Chaitanya Krishna Kolla

Working as the Engineering Manager for L&H on the flagship product LifeGuide of SWISS RE, with 13,000 active underwriters across the globe.

• After a decade of vendor control over the LifeGuide project, we successfully achieved the internalization of the project and took full ownership of old and new features, and releases within just six months.
• Collaborated with the GDS team to launch the first GenAI solution on Azure, LifeGuide Scout, setting a benchmark for innovation. This pioneering release served as a model for multiple teams, enabling them to accelerate their own solution launches to under two months.
• Led the transformation of the FMI analytics platform to Azure for SLZ, and successfully migrated a 1-terabyte storage account with zero downtime.
• Revamped the build and release process for SWIFT Re 2.0, empowering the team to manage releases independently, and achieving a 35% reduction in the release cycle.
• Challenged the Cloud transformation, API Management, CCOE, and DEVSECOPS team in the quarterly open house with technical challenges, and made them accountable and committed to delivering a solution.

Joined the Oracle Cloud sales advisor team as a technology evangelist to solve customer problems.

• Transformed the open-source version of Eclipse Che to be enterprise-ready and integrated it into the Oracle Cloud Console.
• As a cloud architect, I designed and implemented the solution for a client to migrate over 2,000 VMs from Azure to Oracle.
• Designed and developed scalable cloud solutions for enhanced performance and cost optimization.

• Lead the implementation of agile transformation for the group, including global teams. Influencing team members within the assigned team by giving multiple retro points.
• Designed an end-to-end pipeline solution on the Azure data platform, and migrated the 2 TB on-premises solution to the cloud.
• Provided SDKs to the partners in the chat platform to support Android and iOS platforms for any version.
• Successfully implemented an end-to-end solution on the Kaizala platform that features being used by 1 million users.
• Propose and design the architecture for the KPI model for customer experience in a B2B platform.
• As part of the cloud-first and mobile-first strategy, we developed web applications and tools to migrate the partners from on-premises to the cloud. This has enabled over 100 external partners to be onboarded to the new business flow in the Azure integration platform.