KIRUTHIKA G SUBRAMANIAN
BURLINGTON,USA
Summary
Accomplished leader and mentor with expertise in engineering rigor and team development. Proven track record in driving technology roadmaps and managing product lifecycles across startups and large organizations. Focused on delivering innovative solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives while fostering future engineering leaders through mentorship. Recognized for technical depth and effective resource management, promoting collaboration and team ownership of results.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Principal Enterprise Architect
Generate Biomedicines
Somerville, USA
05.2025 - Current
- Enterprise Solutions Architect
- Cross collaboration with Business leaders
- Productionalization of Business Systems
- Agentic Enterprise Architecture and Solutions
Director of Engineering
Walmart Advanced Systems & Robotics
Andover, USA
06.2023 - 05.2025
- Manage and Lead the Virtual Platform (SRE and SWE) that has two teams.
- Design and Implement the Robotics Simulation Product, Simulation Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps.
- Accountable and Responsible for keeping the Virtual Site up 24/7.
- Lead the Robotics Simulation Product Engineering team
- Design and Implement solution for the simulation platform
- Lead the SRE and Simulation Platform teams
- Design and Own the Simulation Platform and the Infrastructure
- Implement the CI/CD/CT as part of the Canary Deployment of the Simulation product
- Designed and implemented ETL with Data Pipelines for Data Scientists
- Drive Cost Optimization for Platform Services
- Enable Virtual Sites to support deployments to the Physical Walmart sites
Associate Director, Software Engineering
FOUNDATION MEDICINE
Cambridge, USA
07.2021 - 06.2023
- Managed and architected Foundation's key genomics product and made the platform globally available.
- Partnered with Roche Diagnostics on product development.
- Oversaw team of software, DevOps, and quality developers, on-site and offshore, providing coaching, development, performance monitoring, and prioritization of work for the team.
- Collaborated with cross functional teams in Technology and the Product Development group.
- Developed, planned, and recommended budget and staffing changes as required.
- Managed and mentored teams; had zero attrition rate.
- Defined roadmap for engineering platform to empower Site Reliability Engineering.
- Defined and documented global distributed application architecture with cloud architecture.
- Created, enhanced, and supported production-like environments that exercised end-to-end testing for combined value stream features including regression automation, test data management, and test consolidation.
- Provided key contributions to the design and implementation of the Assay quality roadmap.
- Partnered with Value Stream teams to get to consolidation and consistency in the DevOps area including CI/CD process, build technology, and procedures.
- Worked with the Value Stream operations teams to ensure a system-wide support plan implementation including standard monitoring/practices, triage process, and run book combined with knowledge center.
- Partnered with CloudOps to ensure compliance with standard tool sets and help to define security principles.
Associate Director, Software Quality Engineering
FOUNDATION MEDICINE
Cambridge, USA
09.2020 - 07.2021
- Served as Tech Lead for Distributed Products and Test Architect for the Engineering organization.
- Owned the testing platform, infrastructure, engineering tools, and platforms team.
- Managed 18 and mentored technical teams.
- Designed and delivered distributed products with hands-on accountability for product architecture and test architecture including DevOps and IaC capabilities.
- Designed and delivered engineering applications for delivery of distributed kits.
- Architect of the Operations Application.
- AWS IAC Test Architect.
- Managed automated builds and releases.
- Provided solutions for Compliance Engineering.
- Built a framework to automate, templatize, and provide increased access to developers during the documentation process.
Principal Architect
FOUNDATION MEDICINE
Cambridge, USA
05.2018 - 09.2020
- Designed and delivered enterprise architecture for applications as a service (SaaS).
- Owned the IaC, CI/CD, and platforms across the technology organization.
- Served as test Architect for all applications across the technology group.
- Managed and mentored team members.
- Defined and designed the test data strategy and automation for end-to-end testing.
- Implemented container orchestrations in AWS regions.
- AWS Infrastructure Architect.
- Tested execution platforms using Dockers in AWS infrastructure.
- Architect for the test environment: defined testing standards, enforced enterprise system testability across engineering products.
- Built an on demand test execution platform for functional and non-functional tests and a unified test eco-space for the technology operations automation framework for functional and non-functional tests.
- Designed the traceability pipeline.
- Worked on compliance and standards initiatives including regulations and validation of devices.
- Built a reporting framework for compliance and audits.
Lead Principal SDET
AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES
Cambridge, USA
01.2012 - 05.2018
- Designed, built, and delivered an automation framework as an open source to the entire organization that was implemented across Akamai applications and platform.
- Built an open-source culture where every engineer took ownership in executing solutions across the teams.
- Worked with the product and technology roadmap to extend the solution across implementation strategies.
- Mentored and managed a team of SDETs.
Lead QE Engineer
LIFEIMAGE
Newton, USA
09.2009 - 01.2012
- Joined the software engineering team as the company's fifth employee.
- With broad exposure and working alongside product, business, and sales, owned the test-driven model for all development across the teams.
- Hands-on coding and testing while managing on-site and offshore employees as the company went through iterations of funding.
QA Engineer
JUMPTAP
Cambridge, USA
02.2008 - 09.2009
- Worked as a QA Engineer, responsible for mobile monetization products.
- Automated REST and SOAP services and a framework for functional testing.
- Provided integration and system testing.
Senior Software Engineer
HONEYWELL
Bangalore, India
10.2003 - 02.2008
- Wrote automation frameworks.
- Conducted performance and system integration testing.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Administration
PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
Kalapet, India01.2005
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India01.2003
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) -
PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
Kalapet, India01.2000
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Strategy and Leadership
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Cambridge, MASkills
- Enterprise architecture
- Cloud infrastructure
- Robotics simulation
- Continuous integration
- Automation frameworks
- Strategic collaboration
- Cross-functional leadership
- Cost optimization
Sports Profile
- National level Cricket Player
- Club level Cricket player
- Women Volunteer Coordinator for USA Cricket
- Organized several women and Girls tournaments around the New England area
- Successfully organized and implemented the USA cricket Women and Girls Pathway Program for the past several years
Licenses And Awards
- CSTP - IISTB
- Six Sigma Green Belt, CSSGB
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional
- Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate
- Manager as Coach Certification, FOUNDATION MEDICINE
Timeline
Senior Principal Enterprise Architect
Generate Biomedicines
05.2025 - Current
Director of Engineering
Walmart Advanced Systems & Robotics
06.2023 - 05.2025
Associate Director, Software Engineering
FOUNDATION MEDICINE
07.2021 - 06.2023
Associate Director, Software Quality Engineering
FOUNDATION MEDICINE
09.2020 - 07.2021
Principal Architect
FOUNDATION MEDICINE
05.2018 - 09.2020
Lead Principal SDET
AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES
01.2012 - 05.2018
Lead QE Engineer
LIFEIMAGE
09.2009 - 01.2012
QA Engineer
JUMPTAP
02.2008 - 09.2009
Senior Software Engineer
HONEYWELL
10.2003 - 02.2008
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Business Administration
PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) -
PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Strategy and Leadership
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
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