Arun Gotikala

A pragmatic thought leader, strategist, innovative technologist and a result driven seasoned professional with the Capacity of Leadership role (Head of Technology/Engineering, Director / Senior Architect )

Managing a portfolio of enterprise grade Cloud Products & SaaS Services.

Diversified domain experience – SaaS, B2B, B2C, On-Prem & Cloud Lifecycle Management, NPC(AWS, Azure), DevSecOps, PaaS, IaaS, Data Analytics, AI/ML, Virtualization, Observability, Kubernetes & Containers, Supply Chain, Insurance, Banking/Finance, Hybrid Cloud Management, Content & Config Management(SaltStack/Ansible/Github/Bitbucket/GitLab)

Experience in leading large (100+) digital teams, Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, AI Automation, Digital Automation ,CRM implementations & ERP Implementations.

Proficient in setting-up Product Engineering Groups/Verticals. Built, Managed & Coached up to 90+ diversified team members including Managers and Architects.

As a thought leader planned and executed strategies for Product Engineering, Innovation & quicker Releases (to improve customer experience & Time-to-Value, to build robust & resilient products, sustainable & predictable quality, to retrospect for continuous improvement in quality/processes/policies).

Engineered products/frameworks/platforms from Inception to Production.

Proficient in Architecture of highly available, distributed, resilient, scalable SaaS & N-tier web applications, developing APIs & Micro-Services for Cloud, deriving Technology Stack etc.

Broad experience in SDLC/PDLC Methodologies such as Agile(Scrum, SQUAD, Sprint, Story board, XP(TDD, PP, CI/CD, DevOps). Handled Project Planning, Work allocation, Budget & Estimation, Scheduling, Tracking, Metrics(MTTR), Influencing, Negotiation, Stakeholder & Risk Management.

Practical experience in setting-up 24/7 On-Call support team to handle critical customer issues

C++, REST API's, Desing Patterns, Desing Principles,Java 8 , Spring Boot, Spring , AWS,AZURE, Multitenant SaaS,CI/CD automation, Jenkins, Terraform, Github, Docker, Kubernates, ReactJs, AngularJs, Material UI, Kafka, Pandas, Python, Numpy and JIRA

Cloud Migration & Modernization– AWS/Azure cost optimization , Lift & Shift, Mircoservices & Application modernization

Infrastruture Automation - Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes , Azure/AWS Devops, Github, Jenkins, automation, testing and deployment pipelines.

Design & Archietcture – Define and execute technology blue prints, Design Patterns, Design Principles, UML and heading ARB ( Architecture Review Board) Team

AI/ML - Python, R, or Java for data manipulation, analysis, and model development.ML libraries such as PyTorch, Scikit-learn, etc. ML algorithms, & statistical techniques.

Team Management - Recruit, hire, onboard, Performance and train talented software engineers

Security - cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks, SonarCube, PI-testing, OWSAP implementation, Oauth , OpenID , Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Domain – Banking & Finance, Insurance, Re-insurance, Transport and HRMS

NFR - Performance, Scalability , Availability, Resilience, Fault-Tolerance, BCP and Maintainability

ERP Implementation - Understanding the business needs of the organization and identifying and implementing the appropriate Technology Strategy ; Integration of the ERP and various other technology tools of the organization to help improve overall organizational efficiency

Built and led a high-performing engineering team 200+ that delivered multiple critically acclaimed titles resulting in increased revenue and high client satisfaction.
 

B.Tech E C E 2006 yr