Abhilash Narayan

About Abhilash Narayan

Overall, 22+ Years of leading globally distributed application development/support, devsecops, sre, cloud, security, and agile engineering teams for releasing insurance, fintech and wealth management applications across all phases of SDLC from non-production to production environment. • Extensive Experience in running practices for Application development, Agile, Devops, SRE, Cloud, MLOps, AIOps, DataOps and Security Streams for AngularJS, Node, Python, Java, Dotnet and AI/ML based applications in various domains like health and wealth management; banking finance and insurance; travel and timeshare; telecom and hospitality for numerous projects.• Extensive experience in leading large programs (budget range of INR 80-100 million / team size up to 80-100 FTE’s for Inhouse and vendor resources) in a proven domain expertise in Financial Services/ Fintech including Insurance, Asset, Health & Wealth Management/ Investment Banking.• Extensive experience in change organization mindset/culture from normal SDLC to secure SDLC in multi-cloud environments along with automation programs like infrastructure as code/service, configuration as code, policy as code, integrated security with infrastructure using static, dynamic, interactive security as well as real time self-protection and real-time implementation in mini-monolith, microservices and containerization orchestration tools like Swarm, AKS/EKS/GKE, ECS Fargate and Azure Container Insights.• Drive and develop common framework for release governance across multiple enterprise products; effective communication to senior management of enterprise-wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigate it. Measure release cadence and effectiveness using common metrics across the entire product portfolio. Proven understanding of all phases of product & development life cycles and experience in various methodologies such as Agile/ Devops.• Great exposure to agentic AI tools and developed multiple internal tools for our daily activities –­ Watchman is an AI-assisted, always-running FastAPI-based alerting and reporting service that monitors Grafana Loki, PostgreSQL, and Databricks, executes scheduled queries using APScheduler, enriches results through post-processing, and sends notifications via Microsoft Teams webhooks and email (SMTP), exposed through a full REST API.

Experience

1. Vice President Information Technology

   Tata AIA Life Insurance

   Jun 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Change organization mindset/culture from normal SDLC to secure SDLC in multi-cloud environments along with automation programs like infrastructure as code/service, configuration as code, policy as code, integrated security with infrastructure using static, dynamic, interactive security as well as real time self-protection and real-time implementation in mini-monolith, microservices and containerization orchestration tools.

Education

• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

  PG Diploma in Advance Computing, Computer Engineering

  2006 — 2006

• Doctor Bhim Rao Ambedkar University

  BSc, Computers

  1999 — 2002

Skills

• Ejb
• Ajax
• Soap
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Databases
• Java Enterprise Edition
• J2ee
• Struts
• Sdlc
• Json
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Services
• Javascript
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Core Java
• Testing
• Soa
• Oracle Service Bus
• Soa Bpel
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Web Development
• Java