Munavvar Khan
Bangalore
Summary
Outcome-driven technology executive with 15+ years of experience building and scaling global engineering organizations and enterprise platforms. Proven ability to convert business strategy into long-term platform leverage, with direct accountability for $20M+ budgets, executive-level decision making, and sustained cost optimization. Recognized for growing leaders, creating clarity in ambiguity, and balancing execution velocity with operational rigor.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director, Software Engineering
Optum
Bangalore, India and Austin, Texas
10.2021 - Current
- Own enterprise API platform strategy and execution, supporting 20B+ monthly transactions across 25k+ APIs for mission-critical healthcare and business systems.
- Lead a globally distributed organization of 100+ engineers and leaders, with full accountability for $20M+ annual budget.
- Drive enterprise-wide API security and consolidation initiatives with board-level visibility, reducing systemic risk and delivering $5M+ in projected savings.
- Reduced platform total cost of ownership by $6M annually by shifting to self-service, reusable, and consumption-based platform models.
- Delivered 80%+ reduction in per-unit API costs through infrastructure optimization while improving performance and reliability.
- Scaled platform adoption 3× by improving developer experience, product clarity, and flexible consumption models.
- Partner with product, security, finance, and enterprise architecture leaders to align platform investments with long-term business and risk priorities.
Director, Software Engineering
Optum / The Advisory Board Company
Austin, Texas
06.2013 - 10.2021
- Progressed from Software Engineer to Director, earning expanded scope through sustained delivery of platform-scale outcomes and people leadership.
- Owned technology strategy and execution for global product and platform teams (25+ engineers) operating cloud-native systems handling 5M+ daily requests.
- Set architectural and operational standards for scalable SaaS platforms, strengthening reliability, security, and SLA performance at scale.
- Led enterprise AWS adoption, enabling five teams through shared CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code foundations reused across the organization.
- Directed on-prem to cloud transformations, delivering ~$3M in annual savings and accelerating adoption of serverless and managed services.
- Cut deployment lead time from 45 days to 6 days via fully automated, zero-downtime delivery pipelines.
- Improved delivery predictability and executive confidence by institutionalizing modern agile operating models and tighter product–engineering alignment.
Software Engineer (Early Career)
Early Career Engineering Experience
India and United States
06.2010 - 05.2013
- Developed and launched production web applications, establishing strong full-stack engineering fundamentals.
- Leveraged hands-on engineering background to influence architecture decisions and technical trade-offs, enhancing collaboration with senior engineers.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather project requirements.
- Implemented software testing protocols to ensure product quality.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago05-2013
Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science
RGPV
Bhopal06-2010
Timeline
Senior Director, Software Engineering
Optum
10.2021 - Current
Director, Software Engineering
Optum / The Advisory Board Company
06.2013 - 10.2021
Software Engineer (Early Career)
Early Career Engineering Experience
06.2010 - 05.2013
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Illinois At Chicago
Bachelors of Engineering - Computer Science
RGPV