Vivek Soundrapandi

About Vivek Soundrapandi

Director of Engineering with comprehensive expertise in leading high-performance teams and implementing AI-driven solutions throughout the software development lifecycle. Skilled in leveraging platforms such as Python, Ruby, Java, React, AWS, and Kubernetes to architect complex microservices and cloud infrastructures. Recognized for employing agile methodologies to align product strategies with business goals and achieve operational excellence while driving innovation. Ready to apply leadership strengths and extensive technical proficiency to enhance engineering outcomes and contribute to organizational success.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Yubi

   Jul 2023 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Led product development teams to drive innovation using AI and automation in a fast-paced, agile environment, resulting in a 20%reduction in product delivery timelines.• Managed and led software development teams by securing resources, eliminating obstacles, scaling teams from 3 to over 50 whileapplying a focused hiring strategy, and boosting productivity to successfully achieve project goals.• Aligned design strategy and architecture with engineering teams, which streamlined roadmap execution, optimizing infrastructure costsand increasing system throughput from 100 tps to over 500 tps.• Coordinated integrated teams to develop and implement technology solutions, enhancing product initiatives and driving successfulproject outcomes.• Collaborated with product and project managers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance to deliver technology solutions, leadingover 10 teams in various successful initiatives through scrums, war rooms, and retrospectives.• Collaborated with multiple business units to strategically prioritize and efficiently execute development schedules for successful majorproduct releases.• Communicated strategic directions and changes to senior leaders, driving informed decision-making and ensuring alignment withorganizational objectives.• Developed distributed applications and led large-scale enterprise solutions, optimizing system performance by implementing k8s andKEDA scaling, distributed tracing, business alerts, and enhancing database efficiency through strategic configurations.• Directed large engineering teams to successfully create 33 microservices for loan origination and management within 12 months,enhancing collaboration, productivity, and team morale.• Enhanced infrastructure, application monitoring, platform stabilization, and service performance by applying expertise in CI/CD,system testing, and test automation.

Education

• PSG College of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Mysql
• Xml
• Sql
• Linux
• Unix
• Chrome Extensions
• Firefox Extensions
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Css
• User Experience
• Html
• Bootstrap3.0
• Django
• Mongodb
• Apache
• Javascript
• Software Development
• Python