Viswanath Dhyaram

About Viswanath Dhyaram

Building software systems has been my passion for over two decades.What started as writing code evolved into leading global engineering teams, scaling enterprise platforms, and navigating the tradeoffs that come with growth—speed vs stability, innovation vs reliability, ambition vs sustainability.As an executive technology leader with 20+ years of experience, I’ve led mobile, backend, and e-commerce platforms at scale, aligning technology strategy with business outcomes while keeping a close eye on the people building the systems. I’ve learned that architectures don’t fail first—teams do—and long-term success depends on designing for both.I specialize in:• Scaling enterprise systems and platforms• Leading distributed, multicultural engineering teams• Translating business intent into executable technology strategy• Cutting through hype (AI included) to deliver practical, durable solutionsA few things I’ve had the opportunity to do:• Led three core technology organizations (mobile, backend, e-commerce), overseeing 25 direct reports—including managers and senior engineers—while managing a $3M annual product budget and driving initiatives that extended well beyond traditional Director-level scope.• Built and scaled global teams across the US, Poland, India, Pakistan, and Mexico—tripling team size in a year while re-architecting FinTech and payment systems in Azure and.NET to support 50X platform growth and 2.2M daily transactions.• Drove operational excellence across 16 backend services, achieving 90% test coverage, reducing production issues by 90%, and scaling consumer platforms to handle 50X traffic growth.• Delivered revenue-generating mobile and e-commerce platforms spanning payments, B2B integrations, and consumer experiences—contributing directly to multi-million-dollar annual revenue streams.• Identified and executed high-impact platform optimizations that doubled daily revenue by scaling API-driven transaction flows to millions of calls per day.I write and think about engineering leadership, system design at scale, and what it takes to grow technology organizations without losing clarity, craftsmanship, or the human side of engineering.If that resonates, feel free to connect.

Experience

1. Engineering Leader

   Capital One

   Jun 2025 — Present

   Provide engineering leadership for three teams in Capital One’s Commercial Lending organization, delivering strategic business capabilities and enterprise transformation initiatives.• Rapidly stood up brand-new teams within a matter of weeks, ensuring the organization remained on track to deliver critical enterprise backlog priorities and maintaining momentum against high-visibility commitments.• Built and scaled teams from the ground up, designing effective operating structures, accelerating team formation, and creating a high-performance culture focused on ownership and results.• Currently leading AI-enabled rapid application development using Gemini, Windsurf, and Claude to accelerate software feature delivery, increase engineering velocity, and improve team productivity.• Leveraged AI as both a business enabler and an engineering force multiplier, improving team productivity, development velocity, and delivery efficiency.• Advanced organizational effectiveness through stronger engineering practices, improved execution rigor, and continuous process optimization.• Drove enterprise-wide initiatives in Observability, Cloud Sentry database onboarding, and Automatic Secrets Rotation, strengthening platform resilience, security posture, and governance.• Led migration of hundreds of repositories from GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, modernizing the developer ecosystem and improving collaboration at scale.• Collaborate with senior leadership, product, architecture, and security teams to align engineering investments with enterprise strategy and long-term business value.

Education

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  MBA, Marketing Management, International Marketing.

  2000 — 2003

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Software Engineering

  1995 — 1998

Skills

• E-Commerce
• Enterprise Software
• Sdlc
• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Unix
• Finance
• Web Applications
• Online Gaming
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Wcf
• Java
• Soa
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Software Development
• Scrum
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Xml
• Mobile Devices
• User Interface
• Software Design
• Mobile Applications
• Wordpress
• Software Engineering
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Ajax
• Agile Project Management
• Leadership
• Javascript
• Outsourcing