Shanker Perumal

About Shanker Perumal

Hands-on technology leader with 26+ years of extensive experience in software product development, of which 19+ years experience is in engineering leadership. Currently working as Senior Director of Engineering at Visa in the area of Cross-Border Payments for Accounts & Wallets.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Visa

   Nov 2019 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Senior Director of Engineering in Visa, leading product development for Visa Direct Cross-Border Payments for Accounts & Wallets, and managing multiple teams, including people managers.* Leading 12 teams across multiple initiatives. Currently delivering new roadmap capabilities in Visa Direct product in the payments domain, with a large focus on building & enhancing the account & wallet partner network across 70+ countries through network partner integrations.* In earlier Bill Pay product, delivered features like Participant Onboarding, Merchant & User Enrollment, Mandate, Request for Payment, Payment Initiation, Biller Integration, Active-Active with affinity routing etc.* In earlier Real-time Payments product, delivered features like Participant Onboarding, Portal, Real-time Data Pipeline & Analytics, Simulator.* Role involves end-to-end ownership, delivery & accountability, including global teams.* Experience in building scalable, resilient and high performing systems & microservices.* Experience in hiring and building product development teams in a high growth environment, and in mentoring and developing talent & leaders. Additionally, owned the vendor management for contingent workers part of the team.* In addition to Development, also led the DevOps initiatives for the larger team for a year.* Strong experience in driving delivery of impactful business outcomes by collaborating closely with multiple product development teams & cross-functional teams across geographies.* Technology Stack: Java, REST Services, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Kafka/RabbitMQ, MySQL/DB2, Flink, ReactJS, Docker, Kubernetes.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  MBA - PGSEM, Finance, Marketing

  2003 — 2006

• PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

  BE, Computer Science Engineering

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• Engineering Management
• Restful Webservices
• Linux
• Hibernate
• C++
• Ios
• Software Project Management
• Managerial Finance
• Development Management
• Test Management
• Terminal Emulation
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Data Structures
• Jms
• Testing
• Virtual Terminal
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Senior Engineering Management
• Scrum
• Mobile Testing
• Visual C++
• Ibm 5250
• Quality Management
• Operating Systems
• Marketing Management
• Algorithms
• Six Sigma
• Android
• Soap
• C
• Java
• Spring Framework
• Ehcache
• Functional Testing
• Ibm 3270
• Ajax
• Mule Esb
• Performance Testing
• Agile Methodologies