Sivanathan Balaguru Email & Phone Number

Competent Engineering Leader with over 13+ years of experience working on Web & Windows based solutions for reputed Product / Service based MNC’s in the FinTech, Banking, Insurance & Capital Market (IRD, CREDIT, Regulatory, Accounting) domains.→For the past 3 years, I have owned and executed Platform Engineering deliverables. My focus has been on developing roadmaps in coordination with stakeholders and creating optimized systems using a team of 12 SDETs and polyglot developers (C#, Java, and Python) to multiple projects concurrently without sacrificing quality. Have worked closely on system design reviews, audits, project planning, delivery, agile transformation, AWS cost optimization, and disaster recovery management.→"Technical Lead Assistance" entails helping the technical lead with Supply/Demand planning, code reviews, design reviews, technical explanation, onboarding new team members, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives. Member of Interview panel, Curious to learn technologies along with Architects.→Participated in communication with clients/product owners/business analysts and the cross-functional team to gather requirements, comprehend dependencies, clarify functionality, prioritize tasks, and get the implementation validated at different testing stages (UAT/Integration/Load Testing), as well as to coordinate infrastructure provisioning with the Dev-Ops team. Additionally, continuously observing Zabbix and Datadog reports.→Skilled in managing challenging conversations, able to inspire, provide constructive feedback, and lead evaluation meetings successfully. As part of the team culture, I mentored Freshers/Laterals to help them understand expectations and industry best practices. I additionally volunteered to manage the lay-off discussion and provided feedback to my superiors.→Implemented repository branching strategy and Proficient in using tools for Code Management (Git, Bitbucket), Jenkins for CI/CD, Containerization, ECS & ELK.→Extensively worked on C#, Java along with .Net Framework, Spring Boot in executing analysis, design, development, testing and promoting deployment of applications developed with Micro-Servies/n-Tire Architecture/SOA.→Experienced in software development cycle (SDLC) approaches, notably Waterfall & Agile. Collaborated with an Agile Coach to introduce "Agile Methodology" in our team, assisting team members in understanding Agile principles and encouraging them to adopt Agile attitude.→Possess experience implementing DML and DDL operations on different RDBMS(MySql) and NoSQL DB's (MongoDB)