Aravind Deivendran

Academic

• Rank holder
• NTSE 3 levels
• 93.5% Marks in HSLC
• State Merit Rank holder

Academic

• Graduated BE(Mech) Engg from PSG
• PSG - one of top 10 best engg
• Graduated with 8.96 CGPA and third rank overall
• Joined SallieMae through campus placement

Professional

• 2002-2015 - SunGard/SCT/SallieMae
• 2015-Now - EMC

Tech Stack

• Java/J2EE
• Spring/Hibernate, Spring Boot
• SQL Server/Oracle
• Scripting
• Cloud

Tech Stack

• Python, R
• Spark
• PCF
• Tableau

Solution Space

• Technology Mgt/Architecture/Design
• Project/Program Mgt
• Product SDLC
• Operations
• Thought leadership and mentoring
• Strategy

Courses

• Probability and Statistics
• Data science(R, Python, Spark)
• Economics & Finance
• Algorithms

Interests

• Psychology
• Economics and Finance
• Metacognition
• Anthropology
• Philosophy

Hobbies

• Reading - Books, blogs, articles, magazines, Kindle, Audible
• Movies - World Cinema
• Music - Explorer/Audiophile

SallieMae/SCT

• 2002-2005
• Matrix - Admin soln for Univ
• Microsoft stack - COM, ASP, XSL, XML
• Product Engineering Specialist
• Dev, Testing(Automation, Manual), Release, Support

SunGard Ambit

• Ambit Retail Banking
• 2005-2008
• Project Lead(8 members)
• Product Engineering and Support

SunGard Mifos

• Microfinance opensource
• Grameen Foundation
• Program Manager
• Java/J2EE
• CSR/Voluntary/Partime
• Performance Lab in AWS

SunGard STA

• Java/J2EE with Spring/Hibernate
• Development Manager(8-24)
• Development, Customer Support, Onboarding, Maintenance
• Distributed teams
• 2009-2015

Learnings

• Spring/Hibernate
• Team forming/operations
• Investment banking/finance
• Metrics/Reports
• Process definition
• Leadership

Contributions

• Set up the entire team from scratch
• End to end process definitions
• Engineering Culture
• Adoption by 3 big customers
• Kanban process for Support
• Entire data collection and reporting systems

EMC

• eLicensing/Third platform
• Development Manager
• 2015-
• Java/J2EE Spring PCF Microservices

Learnings

• Cloud/Microservices
• Large program/large org
• End to end planning
• Solution Vs Product
• Distributed systems

Contributions

• SLC and UI - 400 million $ RoI
• Insights from license data
• DevOps
• Software Robotics