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SREEPADMA PARAMESVARAIYER

Hoffman Estates,IL

Summary

Ambitious Technology Leader with 17 years of experience in Information Technology and several years of experience leading engineering agile teams. Proven track record of building large, motivated, cross functional engineering teams across the globe and delivering several enterprise-wide innovative solutions. Expertise in architecture/design, integration of highly scalable & reliable real time applications. Strong collaborative leader adept in delivering a product as a team and partnering with peers across the organization. Drive enterprise level strategic initiatives, providing roadmaps with options to prioritize and align with company goals. Negotiates priorities and communicates with stakeholders across matrixed organizations, translating business problems into technical solutions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director, Software Engineering

StoneX Group
01.2024 - Current
  • Improved overall team efficiency by streamlining project management processes and implementing new collaboration tools.
  • Managed cross-functional teams for multiple large-scale projects, successfully completing each on time and within budget constraints.
  • Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging staff to share innovative ideas and providing resources for professional development.
  • Evaluated employee performance and conveyed constructive feedback to improve skills.
  • Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.

Senior Engineering Manager

StoneX Group
03.2022 - 12.2023

Lead 4-5 cross functional agile teams consisting of 45 team members - Managers, Engineers, Analysts globally (US,UK & India) . Responsible for driving the technical architecture/strategy and delivery for Client Onboarding platform for StoneX

  • Drive technical architecture ,vision, standards and processes across teams.
  • Collaborate with Product manager/Business to drive product roadmap across onboarding platform
  • Migrated several applications from legacy on prem architecture to modern cloud based micro services architecture with micro front end framework
  • Lead development on simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.
  • Lead Proof-Of-Concepts and Spike Solutions and provide “Reference Architectures” and “Baseline Implementations” when appropriate
  • Evaluated existing procedures and made proactive adjustments to meet changing demands and standardize.
  • Recruited ~10-12 employees over past year to ramp up and fill resourcing needs.
  • Coach staff (Technical and non-technical skills), Establish and track OKRs to make ensure outcome are met
  • Responsible for performance evaluation , compensation/bonus calculations and communications to direct reports (Managers,Senior Engineers, Analyst)
  • Drive Innovation across teams and instill them as part of goals. Weekly team meetings where engineers can demo any new tools/technologies enabling reuse across teams
  • Fostered positive and performance-oriented environment by implementing successful reward systems.
  • Promote Automation, Reuse, Quality and Security across various initiatives

Senior Principal Application Architect

Discover Financial Services
01.2018 - 03.2022

Served as Chief architect/SME for Enterprise Decision Platform for authorization and fraud detection - including ML model and rule execution , core decisioning capabilities and data pipelines.

  • Led technical delivery of enterprise wide decisioning platform over modern cloud based architecture-reducing fraud by 15%
  • Built 2 cross functional teams from scratch , helped train them and lead team through roadblocks
  • Serve as Chief architect and Subject matter expert for decisioning and fraud domains
  • Coordinate with product and technical management to plan, develop, align and execute strategies that would meet product's vision and technical roadmap
  • Lead/Assist in application modernization efforts – transitioning to hybrid cloud-based environments
  • Document Design (Lucid charts), technical architecture diagrams(current & target) and flows
  • Define and Maintain API/Coding standards for department
  • Conduct Design & Code reviews/cohost architect/developer forums within department

Principal Application Architect/Tech Lead

DFS
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Designed and developed Phone Fraud Detection System for detecting fraud during phone calls that go to agents
  • Served as Architect/Tech lead for few agile teams to deliver Phone Fraud Detection System along with few other initiatives in decisioning domain

Senior Software Engineer

DFS
12.2012 - 01.2016
  • During this, I served as lead developer in Internet Acquisitions and EDT– developing several backend(Java/J2EE) applications and front end (freemarker) applications.

Software Engineer

OfficeMax
02.2012 - 12.2012

For officemax retail b2b and b2c website – an ATG based framework, lead team of offshore developers – worked as a consultant for various client in various projects

Java/J2EE Software Developer

Cognizant Technology
05.2006 - 02.2012

Education

Certificate of Leadership Principles -

Harvard Business Online School
03.2023

Bachelors in Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University

Skills

Technical leadershipArchitecture/Design

Project Oversight Talent Management Vendor Sourcing Effective Multitasking Agile Framework Strategic Planning Operational Efficiency

Microservice Architecture Event-Driven Architecture Cloud/PaaS Architectures AWS, PCF, OpenShift, Azure, KubernetesJava, SpringBoot, React, KafkaCICDRDS - Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake , Neo4jML (H20) model execution

Accomplishments

  • Certifications: AWS Certified Solution Architect, Azure Fundamentals, Oracle SQL Expert, Sun Certified Java Professional, Sun Certified Web Component Developer
  • Awards: Discover President’s AWARD Winner(ML Impl)

Timeline

Associate Director, Software Engineering

StoneX Group
01.2024 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

StoneX Group
03.2022 - 12.2023

Senior Principal Application Architect

Discover Financial Services
01.2018 - 03.2022

Principal Application Architect/Tech Lead

DFS
01.2016 - 01.2018

Senior Software Engineer

DFS
12.2012 - 01.2016

Software Engineer

OfficeMax
02.2012 - 12.2012

Java/J2EE Software Developer

Cognizant Technology
05.2006 - 02.2012

Certificate of Leadership Principles -

Harvard Business Online School

Bachelors in Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University
SREEPADMA PARAMESVARAIYER