Results-driven technology leader with over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale connected systems, IoT platforms, and enterprise integrations across enterprise & commercial clients, smart buildings, and access control domains. Specialized in architecting scalable cloud-connected solutions, harmonizing embedded systems with IT/OT infrastructure, and modernizing legacy platforms into secure, API-driven, microservices-based architectures. Eager to contribute to Thales' marketing team by leveraging technical expertise and innovative solutions.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager - Products, Solutions, Integrations & Business Support
ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions AS
01.2021 - Current
Technical Manager - India, Middle East, Africa & Turkey
ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions AS
01.2015 - 01.2020
Sr. Technical Support Engineer - IMEA & Operations Supervisor - UAE & Oman
VingCard Elsafe AS
01.2008 - 01.2014
Technical Support Engineer - Low Voltage Systems
Leisure Secure LLC
01.2006 - 01.2008
Learning & Development Executive
KarROX Technologies
01.2005 - 01.2006
Education
Leadership Program - Organizational Leadership
Hult Ashridge Executive Education
UK
MBA - Information Technology
Madurai Kamaraj University
Master of Commerce - Marketing
Madurai Kamaraj University
Bachelor of Arts& Science (Bsc) - undefined
Calicut University
Advanced Diploma in System Engineering (AdvDip) - undefined
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
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<li>Operational Support - Serving as a trusted vault custodian to assist in branch operational support, such as opening, closing, balancing ATMs, cash management, branch differences, ATM claims, and assisting team leaders. Currently acting as the Workforce Management Liaison in the branch to produce schedules for the team.</li>
<li>Mentoring - Assists in mentoring and coaching new and tenured team members in developing the necessary skills for the demands of NFCU's enterprise strategy. Current mentee to one tenured MSR and one untenured. Contributed to the training of five ATM/vault custodians.</li>
<li>Trusted Partner - Meeting branch digital targets for new and existing members by assisting and educating members to leverage the benefits of ATM usage, digital products, and services penetration. Consistent top OneView user.</li>
<li>Currently serving as a Quality Assurance Champion, working with branch leaders to help maintain focus on quality assurance as a critical and central aspect of each team member’s day-to-day function. Assists in quarterly quality control checks, and weekly internal audits.</li>
<li>Change Agent - Subject Matter Expert for the Coconut Pilot. Currently participating in pilots for MORE and Business Solutions to provide critical feedback to help improve process and member experience.</li>
<li>Member-centric universal MSR who consistently receives high marks and positive comments from BES.</li>
</ul> at NFCU, Avenues Jacksonville, AVW<ul>
<li>Operational Support - Serving as a trusted vault custodian to assist in branch operational support, such as opening, closing, balancing ATMs, cash management, branch differences, ATM claims, and assisting team leaders. Currently acting as the Workforce Management Liaison in the branch to produce schedules for the team.</li>
<li>Mentoring - Assists in mentoring and coaching new and tenured team members in developing the necessary skills for the demands of NFCU's enterprise strategy. Current mentee to one tenured MSR and one untenured. Contributed to the training of five ATM/vault custodians.</li>
<li>Trusted Partner - Meeting branch digital targets for new and existing members by assisting and educating members to leverage the benefits of ATM usage, digital products, and services penetration. Consistent top OneView user.</li>
<li>Currently serving as a Quality Assurance Champion, working with branch leaders to help maintain focus on quality assurance as a critical and central aspect of each team member’s day-to-day function. Assists in quarterly quality control checks, and weekly internal audits.</li>
<li>Change Agent - Subject Matter Expert for the Coconut Pilot. Currently participating in pilots for MORE and Business Solutions to provide critical feedback to help improve process and member experience.</li>
<li>Member-centric universal MSR who consistently receives high marks and positive comments from BES.</li>
</ul> at NFCU, Avenues Jacksonville, AVW