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MYURAN VIJAYARAGHAVAN

Jacksonville,FL

Summary

IT Leader with 20 years experience leading global teams across a range of IT disciplines and technologies. Track record of delivery, innovation, continuous improvement, ownership and efficiency improvements. Develops teams via coaching and servant leadership.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

PBWM Head of Observability and Event Mgmt

Citigroup
07.2018 - Current

Director (2023) / SVP (2018-2022) - IT Sr. Group Manager

  • Lead 79-member (34 employees) global team in all aspects of Observability and Event Management for Global Consumer & Wealth Management (PBWM). Team members located in USA, Mexico, Poland, India and Singapore.
  • Functions managed include Operations, Infrastructure, Project Mgmt., Event Management (L0), Architecture, App-Dev & Vendor Engagement, supporting NAM, MEX, APAC & EMEA.
  • Support full range of tech stacks, across legacy, monoliths & cloud, across 17 countries (200k+ AppDynamics agents, 1500+ Splunk users, 4k Evolven agents, 2.3k synthetic, 35k Aternity).
  • New capabilities and innovations incubated incl.: AppDynamics Self-Healing, AppDynamics Network agent, Splunk IBM zSeries , Observability Portal, Telemetry Portal ingesting DevOps, OpenTelemetry POC and CI/CD data into Splunk.
  • Drove POC and purchase of Moogsoft for advanced event intelligence.
  • Established Splunk governance practice, providing oversight to 40Tb per day ecosystem. Drove log volume reductions by 50% with developers, ELA & Hardware procurement, adoption and search governance.
  • Navigate vendor engagement, product bugs, version upgrades, compliance and financial planning.
  • Oversaw 48% increase in work-requests in first year of management. Improved Key Voice of Employee indicators in first year.

Head of NAM Performance Engineering, Test Tools Rollout & Strategy

Citigroup Consumer Bank
09.2014 - 07.2018

Senior Vice President - Architecture Group Manager

  • Led 88-member team in digital strategy activities, including early performance profiling, release testing, microservice component testing, and system engineering.
  • Built embedded performance engineering function, with engineers aligned to Digital scrum teams making performance and code improvement recommendations. In 2017, performance profiling identified 1316 performance tuning recommendations, resulting in 471 code/config changes and 166 cumulative seconds of improvement.
  • Led performance evaluation of NextGen POC platform, leveraging Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PaaS), Microservices architecture and distributed Cache (Gemfire).
  • Key driver of improvements to CitiBank Online, coordinating across multiple development teams. Round-trip login transaction improved from 20 seconds (2015) to 12 seconds (2016).

Head of Global Digital Test Automation

Citigroup Consumer Bank
08.2011 - 09.2014

Senior Vice President - Application Development Group Manager

  • Managed team of 25 FTE and contractors in test automation, internet tools and metrics, and mobile and ATM channels.
  • Devised and implemented common test automation framework.
  • Drove procurement and rollout of Perfecto for mobile test automation.

Vice President - Senior Testing Manager

Citigroup - CitiFinancial
07.2007 - 08.2011
  • Created and led team of 76 FTE and contractors in all aspects of functional testing for a complex $120 million program (Symphony), with a mixture of Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

Testing Manager

Citigroup - CitiFinancial
11.2004 - 08.2007
  • Led 20 member team for all CitiFinancial test automation, performance testing and functional testing of web projects.

Quality Assurance / IT Engineer

Citigroup - European Consumer Technology
03.2003 - 10.2004
  • Implemented test automation, performance testing solutions, and test tool training in Spain, Germany, and UK.

Operations & Technology Analyst

Citigroup
08.2001 - 03.2003

Education

MBA - Business

Imperial College
London, UK
2011

Master of Science - Mathematics

Imperial College
London, UK
2001

High School -

Eton College
Windsor, UK
1997

Graduate Certificate - International Relations

Harvard Extension School
12.2024

Skills

  • Observability and Monitoring
  • Leading global teams
  • Vendor Mgmt
  • Infrastructure Operations
  • Application Development
  • Performance Testing and Engineering
  • Functional Testing (Financial Domain)
  • 2018 Leader in Excellence
  • SRE Certified
  • C, C#, VBNET, Java AWS SysOps Trained
  • PMP Certified & MBA

Timeline

PBWM Head of Observability and Event Mgmt

Citigroup
07.2018 - Current

Head of NAM Performance Engineering, Test Tools Rollout & Strategy

Citigroup Consumer Bank
09.2014 - 07.2018

Head of Global Digital Test Automation

Citigroup Consumer Bank
08.2011 - 09.2014

Vice President - Senior Testing Manager

Citigroup - CitiFinancial
07.2007 - 08.2011

Testing Manager

Citigroup - CitiFinancial
11.2004 - 08.2007

Quality Assurance / IT Engineer

Citigroup - European Consumer Technology
03.2003 - 10.2004

Operations & Technology Analyst

Citigroup
08.2001 - 03.2003

MBA - Business

Imperial College

Master of Science - Mathematics

Imperial College

High School -

Eton College

Graduate Certificate - International Relations

Harvard Extension School
MYURAN VIJAYARAGHAVAN