Hemanth Hebbur Shekar
Gilbert,AZ
Summary
Senior Engineering Manager with nearly 20 years of IT industry experience, distinguished by exceptional technical expertise demonstrated through successful completion of Karat tech bars for both Engineering Director and Staff Engineer levels. Recipient of the prestigious American Express Centurion Award, among other accolades, recognizing a track record of driving operational improvements, enhancing customer satisfaction, and achieving significant cost savings while increasing profitability. Adept at managing diverse Agile programs and adapting to dynamic business environments. I am also the proud leader of the winning team for EA hackathon 2025
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
American Express
09.2015 - Current
- American express developer portal - Lead American express developer portal teams to launch next gen portal capable of Next Gen OAuth product integrations, Migration from SSO SITEMINDER to One identity for session management and OTP generation , Integration with CertaaS for auto certificate uploads and deployment and Uplift of portal to have consistent and enhanced Next Gen experience for all API products hosted on Developer portal.
- Cornerstone Streams platform - Worked on architecting real-time streams platform for data ingestion into big data ecosystem / low latency databases from several real-time queues SOR. Tech stack - Java, spark streaming, XLR , hive, and other low latency tables
- Amex Kaggle - Participated in American express Kaggle, machine learning competition and secured within top 5 positions on two separate occasions.
- Cornerstone real Time - Cornerstone is Big-data platform in American express. Worked on creating real-time data platform that Enabled real-time Data access of any big data attributes in terms of JSON documents that provided Automated API-based access hosted on Enterprise cloud platform . Technologies used - Vert x Micro-service , Couchbase , Jenkins , XL release , Hive . Also worked on enabling UI for self service. This Automation decreased manual efforts for Use case teams increasing their productivity by 50%. Platform supports API traffic of over 20000 Transactions per second.
- Jungle project -Jungle project involves pulling billed and Unbilled transaction data from Triumph and matching it with Amazon line item details. Matched data is stored in H BASE tables and exposed to external system via Rest API. Technologies used - Apache spark with Java , Spring Boot API , HBASE Java API . This provided capability where customers could see line items along with transaction information for Amazon small business purchases on the Mica portal which lead to better customer satisfaction and increased year on year spending
Engineering Manager
Cognizant Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2015
- Projects Credit risk reporting Description- Managed team of fifteen members for development Of highly normalized BDW structure to capture Enterprise data from multiple sources called as SFD
- Development of Risk mart on Top of SFD that enables Risk reporting at loan level as its lowest grain
- Reconcile enterprise loan level information against General ledger
- Project implementation provided comprehensive view of organizational spending at asset level against existing cost center level leading to improved efficiencies and resulted savings of nearly 25 Million dollars per year
- Core Technologies used - Hadoop Hive , IBM Tivoli , Java , Ab initio , Unix, Hadoop, Shell script
Senior Engineer
Wipro technologies
11.2013 - 06.2014
- Projects- Digital Messaging systems(Capital One banks ) Introduction of new Alerts and extended delivery history capability.
- Migration of customers from different banks Acquired by capital one like HSBC / 360 and OLBR customers.
- This migration meant that customers of acquired banks could seamlessly log into capital one portals enhancing user experience and subsequently leading to increased card spending.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Technologies
06.2008 - 11.2013
- Managed team of 16 members that developed data flows and and built Data Mart for integrated credit risk reporting.
- This project provided integrated view of exposures from commercial, retail and other areas of organization with reconciliation with general ledger.
- Project implementation provided comprehensive view of organizational spending at asset level against existing cost center level leading to improved efficiencies and resulted savings of nearly 30 Million dollars per year.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
BangaloreSkills
- Generative AI pipelines using RAG and Safe chain
- Project management
- Java / Python
- Big Data
- Apache Spark
- SQL and No SQL database
- Micro services with Spring Boot / Vertx and GraphQL
- Kafka / Spark streaming
- Machine Learning
- ETL (Ab Initio)
- UI - React JS, Redux, Node
Responsibilities
- Championed an AI-first strategy by integrating generative AI tools and practices, resulting in significant improvements in team productivity and performance.
- Led and mentored a 40-50 member development team , enhancing overall staff competency and efficiency through a focus on AI-driven methodologies and best practices.
- Architected and delivered comprehensive project blueprints , product specifications, and design documents with a focus on leveraging AI to streamline development and product features.
- Ensured product excellence by leading testing, troubleshooting, and performance verification, using data-driven insights to maintain high standards.
- Managed project pipelines and cross-functional teams , successfully aligning new product designs and implementation strategies with strategic AI initiatives and project timelines.
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
American Express
09.2015 - Current
Engineering Manager
Cognizant Technologies
06.2014 - 09.2015
Senior Engineer
Wipro technologies
11.2013 - 06.2014
Technology Analyst
Infosys Technologies
06.2008 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering