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Neha Chaudhary

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Summary

Enterprise SRE Leader with 16+ years of experience directing high-availability production support, DevOps culture, and multi-regional systems architecture. Proven track record maximizing application performance, scalability, and latency efficiency while strategically integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities. Trusted collaborator with Google engineering teams on continuous cloud strategy and long-term GCP project planning. Adept at driving operational excellence through rigorous change management, capacity planning, and robust engineering principles, balanced with a strong focus on project cost optimization and quality control.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SRE Manager

Equifax
11.2023 - Current
  • Global Scale & Infrastructure Oversight: Directed the operations and site reliability engineering (SRE) for 30+ mission-critical applications across 7 distinct geographical regions, ensuring maximum availability, minimal latency, and optimal performance.
  • Financial Stewardship & Business Impact: Managed a $10M+ operational budget, directly safeguarding customer revenue streams through proactive capacity planning and efficient change management.
  • Multi-Cloud Migration Leadership: Spearheaded complex migrations from On-Premise and AWS environments to a multi-cloud architecture, primarily focused on scalable, high-availability Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configurations.
  • AI Strategy & Innovation: Drove the enterprise strategy for AI adoption across multiple platforms, successfully implementing AI agents and skills that delivered measurable, data-driven ROI.
  • Team Leadership & Global Management: Led and mentored cross-functional and offshore engineering teams, fostering professional growth, implementing automated training frameworks, and optimizing resource delivery.
  • Enterprise Observability & Automation: Designed and implemented advanced automated monitoring and self-healing systems, eliminating toil for business-as-usual (BAU) and ad-hoc operations to enhance overall infrastructure reliability.
  • Data Security & Governance: Governed large-scale data validation, automated data obfuscation, encryption protocols, and vulnerability scanning to ensure strict compliance across multi-regional data platforms.
  • Big Data & Cloud Analytics Engineering: Managed high-throughput data pipelines from legacy mainframes to cloud-native architectures, provisioning dynamically scalable clusters in GCP to support complex Spark, MapReduce, and Hive analytical jobs for VIP clientele.

Tribe SRE Lead

Equifax
02.2023 - 11.2023

Key Professional Experience

  • Global Infrastructure & SRE Leadership: Directed site reliability engineering (SRE) and 24/7 production support for 30+ mission-critical applications across 7 geographical regions, consistently optimizing availability, latency, performance, and capacity planning.
  • Budgetary & Revenue Ownership: Managed a $7M+ operational budget, safeguarding global customer revenue streams through rigorous change management, incident response, and proactive infrastructure stability.
  • Multi-Cloud Migration & Architecture: Spearheaded large-scale migrations from On-Premise and AWS environments to highly available, auto-scaling Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configurations.
  • Global Team & Vendor Management: Led, mentored, and developed cross-functional onshore and offshore engineering teams; implemented structured training frameworks and optimized resource allocation to support global business units.
  • Big Data & Cloud Analytics Engineering: Managed high-throughput data integration pipelines from legacy mainframes to cloud-native platforms, dynamically provisioning GCP clusters to support heavy Spark, MapReduce, and Hive analytical workloads for high-value VIP clients.
  • Enterprise Automation & CI/CD: Designed and deployed automated monitoring frameworks and modern CI/CD pipelines to eliminate operational toil for business-as-usual (BAU) and critical deployments.
  • Data Governance & Security: Governed large-scale data encryption, automated obfuscation, validation protocols, and vulnerability scanning across complex, multi-source data platforms to ensure strict compliance.
  • Legacy Modernization: Critical core infrastructure projects, including OS-level migrations, identity/unique ID generation application support, and database optimizations.

Environment: GCP, AWS, UNIX/Linux, Hadoop (Spark, MapReduce, Hive), Couchbase, WebLogic, Oracle 11i, Nexus, Maven.

Batch Product SRE

Equifax
11.2019 - 02.2023

Key Professional Experience

  • Mission-Critical SRE Leadership: Directed site reliability engineering (SRE), incident management, and 24/7 on-call production support for tier-1 financial applications specializing in fraud/suspicious activity detection, market analysis, and tokenized/encrypted data architectures.
  • Multi-Cloud Transformation: Spearheaded the architectural migration of legacy, on-premise infrastructure to a secure, highly available multi-cloud environment utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS.
  • Data Security & Governance: Implemented stringent data security measures across financial data platforms, orchestrating large-scale data obfuscation, tokenization, advanced encryption protocols, and continuous vulnerability scanning.
  • Big Data Engineering & Scale: Architected data ingestion feeds from legacy mainframes to cloud-native platforms; provisioned and fine-tuned dynamically scalable GCP clusters to optimize high-throughput Spark, MapReduce, and Hive workloads for high-value institutional clients.
  • Enterprise CI/CD & Automation: Formulated enterprise-grade automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments, monitor application health, and eliminate operational toil for critical workflows.
  • Global Team Management: Led and developed cross-functional onshore and offshore engineering teams, establishing comprehensive training frameworks and managing strategic resource allocation to maintain seamless operations.
  • Infrastructure Modernization: Managed complex OS-level migrations, capacity planning, and database tuning to support high-performance scoring engines and customer identity (keying) applications.

Operations Tech Lead

Paramount Software Sol
07.2017 - 10.2019

Key Professional Experience

  • Mission-Critical SRE Leadership: Directed site reliability engineering (SRE), incident management, and 24/7 production support for high-stakes financial applications specializing in fraud detection, market analysis, and encrypted data architectures.
  • Production Governance & Gatekeeping: Served as the primary gatekeeper for the production environment, rigorously enforcing agreed-upon entry/exit criteria, deployment protocols, and change management standards to ensure zero-downtime stability.
  • Multi-Cloud Transformation: Spearheaded the architectural migration of legacy infrastructure and mainframe data feeds to highly available, multi-cloud environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS.
  • Data Security & Governance: Orchestrated large-scale data obfuscation, tokenization, advanced encryption protocols, and vulnerability scanning to secure customer identity keys and scoring models.
  • Big Data Engineering & Modeling: Provisioned and fine-tuned dynamically scalable GCP clusters to optimize high-throughput Spark, MapReduce, and Hive pipelines, executing massive data models and extraction workloads for tier-1 institutional clients.
  • Enterprise CI/CD & Monitoring: Formulated automated monitoring frameworks and modern CI/CD pipelines (utilizing Rundeck, Nexus, and Maven) to eliminate operational toil for critical workflows, system maintenance, and OS-level migrations.
  • Global Mentorship & Team Management: Managed and developed offshore engineering teams, driving professional growth through structured technical documentation, knowledge transfers, and training management.

Production Support Lead /Release Management

Tech Mahindra Americas
10.2015 - 07.2017

Key Professional Experience

This project shifts your focus slightly toward Release Management, Application Support, and Cross-Functional Coordination. Production governance, release orchestration, and client management.

  • Production Release & Lifecycle Orchestration: Held end-to-end responsibility for planning, coordinating, and executing software release activities across development, testing, and application support teams, tracking deployments from the initial testing phase through to production.
  • Production Governance & Gatekeeping: Served as the strategic gatekeeper for the production environment, rigorously enforcing agreed-upon entry and exit criteria to maintain system stability for core platforms.
  • Global Support Architecture: Gathered and documented critical client business requirements to architect and establish a 24/7 offshore production support framework tailored for high-transaction retail applications.
  • Incident & Availability Management: Directed comprehensive incident management, system availability tracking, and deployment maintenance protocols across multiple enterprise applications.
  • Continuous Process Optimization: Partnered directly with client stakeholders to identify infrastructure improvements, translating business requirements into technical roadmaps focused on automating production support workflows.
  • Enterprise Observability & Automation: Spearheaded the implementation of centralized application monitoring and automated infrastructure scripting to streamline business-as-usual (BAU) maintenance and minimize operational downtime.
  • Team Leadership & Knowledge Transfer: Facilitated cross-functional alignment across development, QA, and deployment teams; mentored offshore engineers and championed the creation of robust technical documentation.

Environment: UNIX/Linux, Oracle 11i, WebLogic 10, Shell Scripting.

Sr Software Engg

Tech Mahindra Americas
10.2012 - 10.2015

Key Professional Experience

Given that this project involves AT&T’s largest revenue-generating application alongside their critical call center, billing, and IVR ecosystems, your role here is incredibly high-stakes.

  • Tier-1 Revenue & Retail Operations Leadership: Directed 24/7 production support and site reliability for AT&T’s highest-grossing application ecosystems , safeguarding core retail storefront sales, bulk commercial transactions, billing/invoicing engines, and call center infrastructure.
  • Global Support Architecture: Partnered with business clients to gather operational requirements and architected an international offshore framework to deliver round-the-clock production support for high-transaction retail environments.
  • Incident & Availability Management: Managed end-to-end incident response, deployment lifecycles, and system availability across an interconnected web of frontend dashboards, IVR platforms, search engines, and critical upstream/downstream backend applications.
  • Continuous Process Optimization: Consulted directly with client stakeholders on strategic infrastructure improvements, translating business feedback into automation initiatives that modernized production support workflows and eliminated operational toil.
  • Enterprise Observability & Automation: Formulated comprehensive application monitoring systems and automated infrastructure scripts to drastically reduce system maintenance downtime and ensure seamless application health.
  • Offshore Talent Development: Championed cross-functional team growth by leading technical knowledge transfers, training new team members, and creating engineering documentation to maintain service delivery standards.

Environment: UNIX/Linux, WebLogic 10, Oracle 11i, Shell Scripting, Retail & Billing Applications

Production Support Analyst

Tech Mahindra Ltd
10.2009 - 09.2012

Key Professional Experience

For this specific project, your strongest selling point is portfolio expansion and scaling an operation.

  • Enterprise Portfolio Scaling & Management: Successfully expanded operational scope by onboarding and integrating 15 of AT&T's highest-revenue retail applications—including OPUS (flagship retail/POS platform), SSK (in-store kiosk networks), Phoenix (bulk commercial sales), and EDP (billing/document processing)—into a centralized production support infrastructure.
  • Global Support & Resource Architecture: Strategically architected and deployed a 24/7 offshore production support framework tailored to manage the increased scale and strict availability requirements of the expanded 15-application retail portfolio.
  • Strategic Client Consultation: Partnered closely with enterprise stakeholders to analyze system workflows, providing tactical recommendations to automate legacy production support processes and drive continuous operational efficiency.
  • Talent Onboarding & Knowledge Management: Formulated comprehensive technical documentation and spearheaded knowledge transfer initiatives to seamlessly onboard new engineering resources, maintaining service delivery continuity across complex environments.

Environment: UNIX, WebLogic 10, Oracle 11i, Enterprise POS & Billing Applications .

Education

B.TECH - Electronics & Communication

GBPUA&T
06-2008

Skills

  • Decision-making
  • Team leadership
  • Goal setting/Employee development
  • Documentation and reporting
  • Strategic planning
  • Secops/Finops management
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Policy implementation
  • Conflict resolution
  • Performance/KPI evaluations
  • Emergency response
  • Change/Incident management
  • Work Planning and Prioritization
  • Process improvement

Certification

Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

Cloud Digital Leader

Generative AI Leader

Timeline

SRE Manager

Equifax
11.2023 - Current

Tribe SRE Lead

Equifax
02.2023 - 11.2023

Batch Product SRE

Equifax
11.2019 - 02.2023

Operations Tech Lead

Paramount Software Sol
07.2017 - 10.2019

Production Support Lead /Release Management

Tech Mahindra Americas
10.2015 - 07.2017

Sr Software Engg

Tech Mahindra Americas
10.2012 - 10.2015

Production Support Analyst

Tech Mahindra Ltd
10.2009 - 09.2012

B.TECH - Electronics & Communication

GBPUA&T
Neha Chaudhary