Sundaralingam Murugathithan

About Sundaralingam Murugathithan

Senior Director of Engineering & DevOps at Oracle | Intrapreneur | 22+ Years Experience.I lead the engineering strategy for Oracle’s CSS Apps & Delivery teams, managing global operations and multi-million-dollar portfolios on Oracle.Unlike traditional executives, I remain deeply involved in solution architecture to solve real-world business problems. I architected a No-Code Testing Solution to help Oracle SaaS customers navigate quarterly patch regression testing, and developed a Process & Integration Monitoring Platform to safeguard business workflows.I am passionate about building state-of-the-art managed cloud services, streamlining operations through automation, and leading high-performing teams to drive revenue and customer success.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Oracle

   Nov 2005 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Executive Leadership & Talent Strategy:Global Strategy: Leading the Engineering and DevOps vision for Oracle’s Customer Success Services (CSS) Apps & Delivery teams, supporting marquee global customers.Talent Acquisition: Spearheading Campus Recruitment and strategic hiring initiatives specifically for the CSS Apps and Delivery organization, ensuring a robust pipeline of engineering talent.Transformation: Driving the organizational shift towards SRE and DevOps models, coaching teams to adopt automation-first methodologies to increase agility and productivity.Strategic Innovation (Intrapreneurship):Proprietary Platforms: Architected a No-Code Regression Testing Solution for Oracle SaaS customers to streamline quarterly/monthly updates, and a Process & Integration Monitoring Platform to safeguard business workflows.Operational Efficiency: Designed a self-service orchestration platform that generated $100M+ in cost savings and improved operational efficiency.Business Impact & Growth:Revenue Generation: Successfully led the inaugural implementation of Exadata for an on-demand customer, establishing a recurring revenue business model.Career Progression: Advanced from a System Administrator to Senior Director over a 20+ year tenure, consistently delivering value through technical and leadership excellence.Recognition: Recipient of \'Most Valuable Player\' and \'Cloud Services Pacesetter\' awards.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Executive General Management Programme

  2016 — 2017

• Gurunanak

  Bachelor's degree, Accounting and Finance

  1995 — 1998

• Bharathidasan University

  MCA, Computer Science

  1999 — 2002

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  PG Level Advanced Certification in Computational Data Science, Data Science

Skills

• Puppet
• Infrastructure
• Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Databases
• Sun
• System Administration
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Solution Architecture
• Netbackup
• Integration
• Netapp
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Storage
• Cluster
• Powerbroker
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Itil V3 Foundations Certified
• Disaster Recovery
• Zfs
• Pillar
• Performance Tuning
• Brocade Fibre Switches
• Nas
• Linux
• Networking
• Emc Storage
• San
• Servers
• Perl
• Storage Area Networks
• Mcollective
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• High Availability
• Virtualization
• Operating Systems