Zubin Daroona

About Zubin Daroona

Visionary IT Executive with 30+ years experience in various technology & leadership disciplines delivering \'Pragmatic Architecture & Software Engineering Solutions with Excellence in Service Delivery\', with special focus on people mentorship & growth. Experienced with end-to-end Architecture & Software Engineering ownership in highly-complex global companies, as employee & consultant to/from Fortune 100/500s.For insight into my leadership style & accomplishments over the past two decades, see commentary from CTO, execs, colleagues, clients & my team members. in the Recommendations section at the end of my LI Profile. My key value-proposition: • CLOUD & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: Migrated 95% of compute to AWS/GCP in less than 3 years in highly-complex technology companies. Contributed to $250M+ annualized savings. Secured multi-million $ airline deals & renewals. Decreased developments cost by 20-50%. Met all board commitments and cost savings targets.• AI, GENAI & AGENTIC AI: Infused AI into Platform offering, tooling & processes with 25%+ developer productivity gains & growing. • INNOVATION: Ideated, designed & delivered solutions resulting in huge financial savings ($22M+ annual, ongoing YOY) to company’s bottom-line. Achieved 220% performance improvements by compiler redesign. • GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: Defined Architecture, Technical Strategy, Governance & Standards supporting $3.2B+(72% of total) annual revenue & $40-68M in new annual development in travel. Led Global Product Development delivering E2E products & solutions for high-profile Airline & Distribution customers. Established & led Customer Touchpoints, APIs, Storefronts & Distribution Services orgs (~300 people across Europe, Asia, North & South America) delivering & managing mission-critical 24x7 high TPS systems on-schedule, on-budget across on-prem datacenters & AWS/GCP cloud. Improved SDLC throughput by 25%. Built Enterprise Platforms for Fortune 100/500 used to support $10B+ Agency revenue (DWP) and $50M+ annual revenue. • MULTI-FACETED INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: B2B, B2C, Distribution, Travel (Airlines, Hospitality/Lodging, Ground & Sea), Finance/Insurance Agency & Claims. Established my own company & consulted to/from Fortune 100/500s. • CUSTOMERS/CLIENTS: Built long-lasting, trust-bound executive, peer, team & client/customer relationships. Built & owned relationships to extremely appreciative client/customer-bases who returned time & again for additional business. • PEOPLE FOCUS: Invested in people growth recognizing people are our most important assets.

Experience

1. Head of Digital Platform for Digital Aviation Solutions (Jeppesen)

   Boeing

   May 2024 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Overall global engineering leader over Global Digital Platform Architecture and Development for Boeing Digital Aviation Solutions (DAS), within Boeing Global Services (BGS). Overall E2E Accountable: for establishing the DAS Digital Platform (AWS & Azure), including Platform vision, Architecture, Technical Strategy, Engineering, Operations (DevOps, SecOps, TestOps), Financials (FinOps), & Global Support. Established the DAS Digital Platform: an offering that decreased production release time from months to weeks and weeks to days/hours (DORA measured), enabling cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS architectures (vs. on prem.), with Microservices Architecture (vs. monolithic), CI/CD, Observability (Grafana/Prometheus), CIAM,(PingOne/Okta) & Developer Portal (Backstage/Cortex). Enabled Cloud & Digital Transformation for DAS Products: • Flight Operations (Crew & Network Ops, Dispatch & Tracking, Training & Performance Analytics) • Flight Planning (Crew, Network, Flight & Trip) • Flight Deck (Ground, In-flight & Flight Efficiency Apps) • Data Products & Navigation/Charting (NOTAM, Geo Spatial, Nav. Data Services & Charting) • Tech Ops (Airplane Health & Tech. Content Mgmt.) • Flight Data Analytics (Data Mgmt, Flight Data & Self-Service Analytics). Brainchild for Digital Platform 2.0: A new new Technology & AI-based Cloud Platform, independent of Boeing and a convergence of Jeppesen and ForeFlight worlds for the new future company to be launched in November 2025 (resultant of DAS $11.55 B sale to Thoma Bravo,) AI, GenAI & Agentic AI: Infused AI into the Digital Platform offering, tooling & processes with est. 25%+ developer productivity gains.

Education

• Franklin University

  MBA

  2007 — 2008

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics

  1987 — 1991

Skills

• Strategy
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• IT Strategy
• Data Modeling
• Executive Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Soa
• Customer Service
• Business Relationship Management
• Business Analysis
• Customer Relations
• Enterprise Architecture
• Management
• Vendor Management
• Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Process Improvement
• Product Management
• Sdlc