GOKUL SESHIAH
Town and Country,MO
Summary
Dynamic software engineering leader with extensive experience at Mastercard, specializing in multi-cloud architecture and CI/CD pipeline design. Proven track record in driving AI-driven solutions and enhancing operational excellence. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and technical roadmap ownership, leveraging skills in Terraform and agile methodologies to deliver impactful results.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Software Engineering | AI & Decision Platform Engineering
Mastercard
St. Louis, USA
05.2022 - Current
- Lead technical engineering for Mastercard's next-generation multi-cloud platform, enabling rapid environment provisioning, automated deployments, and AI-driven fraud-scoring capabilities.
- Manage globally distributed engineering teams and own the full development lifecycle - from architecture and coding standards to CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production operations.
- Architected and delivered a multi-cloud platform supporting <5-minute environment spin-up for development, testing, and deployment pipelines.
- Designed and managed CI/CD pipelines enabling automated builds, static code analysis, artifact promotion, and zero-downtime deployments.
- Implemented infrastructure automation using Terraform and internal provisioning frameworks to standardize environment creation and reduce manual operations.
- Established a full observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Telegraf) enabling metrics-driven reliability, proactive alerting, and SRE-aligned operational excellence.
- Led certificate lifecycle automation and IAM governance, ensuring secure, compliant platform operations.
- Directed daily engineering operations: standups, sprint planning, code reviews, design reviews, production readiness assessments, and incident response coordination.
- Drove strategy and execution for AI & DPE products powering real-time authentication, decisioning, and fraud detection.
- Designed scalable microservices, event-driven workflows, and data pipelines supporting AI-based scoring models.
- Partnered with Product, BEARS, ONE Team, Operations, and Privacy to ensure regulatory-aligned delivery and secure platform evolution.
- Key Projects: AI-Enabled Rules Tier Automation, Next-Gen Multi-Cloud Platform Redesign, K8S, MKS, AWS, AI Fraud Scoring Execution, Observability Enablement (Grafana/Prometheus/Mimir/Telegraf), Chef Infra to Chef Habitat Migration, Certificate Management: Migration from Venafi to Certis, Infrastructure Onboarding & Automation, Vulnerability, Patching and Compliance Management.
Manager, Enterprise Data Platforms
Mastercard
St. Louis, USA
06.2019 - 04.2022
- Owned product strategy and technical delivery for Mastercard's enterprise-wide data governance, privacy, and data access platforms.
- Directed engineering teams are responsible for building scalable data ingestion pipelines, metadata services, and privacy-compliant onboarding workflows.
- Architected scalable data platforms enabling enterprise-wide data discovery, lineage, and quality scoring.
- Designed ingestion pipelines integrating CMDB, Remedy, and internal systems using event-driven and batch frameworks.
- Managed CI/CD pipelines for data platform services, ensuring consistent deployments and automated testing.
- Implemented data quality rules, metadata catalogs, and governance workflows using Informatica EDC/IDQ/AXON.
- Led daily engineering operations: sprint execution, backlog prioritization, code reviews, and production support.
- Key Projects: AXON System Redesign, EDC Auto-Refresh Automation, India On-Soil Compliance, CMDB/Remedy Auto-Discovery, Consent Platform Redesign, Transactional & Merchant Rules Setup in IDQ.
Lead Architect, Billing Solutions (MCBS)
Mastercard
St. Louis, USA
06.2014 - 05.2019
- Technical lead and architect for Mastercard's consolidated billing system, supporting global revenue operations across Authorization, Clearing, and Settlement.
- Designed large-scale billing pipelines, pricing engines, settlement logic, and reconciliation workflows.
- Modernized legacy COBOL systems into modular, optimized architectures improving throughput and reducing SLA windows.
- Led performance tuning, mainframe footprint reduction, and TCO optimization initiatives.
- Built and scaled a new engineering team in Pune, establishing coding standards, architecture guidelines, and DevOps practices.
- Key Projects: MNGS Feeder Scheduling Rewrite, Two-Digit BIN Expansion, AUAI Feeder Modernization, GFT Footprint Reduction, Geo-Code Transformation, Lights-Out Contingency Support.
Technical Lead, AGSS/AOA
Nationwide Insurance
01.2010 - 12.2014
- Led modernization POCs, rate-enablement systems, and legacy platform enhancements.
Lead Developer, CBMS
Deloitte
01.2013 - 12.2013
- Modernized legacy COBOL systems into Java-based, database-driven architectures.
Senior Mainframe Developer, GCMS
Wipro/Mastercard
01.2007 - 12.2010
- Supported high-volume clearing systems; led COBOL → Java cutover using MQ.
Developer, EDD
Wipro/Washington Mutual
01.2005 - 12.2006
- Delivered COBOL development and operational support for enterprise data distribution.
Education
B.E. - Computer Science Engineering
Anna University
PGDBA - Human Resources
Symbiosis University
Skills
- Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Cloud-native platform design
- Containerization
- Orchestration
- Environment provisioning automation
- High-availability
- Distributed systems
- CI/CD pipeline design
- Automated deployments
- Blue-green releases
- Canary releases
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Observability
- Metrics-driven reliability
- Alerting
- Runbooks
- SLO/SLI management
- Technical roadmap ownership
- Daily standups
- Sprint planning
- Backlog refinement
- Code reviews
- Design reviews
- Architecture governance
- Cross-functional alignment
- Java
- Python
- Shell
- COBOL
- CICS
- JCL
- VSAM
- MQ Series
- Oracle
- SQL
- Postgres
- Hive
- DB2
- Kafka/Streaming
- Microservices
- API Architecture
- Informatica EDC/IDQ/AXON
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Cognos reporting
Work Authorization
H1B, Mastercard Sponsorship, Approved, EB2, 2015
Personal Information
Title: Senior Engineering Leader
Core Technologies
- Java
- Python
- Shell
- COBOL
- CICS
- JCL
- VSAM
- Oracle
- SQL
- Postgres
- Hive
- DB2
- Kafka/Streaming
- Microservices
- API Architecture
- Informatica EDC/IDQ/AXON
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Cognos reporting
Core Technical Competencies
- Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Cloud-native platform design, containerization, orchestration
- Environment provisioning automation (<5-minute spin-up)
- High-availability, distributed systems
- CI/CD pipeline design (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Shell scripting, Python, XLR Orchestration)
- Automated deployments, blue-green & canary releases
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Telegraf
- Metrics-driven reliability, alerting, runbooks, SLO/SLI management
- Technical roadmap ownership
- Daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement
- Code reviews, design reviews, architecture governance
- Cross-functional alignment with Product, Security, Privacy, Operations
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tamil
Native/ Bilingual
Telugu
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Limited
Timeline
Manager, Software Engineering | AI & Decision Platform Engineering
Mastercard
05.2022 - Current
Manager, Enterprise Data Platforms
Mastercard
06.2019 - 04.2022
Lead Architect, Billing Solutions (MCBS)
Mastercard
06.2014 - 05.2019
Lead Developer, CBMS
Deloitte
01.2013 - 12.2013
Technical Lead, AGSS/AOA
Nationwide Insurance
01.2010 - 12.2014
Senior Mainframe Developer, GCMS
Wipro/Mastercard
01.2007 - 12.2010
Developer, EDD
Wipro/Washington Mutual
01.2005 - 12.2006
B.E. - Computer Science Engineering
Anna University
PGDBA - Human Resources
Symbiosis University