Ashok Athikam
Senior Eng. Manager @ Goldman Sachs | 6+ years leading global teams | High-availability data platforms (20M+ txns/day) | SDLC optimization for Apple Card ($50B in txns/year) | Cloud Technologies
- Role
- Senior Engineering Manager at Goldman Sachs
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ashok Athikam
I’m a seasoned Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, including 6+ years leading global teams. My passion lies in building resilient, scalable data platforms and empowering high-performing engineering teams to deliver business-critical solutions.At Goldman Sachs, I’ve led initiatives across consumer finance and core data infrastructure, supporting products like Apple Card and Apple Savings (15M+ users,$50B+ in annual transactions). I successfully accelerated SDLC delivery.Previously, I led two of the firm’s most critical data platforms:Datastream (100K+ ETL jobs/day) – Scaled platform usage by 3x and cut incident response time by 90%.Dataflow – Modernized data APIs using Kafka + SingleStore, achieving 10x performance gains Known for balancing technical depth with people leadership, I’ve built and grown teams from scratch, mentored engineers into senior roles, and partnered with executive stakeholders to define processes.
Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
May 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics
2001 — 2005
New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
M.S, Computer Science
2006 — 2007
Skills
- J2ee
- Hibernate
- Application Development
- Web Services
- Web Applications
- Servlets
- Spring
- Jsp
- Struts
- Mvc
- Xml
- Pl/Sql
- Agile
- Javascript
- Java
- Sql
- Shell Scripting
- Unix
- Databases
- Architecture
- Linux
- Analysis
- Trading
- Eclipse
- Websphere
- Db2
- Weblogic
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Agile Methodologies
- Testing
- Requirements Gathering
- Core Java
- Software Development
- Spring Framework
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