Professional Summary
Engineering leader with 15 years in software delivery and 5 years leading engineering teams, currently heading a 35-engineer platform tribe across India and Thailand at Allianz Technology, supporting services used in 22 countries. Deep hands-on background in AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code, with a leadership style built on staying technically engaged: acting as a sounding board for engineers who own their designs. Recognized internally for driving one of the earliest AI-native engineering transformations in the organization — rolling out Claude-based workflows, an MCP gateway, and AI personas that engineers report save 30% of their time. A decade of close collaboration with German and Austrian stakeholders.
Core Competencies
Professional Experience
Tribe Lead, BMP Commercial Platform
2024 – Present- Lead a 35-engineer platform tribe (5 direct reports, ~18 senior engineers) across India and Thailand, delivering infrastructure and DevOps for the modernization of Allianz's commercial insurance IT landscape.
- Transformed the tribe into an AI-native organization by fundamentally rewriting ways of working rather than adding tooling: engineers report on average 30% time savings and 30–40% faster deliveries.
- Rolled out 10+ AI-assisted engineering workflows integrating Claude Code with GitHub, and built an MCP gateway connecting Claude Desktop to Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for the whole tribe.
- Designed Claude-based AI personas acting as virtual junior scrum master, product owner, and DevOps engineer — facilitating daily stand-ups, PI planning, and documentation from live tool data.
- Own hiring, performance, and career development for the tribe; interviewed and assessed 50+ engineering candidates across the organization.
- Coordinate delivery and dependencies across multiple internal teams and countries in a large-scale modernization program.
DevOps Architect, BMP Commercial Platform
2023 – 2024- Set the technical direction for platform and DevOps engineering while remaining hands-on in code — reviewing designs proposed by engineers and enabling them to own delivery.
- Proposed and drove adoption of the GitOps model, replacing Jenkins-based deployments run by a dedicated ops team: all infrastructure and secrets managed as code and synced via ArgoCD.
- Drove the move from a monolithic release model to microservices-oriented delivery: from one big-bang release every two months to daily releases of individual services via GitHub Actions and ArgoCD (fully automated, human-less deployments).
- Operated Kubernetes (AWS EKS) production workloads supporting services used across 22 countries, with Terraform/Terragrunt IaC and Dynatrace observability.
Specialist, DevOps Engineering
2017 – 2023- Took team-level leadership responsibility from 2021, mentoring engineers while building CI/CD automation in Groovy (Jenkins pipelines) and Bash.
- Built and maintained cloud infrastructure on AWS for Allianz commercial insurance applications.
Systems Engineer
2015 – 2017- Build, release, and environment management for Allianz applications serving European markets.
Software Configuration Management Developer — Amdocs (DVCI)
2013 – 2015- Software configuration management and release engineering for telecom billing systems.
Build and Release Engineer — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
2011 – 2013- Build automation and release management for enterprise software delivery.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
M.Sc. Electronics Science (Specialization: Robotics)
Languages
English — full professional proficiency (working language since 2011; daily collaboration with German/Austrian teams since 2015) · German — basic understanding · Malayalam, Hindi — native/fluent