Mani Saurabh

About Mani Saurabh

I am a seasoned IT professional with an overall 15 years’ experience that includes 10 years of international experience at customer locations across the UK, Europe, and the USA as part of TCS Enterprise Integration Practice. I specialize in driving digital transformation and modernization projects in the integration domain by implementing API management platforms and microservices architectures. My role spans delivery and pre-sales support, with a proven track record of ensuring on-time production implementations. With expertise in end-to-end project delivery, my responsibilities range from pre-sales engagements—including blueprinting, defining architecture, and governance—to delivery execution, hyper care, and post-production support. I have also designed and developed in-house accelerators to streamline pre-sales and customer implementations, helping secure multiple deals. Additionally, I’ve played a key role in guiding delivery teams as part of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) by focusing on solution architecture, best practices, security, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Experience

1. Api Architect

   Marks and Spencer

   May 2024 — Present · London, GB

   Strategic API Management Advisory: a. Act as an industry advisor, assisting with the evaluation and selection of a long-term API management platform strategy that aligns with Marks and Spencer\'s operational and business goals. b. Provide architectural guidance for seamless integration between existing and future API ecosystems. Governance Implementation: a. Establish and implement governance frameworks for the existing APIGEE Edge platform to ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance across API development and deployment. b. Facilitate adherence to best practices, including version control, security policies, API documentation, and lifecycle management. Future-State API Management Strategy: a. Define the future state of API management to coexist effectively with Akamai and GraphQL, optimizing API delivery performance and enhancing scalability for Marks and Spencer\'s digital footprint. b. Create a roadmap for adopting modern API paradigms and technologies while ensuring minimal disruption to the current environment. Monitoring & Analytics Setup: a. Implement robust API monitoring solutions using New Relic and Dynatrace for APIs, which collectively handle over 100 billion transactions annually. b. Provide visibility into API health, performance, and usage trends, enabling proactive issue resolution and improved operational efficiency. Best Practices Advisory: a. Serve as a trusted advisor to development and operations teams on API management best practices, including security, monitoring, scalability, and performance optimization. b. Share learnings and industry trends to help Marks and Spencer’s continually enhance and future-proof their API capabilities. Technology Stack: API Management, APIGEE, APIGEE-X, Azure, EventHub, Azure Functions, Python, NodeJS, APIGEE-X, GitHub, Shell Scripting, REST, GraphQL, Caching, Terraform, Semgrep, Sonar, Snyk, GitHub GHAS, Monday.com, JIRA, Confluence, Dynatrace, GCP etc

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Course, Artificial Intelligence

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  B.E., Electronics

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Sql
• C++
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Team Management
• C
• Pl/Sql