Ganesan Rajamani
Bangalore
Summary
Ø Seasoned technology executive leader with a track record in driving engineering solutions and marketing technology initiatives, scaling growth, and enhancing customer experience through lean global agile teams. Ø Adept at shaping strategy and vision by partnering with key executives (CMOs, CTOs, CEOs, SVP/VPs), driving product thinking, KPIs/OKRs, and fostering effective communication across business, technology, and marketing teams. Ø Strong technology leadership background with expertise in modern enterprise architecture, marketing technology platforms, data platforms, and system integration. Experienced in cloud-native architecture, large enterprise cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure). Ø Startup-minded, delivering innovative products, driving growth, and generating customer value. Ø Experienced in global distributed delivery, leading engineering departments, and effectively managing 200+ engineers across multiple locations. Ø Proficient in partner and vendor management, leading engagements, strategic relationships, evaluations, and portfolio management. Ø Skilled in team development and effective leadership, fostering innovation through cross functional collaboration, Agile and Lean methodologies, and a supportive environment for experimentation. Ø Specialties: digital transformation, engineering leadership, marketing platform ecosystem. Expertise in technology strategy, enterprise architecture roadmap, product mindset, and startup approaches. Ø Proficient in marketing technology platforms like Salesforce, customer data platforms (CDP), CRM, lead generation, data analytics/intelligence. Ø Driving the AI led transformation for the clients to bring in efficiency of over 30%. Handson in cloud-first architectures, migrations, Microservices, Micro Front Ends, digital assistants (chatbots), AI/ML, Generative AI, security, DevOps. Ø Well-versed in performance analytics, executive insights, and KPI measurement. Demonstrated success in executing scaled agile delivery across multiple geographies
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
VP Software Engineering - Financial Services
Publicis Sapient
05.2022 - Current
- As VP of Engineering I play the role of a people and technology leader.
- Responsible for delivery of $80M in revenue and the team of 200 people.
- As process champion I streamline the engineering process to drive the engineering and deliver excellence.
- Drive efficiency for the clients in AI adoption. Have done successful transformation of legacy migration with LLMs and Salesforce Migration to bring in efficiency of over 30%.
- Leading the Engineering Transformation engagements across many industry verticals with customer centricity focus.
- Define the Enterprise Product Offering, Engineering Growth Opportunities, APIs modernization, Data Strategy, Cloud enablement.
- Led the Engineering effort in creating a Digital bank with key clients on Corebanking (Mambu, Sunline, Thoughtmachine).
VP Software Engineering
Wells Fargo
05.2020 - 04.2022
- Modernize Payment systems to process 70M transactions a day on Distributed architecture.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders in a distributed Agile environment.
- Hands on architect and team manager to drive architecture, best practices, design and development.
- Managed 4 self-sufficient scrum teams of 30 developers.
- Driven the scalable architecture with sharded MongoDB, Kafka partitioning.
- Quality focused to drive E2E automation in development, test, devops.
- Governance to drive Operational Standards, effective change control, observability with effective alerting and monitoring to Key business KPIs.
VP Software Engineering
JP Morgan && Chase
12.2017 - 05.2020
- Drive engineering teams to align to the enterprise strategy of migrating application to cloud and any new product development as cloud first.
- Build products for CTO organization to provide visibility towards banks product model adoption.
- Align with enterprise architecture standards and drive the engineering culture for the emerging payments organization.
- Collaborate with teams to drive principles of domain driven design, monolith to microservices, enterprise wide API standards and event model.
Principal Software Architect
Sabre Travel Technologies
08.2007 - 12.2017
- Align with business and technology team to drive the architectural principles towards enterprise standards.
- Hands on architect to build prototype and transform products to meet the market needs.
- Revamped several products and drove the enterprise wide operating standards.
- Specialized in the area of business intelligence and crew management product to drive the business value of 10x over the period of 5 years.
Subex Systems
06.2005 - 08.2007
Novell Software India Development
04.2004 - 06.2005
IBM India
09.1999 - 04.2004
Education
BS - undefined
FPGDST - undefined
MBA - undefined
Skills
- Java
- C
- C
- Windows Programming
- GTK Programming
- XML
- XUL
- JavaScript
- OS/2 Programming
- Java Frameworks
- Actor Model (AKKA)
- Reactive programming
- Cassandra
- Mongo
- REDIS
- Memcache
- Apache Solr
- Elastic Search
- SOAP
- REST
- Apache Kafka
- ActiveMQ
- Private cloud
- PCF
- Azure
- AWS
- Teamcity
- Jenkins
- ELK
- Zabbix
- Ansible
- AppDynamics
- SONAR
- GIT
- SVN
- CVS
- CMVC
- Rally
- Jira
- ANT
- Maven
- ORACLE
- Vertica
- Oracle Exadata
- ReactJS
- HTML5
- ExtJS
- SmartGWT
- Flex
Business Experience
- Publicis Sapient, VP Software Engineering - Financial Services (Architect/Technology Leader), Java microservices, Cloud, SQL/NoSQL Database, Data Strategy, DevOps, Event Driven Architecture - Kafka, Channels - React - Web/Mobile(native), As VP of Engineering I play the role of a people and technology leader. Responsible for delivery of $80M in revenue and the team of 200 people., As process champion I streamline the engineering process to drive the engineering and deliver excellence., Drive efficiency for the clients in AI adoption. Have done successful transformation of legacy migration with LLMs and Salesforce Migration to bring in efficiency of over 30%., Leading the Engineering Transformation engagements across many industry verticals with customer centricity focus. Define the Enterprise Product Offering, Engineering Growth Opportunities, APIs modernization, Data Strategy, Cloud enablement., Led the Engineering effort in creating a Digital bank with key clients on Corebanking (Mambu, Sunline, Thoughtmachine).
- Wells Fargo, VP Software Engineering (Architect/Technology Leader - Payments), Payment Data Hub, Payment Microservices (Java microservices, Kafka, MongoDB, Pivotal cloud), Modernize Payment systems to process 70M transactions a day on Distributed architecture., Collaborate with various stakeholders in a distributed Agile environment., Hands-on architect and team manager to drive architecture, best practices, design and development. Managed 4 self-sufficient scrum teams of 30 developers., Driven the scalable architecture with sharded MongoDB, Kafka partitioning., Quality focused to drive E2E automation in development, test, devops., Governance to drive Operational Standards, effective change control, observability with effective alerting and monitoring to Key business KPIs.
- JP Morgan && Chase, VP Software Engineering (Architect- CTO products), CTO products, Mobile payments platform and Chasepay (Java Microservices, SQL DB/Cassandra, Event driven architecture, Private and public clouds, React/Angular), Drive engineering teams to align to the enterprise strategy of migrating application to cloud and any new product development as cloud first., Build products for CTO organization to provide visibility towards banks product model adoption., Align with enterprise architecture standards and drive the engineering culture for the emerging payments organization., Collaborate with teams to drive principles of domain driven design, monolith to microservices, enterprise wide API standards and event model.
- Sabre Holdings, Principal Software Architect, Align with business and technology team to drive the architectural principles towards enterprise standards., Hands-on architect to build prototype and transform products to meet the market needs., Revamped several products and drove the enterprise wide operating standards., Specialized in the area of business intelligence and crew management product to drive the business value of 10x over the period of 5 years.
Personal Information
Title: Engineering/Architecture Leader
Timeline
VP Software Engineering - Financial Services
Publicis Sapient
05.2022 - Current
VP Software Engineering
Wells Fargo
05.2020 - 04.2022
VP Software Engineering
JP Morgan && Chase
12.2017 - 05.2020
Principal Software Architect
Sabre Travel Technologies
08.2007 - 12.2017
Subex Systems
06.2005 - 08.2007
Novell Software India Development
04.2004 - 06.2005
IBM India
09.1999 - 04.2004