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Surya Aki

Cedar Park,TX

Summary

Passion and purpose driven technology leader with solid and progressive experience in all facets of software development. 20+ years of experience in strategic planning, development, execution, and delivering complex projects. Exceptional communication and leadership skills to coach, manage, and motivate diverse teams in challenging environments. Extensive experience in planning, implementing, and executing strategies resulting in greater customer confidence and strengthened business results. Cultivate diverse environments, committed to promoting creativity, effective problem solving, and breakthrough results.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Engineering

Liquibase
03.2016 - Current
  • Work closely with product management in development of new feature requirements
  • Lead software design meetings with senior developers to solve complex issues
  • Hire and grow team of junior and senior engineers to 20 highly productive team.
  • Established best practices in design and code reviews and enforced compliance to improve Code Quality.
  • Functioned as primary point of contact for high-profile clientele, addressing concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations.
  • Designed and monitored project schedules and project manager assignments.
  • Hands on experience in AWS

Architect

OnPrem Solution Partners
05.2015 - 01.2016
  • Architected and implemented in replacing old legacy Invoice & Billing AS/400 System with Enterprise Software (micro-services architecture) for NBCUniversal client resulting in huge
    cost-savings.
  • Conducted PMO activities including managing project and communication plan, resources, and timeline, producing and presenting weekly status and steering committee presentations, and managing issues and risks.
  • Worked with customers to gather functional requirements, conduct demos and presentations, collect feature enhancements and grow customer satisfaction.
  • Work and plan along with technical teams to deliver value quickly and continually to our customers.
  • Develop relationships with prospective clients and identify new business opportunities
  • Improve engagement of team members to help them become and stay more productive.
  • Participate in complex cross-domain, cross-functional matrix project teams to implement solutions in highly collaborative manner

Lead Product Developer

BMC Software
01.2010 - 04.2015
  • Architected, designed, implemented and drove integration effort of DevOps Products BMA, RPD and RLM into BMC Cloud Life Cycle Management, which led to increase of BMC Data Center
    Automation Revenue by 24%.
  • Built and managed a talented software engineering team (10+) to conceptualize and new bring features for $50M DevOps BU.
  • Managed road map for product design and development and drove continual improvement to system architecture.
  • Collaborated with product and engineering team members to define and develop new product concepts.
  • Led Technical (Ruby/Rails, PHP) process acquisition (POC, Due Diligence, Planning) for acquisition of Startup companies Streamstep ($6M~) and Varalogix ($10M~).
  • Conducted Internal User Review (IUR) Workshops for Support, Pre-Sales, Professional Services and Product Owners before every release of each product.
  • Motivated and developed team members, resulting in resolution of issues and improvement in team cohesiveness and overall performance.

Staff Software Engineer

Phurnace( Acquired By BMC Software)
08.2009 - 01.2010
  • Architected and implemented WebSphere and Weblogic AppServer Engines using JMX API (Java MBeans).
  • Significantly contributed at individual level in Java code base for various App Servers Engines, including major core components, features, defects and test automation.
  • Significant improvements and new feature development in Phurnace Deliver product UI and Eclipse Rich-Client Platform (RCP) integration.
  • Conducted proof of concepts, professional services engagements for various customers.
  • Led offshore Ukraine team (15+) to develop new engines and sustaining activities.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance

Senior R&D Engineer

Borland
05.2007 - 07.2009
  • Participated in Product Architecture of BMS – TeamFocusTM and TeamDemandTM.
  • Represented BMS in pre-planning meetings and assisted Product Management in road-mapping sessions.
  • Developed framework components in JavaScript and Velocity Templates.
  • Designed and implemented Borland TeamFocusTM 2007 - Agile Project Management tool.
  • Led refactoring of existing legacy BMS (Borland Management Suite) application into modular Software Platform.
  • Worked with Technical Support and Professional Services and responsible for growing Customer Satisfaction

Technical Architect

Accenture
05.2006 - 05.2007
  • Sr. Architecture Developer on $1B technology and business operations outsourcing program to implement, enhance and operate Integrated Enrollment and Eligibility System (IEES) for the
    state of Texas.
  • Worked with Application Development teams and client to define requirements for J2EE application architecture components.
  • Responsible for Architecture, Design and Development of Task List Manager TLM.
  • Created detailed design documents for J2EE application architecture components using project specified design documentation standards, like UML

Skills

  • Facility Management
  • Daily Progress Reports
  • Environmental Permitting
  • Maintenance Procedures

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Liquibase
03.2016 - Current

Architect

OnPrem Solution Partners
05.2015 - 01.2016

Lead Product Developer

BMC Software
01.2010 - 04.2015

Staff Software Engineer

Phurnace( Acquired By BMC Software)
08.2009 - 01.2010

Senior R&D Engineer

Borland
05.2007 - 07.2009

Technical Architect

Accenture
05.2006 - 05.2007
Surya Aki