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Shiva Sakthivel

Shiva Sakthivel

Associate Vice President
ALPHARETTA,GEORGIA

Summary

• 12 Years of overall experience currently working as a Associate Vice President , gifted at meeting tight deadlines, driving business opportunities, and working well in team-based environments. Engaging and personable to manage key milestones and deliver exemplary customer service.

• Possessing a H1B Work Permit with validity until Sept 2026

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Google Certified Site Reliability Engineer.

• Possessing extensive knowledge of cloud computing, microservices architecture, containerization, and DevOps practices.

• Pivoted the team towards an agile development model from waterfall following SAFE methodology.

• Proven track record of providing technical leadership, building effective solutions, and achieving business objectives.

• Experience in AWS EKS, ELK, Kubernetes , OpenShift Container orchestration.

• Experience in solutioning REST API Microservices for Open API banking for Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd - Malaysia.

• Strong knowledge in CI/CD, DevOps for building and deploying microservices in OpenShift /AWS EKS, Helm Chart, Jenkins pipeline, Maven, SonarQube.

• Proven skills in creating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform (AWS) for building infra for Open API Microservices in AWS EKS.

• Strong Knowledge in automating API testing by integration with Newman/Postman collections with Jenkins pipeline along with hand's on experience in Unit testing using JMockito, TestContainers.

• Led a Team of 7 members for ATM / HK eBRANCH teller system projects in Core-banking System (eBBS) in Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd - Malaysia.

• Worked on multiple POC's in Core banking for devices (Card Reader, Wacom Sign pad, Virtual Teller Machine (HK), Olivetti Passbook printers).

• Worked in new country core-banking(eBBS) Implementations for (Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia)

• Hand's on experience in development of Web and enterprise applications and integration using J2EE technologies EJB 2.0 and database as DB2.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills, and a highly motivated team player with the ability to work independently.

• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to emerging technologies and paradigms.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assosciate Vice President

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
03.2024 - Current
  • Strong leadership and management skills with excellent communication/problem solving/ Strategic thinking.
  • Overseeing strategy, operations, and management of API banking - Transaction Banking - Standard Chartered Global services Sdn. Bhd
  • Delivered consistent revenue growth by identifying new business opportunities and expanding client relationships.
  • Serving as key advisor to organization’s leadership team on product-oriented delivery strategy, product enhancements and new client onboarding across API banking.
  • Key plan , resource , strategy derivations for migration of domain's CI/CD Layer from legacy to Azure DevOps.
  • Providing key architecture strategy for domain and reviewing end to end product delivery.
  • Leading and managing team of 25 members, including setting goals and job objectives, providing ample guidance and support, and evaluating performance across members in domain.
  • Representing domain at client onboarding meetings and events and building relationships with stakeholders/clients
  • Keeping abreast of industry trends and developments and identifying opportunities for organization to stay competitive.

Senior Project Manager

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
07.2022 - Current
  • Performing requirement analysis and playing key role in development/management/review of microservices for Global Clients for processing payments like Interbank Fund transfer, Book transfer, Fast Payments.
  • Involved in solution design for structuring overall Open API banking project delivery of microservices architecture and deploy it in hybrid environments (OpenShift , AWS EKS).
  • Introduced End to End testing of microservices using Postman/Newman collections automated testing technique via Jenkins Pipeline.
  • Involved in solution design, development, delivery of Kong gateway services for capturing key client features, business growth, rate limiting, routing.
  • Involved in designing messaging layer for delivering messages across application seamlessly/asynchronously via Confluent Kafka.
  • Involved in designing JMS solace topics, queues for receiving asynchronous responses from Interface payments apps.
  • Designed webhook delivery pattern for global clients to process payments and provide response outputs asynchronously.
  • Guiding team members to enable Blue Green deployment to serve customer requests seamlessly without any downtime
  • Designed/developed APM monitoring via Elastic Search for microservices for capturing key metrics - Throughput, Errors, service maps.
  • Designed and managing instrumentation framework for microservices via Kafka . Various ELK dashboards have been built to measure latency across various payment lifecycle .
  • Enabled ELK dashboard monitoring for Payment tracking and triggering Alerts for delayed payments.
  • Designed/Managing IaC using Terraform for AWS EKS orchestration.

Project Manager- Development

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn. Bhd, Kuala Lumpur
04.2020 - 06.2021
  • Managing a team to deliver multiple country implementations with AWS migration and latest technology stacks like Log Stash, ELK, EBS, EFS.
  • Managing change management projects for ATM/Teller System
  • Performing multiple Proof of Concept for enabling paper less digital banking for Singapore via IoT devices.
  • Developing multiple REST API microservices for Core banking system.
  • Mentored junior team members in project management best practices to enhance their skills and contribute to better overall performance.

Senior Systems Analyst/Technical Project Leader

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
06.2016 - 03.2020

• Leading a team to deliver multiple change requirements in ATM(Automated Teller machine) projects in Core Banking System with Bug free production implementation.

• Hong Kong Front end teller Migration from Java Applets to React Framework and involved in end to end development

• Worked in Agile model to deliver client centric delivery across core banking platforms.

• Development of Online messaging interfaces for performing bank transactions, enquiries, phone banking etc.

• Worked in most new country core banking implementations like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand.

• Worked in enhancing the ATM Payments to support multiple countries with code modularity and code reusability by introducing technologies like Ehcache, Common BeanUtils .

• Introduction of JSON messaging Marshall/Unmarshalling for ATM requests

• Performed Proof of concept for multiple card reader devices and printers. • Introduced CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins pipeline, Gradle ) for ATM projects for faster delivery

Programming Analyst

Encora Inc
04.2012 - 06.2016

• Worked in most new country core banking implementations like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand.

• In Depth Knowledge in Application Development using J2EE/EJB.

• Good Knowledge in NDM Deployment in IBM WebSphere application server.

• Integrations of Junit testing with knowledge in Jenkins Installation.

• Development of front-end teller system (eBRANCH) with Applets and panels and integration of backend logics with EJB Beans.

• Development of Card Integration System for Card Swiping Transactions by capturing the track details from the card using Magtek Devices

• Good Knowledge in DB2 Database server.

• Good knowledge in UNIX scripting.

Programming Analyst

Nalandha Academy Of Career Services
05.2011 - 01.2012
  • Worked in end-to-end development of Java applications for vendor shopping cart system

Education

Master of Engineering - Mechatronics

Anna University
Chennai, TamilNadu, India
04-2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Anna University- Sri Sairam Engineering College
Chennai, TamilNadu, India
04-2009

Skills

  • Policy and Procedure Development
  • Administrative Oversight
  • Project Oversight
  • Process Optimization
  • Delivery Schedules
  • Performance Goals

Certification

  • Certified AWS Solutions Architect Assosciate

  • Google Certified Site Reliability Engineer

Work Preference

Work Type

Contract Work

Location Preference

Hybrid

Important To Me

Company CultureWork-life balanceCareer advancementHealthcare benefitsPaid time off401k matchWork from home optionStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingPersonal development programsFlexible work hoursTeam Building / Company Retreats

Technology Evangelist within the current organization

  • Worked on migration from legacy CI/CD model to Azure DevOps.( Creation og pipeline agents both locally and in cloud and providing platform for the domains to implement the DevOps)
  • Worked in POC for Core-Banking platforms for front end teller systems ( Card Reader Device, Passbook Printer device, Glory automated teller machine).
  • Worked in migration of on-prem API's to microservices in cloud using AWS EKS along with security, High availability
  • Implemented Instrumentation across the API domain by capturing key events across the microservices and pushing the events via Kafka to ELK.
  • Implemented End to End observability for Infra/Application using Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager .

Timeline

Assosciate Vice President

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
03.2024 - Current

Senior Project Manager

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
07.2022 - Current

Project Manager- Development

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn. Bhd, Kuala Lumpur
04.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Systems Analyst/Technical Project Leader

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
06.2016 - 03.2020

Programming Analyst

Encora Inc
04.2012 - 06.2016

Programming Analyst

Nalandha Academy Of Career Services
05.2011 - 01.2012

Master of Engineering - Mechatronics

Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Anna University- Sri Sairam Engineering College
Shiva SakthivelAssociate Vice President