I strategically guide the roadmap for our diverse product portfolio in people function. Critical decisions about the introduction or retirement of tools, technologies, and products are my responsibility, ensuring alignment with our organizational goals and industry best practices.Globally Focused Team Leadership: Leading teams of architects and engineers distributed globally, my emphasis is on diversity, inclusivity and engineering culture. We implement strategies that significantly boost developer productivity in distributed settings, elevate code quality and enhance the overall developer experience.Collaborating with internal groups, including the Internal Platforms Team, Environment Management Team, Infrastructure Team, Enterprise Architecture Group, and Business and PMO Group, I align technology initiatives with our long-term vision. This fosters continuous improvement and strategic coherence across our technology portfolio.Overseeing vendor relationships to ensure optimal performance, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with our organizational objectives. I led the establishment of a nearshore software development center in Brazil for McKinsey, enhancing efficiency and collaboration.Playing a pivotal role in hiring and staffing decisions, I ensure our team possesses the right talent to execute strategic technology initiatives effectively.

I architected and developed various products in this space with most notable contributions towards Ontology Management, Enterprise Search, Document Management, and Experts and Profiles Management. As part of these efforts I introduced several new technologies like PoolParty, Graph Databases like OpenSesame and brought in new vendor products like Alfresco to meet our business goals for knowledge functions. Spearheaded technology strategy for knowledge products, initiating and leading DevOps transformation initiatives that achieved a remarkable 50% reduction in time to market while significantly enhancing control over product delivery.Collaborated with internal teams—Internal Platforms, Environment Management, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, and Business/PMO—aligning our efforts with the firm's long-term IT vision.Cultivated strong relationships with various vendor partners and meticulously managed vendor relationships for optimal performance, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

As a full stack engineer and architectI architected, designed, developed, and delivered modules of taxation systems for the Finance Ministry of Belgium, and a number web applications and developer frameworks for banking and finance clients. Did hands-on product development using technologies like Struts, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Spring, Json, WebSphere MQ, MySQL, Jenkins, UMLBuilt resilient architectures with strong focus on non functional requirements like security, observability, supportability, maintainability, usability, reliability, traceability and much more using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and ELK Stack, Splunk etc Created high and low level designs that served as program specifications for engineerServed as the single point of contact for the client on technical architecture, delivery and code quality

As a full stack engineer and technical lead, I architected, designed, developed, and delivered key learning management systems that made NIIT a leading service provider in the learning space.Worked as a Full stack developer on technologies like Java, J2ee, Struts, Spring, Oracle

As a consultant and full stack engineer, I developed credit card application systems and worked on a proprietary application development framework that was the main developer platform for HSBC for several years.I used technologies like Java, JSP, XML, JSON, J2ee, IBM WebSphere, Struts on these projects

Developed web-based shopping catalog and warehouse management systems for Otto group of industries in Germany.Java, J2ee, TCL/TK, iTCL/iTK, Bash, C, C++

Developed web-based shopping catalog and warehouse management systems for Otto group of industries in Germany.TCL/TK, iTCL/iTK, Bash, C, C++

Programming in C, C++, Bash, TCL/TK and iTCL/iTK