Srini Kandukuru
Tampa,FL
Summary
Senior digital product and IT leader with 24+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale digital products across financial services, healthcare/biotech and telecommunications in highly regulated environments. Proven expertise in AI/ML, data platforms, BI, UI/UX, and system modernization, leading end-to-end product strategy from roadmap through value realization, and managing multi-million-dollar budgets. Strong track record partnering with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven, customer-focused digital solutions using Agile and Scaled Agile practices to improve scalability, efficiency, and business outcomes.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Vice President of Information Technology
Citigroup Inc
Tampa, FL
03.2020 - Current
- Executed IT strategy aligned with business objectives to drive growth.
- Managed $3.2 million budget while leading team of 30+ professionals across onsite and offshore locations.
- Maintained seven AI-integrated HR applications, achieving 99.9% uptime consistently.
- Drafted project plans, identified resources, set deadlines, and monitored overall progress.
- Resolved complex technical issues efficiently to minimize service interruptions.
- Created budgeting process for accurate forecasting of IT and infrastructure needs.
- Implemented cloud solutions to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to secure competitive advantage in financial services.
Vice President, IT
Citigroup Inc
Tampa, FL
04.2018 - 02.2020
- Collaborated with IT leaders and senior managers to define optimal architecture for Paxata installations using PaaS framework.
- Developed data governance protocols for Paxata, addressing complex problems with innovative analytics solutions.
- Created a data cleansing and integration platform to facilitate collaboration between business and technical teams.
- Implemented text analytics models for wealth management, utilizing advanced text mining techniques with Paxata.
- Managed implementation of Paxata for Citi, overseeing SDLC and PLC projects across multiple business units.
- Achieved significant competitive advantage and enhanced customer satisfaction through transformative initiatives.
- Evaluated data sizing requirements prior to team integration into Paxata PaaS while resolving daily operational issues.
- Led strategic initiatives to improve organizational performance and increase customer engagement.
Sr Java Developer
Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC)
St. Petersburg, FL
06.2017 - 03.2018
- Responsible for web design and development for DMDC EMMA front end conversion project.
- Created project tasks, resources, budget, and schedule, integrating them with project planner using MS Project Suite.
- Communicated project schedules and plans to upper management with MS Project Gantt Charts. Supported EMMA PROD, MOD1/MOD2, TEST, and DEV environments for daily issues.
- Converted EPWS and EDWS SOAP web services to REST API and migrated Spring-based UI to Angular 6. Supported ongoing EMMA issues and enhanced security for EMMA, EPWS, EDWS, and Security Online systems.
- Created JIRA sprints and stories, and managed Confluence spaces and pages. Architected, designed, implemented, and supported cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
- Managed AWS infrastructure using automation tools like Chef and AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and CloudTrail. Wrote Java APIs for Amazon Lambda to manage AWS services.
- Ensured secure zones in AWS public cloud with security groups, network ACLs, internet gateways, and route tables. Created and maintained SharePoint sites and pages.
Sr Java Developer, CISS Two Factor Authentication
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
St. Petersburg, FL
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing Occupational Health Record-keeping System (OHRS), resulting in 20% increase in system efficiency.
- Gathered and documented requirements for web design, development, and enhancement requests, leading to 15% reduction in project turnaround time.
- Contributed to creation of technical design documents and functional and nonfunctional requirements, ensuring comprehensive project specifications.
- Conducted daily Agile stand ups and biweekly sprint meetings, improving team productivity by 25%.
- Ran code vulnerability scans and fixed backend Spring Java code modules, reducing security incidents by 30%.
Sr Java Developer, Web Services
Delaware Medicaid Enterprise System (DMES)
St. Petersburg, FL
04.2015 - 07.2016
- Worked on developing WCF web services using ASP.NET, SOAP, XML and VSS
- Created build scripts which creates daily builds and deployment them to into DEV environment
- Responsible for creating unit test and integration test cases
- Helped creating end user manuals
- Created daily and weekly status reports to management
- Worked on setting complete DEV 2 environment
- Helped DBAs to migrate backend database from Oracle to SQL Server.
TIBCO Developer
GFIT, Hewlett Packard
Plano, Texas
10.2013 - 04.2015
- Worked in GFIT group
- Defined standards for TIBCO products suite usage by various financial teams across HP
- Helped to install TIBCO products suite during project start up time and worked on POCs for several HP internal financial projects.
- Recommended improvements to facilitate team and project workflow.
- Employed integrated development environments (IDEs).
Java Developer, TIBCO MFT Administrator
TIBCO Software Federal Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland
01.2013 - 10.2013
- Worked on Obama Care EFT project for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Responsible for setting up and configuring TIBCO Internet/Platforms Services, creating, and maintaining DNI scripts and transfers
- Created custom Java/Excel reporting for daily reports.
Sr Java Developer
Nielsen Company
Tampa, FL
06.2003 - 12.2012
- Worked on Nielsen Custom Market Breaks project
- CMB is Local and National TV channel reporting system, using which clients can generate TV ratings reports for various Designated Market Areas (DMAs)
- Defined and implemented Data Access Layer for accessing Local Data Warehouse
- Developed java code for invoking MicroStrategy APIs to define and generate reports dynamically
- Worked on Nielsen Stellar and Data Services project
- Responsible for architecting and designing extraction component of this architecture
- Worked on Nielsen County Coverage project
- Defined and implemented Data Access Layer for accessing Local Data Warehouse.
Sr Developer
Fujitsu Consulting
Tampa, Florida
06.1997 - 05.2003
- Designed and implemented web interface for Siemens BOSS Ware MetaSolv system using EJBs, JSP, Servlets, and MetaSolv APIs.
- Gathered requirements for web design, development, and enhancement requests
- Developed validations server system
- Implemented new enhancements and provided production support for MetaSolv APIs
- Provided technical support to other developers in troubleshooting application issues.
- Performed unit testing for all developed components to ensure quality before deployment.
Education
Master of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Sciences
Bangalore, IndiaBachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
SVU College of Engineering
Tirupati, IndiaSkills
Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Analytics
- AI/ML, Deep Learning (DL), Generative AI
- MCP Servers
- GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude, Devin
- GitHub Copilot Agent
Big Data, Streaming & Cloud Data Platforms
- Amazon S3,
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
- Hadoop HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce
- Apache Spark, Apache Flink
- Apache Kafka
- AWS Glue
- Modern Data Platforms & Databases
- Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg
- MongoDB
Enterprise Integration & Middleware
- TIBCO BusinessWorks
- TIBCO Hawk
- EMS/JMS
- Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Business Intelligence & Analytics Tools
- MicroStrategy
- IBM Cognos
Data Integration & ETL Tools
- Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
- Talend
- SSIS
- Informatica
- Paxata (Data Preparation)
Application Servers & Web Containers
- Apache Tomcat
- IBM IIS
- JRUN
- WebLogic
Web Technologies & Services
- Web Services
- EJBs, JSPs, Servlets
- XML, XSL, WSDL, SOAP, REST
Programming Languages & Frameworks
- Java/J2EE
- Python
- Angular/JavaScript
- React/JavaScript
- HTML / DHTML
Enterprise Application Frameworks
- Struts
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate
DevOps, CI/CD & Containerization
- Docker
- Amazon ECS
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- Chef
Source Control & Cloud Platforms
- OpenShift Lightspeed
- Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, SVN
Databases & Data Warehousing
- Oracle, Exadata
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- Netezza
- Sybase IQ / ASE
Legacy & Statistical Technologies
- COBOL II
- REXX
- JCL
- SAS
IDEs & Development Tools
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ IDEA
Collaboration, ITSM & Product Tools
- Jira
- Confluence
- ServiceNow
Methodologies & Delivery Practices
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Agile / Extreme Programming (XP)
- Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Waterfall
Certification
- Sun Certified Java Developer, 2001
- Sun Certified Java Programmer, 2000
- CompTIA Security+ Trained (preparing for exam), 2024
Timeline
Sr. Vice President of Information Technology
Citigroup Inc
03.2020 - Current
Vice President, IT
Citigroup Inc
04.2018 - 02.2020
Sr Java Developer
Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC)
06.2017 - 03.2018
Sr Java Developer, CISS Two Factor Authentication
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
08.2016 - 05.2017
Sr Java Developer, Web Services
Delaware Medicaid Enterprise System (DMES)
04.2015 - 07.2016
TIBCO Developer
GFIT, Hewlett Packard
10.2013 - 04.2015
Java Developer, TIBCO MFT Administrator
TIBCO Software Federal Inc.
01.2013 - 10.2013
Sr Java Developer
Nielsen Company
06.2003 - 12.2012
Sr Developer
Fujitsu Consulting
06.1997 - 05.2003
Master of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Sciences
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
SVU College of Engineering