Sandhya Radhakrishnan
Engineering Manager
Basingstoke,ENG
Summary
Accomplished Engineering Manager with experience in a myriad of technologies and well-demonstrated leadership ability. Proficient in Agile Scrum/kanban, managing complex projects and fuelling transformative change. Skilled background in leading matrix distributed teams using excellent stakeholder management skills and effective line management techniques. Highly efficient leader, able to combine business understanding with technical knowledge. Adept at fostering and sustaining professional and productive business relationships across a variety of industries. Solutions-oriented technical leader producing quality work on time and within budgets.
I’m currently looking for a new role as Engineering manager, I want to drive my team with good practices to release quality and reliable systems.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Squad Lead and Technical Consultant
AND Digital
London
03.2022 - Current
- Principal-level senior leadership position with accountability for client delivery alongside internal line management and business unit operations.
- Leading teams on key accounts, collaborated with stakeholders to transform client requirements into turnkey solutions.
- Responsible for the growth & development of a squad of individual contributors internally and on clients.
- Interfacing with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment of Technical Solutions to transitionary or ‘to-be’ architecture states & patterns.
- Identifying where business value can be brought forward through technical implementation iteratively. Designing, visualising & documenting Solution Architecture.
- Manage and run end-to-end RFI & RFP process including technical evaluations with vendors ensuring right technology and tools for the team and product.
- Leading the solution architecture for digital solutions using APIs, Cloud, PAAS technology.
- Expanding internal and client talent through hiring and developing/supporting on-boarding process.
- Delivering full-day workshops and training to the internal Academy, wider business unit, and clients.
Technical Delivery Lead
The AA
Basingstoke
10.2019 - 02.2022
- I managed all development and integration activities associated with medium to complex cross-functional projects, with responsibility for the managing resource plans, technical delivery across the systems development life with tight deadlines to ensure business requirements are met.
- Efficient stakeholder management working closely with business, operations, IT stakeholders and delivery partners to understand the business problems and requirements to drive the roadmap and develop high-quality technical solutions.
- Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, testing, security and external partners to ensure governance for development.
- Represent the delivery team in steering group meetings highlighting project track and raise any challenges.
- Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
- Managed team of engineers, overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of team.
Engineering Manager
Thomas Cook
London
06.2016 - 09.2019
- Product feature team management and coordination among 8 offshore/onshore teams of 6 people in average split on 4 different sites.
- Provide technical excellence and team leadership to ensure first quality mind-set, simple architecture and highest code quality
- Strategy and process definition to allow teams to work together with a common goal and infrastructure in an agile SCRUM environment - Code quality, monitoring, performance
- Cultivated partnerships between engineering, product and UX personnel to create holistically designed final products.
- Meeting and synchronizing with third parties and partners for SEARCH, CONTENT and holiday providers’ integration in our business domain
- Coaching and supporting engineers with regular 1:1s and continuous feedback for team’s performance and their own career development and also responsible for recruitments.
- Strong interpersonal, management and communication skills with ability to deal with ambiguity and drive independently / collaboratively with the team on solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior business and IT executives on agile culture and best practices
Senior Developer
Thomas Cook
London
10.2013 - 05.2016
- Experience designing and building large applications that scale to1000s+ requests per second, serve millions of customers and support over $100M in revenue
- My work within the team is to contribute in the analysis, design and development with best practices, which provides maximum added value for the product, and business, which is our overall commitment as a Scrum team.
- Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments.
- Evaluated and improved development work of other developers on team, working to provide training, constructive criticism and knowledge transfer.
- Strong background in test driven development, automated testing and other software engineering best practices (i.e., http protocols, etc.)
- Significant experience developing RESTful API services and using both relational and non-relational data stores
- Sound knowledge and experience with agile values, principles and practices include Scrum and Kanban.
Java Developer
Oracle Financial services
Chennai
03.2010 - 02.2013
- Strong test driven Programming Skills in designing and implementation of multi-tier applications using full stack technologies. ( client/server)
- Used Hibernate, ORM and SQL/No-SQL to develop and manage databases.
- Experience in developing Web Services using - SOAP, WSDL and developing XSD schemas for XML (parsing, processing, and design).
- Experience in using Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, SOA, OSB, Oracle Content Manager, Oracle Web-logic for an internal project.
- Consulted with engineering team members to determine system loads and develop improvement plans.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University
Chennai, India 09.2005 - 05.2009
Skills
Agile Scrum/kanban
Timeline
Squad Lead and Technical Consultant
AND Digital
03.2022 - Current
Technical Delivery Lead
The AA
10.2019 - 02.2022
Engineering Manager
Thomas Cook
06.2016 - 09.2019
Senior Developer
Thomas Cook
10.2013 - 05.2016
Java Developer
Oracle Financial services
03.2010 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Anna University
09.2005 - 05.2009
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