Suhani Chauhan
Toronto,Canada
Summary
Builder leader with 13+ years of shipping mission-critical B2B SaaS on Microsoft Azure. Scaled microservice platforms process millions of health-tech transactions daily. Reclaimed over $50 million in revenue, cut Azure spending by $180,000 per year, and led an 8-person, globally distributed team to on-time delivery. Known for turning legacy .NET into modern, fault-tolerant systems, while mentoring engineers into domain owners.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
ENGINEERING LEAD
IQVIA - HCL Tech
Toronto, Canada
03.2017 - Current
- Own architecture, delivery, and people leadership for IQVIA's global clinical trial management platform (multi-region Azure).
- Recovered over $50 million in revenue by architecting an automated billing reconciliation microservice that reprocesses failed transactions in real time.
- Reduced annual Azure spend by $180K after profiling and refactoring high-volume logging and ETL pipelines.
- Led 8 engineers across 3 time zones; introduced OKRs, growth plans, and peer review guilds that lifted on-time sprint delivery from 62% to 92% within two quarters.
- Drove a platform-wide upgrade to .NET 6, building reusable libraries that cut boilerplate by 40% for 25+ developers.
- Shipped Singapore's third-party lab reporting system that met a Ministry of Health mandate and protected hundreds of millions in sponsor revenue by avoiding lab shutdowns.
- Delivered a critical protocol engine in one quarter, averting $33 million risk on a single study, and $170 million across all.
- Instituted real-time Azure Monitor alerts, shrinking mean time to detect high-severity incidents from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.
SENIOR ENGINEER
MICROSOFT - Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad, India
06.2012 - 02.2017
- Embedded across Fortune 500 customers, modernized legacy apps, and mentored junior developers.
- Led cloud migration of MSN Games to Windows Azure, improving 95th pct page load by 32%.
- Automated 100% of the regression suite for six enterprise quoting apps for the Volume Licensing domain, cutting release test time from 3 days to 4 hours.
- Enhanced the 'MS Connect' portal end-to-end; handled requirements, development, and production rollout.
- Spearheaded tooling that standardized config-spec documents, eliminating manual errors across 10+ apps.
- Refactored high-traffic legacy ASP.NET services for Azure scalability, raising uptime SLA from 99.3% → 99.9%.
- Program analyst for the 'Bruno' initiative; automated build-to-deploy configurations, saving 1 FTE per release.
Education
B.Tech. - Biotechnology
Amity University
06.2012
Skills
- Leadership and strategy
- Global team leadership (Remote)
- OKR
- Agile delivery
- Cross-functional influence
- High availability microservices
- Event-driven design
- NET 6
- Service Fabric
- Service bus
- Cloud and DevOps
- Microsoft Azure PaaS/IaaS
- Azure Functions
- Logic Apps
- Azure DevOps CI/CD
- IaC
- Cost optimization
- Observability
- TDD
- Incident management
- Data and storage
- Azure SQL
- Cosmos DB
- SQL modeling
- NoSQL modeling
- Technical mentorship
- Career coaching
- Technical vision
- Hiring
- Performance
Websites
Timeline
ENGINEERING LEAD
IQVIA - HCL Tech
03.2017 - Current
SENIOR ENGINEER
MICROSOFT - Wipro Technologies
06.2012 - 02.2017
B.Tech. - Biotechnology
Amity University