SANDEEP GANGADHARAN

• EY — Associate Director | Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI
• - Lead engineering strategy and execution across Cloud, Data & Analytics, DevOps, SRE, AI, and platform engineering, driving scalable, secure, reliable, and automation-led technology solutions.
• - Lead cross-functional engineering teams and collaborate with global technology, product, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-scale platforms and strategic technology initiatives.
• - Partner with senior leadership to define technology strategy, transformation roadmaps, engineering capabilities, and AI-led modernization initiatives.

- Play a key role in building and evolving an AI-first engineering organization, driving adoption of AI across the software engineering lifecycle and identifying opportunities to improve developer productivity, engineering effectiveness, automation, and delivery outcomes.

- Led strategic initiatives across AI, developer experience, platform engineering, and DevOps/SRE, enhancing operational maturity and service optimization.

- Drive adoption of modern DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, cloud engineering, automation, observability, and platform engineering practices across technology teams.

- Provide technical and organizational leadership across distributed teams, balancing people leadership, architecture, delivery, stakeholder management, customer experience, and business outcomes.

- Mentor engineering leaders and technical professionals, building capabilities and fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and AI adoption.

- Currently serving as India Location Lead for DevX (DevOps & SRE) within Client Technology and Engineering Lead for Data & AI Accelerators within the EY Fabric Data & AI platform.

- Joined EY in 2018 and progressed from technical solution leadership and architecture into enterprise-scale engineering and technology leadership.

- Progressed through roles spanning Technical Solution Management, Technical Architecture, and Engineering Leadership, with increasing responsibility for enterprise technology, platform engineering, and strategic transformation initiatives.

Monitored project timelines and deliverables to meet company standards.

Collaborated with senior leadership to define organizational goals and strategies.

2018 – Present | India

- Earlier at EY, held the position of Technical Solution Manager and Technical Architect for EY Fabric Workbench, building deep expertise across cloud, data, analytics, enterprise architecture, and DevOps.

• Managed complex infrastructure solutions enabling businesses to meet objectives efficiently.
• Developed long-term strategies aligning with goals of various business segments.
• Developed architectural blueprints to guide implementation processes.
• Recommended architectural and design improvements enhancing integration across systems.
• Perform a POC for the new solution and document the results.
• Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service.
• Designed a strategic plan for component development practices to support future projects.
• Perform POC for a new solution and document the results.
• Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all production work orders.
• Provided continued maintenance and development of bug fixes and patch sets for existing web applications.
• Designed strategic plan for component development practices to support future projects.

• Planned patch management and other changes; implemented first in UAT, then in production to ensure system stability.
• Provides leadership and training to the more junior team members, so as to enable them to up-skill and achieve the ability to manage projects independently and administer the Project migration processes.
• Participated in Change Management processes for server hardware and software. for servers Hardware & software services.
• Handled change management for server hardware and software services.

• Participated in technical design with capacity, infrastructure technology, and the project management team using the latest company technical standards.
• Installed, configured, and administered Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems through Profiler Server and TPM on HP and IBM hardware.
• Installed and configured Veritas and RedHat clusters on RHEL servers to enhance system reliability and performance.
• Managed production, development, and testing environment servers, ensuring optimal functionality and minimal downtime.

• Defined scope of work based on customer requirements
• Prepared RFP responses for annual maintenance contracts from multiple customers
• Installed and supported HP netservers and Proliant servers DL380, DL580, and workstations
• Installed Linux applications and applied necessary patches to ensure system security.
• Scheduled jobs using automation tools to improve efficiency..