Ramkumar Aiyengar
Head of Platform Security Engineering @Bloomberg
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Platform Security Engineering @Bloomberg
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
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Bachelor's and Master's (Dual) Degree, Computer Science
PSBB Senior Secondary School
High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
SKILLS
ABOUT RAMKUMAR AIYENGAR
Head of Platform Security Engineering | Apache Solr CommitterI 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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