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KSHITIJ CHOUDHA

Frisco,TX

Summary

Accomplished IT development leader with 20+ years of success directing large, global engineering teams to deliver mission-critical enterprise systems. Proven expert in full SDLC execution, development management, and resource planning for both full-time employees and onshore/offshore vendors. Excels at partnering with business and IT stakeholders to ensure the on-time, on-budget delivery of high-volume, scalable solutions that meet the highest quality standards.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, Head of Cloud Developer Experience and Onboarding Services

Citi Bank
10.2021 - Current
  • Directed a global organization of 50+ engineers, managers, and architects, managing all project planning, resource allocation, and skillset mapping to ensure successful delivery.
  • Partnered directly with executive leadership, including the CIO/CTO office, to consult on strategy, manage expectations, and ensure program objectives were aligned with business goals.
  • Successfully delivered a unified Developer Experience Platform by managing the full SDLC, meeting all milestones to improve deployment velocity by 30% without compromising quality or scope.
  • Led technology evaluation and vendor selection processes, managing third-party relationships to ensure seamless integration and adherence to compliance and security standards.
  • Led the development of REST services for cloud onboarding to enable self-service & governance automation.
  • Designed and implemented a unified deployment framework using Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, OpenShift) and Helm to standardize CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment velocity by 30%.
  • Engineered a scalable Terraform IaC framework with reusable modules and automated guardrails, boosting infrastructure delivery throughput by 35%
  • Evaluate and drive adaption of new tools and services. Manage vendor, third party relations.
  • Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.

Sr. Engineering Manager, Head of Cloud Migration for CMT

Fannie Mae
08.2020 - 09.2021
  • Drove cloud transformation efforts to migrate several applications to AWS for CMT Organization.
  • Led the migration of 15+ business-critical applications to AWS, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational costs while ensuring system stability and performance.
  • Collaborated with executive partners, the Cloud CoE, and architects to align migration strategy with business objectives and remove roadblocks to ensure seamless program execution
  • Lead microservice decomposition/development and cloud native service selection & architecture.
  • Represent Capital Market in CIO executive committee and manage reporting.
  • Maintaining budget for $8MM annually and managing 3 squads with 25 FTEs and 10 contractors.

VP, Head of Cloud Tooling and Run-time for Marcus

Goldman Sachs
05.2019 - 08.2020
  • Led platform engineering for the Marcus consumer banking product, building the scalable, secure, and resilient AWS runtime that supported a rapidly growing external customer base. Drove the technical strategy for a low-latency, high-availability platform responsible for processing millions of transactions.
  • Engineered and maintained the observability stack (Splunk, AppDynamics), migrating Splunk storage to S3 to slash costs and improve data resiliency.
  • Led development of various services to enable automation across tool stack.
  • Manage Terraform development and pipelines for cloud resources with combination of GitLab, AWS Code Deploy
  • Work and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, InfoSec and Application teams to build cloud platform.
  • Implementing synthetic monitoring in AppDynamics, projected to reduce site downtime incidents by 30 mins.
  • Improved Splunk platform by migrating disk-based storage to S3 that saved significant cost and improved operations.
  • Project: Marcus

Software Engineering Manager

Fannie Mae
09.2016 - 04.2019
  • Led a team to build and deploy the CMT Marketplace, a central application platform consisting of a UI, REST services, and platform components.
  • Engineered a zero-downtime deployment process by implementing a blue-green deployment strategy.
  • Managed LaunchDarkly and OverOps for enterprise adoption. Collaborated efforts to onboard multiple applications which are benefiting from live feature toggle, A/B testing, canary release.
  • Projects: CMT Marketplace, Servicing Marketplace, Application Platform Development

Vice President, Platform Lead

Barclaycard
11.2014 - 08.2016
  • Responsible to identify and deliver technology transformation for Barclaycard.
  • Engineered and scaled the underlying platform for Barclaycard's payment processing systems.
  • Set up AppDynamics for application and infrastructure monitoring on Rackspace cloud and bring 50+ java production application on board
  • Automated workflows across all the DevOps tools for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Delivered Graylog for log collection and analysis as a cost-effective alternative where Splunk was prohibitive.
  • Maintained complete development environment on Rackspace and provide PaaS offering to IT projects for agile development and faster turnaround.

Application Manager

Amdocs Inc.
06.2004 - 11.2014
  • Worked in several position (Developer, Tech Lead, Architect, Development Manager) at various locations.
  • Lead and manage Amdocs development & support teams for product development and client deliveries.
  • Worked on design, development and customization of various aspect of Amdocs Billing Platform
  • Involved in product development for Amdocs core systems using java/j2ee technologies.

Sr. Applications Engineer

Oracle India
01.2003 - 05.2004
  • Developed XML gateway engine – a project to convert the existing PL/SQL engine to JAVA and add support for new technologies, such as XML Schema/XSL, which were absent in old engine.
  • Enhanced OTA (Oracle Transport Agent), which is the transport layer for XML gateway. Resolved the crucial memory and performance issue.

Sr. System Engineer

Siemens Information Systems Ltd.
08.2000 - 12.2002
  • Developer for general ledger accounting system using J2EE framework based on multi-tier architecture.

Skills

  • Leadership & Strategy: Team Building & Mentoring, Career Development, Performance Management, Onshore/Offshore Vendor Management, Recruitment & Selection
  • Delivery & Program Management: Full SDLC Execution, Project Planning & Delivery, Agile Methodologies, Budget & Scope Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Technical Strategy & Architecture: Cloud Strategy (AWS/GCP), Application Modernization, System Architecture & Design, Technology Roadmap & Execution
  • Architecture & Development: Microservices Architecture & Design, Application Modernization, Cloud-Native Design, Windows/Web Application Architecture, REST APIs, Java, Python, Nodejs, React
  • DevOps & IaC: CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Harness), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), Helm, DevSecOps Strategy
  • Observability & Operations: Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Incident Response, Change Control, Production Monitoring

Certification

Bachelor or Engineering, Bhopal, India

Diploma in Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India

AWS Certified Solution Architect

Oracle Certified Java Programmer

Timeline

Director, Head of Cloud Developer Experience and Onboarding Services

Citi Bank
10.2021 - Current

Sr. Engineering Manager, Head of Cloud Migration for CMT

Fannie Mae
08.2020 - 09.2021

VP, Head of Cloud Tooling and Run-time for Marcus

Goldman Sachs
05.2019 - 08.2020

Software Engineering Manager

Fannie Mae
09.2016 - 04.2019

Vice President, Platform Lead

Barclaycard
11.2014 - 08.2016

Application Manager

Amdocs Inc.
06.2004 - 11.2014

Sr. Applications Engineer

Oracle India
01.2003 - 05.2004

Sr. System Engineer

Siemens Information Systems Ltd.
08.2000 - 12.2002

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