Sooruj Gopalakrishnan

Experience

1. Gen Ai Lab and Asset Engineering Leader for Hybrid Cloud Services

   IBM

   Aug 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead the Engineering team for Hybrid Cloud Services, IBM Consulting, to build, enhance and maintain assets and accelerators that will help speed up the clients\' cloud transformation and management journeys.Leverage Generative AI to power the IT Modernisation for clients with new offerings & capabilities and helping clients with Generative AI adoption in their IT landscape. Develop PoVs and implement GenAI capabilities for application modernization leveraging watsonx, Azure, AWS and GCP capabilities.Provide direction to the team in developing service enablers and products that can be deployed to accelerate code generation, code conversion, business rules extraction from code for application modernisation, testing, platform engineering and IT Operations.Drive the adoption of these GenAI enabled IT assets by the developer, architect, SRE, Tester and Product Manager personas. Improve the RoI with reduced cost for product development and improved adoption. Contribute to pre-sales and solutioning. Contribute to offering development, solution guidance and delivery of cloud migration, modernization and maintain capabilities leveraging the developed assets.Develop and implement processes and methods for the development, enhancement and maintenance of software assets with a streamlined intake process, prioritisation and agile based development. Manage the development budget ensuring right spend and returns.

Education

• University of Calicut

  B.Tech

• University of California, Berkeley

  Organization and Management

Skills

• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Outsourcing
• Quality Assurance
• Resource Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Business Intelligence
• IT Management
• Agile Project Management
• Pre-Sales
• Project Delivery
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Programme Delivery
• Pmo
• Pmp
• IT Outsourcing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Service Delivery
• Global Delivery
• Telecommunications
• Analysis
• Service Management
• Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Transition Management
• Business Transformation
• Project Governance
• IT Service Management
• Sdlc
• Change Management