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.
SARAVANAN LAKSHMANAN
CERTIFIED DEVOPS MASTER | AGILE | AWS & CLOUD TECH | DOCKER & CONTAINERIZATION
Work Experience
- 2021 - 2021Cochlear Sdn BhdHEAD/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER - GLOBALMaintain 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 - 2021CIMB BhdDIRECTOR/HEAD - DIGITAL APPLICATION DELIVERYChampion 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 - 2019Maybank Shared Services Sdn BhdASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT/HEAD SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND TOOLING DEVELOPMENTCollaborated 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 - 2007University of Bolton U.KBsc(Computing) Hons
- 1996 - 2001AptechAdvanced 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