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SARAVANAN LAKSHMANAN

CERTIFIED DEVOPS MASTER | AGILE | AWS & CLOUD TECH | DOCKER & CONTAINERIZATION

An accomplished IT professional and Technology Leader with 23 years of compelling experience in Agile Development and DevOps. Demonstrates a proven track record in DevOps Transformation by applying DevOps leadership and principles in an
enterprise-level technical environment by leveraging the cloud and on-premises solutions while building long-lasting trust and mutual respect at all levels.

Work Experience

  • 2021 - 2021
    Cochlear Sdn Bhd
    HEAD/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER - GLOBAL
    Maintain up to date knowledge of software development techniques, Technoology updates and recommend improvements in support of application development efforts.
    • Oversee and participate in the Global Software Development Life
    • Collaborate with other Squads and Outcome groups to ensure a consistent approach and maximize the benefits of apps are already being used throughout the organization.
    • Develop strategies that will enable to achieve the outcomes of the organization objectives with your business partners.
    • Report overall progress of development activities to management and the business.
    • Accountable for Managing multi discipline cross functional Developers & architects Leading and guiding Them on software development processes, standards and industry best practices.
    • Encourage the team to initiate, create and implement new ideas in their jobs.
    • Interact with multiple Squad members to ensure successful delivery of each sprint release and product release.
    • Participate in analyzing, designing, writing and testing code, documenting and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems.
    • Leading and guiding multi decipilined developers & architects and Infrastructure engineers on software development processes, DevOps, Agile standards and industry best practices.
    • Accountable for Managerial duties include resource augmentation, relationship building with vendors, external teams and resource allocation.
    • Responsible for Assure program, module and system integrity through thorough testing and adherence to company standards and procedures
    • Work through all phases of the software development life cycle, including research, design, analysis, requirements, implementation, test automation, and maintenance.
    • Utilize new technologies and tools to modify products and provide integration with applications developed internally and externally
  • 2019 - 2021
    CIMB Bhd
    DIRECTOR/HEAD - DIGITAL APPLICATION DELIVERY
    Champion and evangelize Devops practices for Digital Team.
    • Accountable for the delivery of all Minimum Viable products roadmap and related capabilities for digital the products.
    • Collaborate technology team to ensure the solutions meet the requirements are scalable and extensible across all Digital Banking products.
    • Selecting appropriate Cloud services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements.
    • Examine the design and processes of the existing system to improve effectiveness, efficiency and recommend the technologies and solution design to fulfil business and strategic requirement
    • Communicate all Directorates and C-Level executives to present the insight of technology strategy and the ongoing platform and program status updates weekly.
    • Collaborated with various team & management to understand the requirement & design the complete eco system.
    Notable Achievements
    • Within a short time-span modernize the development practices using DevSecOps and Agile.
    • Engineered and delivered DevSecOps platform with 8% lessened cost of the assigned budget.
    • Directed and Delivered hybrid (Cloud (AWS) & on Premises)
    DevSecOPS Solutions for the Bank’s flagship applications with the minimal cost of execution and reduced OPEX Cost of 4% in BAU operation.
    • Lessened the release failure rates by reducing error rates in QA Environments.
    • Executed faster production releases and Continuous Service Delivery.
    • Involved in mobile application revamping activities such as monolithic to Microservices application development, Angular upgrades, Pivotal Container Services Implementation.
    • Involved in product development using a modern development framework by applying cloud and on-premises tool stack and successfully delivered the bank’s digital initiatives.
  • 2014 - 2019
    Maybank Shared Services Sdn Bhd
    ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT/HEAD SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND TOOLING DEVELOPMENT
    Collaborated with Enterprises Architecture Team for strategic tools implementation and rollouts.
    • Planning workflow including assessing priorities, allocating timescales and distributing work according to the level of expertise required.
    • Supporting the Audit and Compliance Team ensuring that activities and Audit items are aligned to Bank and financial regulation authority’s guidelines within the SCM & Tools area.
    • Managing the build and Operate Release Services into a regional organization, and supporting development opportunities using 3rd party’s tools and in-house development tools.
    • Working with internal units including Business Owners and Project Managers to create and execute project scopes, roadmaps, support plans, next-generation systems/standards, and performance measurement.
    • As an agile project Manager/Scrum master and as part of the agile transformation team, implemented the scrum methodologies and working closely with agile squads for conduct scrum events.
    Notable Achievements
    • Orchestrated and achieved DevOps Platform across the bank that includes more than 250 multi-disciplined applications which involve mobile web & legacy apps. Yielded 10% cost reduction in the area of Software licenses, Hardware OPEX Cost and resource optimizations.
    • Impeccably designed and implemented strategic Improvement Plans that covered DevOps and Agile Platforms like Version upgrades and migration of DevOps Stacks.
    • Achieved traceability for every release by the implementation of DevOps Platform with elevated deployment and release capacity by 75% yearly.
    • Chaired as a Scrum Master and involved Data & Risk Analytics Product called UCO (Unified Customer onboarding) as per MVP Road Map.
    • Supported the Operations team and improved uptime, software deliveries, configuration, monitoring, and subsequently speeded up software deployments by 7%., increased turnaround time by 4%.
    • Designed and accomplished Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye Bamboo) in the cloud with on-premises GitHub.
    • Designed architecture blueprints and detailed documentation and Created a bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, S3 etc.) and tools.

Education

  • 2006 - 2007
    University of Bolton U.K
    Bsc(Computing) Hons
  • 1996 - 2001
    Aptech
    Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering

Skills

  • Productive, Passioned and motivated
  • Outstanding communication,
  • numerical and analytical skills
  • Digital & DevOps Transformation
  • Low Code App Platforms.
  • Consulting & Solution Implementation
  • Lead responsibility & People Management
  • Cloud, AWS and Containerization
  • Agile & Project Management
  • Expert in DevOps Practices
  • DevOps Design, Architecture and
  • Implementation
  • Managing Budget and Effective
  • Cost Optimization
  • Continuous Integration, Delivery & Monitoring
  • Digital Development
  • Monolithic to Microservice migrations
  • Identifying solutions to a variety of
  • problems by applying the correct methodology
  • Tooling & software Development
  • Stakeholder Management.
  • Managing Cross-functional Teams

Hobbies

  • Reading. Museums. Music.
  • Cricket.
  • Chess and Sudoku. Brain Teasers.
  • Riddles. Word Search Scrabble.
  • Conducting seminars

Personal Details

  • Sex: Male
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Religion: Hindu
  • Nationality: Malaysian
  • Date of Birth: 16-June-1978

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