaches in large projects using complex integration solutions using agile approaches.Delivered several projects of varying scale for customers in the Integration and BPM areas. Systems integrated include SAP, Oracle, AS400, SQL Server, DB2 and various legacy and standards-based systems.

Lead EAI architect in the Enterprise Application Architecture team focusing on customer business and application integration initiatives. Technology leadership, implementation and oversight roles for multiple technology solutions. Evaluation and recommendation of integration and architecture best practices, design of Enterprise Canonicals, XML, security, standards and performance benchmarking guidelines.Technical lead and architect for Identity Management Initiatives. Key architect for the Supply Chain Distribution dashboard for Executive Management business activity monitoring. Designed and developed framework for MVC based applications using J2EE standards.Technical lead for evaluation and setup of the integration architecture including security and high-availability infrastructure. Development for integration exchange for Relizon partners & customers using Ariba exchange.Responsible for the overall setup of the webMethods based integration architecture at several customers. Evaluation and recommendation of B2B integration, XML and security standards.

Application design & development for content based systems, automation of conversion filters for online systems and high performance parsing for SGML, XML and other text and binary formats.

Real-time Systems Engineer for Indian Air Force systems for Radar Data Processing, Multi-sensor tracking, Air Traffic Control and Weapons Management.