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Hariharan Sundaram

Bothell,WA

Summary

Versatile, Strategic Engineering Lead with more than 18 years experience in software product development, technical program management, solution architecture, execution and people management. Successfully executed large-scale business process integration programs within Microsoft and otherwise. Strong focus on business process improvement, engineering quality and live site culture. Proven ability to develop high quality products & services with customer focus in mind combined with program management skills to solve complex business problems. Experience in serving leadership roles to increase engineering efficiency as well bring in standardization across capabilities across the organization.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Corporation
09.2011 - Current

As part of Horizontal Platform solutions, envisioned & developed platform services & observability solutions. Managed & coached teams to deliver with high quality.

·Process Observability Platform & Control Tower

Built End to End suite for business processes, to send Pro-active communications & reporting to Business Managers, Operations Managers and Service reliability Engineers. Reduced customer reported incidents by 80%. Self serve solution achieving 400+ MAU. Built Process mining capability to discover, monitor, and improve real time processes by analyzing data from event logs business processes and provide Process Insights to Business Operations for improvements. More than ~2MM cost savings per process by reducing the manual touch points and reducing E2E time by providing E2E visibility of the process. Increased Azure Consumption Revenue by > $100K +/annum by adoption of product by external Azure customer.

· Driving Observability through Standardization & Architecture Maturity

Lead for standardization of data transactions & telemetry across 200+ services including SAP. Developed centralized Event Driven solution across Supply Chain with self serve capabilities and governance to mature Supply Chain’s maturity from incidental to advanced as per Gartner’s maturity model thereby enabling cost reduction in integration across development teams and Azure infrastructure by > 30%.

· Scenario & Services Health Visibility: Led Quality of Service platforms for service health visibility as well business performance scorecards for providing observability to business process metrics & KPIs. These helped drive the quality across the organization through Live Site Reviews & Business reviews, leading to reduction in incidents by 80%, major incidents aversion by 36%. TTE reduced by 85%. Reduced TTD by 63%.

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation
09.2011 - 12.2018

Responsible for development & leading critical business programs and ensuring scalable architecture & development of distributed services to enable Microsoft business processes saving > $700M to 1.675M. Led multiple product launches including Xbox, Surface and shipping 3rd party products through process variations.

Core activities included working with business to envision & drive End to End solution, working with teams to come up with technical architecture, design, develop & lead team to deliver business value & savings.

Subject matter expert for internal processes and solutions and lead discussions with stakeholders and partner teams.

Led team of vendors and full time employees.

Led & participated in various innovation Hackathon efforts within Microsoft. Presented via Executive Briefings to external Microsoft customers on use of Microsoft Azure Technologies. Presented in MS Build 2018.

Project Manager

Infosys Technologies
08.2008 - 09.2011

Technology Project Manager

Led multiple technology programs across customers including Arrow Electronics, Caterpillar & other High Tech customers. Development on CRM based platforms for Incident management, data warehousing as well as ecommerce solutions. Executed architecture & project management functions from presales, architectural proposals, project design, development and execution/delivery across multiple geo locations.

· Application Architecture: Provide application architecture for intranet/Internet applications and integrating heterogonous systems. In depth experience in Microsoft technologies and applying them in an enterprise environment. Component based system design for service-oriented, multi-tier applications. Special focus on B2B integration & enterprise collaboration.

· Project Management: Creating proposals for presales, Recruit, build and manage teams, client communication, multi-site program management, quality reviews and project controlling, estimation and tracking of work efforts.

· Cross Platform Custom Development: Architectural design and implementation of loosely coupled, service based systems.


Technology Lead

Infosys Technologies
09.2003 - 08.2008

Responsible for leading development across multiple customers and execution via global delivery model. Responsible for application architecture of intranet/Internet applications and integrating heterogonous systems.

In depth experience in integration & middleware technologies and applying them in an enterprise environment. Component based system design for service-oriented, multi-tier applications.

Special focus on B2B integration & enterprise collaboration. Worked through 200+ partner and enterprise integrations via application services across multiple technologies.

Education

Post Graduation - Information Technology

IIT Kharagpur
06.2003

Bachelors of Technology - Electronics & Communication

Pondicherry University
06.2001

Skills

  • Engineering Leadership
  • Software Development
  • Program Management
  • Agile Methodology
  • Team Management
  • Microservices: Azure Functions, Azure App Services, Docker
  • Data Storage : SQL & Azure DB/Storage technologies
  • Visualization: Angular, Power BI
  • Integration: Logic Apps, Event Grid, Service Bus, Event Hub, MS Flow, B2B

Timeline

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Corporation
09.2011 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation
09.2011 - 12.2018

Project Manager

Infosys Technologies
08.2008 - 09.2011

Technology Lead

Infosys Technologies
09.2003 - 08.2008

Post Graduation - Information Technology

IIT Kharagpur

Bachelors of Technology - Electronics & Communication

Pondicherry University
Hariharan Sundaram