Naveen Govindan
Swindon,Wiltshire
Summary
Strategic Cloud Leader & Technology Consultant with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation for global media and broadcast leaders. Proven expertise in establishing Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoE) and designing scalable Cloud Operating Models that bridge technical architecture with board-level business strategy. Expert in delivering multi-million pound cost efficiencies through FinOps and AWS Modernization, while architecting high-concurrency platforms supporting 60M+ global subscribers.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Founding Director
NexFab Limited
London
06.2025 - Current
- Platform Modernisation: Designing the architecture of next-generation data platforms for Hyve Group on AWS stack to unlock hyper-personalisation, enhance marketing automation, self-serve analytics through natural language querying.
- Served as a Strategic Advisor to HCL Tech Sales Leadership, aligning cloud modernization roadmaps with commercial growth targets, directly contributing to winning business with Tier-1 global streaming clients.
- Established partnerships with Twilio-Segment, Rokt mParticle, Alibaba Cloud.
Vice President
DAZN
London
07.2022 - 12.2024
- Defined and executed a global Cloud Data Strategy for a 60M+ subscriber platform, establishing cross-regional engineering standards that reduced time-to-market for real-time audience insights.
- Delivered £15M+ in savings through strategic cloud migration and resource optimization at DAZN Group
- Evaluated 70+ application integrations for global broadcast platforms to identify cloud-native pathways at DAZN Group.
Assistant Vice-President
Ness Technologies
London
06.2021 - 07.2022
Established and Led the Cloud and Data Center of Excellence - won a business in excess of $2m over a period of 12 months.
Senior Manager
Warner Bros. Discovery
London
08.2018 - 06.2021
Built Customer Data Platform that supports 3M+ concurrent users and 100K transactions per second at Warner Bros. Discovery.
Business Account Management
Cognizant
London
01.2014 - 09.2016
Media Clients : BBC, Sky, UKTV and Imagine Networks
Portfolio : $10m+
At BBC, Led multi-vendor scrum teams, across various locations.
Created a digital platform for efficient storage and archival of broadcast programme data.
Reinstated effective program governance by redefining KPIs for suppliers to clarify deliverables.
Ensured adherence to legal contracts through comprehensive oversight of team outputs.
Education
Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University
Chennai 08.1999 - 05.2003
Skills
Programming languages: Python, TypeScript
Architectural Design Patterns and SOLID Design Principles
Cloud platforms: AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, Managed Services Kafka, EMR, Kinesis Data Streams, DynamoDB, Neptune Graph DB), GCS,
Azure Data Factory, Fabric and OneLake
Big data technologies: Apache Spark, Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL
Data engineering tools: Airflow, DBT, Terraform, SQL, Kafka
Analytics and visualization: Looker, Power BI, Grafana
Marketing technology: HubSpot, Dyanmics CE, Twilio-Segment, mParticle, GTM
Security and Compliance: GDPR, OneTrust, IAM
Timeline
Founding Director
NexFab Limited
06.2025 - Current
Vice President
DAZN
07.2022 - 12.2024
Assistant Vice-President
Ness Technologies
06.2021 - 07.2022
Senior Manager
Warner Bros. Discovery
08.2018 - 06.2021
Business Account Management
Cognizant
01.2014 - 09.2016
Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University
08.1999 - 05.2003