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Vishal Vasava

Peoria,IL

Summary

Technology Innovation Strategist & Business Growth Leader Enabling Growth through emerging technologies, New IT Operating & Orchestrating Seamless Org Changes. Visionary Engineering Director and Cloud & Digital Leader with over two decades of experience. Expert in blending technical prowess with business acumen to deliver innovative engineering solutions. Passionate about emerging technologies, Digital & cloud platform engineering and product engineering for supercharging organizations though Bi-modal IT operating model. Proven expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing software for Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, Life Sciences, and Media across US, EU, ANZ, and Asia markets. Recognized for building strong stakeholder relationships and driving strategic initiatives with a deep understanding of organizational systems and team dynamics. Trusted advisor to global executive stakeholders with a broad network in business, technology, academia, and entrepreneurship. Strategic-thinking individual experienced in turning low-performing organizations into top revenue producers. Offering engaging and pleasant personality with expertise improving customer relationships.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director- Cloud,DevOps

UST
01.2021 - 03.2024
  • Reporting to the CTO of Product Engineering, led Cloud and DevOps practices to deliver technology and engineering led transformations to NA customers and software product and platform engineering capabilities
  • Pioneered Cloud and DevOps practices, significantly improving product engineering maturity across Product Engineering offering in digital product innovations and engineering transformations
  • Defined functional strategies, built customer-relevant practices, and fostered multi-disciplinary talent communities in AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps & SRE
  • Built reference implementations, reusable assets and starter kits through DigiPod initiative
  • Cloud Infrastructure Services: Established secure, elastic, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure systems and frictionless processes across major cloud platforms to support research and development activities
  • Platform Engineering as a Service: Delivered on-demand expertise through shared services, addressing tool curation and configuration, CI/CD implementations, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), OIDC integration, networking, security, virtualization, containerization, orchestration, disaster recovery, service mesh, observability, monitoring, environment, database, API & cloud infrastructure management, cost optimization enabling 25+ engagements doing variety of work
  • Multi-Cloud Solutions: Enhanced platform engineering and multi-cloud capabilities using UST PACE and UST Multi Cloud Manager improving developer experience and accelerating cloud adoption
  • Deluxe RDC Automation & Migration: Reduced software release time from 2 weeks to 30 minutes by automating deployments across IIS servers, cloud, and VMs
  • Drove engineering transformations with tools like Harness.io, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Ansible, migrating 50+ repositories
  • Migration of Deluxe other solution systems to AWS and built AWS data lake
  • Digital Lawyering Platform: Supported the migration of 100+ servers to AWS, including SQL Db Servers, MongoDb Servers, and transitioning from Neo4j to AWS Aurora and MongoDb to DocumentDB
  • Scaled computations with Docker and Kubernetes, reducing processing time from 6 hours to 1.5 hours
  • Implemented application security measures including OWE and OWASP
  • Enterprise Solutions: Consulted and delivered IT strategies for clients like Hyosung and Merative (IBM Watson Health), focusing on infrastructure strategy, IT architecture, security and governance, data transport and security, IAM, and MELT tooling
  • Delivered multitenancy approaches for giant e-commerce ISV and built reliability, scalability through Istio, K8 like tools
  • CyberProof: Delivered a Disaster Recovery solution using Azure Site Recovery (DRaaS), with multi-site/multi-AZ setup and backup & restore policies
  • Conducted IT asset inventory, cloud adoption readiness assessments, and 6R analysis on application portfolios
  • Enabled test automation with Selenium, RestAssured, Jmeter, and Archery
  • Reinvented software product engineering for customers by leveraging cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS capabilities
  • Utilized serverless architecture, microservices, step functions, Azure IoT, GCP BigQuery, batch and real-time ETL services, and AI
  • Supported end-to-end development and conducted periodic audits through EDIT assessments and ARB across a diverse technology landscape
  • Coaching and Governance: Mentored delivery management teams in quantitative project management, service management and automation-enabled delivery methods, ensuring robust IT governance for key engagements, which impacted $35M in revenue
  • Conducted technical audits through EDIT assessments and ARB across a diverse technology landscape
  • Value Chain: Crafted customer-centric solutions in digital product engineering, successfully responding to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs
  • These efforts resulted in winning multimillion-dollar bids and driving product innovation
  • Established an architecture community and review board to leverage informal networks and community power to address wide range of technical landscape
  • Operations and Planning: Managed revenue forecasting, annual operating planning (AOP) and budgeting, and implemented cost optimization strategies
  • Mitigated risks and addressed TSC funnel variances.

Head of Digital Services

BlazeClan
06.2018 - 01.2021
  • As a Digital services strategic business unit leader in born in cloud (BIC) company, orchestrated comprehensive strategies for cloud enabled digital engineering, application outsourcing and digital transformation initiatives for customer base in various geographies
  • Education Horizon Group Digital Transformation: Led cloud-enabled digital transformation in Australia, focusing on IT Architecture, Infrastructure & Innovation, IT services & governance and Product strategy aligned with IT vision and business strategy
  • Managed solutioning, CX/UX design, and program governance to ensure successful outcomes
  • BFSI, Media, and Technology Cloud Engagements: Governed and delivered cloud-native app development and maintenance for BFSI and media sectors, including Liberty Insurance's claims system migration and ASEAN bank digital practices consolidation
  • Delivered AXA customer 360 pipeline
  • Loan Management System CoE at Aditya Birla: Managed digital transformation of Aditya Birla's loan management system, integrating India stack technologies and implemented SRE practices
  • Presented in AWS Summit Mumbai
  • Astro Cloudification Program: Directed cloudification for Malaysian media giant Astro, enhancing media streaming, DWH modernization, and deploying engagement apps like gempak.com using AWS services
  • Application Maintenance and Enhancement (AME) Setup: Established AME team for cloud-native applications, implementing RCA framework and incident management processes to drive shared services revenue
  • Digital & Data Engineering Engagements: Provided cloud consulting and digital engineering services, delivering solutions for HDFC Bank's sales platform, Astro's churn analytics, and AXA's Customer 360 and MDM engagements
  • Service Line Operations & Practice Management: Led a global engineering unit of 200+ engineers, overseeing strategic direction, day-to-day operations, and BFSI cloud practices
  • Managed P&L with 35% GM.

Application Development & Maintenance Specialist

Accenture
02.2010 - 06.2018
  • Played pivotal role in translating business needs into systems and leading the design and implementation of robust technical solutions
  • Devised and executed innovative A&D best practices and delivered solutions for IT consulting and IT services customers
  • Merck Life sciences ITSM: Managed IT Service Management (ITSM) for 20+ applications supporting Merck Research Labs, overseeing 60+ major releases annually
  • Led Mobility, Cloud, DevOps, and Enterprise Application towers, ensuring continuous improvement and user feature delivery
  • CenturyLink LATIS Billing System: Led design, development, and implementation of the LATIS Telecom Billing & Taxing system at CenturyLink Ohio
  • Analyzed Call Data Records (CDRs) to optimize billing algorithms using Python and C++
  • AT&T CDM Lead: Enabled development teams in AT&T's CDM team, focusing on Internal Developer Experience and best practice assurance
  • Supported 2000+ API and middleware services, providing strategic consulting on agile practices
  • Softcard Product Development (Google Acquired): Led mobile commerce and payment innovations using NFC technology
  • Integrated systems for telecoms, banks, and merchants like Chase, AMEX, and Macy’s, overseeing mobile payments app development and validation
  • Texas Instruments OMAP Platform Specialist: Supported telecom and semiconductor customers in mobile OS and 2D/3D windowing system development
  • Integrated Imagination tech DDK and advanced mobile and application capabilities.

Technology Lead

Samsung
08.2007 - 02.2010

Associate

Tech Mahindra
05.2005 - 07.2007

Game Developer

Mauj
12.2004 - 05.2005

Education

Executive Program in General Management & Advance Certificate for Executives -

MIT Sloan
Boston, MA
09.2021

Bachelor of Engineering in Computers -

Sardar Patel University
Gujarat
06.2004

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Verbal and written communication
  • People Management
  • Operations Management
  • Digital & IT Strategy
  • Legacy Modernization
  • Change Management
  • Innovation
  • Leadership
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Quantitative Project Management
  • IT Service Management
  • Operations Management
  • Program Management
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Digital Transformation
  • Resource Management
  • Presales
  • Business Development
  • P&L Management
  • Go-To-Market Strategy (GTM)
  • Business Case
  • Cloud Consulting
  • Technology Consulting
  • Functional Consulting
  • Thought Leadership
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Negotiation
  • Contract Management
  • Budget Management
  • Strategies and goals
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Team Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Organizational Development
  • Business Planning
  • Financial Reporting
  • Hiring and Retention
  • Financial Management
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Partnerships and Alliances
  • Business Administration
  • AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Python & Shell script
  • Microservices
  • Platform Engineering
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Cloud Migrations
  • Serverless Computing
  • Data Engineering

Websites

Thoughtleadership

Product Modernization Blog on UST.com

Certification

  • Azure Fundamental
  • AWS Solution Architect Associate
  • Google Cloud Leader
  • ITIL V4

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Director- Cloud,DevOps

UST
01.2021 - 03.2024

Head of Digital Services

BlazeClan
06.2018 - 01.2021

Application Development & Maintenance Specialist

Accenture
02.2010 - 06.2018

Technology Lead

Samsung
08.2007 - 02.2010

Associate

Tech Mahindra
05.2005 - 07.2007

Game Developer

Mauj
12.2004 - 05.2005

Executive Program in General Management & Advance Certificate for Executives -

MIT Sloan

Bachelor of Engineering in Computers -

Sardar Patel University

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