Ramkumar Aiyengar

Head of Platform Security Engineering @Bloomberg

London, GB
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WORK HISTORY

Jul 2022 — Present

Head of Platform Security Engineering @Bloomberg

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London, GB

I am the Head of Platform Security Engineering at Bloomberg. Functional manager / director for multiple engineering groups in London, New York and Frankfurt; which closely partner with CTO and CISO offices to provide the infrastructure platform for all software to be built secure; firm-wide authentication, authorization and access services; center of excellence for public cloud adoption; and engineering support for security operations.

EDUCATION

2002 — 2007

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor's and Master's (Dual) Degree, Computer Science

2006 — 2012

PSBB Senior Secondary School

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

SKILLS

Unix Shell ScriptingCDistributed SystemsObject Oriented DesignMultithreadingUnixPerlStlBig DataAlgorithmsSearch EnginesShell ScriptingC++ScalabilitySoftware EngineeringLinuxSoftware Development

ABOUT RAMKUMAR AIYENGAR

Head of Platform Security Engineering | Apache Solr Committer​I am an engineering director specializing in platform security, infrastructure, and identity management at scale. Currently, I lead global engineering organizations across London, New York, San Francisco, and Frankfurt; partnering closely with the CTO and CISO offices to embed robust security principles into the foundation of Bloomberg’s infrastructure.​My focus is on delivering secure, reliable, and scalable platforms without compromising engineering velocity.​Current Role: Platform Security & Cloud ​Security Infrastructure: Delivering the foundational platform for all application software, including key/secret management, workload identity, and cryptographic services.Identity & Access: Managing firm-wide authentication for Bloomberg Professional products (Terminal, Web, Enterprise) and Zero Trust access strategies for internal resources in a hybrid environment.Cloud Centre of Excellence: Establishing the frameworks, architecture, and operational maturity models required for public cloud adoption.SecOps Enablement: Engineering the tooling and support systems that power the Security Operations Centre.Strategy: Steering the engineering direction for Bloomberg’s security posture and mentoring the next generation of engineering leaders.​Prior Experience: News, Search & Distributed SystemsHead of News Engineering: Led the global engineering organization responsible for Bloomberg’s flagship news functionality, editorial tools, and remote collaboration suites.Search Infrastructure Architect (Apache Solr/Lucene): Architected the rewrite of Bloomberg’s news search backend to support real-time ingestion with sub-second query latency.Open Source: Achieved Apache Committer status by contributing to the distributed query coordination within Solr and enhancing the Percolator/Alerting framework to handle complex, persistent queries at scale.Resiliency Engineering: Spearheaded company-wide initiatives on \"Service Failure Containment,\" defining architectural patterns (circuit breakers, bulkheads) to prevent cascading failures.

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