Sailu K

GLOBAL HEAD - CORE APPLICATIONS,

INDIA HEAD - ARCHITECT COMMUNITY

CERTIFIED CHIEF ARCHITECT

Expanded role responsibilities from Head of Europe Cloud and Custom Applications to Global head of Core Applications & Technologies.

• As a Global leader, cultivated strong relationships with regional leaders across NA,EU and APAC. Growth focused interactions with global clients, vendors, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.
• Spearheaded organizational restructuring initiatives, streamlining operations, reducing overhead costs and build the ability to serve globally.
• Championed talent development programs, promoting employee engagement and retention during turbulent market conditions.
• Built high-performance teams through effective recruitment practices focused on competency alignment

HEAD - CLOUD & CUSTOM APPLICATIONS, EUROPE INDIA

Led Cloud and Custom applications (CCA) practice for the largest business unit of Capgemini. With a portfolio of 9000+ people, CCA supports many major clients across EU. Talent transformation, Talent management and Talent fulfillment are the core of IT industry. Managing all these areas in a very challenging and volatile environment, without depleting KPIs

• Used market insights to capitalize on key business opportunities for new advantageous partnerships.
• Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
• Monitored industry trends, keeping current on latest changes and competition in industry.
• Oversaw hiring, adding valuable, talented professionals to strengthen management team.
• Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Unified program lead from India for diamond clients supporting sales, delivery and production support of projects across Pharma Industries. Participated and influenced major sales up to $150m

Advocated and implemented modern engineering practices, with various Agile delivery principles.

Continuous improvement, automation, deployment of bots and value realization on all operations and production support programs.

PRODUCTS INDIA - TECH ARCH & DEVOPS LEAD

Rapid prototyping on Containerization and Cloud based deployments for major clients during sales and transition phases.

Advocate and support 200+ projects transition to DevOps from traditional manual deployment processes. Trained and upskilled 300+ DevOps professionals with total 600 DevOps practitioners.

Various DevOps solutions provided were on Jenkins, Atlassian stack, AWS, Terraform.

RETAIL TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE LEAD

Delivered digital transformation programs for major retailers like Target, Argos UK, TJX, BestBuy. Led the effort of setting up Retail store labs in India for global retailers

Led environment and operations teams in SAP Basis, POS Labs, JDA, Oracle and Mainframe DBAs. Set operational tools for application health and performance monitoring, building dashboards for multi geography POS lab management.

INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS LEAD

BestBuy Infrastructure Operations lead for Canada Stores - managing operations with a 150+ team size to support service management, remote desktop management, Store operations, server licensing upgrades.

Team supported 24X7 operations to support stores across US and Canada.

DEVELOPMENT LEAD

Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (Texas State Govt)

Led design, development and delivery of an EDI engine built on SeeBeyond ICAN to check eligibility of Healthcare support for patients in the State of Texas.

Led team of 15 developers across the SDLC phases.

INFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY PLANNING

At the Internal Revenue Service, provided volumetric forecasting of server capacity required for five year period. Played an individual contributor role to plan 42 data centers across 7 continental US states.

WEBSERVICES DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE TEST LEAD

BellSouth (AT&T) Billing system built on BEA Weblogic

Led team of 8 developers over an year and successfully delivered the service oriented billing system.

Led the Performance Engineering and Testing team post development phase.

WEBMETHODS DEVELOPER

Designed and developed services on WebMethods, for WellsFargo account management system. SOA based architecture.