Chidambaram Elumalai

About Chidambaram Elumalai

Highly Technical, Adaptable, and Detail-Oriented Leader with extensive experience in On-Premise, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud/Data Platform Engineering, DevOps/SRE, and 24/7 Tech Operations. • Problem-solving hands-on leader with significant experience in managing production engineering/SRE teams, Building IaaS/PAAS services with Platform/Product approach, Systems Architecture, Technical Project Management, and DevOps/ITIL change management • Passionate to strive for excellence to improve the resiliency, uptime, reliability, and scalability of platforms to meet the growing needs of business/customers. •Hands-on in handling production incidents, managing the chaos during critical times, doing root cause analysis with a blameless postmortem, and solving the challenges to meet customer success.•Expertise in running operations with a product mindset, building programmatic blocks to enable the product/development team to deliver features and value stream delivery focus on customer success.•Experience in interfacing and working within organizations at all levels, including executives and customers, building inclusive relationships based on trust, reliability, and delivery of results.Accomplishments Highlights:Delivery: Design and implemented infrastructure engineering and operations for WU Digital e-commerce, Risk, Payment, and API platform from the ground up to scale from less than 10 to 250+ transactional e-commerce sites, 2 to 50+ transactional Mobile apps, 1 to $40B in annual payment processing, 0 to 750M customer base, and 1 to 500M in annualized. Led the digital transformation initiative of migration from 4 DCs to a public cloud of 30k assets and 1k+ services.Digital Transformation: Demonstrated success in handling small to large-scale digital transformational initiatives of hybrid to cloud-native, On-Prem/Public Cloud System Design and modernization, Ops to DevOps to DevSecOps, and Proactive Obsevability/SRE/DevOps practices.Leadership/Team Management: Built small to large-scale teams in Systems, Network Reliability Engineers, Database Reliability Engineers, NOC/GOC, and Infra architecture/solution engineering teams, ensuring the smooth operations of on-prem/cloud infrastructure and services, providing a seamless experience to customers.Specialties: Infrastructure Engineering Cloud and OnPrem, OnPrem/Cloud Modernisation and Management, DevOps CI/CD, SRE, 24x7 Tech Operations, Observability Engineering, AIOps, MLOps, Product Security and compliance, Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, and Technical Project Management.

Experience

1. Vice President

   Saviynt

   Feb 2025 — Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Masters/Post Grad - Systems Trainee Program, Systems Engineering

  1999 — 2001

• Coimbatore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), CS

  1995 — 1999

• Saint Mary's College of California

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management

  2015 — 2017

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Management
• Sdlc
• Leadership
• Websphere
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Itil
• IT Strategy
• Team Management
• Project Management
• Cloud Computing
• Business Analysis
• Oracle
• Business Process Improvement
• Soa
• Solution Architecture
• Strategy
• Sql
• Requirements Gathering
• Information Technology
• Angularjs
• Tibco Rendezvous
• Paas
• Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• IT Governance
• Data Center Operations
• IT Operations
• Tibco Ems
• Big Data
• F5 Bigip
• Mobile Payments
• Risk Management
• Devops
• Performance Management
• Digital Marketing
• Enterprise Portals