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Senthil Kumar Mani
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Reading, United Kingdom
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● Working as a Digital Transformation Lead for a large financial services
● 18+ years of software industry work experience in various capacities
● Strong experience in engaging customers and interpretation of their needs to provide optimised technology solutions with measurable metrics.
● Strong experience in building financials services software with the clear understanding of regulatory regimes that dictates the software governance process.
● Experienced in architecting fault tolerant high availability software solutions for the large-scale users.
● Hands on experience in modern cloud solution providers such as AWS, GCP and Azure and experienced in building microservices digital platforms.
● Proven experience managing Digital platform teams (Web, Mobile, CMS, Marketing, SEO and digital optimisation teams)
● Ability to work in lock step with the proposition leads to influence and execute upon short, medium and long-term business strategy.
● Proficient in various programming languages and the software development methodologies.
● Good understanding of Blockchain and have executed proof of concept /MVP's in both private and public Blockchain/DLT technologies (Ethereum. Quorum, Corda, Hyperledger)
● Having immense interest in Cognitive computing (Machine learning, Deep learning and Natural language processing and Natural Language understanding).
● Strong knowledge of complex technology platforms and applications with experience of Cloud technologies, DevOps(CI/CD), Agile & waterfall tools and methods
● Proven background of taking significant products to market under aggressive timelines.
● Superior vendor, partner and client engagement skills, including ability to build and manage client relationships.
● Managed teams of varied sizes with a mix of in-house, outsourced and temporary staffs across the globe.
● 18+ years of software industry work experience in various capacities
● Strong experience in engaging customers and interpretation of their needs to provide optimised technology solutions with measurable metrics.
● Strong experience in building financials services software with the clear understanding of regulatory regimes that dictates the software governance process.
● Experienced in architecting fault tolerant high availability software solutions for the large-scale users.
● Hands on experience in modern cloud solution providers such as AWS, GCP and Azure and experienced in building microservices digital platforms.
● Proven experience managing Digital platform teams (Web, Mobile, CMS, Marketing, SEO and digital optimisation teams)
● Ability to work in lock step with the proposition leads to influence and execute upon short, medium and long-term business strategy.
● Proficient in various programming languages and the software development methodologies.
● Good understanding of Blockchain and have executed proof of concept /MVP's in both private and public Blockchain/DLT technologies (Ethereum. Quorum, Corda, Hyperledger)
● Having immense interest in Cognitive computing (Machine learning, Deep learning and Natural language processing and Natural Language understanding).
● Strong knowledge of complex technology platforms and applications with experience of Cloud technologies, DevOps(CI/CD), Agile & waterfall tools and methods
● Proven background of taking significant products to market under aggressive timelines.
● Superior vendor, partner and client engagement skills, including ability to build and manage client relationships.
● Managed teams of varied sizes with a mix of in-house, outsourced and temporary staffs across the globe.
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United Kingdom
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2017 - ?
job
Digital Transformation Lead, reporting Head
Refinitiv.
formerly Thomson Reuters
Duration: Jun 2017 - Till Date
Role & Responsibilities
● Technology and delivery owner for a multi-million digital transformation programmes to develop Omni channel digital experience for Refinitiv customers
● Define, Own and execute technical strategy for a major rebrand exercise (Thomson Reuters to Refinitiv)
● Define and manage digital architecture road map for Digital & Business Technology group to manage various digital footprint such as marketing, self-service, blogs, training and developer portal.
● Manage and define consolidated digital technology strategy for various stake holders across the business.
● Provide standardised tooling for development teams and the business to achieve consistency across the Refinitiv's digital footprint
● Provide thought leadership to develop a robust single source of truth design system
● Advocate the adoption of design system to the wider company and accelerate the software development process
● Define non-functional benchmarks for the wider programmes and align them to the central architecture board.
● Participate in the vendor evaluation process and work with procurement to invite RFQs (Adobe, Sales Force, SAP, AWS & GCP) and outsourcing partners (TCS, Tech Mahindra, EPAM Systems)
● Provide advice and regular updates to the senior management on the technology strategy for the digital transformation programme
● Recruit and retain right in-house talent (Architects, Scrum masters, UX designers, Front end / Full stack developers and QA's) to oversee the delivery of outsourced work.
Duration: Jun 2017 - Till Date
Role & Responsibilities
● Technology and delivery owner for a multi-million digital transformation programmes to develop Omni channel digital experience for Refinitiv customers
● Define, Own and execute technical strategy for a major rebrand exercise (Thomson Reuters to Refinitiv)
● Define and manage digital architecture road map for Digital & Business Technology group to manage various digital footprint such as marketing, self-service, blogs, training and developer portal.
● Manage and define consolidated digital technology strategy for various stake holders across the business.
● Provide standardised tooling for development teams and the business to achieve consistency across the Refinitiv's digital footprint
● Provide thought leadership to develop a robust single source of truth design system
● Advocate the adoption of design system to the wider company and accelerate the software development process
● Define non-functional benchmarks for the wider programmes and align them to the central architecture board.
● Participate in the vendor evaluation process and work with procurement to invite RFQs (Adobe, Sales Force, SAP, AWS & GCP) and outsourcing partners (TCS, Tech Mahindra, EPAM Systems)
● Provide advice and regular updates to the senior management on the technology strategy for the digital transformation programme
● Recruit and retain right in-house talent (Architects, Scrum masters, UX designers, Front end / Full stack developers and QA's) to oversee the delivery of outsourced work.
Sales, Portal, Software, Development, Transformation, Adobe, Blogs, Outsourcing, Developer, Technology, QA, Service, Architecture, Design, Leadership, Management, Procurement, SAP, Training, Software development, Digital transformation, AWS, UX, Scrum, Marketing
2013 - 2017
job
Innovation Lead
Thomson Reuters (Thomson Reuters Labs).
Role & Responsibilities
● Identify and provide technology consultancy to the business units to improve the business process
● Provide Thought leadership for brand Blockone and advocate the adoption of technology solutions both internal and external developer communities
● Ideate, built and scaled analytics solution to capture 2 billion events from 40 products in 18 months
● Advocate the adoption of our vendor agnostic micro services platform (GCP, AWS & AZURE) to strategic business units and the company wide developer community.
● Participate in technical and design discussions with technical executives & strategic partners to speed adoption and ensure best practices during implementation.
● Conduct routine Innovation weeks for ideate and build a proof of concept on new technologies in collaboration with large scale technology partners such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.
● Executed MVP projects ranging from Android Wear (to capture heartbeat whilst consuming news content), Google Glass (Get direct visuals from the journalist from the ground zero), Chromecast (Extended second screen experience for traders) and Android TV, Android Auto
● Reuters TV & Proview incubated on the innovation labs that has been scaled up.
● Identify and provide technology consultancy to the business units to improve the business process
● Provide Thought leadership for brand Blockone and advocate the adoption of technology solutions both internal and external developer communities
● Ideate, built and scaled analytics solution to capture 2 billion events from 40 products in 18 months
● Advocate the adoption of our vendor agnostic micro services platform (GCP, AWS & AZURE) to strategic business units and the company wide developer community.
● Participate in technical and design discussions with technical executives & strategic partners to speed adoption and ensure best practices during implementation.
● Conduct routine Innovation weeks for ideate and build a proof of concept on new technologies in collaboration with large scale technology partners such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.
● Executed MVP projects ranging from Android Wear (to capture heartbeat whilst consuming news content), Google Glass (Get direct visuals from the journalist from the ground zero), Chromecast (Extended second screen experience for traders) and Android TV, Android Auto
● Reuters TV & Proview incubated on the innovation labs that has been scaled up.
Design, Android, AWS, Innovation, Azure, Journalist, Content, Analytics, Leadership, TV, Technology, Developer, Implementation, Community, Google, UP
2011 - 2013
job
Mobile Applications Architect
Anoto Ltd.
Role & Responsibilities
● Architected and built an end-to-end product for a large car head unit manufacturer.
● Iteratively built POC, MVP and product with a consortium of partners with varying capabilities such as hardware, operating system, maps, payments and music providers.
● Developed a blackberry App for the 2015 Rugby world cup in partnership with Blackberry and Rugby Union.
● Gather requirements from customer and perform a feasibility study by liaising with technology partners.
● Design & Development of multi-functional Android application for a leading car head unit manufacturing company.
● Liaise with the in-house portal development team to integrate the Android solution with the music store and music locker provider (7digital).
● Work closely with Android OS development team (Windriver Germany) to make necessary changes to the music player app for give a better user experience.
● Design and development of a payment platform and API for the applications developers to collect payments from the car head unit.
● Architected and built an end-to-end product for a large car head unit manufacturer.
● Iteratively built POC, MVP and product with a consortium of partners with varying capabilities such as hardware, operating system, maps, payments and music providers.
● Developed a blackberry App for the 2015 Rugby world cup in partnership with Blackberry and Rugby Union.
● Gather requirements from customer and perform a feasibility study by liaising with technology partners.
● Design & Development of multi-functional Android application for a leading car head unit manufacturing company.
● Liaise with the in-house portal development team to integrate the Android solution with the music store and music locker provider (7digital).
● Work closely with Android OS development team (Windriver Germany) to make necessary changes to the music player app for give a better user experience.
● Design and development of a payment platform and API for the applications developers to collect payments from the car head unit.
Design, User Experience, Android, API, Technology, Hardware, Development, Music, App, Portal
2008 - 2011
job
Founding Engineer & Architect
Mobile Sports Ltd.
Mobile Sports Ltd is an UK start up providing mobile solutions for the sports and the betting market.
Role & Responsibilities
● Work closely with the CXO's in building technology roadmap and assist the sales team to tailor the product for targeted customers.
● Create SoW documents and compile project bids working with Sales/Pre-Sales support and other departments
● Provide pre-sales support on important, prioritized deals as specified by CTO and Sales Director
● Design and development of highly scalable mobile football scores application.
● Design and development of multithreaded feed processor for football and horse racing feeds.
● Design and architect of the sports book application and mobile ad server.
● Provide technical inputs and solutions to the development partners in Eastern Europe.
● Understand and recommend a cost-effective solution for customers and partners.
● Providing technical advice to customers like Stan James and Global Betting Exchange.
● Responsible for managing the delivery of applications to various app stores.
● Evaluate and identify any 3rd party solutions/ services that are required for mobile development.
● Understand the requirements and feature requests from various channels.
● Package, Deliver and Maintain apps in appstores & Manage various deployed environments.
Role & Responsibilities
● Work closely with the CXO's in building technology roadmap and assist the sales team to tailor the product for targeted customers.
● Create SoW documents and compile project bids working with Sales/Pre-Sales support and other departments
● Provide pre-sales support on important, prioritized deals as specified by CTO and Sales Director
● Design and development of highly scalable mobile football scores application.
● Design and development of multithreaded feed processor for football and horse racing feeds.
● Design and architect of the sports book application and mobile ad server.
● Provide technical inputs and solutions to the development partners in Eastern Europe.
● Understand and recommend a cost-effective solution for customers and partners.
● Providing technical advice to customers like Stan James and Global Betting Exchange.
● Responsible for managing the delivery of applications to various app stores.
● Evaluate and identify any 3rd party solutions/ services that are required for mobile development.
● Understand the requirements and feature requests from various channels.
● Package, Deliver and Maintain apps in appstores & Manage various deployed environments.
Design, Exchange, Sales, Technology, Apps, Support, Cto, Development, App, Server, Feature, Multithreaded, UP
2007 - 2008
job
Technical Architect, Product Engineering
July Systems & Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Role & Responsibilities
● Work closely with business in building technology relationship with new and existing customers
● Collect information on customer's needs and discover customer's unstated, latent requirements.
● Generate new product and service concepts.
● Evaluate any 3rd party solutions required.
● Identify direct and indirect competitors' revenue and value channels.
● Work closely with business in building technology relationship with new and existing customers
● Collect information on customer's needs and discover customer's unstated, latent requirements.
● Generate new product and service concepts.
● Evaluate any 3rd party solutions required.
● Identify direct and indirect competitors' revenue and value channels.
Service, Engineering, Technology
2006 - 2007
job
Technical Specialist, Product Engineering
NXP Semiconductors India Ltd.
(Bangalore/ Sophia Antipolis, France)
Duration: Feb 2006- Oct 2007.
Roles & Responsibilities
● Was part of team that developed a CLDC / MIDP based product called Jware for the feature phone manufacturers to easily enable the app discovery and management.
● Working closely with Sony Ericsson and Samsung to integrate the solution with their handsets.
● Escalate issues to the product team and communicate the progress to the respective stakeholders.
Duration: Feb 2006- Oct 2007.
Roles & Responsibilities
● Was part of team that developed a CLDC / MIDP based product called Jware for the feature phone manufacturers to easily enable the app discovery and management.
● Working closely with Sony Ericsson and Samsung to integrate the solution with their handsets.
● Escalate issues to the product team and communicate the progress to the respective stakeholders.
Management, Engineering, App, Feature
2004 - 2006
job
Senior Software Engineer, R & D
LG Electronics(Bangalore/Seoul).
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Work closely with Operator's technology team across the world.
● Negotiating acceptance criteria for handset releases with operators.
● Work closely with the product development teams located in different time zones to accommodate the changes raised by operators.
● Work closely with technology partners and chipset vendors.
● Work closely with Operator's technology team across the world.
● Negotiating acceptance criteria for handset releases with operators.
● Work closely with the product development teams located in different time zones to accommodate the changes raised by operators.
● Work closely with technology partners and chipset vendors.
Product development, R, Technology, Development, Software
2002 - 2004
freelance
Mobile Technology Consultant
Reliance Infocomm(Bangalore).
Roles & Responsibilities:
Design and Development of the Client Application in J2ME and co- ordinate with the OEM development team to ensure the Reliance proprietary API's are implemented according to the specifications.
Design and Development of the Client Application in J2ME and co- ordinate with the OEM development team to ensure the Reliance proprietary API's are implemented according to the specifications.
Design, API, Technology, Development
My education
University of Madras
BSc, Computers
BSc, Computers
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