Ganesh Sundaram

Dynamic Engineering Manager with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams and delivering complex software solutions in Supply Chain/e-Commerce space. Skilled in agile methodologies, project management, and cross-functional collaboration. Focused on driving innovation, optimizing processes & achieving business goals

• Managed a diverse team of 15+ engineers spanning across US, Mexico, India, and Romania, nurturing talent and developing cognitive decision-making scalable solutions
• Collaborated with stakeholders including product manages, UX teams, tech leads from cross-functional teams, and customer success/support teams to align engineering efforts with business goals
• Successfully spearheaded team expansion efforts, scaling my team from 5 to 15 members within 15 months—a 3x growth in team size. Managed complex product-level challenges and hiring hurdles concurrently
• Incorporated confidence scores from AI engine to enhance recommendations, enabling customers to adopt the product confidently as decisions were informed by historical data
• Oversaw development and implementation of Decision Workbench, Deployment Manager, and Decision Board, resulting in a 50% time savings for planners, an impressive 98.6% reduction in time for skill builders, and a 43% increase in adaptation
• Facilitated the transition to a cloud-agnostic model, integrating AWS and Azure via Kubernetes. This expanded our cloud infrastructure, improving scalability and flexibility

Experienced Staff Software Engineer skilled in Java, microservices, Kafka, Redis, and AWS. Proven expertise in designing scalable applications, adept in AWS and agile methodologies

• Collaborated with development and testing teams to design and deliver robust solutions meeting client needs for functionality, scalability, and performance
• Led multiple initiatives in PI planning, resource allocation, risk mitigation, release management, and issue resolution
• Promoted engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship
• Tech stack includes Java, SprintBoot, Kubenertes, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Exasol, Elasticache, Github, CI/CD, ArgoCD, GithubActions, Jenkins, AWS, Azure

Dedicated to delivering top-notch solutions and fostering technical innovation as a Principal Engineer

• Designed, lead and developed EMS/NMS to provide health, alarm and statistics of the network by exposing the data in the form of REST API and Kafka messages. Deployed Shard cluster with Replica Sets and Configuration Servers for multi-node cluster in MongoDB
• Collaborated with senior members of the team to shape and drive the technical strategy and vision, leveraging AWS services and best practices

Offered technical expertise and engineering excellence within an agile team to enhance, build, and successfully deliver PicOS NMS

• Designed, developed Pica8’s Resource and Element Management microservice application to monitor switches and controllers using Go, Node, Angular
• Worked with Verizon inter-op team to design and develop a joint SDN ecosystem by integrating with vendors like CISCO, Brocade, Ciena & HP

Designed, developed, and maintained numerous DOD projects dedicated to crafting an OpenFlow Controller that adhered to the OpenFlow Switch specifications

• Created choreography engine to manage virtual devices, switches and hypervisors (Xen, KVM, VMware, Vbox)

Skilled software engineer adept at building highly scalable distributed web applications with robust APIs

• Developed web application using JSP, Servlets, Struts, Jasper Reports, Filters, EJB, SQL-Server

Engineered and constructed a dynamic web application from scratch

• Developed web application using Java, Spring, Hibernate, JBOSS and MySQL