Senior Tech Manager with 20 years of experience in building highly scalable and extremely secure software systems from the ground up. I manage a large fleet of Software Developer and DevOps Teams to run critical payment platforms that handle high-volume payment transactions across various regions. Spearheaded my team to build Tier 0 grade Highly Available applications, Open APIs with ~100ms SLA, Complex Orchestrator systems to manage workflows, Secure Cloud/Infrastructure to host applications. Also, developed Blueprints for 'Never-Down-System,' 'Zero-Trust-System,' 'Well-Architected-Application' strategies and executed them across the platforms I manage. Championed the 'Developer Experience' initiative for the CIO to vouch for the adoption of best practices by influencing hundreds of developer teams across several Lines of Business. Additionally, I am responsible for ensuring the mitigation of security vulnerabilities and keeping them under check across more than 170 software systems under the CIO. Pioneer in adopting cloud/container migration strategy (Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift), I laid out a mandate for my team to ensure that the applications developed under my watch are 'Cloud-Native'. Still a hand-on engineer, as I was a Java/J2EE/Spring Boot developer in my past life. The core technical skill sets which are still warm on my hands: Java, J2EE Components, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, CICD, Containers, Cloud (AWS, Azure), Python, Machine Learning Core, LLM, RAG and Generative AI. Well grounded on following processes: Hiring and leading Developer Teams, Technical Architecture/Strategy Development, Technical Project Execution and Delivery,Threat Management, IAM, Secure-By-Design, Project Management, Budget/Fund Management, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC), Performance Testing, Penetration Testing, Automation Testing, Managing Vendors, Managing SOW, Working with CIO, CISO, BISO (CxO), Site Reliability, Operations and Product Partners. In my spare time, I build POCs (yes, I code) and develop use-cases to pitch ideas for taking our applications to Next-Gen level. Also, I contribute to tech community events, am a regular speaker at AWS meetups / Tech events.