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Nafees Khan Peerukkon

Senior Manager - Software Engineering
Concord,NC

Summary

Senior Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience scaling enterprise platforms and leading multi-team organizations. Expertise spans Creative Operations, Marketing Technology, Creator Network, and Retail Systems. Proven track record in AI-enabled innovation, agentic automation, and personalization. Known for launching high-impact platforms, mentoring engineering talent, and aligning technology with business growth and brand engagement.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Lowe's Tech
Charlotte, NC
10.2023 - Current
  • Envisioned, coined, and led Genie from concept to execution as Lowe's first enterprise creative operations platform, achieving 33% productivity gains and 50% designer efficiency improvement via a Figma plugin.
  • Positioned Genie as the only Lowe's system fully integrated end-to-end: upstream with 3rd-party vendors to retrieve campaign data, horizontally with in-house platforms (Blue and Spotlight), and downstream with Figma and agency partners for seamless creative artifact handoff.
  • Built a subscription-based update module, enabling automatic synchronization across vendors, in-house platforms, and design tools, eliminating manual updates and ensuring real-time accuracy.
  • Established Inflowe as a true enterprise creator network platform by leading collaboration with 8 engineering teams to launch the automated storefront experience, increasing customer traffic from 3rd-party vendor portals to lowes.com by 100%.
  • Partnered with external vendors to resolve attribution issues at inception, ensuring accurate performance tracking and unlocking scalable growth for the creator network platform.
  • Provided AI thought leadership through imAgIne, Lowe's generative suite for text, image, and video, accelerating creative development cycles while maintaining strict brand and marketing compliance.
  • Championed technical reuse by integrating Lowe's in-house Graphite platform for workflow operations, maximizing ROI and reducing redundant engineering investments.
  • Mentored and coached all US-based engineers, embedding problem-solving rigor and craftsmanship that reinforced Lowe's core values and behaviors.
  • Aligned engineering delivery with executive OKRs by partnering closely with product leadership, ensuring every platform investment directly advanced business growth targets.
  • Established a white-glove engineering support service with a 30-minute SLA for issue resolution, strengthening business confidence and accelerating adoption of Genie and Inflowe.

Lead Software Engineer

Lowe's Tech
Charlotte, NC
03.2020 - 09.2023
  • Re-architected Lowe's enterprise DAM to manage 25M+ assets, surpassing performance expectations by 200% and enhancing digital asset traceability across domains.
  • Championed event-driven architecture with Kafka, scaling ingestion across multiple producers in DAM.
  • Developed robust, scalable, API-centric Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform for multi-tenant content delivery in Tesla.
  • Designed and implemented hyper-personalization architecture, surpassing performance expectations by 150%.
  • Pioneered self-healing APIs and agentic bots, enabling autonomous recovery from system issues and reducing downtime.
  • Led WCC to OTMM migration as Subject Matter Expert, enabling enterprise-wide adoption of modern DAM systems.

Solutions Architect

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Irving, TX
06.2017 - 03.2020
  • Designed and led Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) architecture using twelve-factor methodology, enabling headless CMS delivery via REST APIs.
  • Enhanced Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) DAM to improve librarian authoring efficiency and content reuse across channels.
  • Introduced AI-driven personalization within AEM, optimizing content workflows and increasing reusability.
  • Created a “tag-based” architecture that enabled 100% content reusability and faster content delivery.
  • Reduced content approval workflows by 85% by pioneering the “In-Context Preview” capability.
  • Improved time-to-market by 100% by restructuring content delivery strategy and modernizing workflows.
  • Drove application modernization (“Rebuild” technique) to migrate content strategy into cloud-native applications.
  • Designed and developed content microservices to leverage AEM dispatcher caching, reducing latency.
  • Built SDK-based API integration with Optimizely, reducing A/B test API response times by 100%.
  • Researched competitive CMS solutions and translated insights into business strategy and cost-saving recommendations.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for headless CaaS, boosting release velocity by 80%.
  • Partnered with UX and frontend teams to deliver React components for customer-facing websites.
  • Ensured quality by enforcing Sonar standards, reducing defects and maximizing user satisfaction.

Full Stack Developer – Digital Commerce

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Irving, TX
10.2016 - 07.2017
  • Migrated large-scale retail data from ATG to cloud platforms, designing resilient Cassandra-backed content services.
  • Developed first cookie API service in ATG to expose session details and improve cloud-based site functionality.
  • Built and optimized React components (header, footer, silos) for neimanmarcus.com and associated luxury retail sites, reducing unnecessary re-renders by 90% via React lifecycle optimizations.
  • Contributed to Pipeline-as-Code architecture with AWS, Docker, and Groovy scripts, enabling automated deployments in a polyglot environment.
  • Developed continuous deployment methodology and containerized build images, ensuring scalable, consistent releases.
  • Achieved 100% code coverage by delivering contract, integration, service, and unit tests.

Developer & Tech Lead – Ecommerce

Cognizant Technology Solutions (Multiple Retail Clients)
12.2009 - 10.2016
  • Led e-commerce development for Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Walgreens, eBay, and others.
  • Modernized legacy ATG commerce systems, reducing operating costs by 85%.
  • Delivered scalable APIs, optimized CI/CD pipelines, and ensured high system reliability during peak retail seasons.

Education

Master of Technology - Software Development & Management

VIT University
Vellore
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
Sivakasi
05.2001 -

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2018)

Skills

  • Strategic Leadership & Enterprise Growth: Engineering OKRs, executive alignment, platform ownership, Retail & Marketing Tech strategy
  • System Architecture & Cloud-Native Platforms: Event-driven, microservices, API-first, AWS/GCP
  • Enterprise Integrations: Vendors(Aha!, Figma, Adobe), in-house (Graphite, Blue, Spotlight), downstream (agency partners)
  • AI & Automation Leadership : Agentic automation, self-healing APIs, hyper-personalization engines
  • Generative AI & Creative Innovation: imAgIne (text, image, video), Figma plugins
  • Domain Expertise: Creator Network Platforms, Digital Asset Management (DAM), Content Management Systems (CMS), Retail & Marketing Tech
  • People Leadership: Leading 20+ engineers, mentoring, empowering teams for high-quality incremental delivery
  • Technical Foundation: Java, Node.js, Python, React, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD

Timeline

Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Lowe's Tech
10.2023 - Current

Lead Software Engineer

Lowe's Tech
03.2020 - 09.2023

Solutions Architect

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
06.2017 - 03.2020

Full Stack Developer – Digital Commerce

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
10.2016 - 07.2017

Developer & Tech Lead – Ecommerce

Cognizant Technology Solutions (Multiple Retail Clients)
12.2009 - 10.2016

Master of Technology - Software Development & Management

VIT University
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
05.2001 -

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