Ashok Subramanian

About Ashok Subramanian

Summary-A Seasoned and Dynamic Leader with over two decades of Global IT experience across Start-ups, Product, Consulting, Service and Captive Organizations. Proven Leadership across varied Industry Domains including AdTech, Event Management, E-Commerce, Communication & Media, Investment Banking, Travel, Healthcare, Government Sector, etc.Leadership Achievements- Led multiple Cross-Cultural Engineering Teams across India, US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Proven Leadership, Strategy Planning, Stakeholder Management, Organizational Transformation, Building High Performing Teams, Hiring, Attrition, Training, Creating the next Level of Leadership through Coaching and Mentoring. Defined OKRs, KPIs, Hiring, Training People and Performance Management for the Org. Successfully Managed Engineering orgs with ~100+ members (Sr Managers / Engineering Managers / Architects/ Leads / ICs) achieving 100% growth in less than 2 years. Defined Org / Department level Forecast, Budget, Planning, P&L and Margins for multiple Accounts and Cost Centers. Led several Private to Public Cloud migrations (and vice versa) of Customers and Applications across Regions. Implemented the Cloud Cost Optimization strategy with savings of ~50%.Engineering Achievements- Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and Lean Software Methodologies. Proven experience with Architecture, UI/UX Design, Product Management, Program / Project Management, CSMs, Fullstack Dev, QA, Cloud, DevOps, SRE, TAM, PSE, Operations, 24x7 Support and IM / ER Teams. Led the Modernization of Legacy / Monolithic applications to Microservices based on Cloud Native Architecture. Hands-on experience with Polyglot Full Stack Development, SQL and NoSQL Databases,E2E QA Automation, BDD, TDD, Design & Code Reviews, Refactoring, Pair Programming, Extreme Programming (XP), Cloud Deployment and Release Management. Transformed the siloed Engineering Teams from an Operations mindset to DevOps culture. Adept with E-Commerce (B2B and B2C), Open-Source Adoption, Big Data, Hadoop Ecosystems. Architected, Designed and Implemented the Self-service Ephemeral 1-Click Deployments (Applications and Databases), Provisioning on Public and Private Clouds using Open source, Ansible, Terraform, IaC and CI/CD strategies and reduced the time by 10x. Played the role of Lead Solution and Technical Architect for multiple complex engagements. Experience in Chaos Engineering, Canary Deployments, A/B Testing initiatives.

Experience

1. Principal Technology Architect

   Infosys

   Sep 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Certified People Leader Programme (CPLP), Organizational Leadership

• Bharathiar University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Engineering

  1992 — 1996

• Coventry University

  Postgraduate Diploma, Engineering Management

  2013 — 2015

Skills

• Big Data
• Struts
• Team Leadership
• Java
• Vendor Management
• Jsp
• Unix
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Databases
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Testing
• Soa
• Spring Framework
• Leadership
• Telecommunications
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Business Intelligence
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Team Management
• Xml
• Spring
• Integration
• Javascript
• Uml
• Requirements Gathering
• Web Services
• Agile Project Management
• Servlets
• Pl/Sql
• Architectures
• Pre-Sales
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum