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Visveswaran Vaidyanathan

 

About Me

With over 20 years of experience in tech, Visveswaran is passionate about helping organisations apply SOLID, Lean, Agile, DevOps & SRE principles to achieve meaningful and tangible digital transformation.

Having led teams large and small in diverse areas such as Core Banking, RegTech, GovTech , FinTech and Reliability Engineering, Visveswaran brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with a constant eye towards the big picture.

Visveswaran holds a Masters degrees in IT and business management. During his free time, he enjoys working on side projects and coding for fun, most recently with Rust.

Experience

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Technical Account Manager, Lead
Google
January 2025 - Present

Lead Technical Account Manager based in Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Technical Account Management Cloud Strategy GCP
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Managing Director, Platforms
Coreium
November 2022 - December 2024

Working toward empowering banks and non-banking financial services firms to transform their legacy core applications and digital channels to highly scalable and world-class banking services.

Platforms Digital Transformation Banking Services
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Principal SRE Lead
BigPay | Challenge Banking
January 2022 - October 2022

Designed, developed and implemented End to End Distributed Tracing using Open Source tools (Jaeger, ECK, OTel, Jsonnet, Flux v2). Implemented Monitoring Platform (RED and USE concepts) for 24x7 monitoring of micro-services to identify and alert at p95. Designed and implemented CD Platform for continuous delivery.

SRE Distributed Tracing Monitoring CD Pipeline Microservices
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Head, Container Systems Reliability Engineering
Standard Chartered Bank
April 2018 - January 2022

Built and maintained 70 Openshift clusters running 2K servers. Established Agile practices and pioneered GitOps organization-wide. Championed personal growth and developed cloud-centric processes (inventory, monitoring, license, access management). Developed end-to-end automated Openshift cluster provisioning pipeline.

Openshift Kubernetes SRE GitOps Agile Cloud Transformation
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Head, Site Reliability Engineer - Retail, Wealth and Private Banking
Standard Chartered Bank
June 2017 - April 2018

Built and managed a multi-functional engineering team. Designed automated monitoring onboarding solution with standardized KPIs. Designed and delivered Business Transactions Monitoring and One Touch Disaster Recovery failover solution for 17 Key applications. Piloted and pioneered containerized solutions.

SRE Monitoring Disaster Recovery Incident Management
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Head, Core Banking PSS East region
Standard Chartered Bank
April 2013 - June 2017

Managed L1, L2 BAU Support for the Eastern Hemisphere. Managed 24x7 Support Floor and remote development teams. Focused on continuous business execution and “Here for Good” policy in day-to-day activities.

Core Banking Support Management L1/L2 Support
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Senior Manager -- Service Owner & High Severity Management
Standard Chartered Bank
April 2011 - March 2013

Managed the entire lifecycle of Core Banking service. Defined and signed SLA’s/OLA’s. Responsible for service performance, capacity planning, security, risk, and continuity management. Led Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.

Service Ownership SLA Management High Severity Management ITIL
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Product Support Manager -- High Severity Management
Standard Chartered Bank
April 2008 - March 2011

Identified key failure areas and implemented System Improvement Plans. Responsible for analysis, trending & conducting RCA’s for high severity incidents. Chaired Change Approval Board for Core Banking. Delivered critical upgrade projects (hardware replacement, version upgrades).

Product Support High Severity Incidents RCA Change Management
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Project Lead -- Product Support
Standard Chartered Bank
August 2003 - March 2008

End-to-end support for Core Banking Application (Americas & China). Expert in Loans and Deposits and Transaction Processing. Built and managed a support team for 24/7 US support. Active member of Core Support Team for 32 countries.

Core Banking Product Support Loans & Deposits
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Management Intern
Standard Chartered Bank
January 2003 - July 2003

Responsible for understanding and studying of a Payment System and writing functional specifications for the new enhanced system. Identified core component and broke it into a sub system for SWIFT Message transfer across applications.

Payment Systems SWIFT Analysis
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Summer Intern
DSQ Software
March 2002 - August 2002

IT/Software Developer for a Warehouse Development Project.

Software Development Warehouse Project

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Tech Stack

Languages

Java Rust Python JavaScript/TypeScript Go

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Pipelines

Architecture & Methodologies

Microservices Solid Principles Agile Lean SRE TDD/BDD

Domains

FinTech RegTech GovTech Core Banking