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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
2024.03 - 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
2022.07 - 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
2020.04 - 2021.06
  • 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
2016.06 - 2020.03

• 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
2012.04 - 2016.06

• 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
2011.05 - 2012.01
  • Worked in end-to-end development of Java applications for vendor shopping cart system

Education

Master of Engineering - Mechatronics

Anna University
Chennai, TamilNadu, India
2011-04

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

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

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

Work Location

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
2024.03 - Current

Senior Project Manager

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
2022.07 - Current

Project Manager- Development

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn. Bhd, Kuala Lumpur
2020.04 - 2021.06

Senior Systems Analyst/Technical Project Leader

Standard Chartered Global Services Sdn.Bhd
2016.06 - 2020.03

Programming Analyst

Encora Inc
2012.04 - 2016.06

Programming Analyst

Nalandha Academy Of Career Services
2011.05 - 2012.01

Master of Engineering - Mechatronics

Anna University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Anna University- Sri Sairam Engineering College
  • Certified AWS Solutions Architect Assosciate

  • Google Certified Site Reliability Engineer

Shiva SakthivelAssociate Vice President