SRIVIDHYA CHANDRASEKARAN

Portland Metro Area ad4nsm@r.postjobfree.com

971-***-**** linkedin.com/in/srividhya-chandrasekaran

VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING CTO CIO

Disciplined, goal-oriented technology strategist and leader with a bias for inclusive participation and diversity while driving innovation across product, platform, and software engineering teams. A proven problem solver with an engineering mind, business development drive, and a customer relations personality who excels at leading complex hardware and software development technical teams in a cross functional organization through difficult programs to achieve strategic goals within a defined scope with a specified financial budget. A key member of the leadership team that creates and executes product delivery strategy, drives product development teams, and is frequently sought-after to manage problematic areas while fostering collaborative relationships with technology leaders and business stakeholders. Core competencies include:

Product Development Innovation Program Management Business Process Improvement SDLC

Software Engineering TDD Systems Management Automation Strategy Development Mentoring & Coaching

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FOND, Portland, OR

VP of Engineering/Chief Information Security Officer 8/2022 – 8/2023

Managed and led a quality-focused, high-performing team of junior and senior engineers, QA (Quality Assurance) engineers, and DevOps specialists to deliver new features and regular software updates to the Fond platform. Fond is a SaaS product company that creates a Rewards and Recognition product to be used by mid-size to large enterprises to recognize their employees and improve their employee satisfaction rate.

Took active interest in team's growth and everyone’s career aspirations. Also responsible for managing the Information Security team.

Delivered various customer request features with a sense of urgency implementing fast delivery and high-quality mindset, using test driven development and test automation and decreasing number of post-production issues substantially.

Helped the company maintain revenue (~$10 million ARR) by addressing customer concerns in a timely manner.

Assessed the cloud infrastructure and saved company about 16K per month by consolidating the same.

Worked closely with product, sales, and customer success team to define right solutions for the end users to help with their employee satisfaction.

Coached and mentored engineers to adopt a customer-focus service when planning and delivering solutions.

Overlooked the Data Analytics team to implement better business reports to help make better business decisions.

Applied agile methodology and continuous integration/delivery approach.

Performed resource planning to ensure timely delivery within budget.

Worked closely with other leaders to prioritize business initiatives, timelines, and budgets.

An active contributor in setting the company’s strategy, long-term roadmaps, and objectives.

Worked with several clients on security concerning data privacy and other security compliance.

Helped company get the SOC2 compliance for 2022.

0 attritions since taking over the Engineering team.

Tech Stack: AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud, Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript, SQL, Cypress and Appium automation.

BLUE VOLT, Portland, OR

Director of Engineering 12/2020 – 8/2022

Managed and led a quality-focused, high-performing team of junior and senior engineers, QA engineers, and DevOps specialists to deliver new features and regular software updates to the Blue Volt platform. Blue Volt is a pioneer in the e-Learning industry with both Learning Management System (LMS) and Channel Learning and Readiness (CLR) solutions to help people and companies grow, respectively.

Delivered the first micro-service architecture over a legacy platform. Decreased new feature implementation to minutes from days.

Worked on breaking the monolith application into domain specific micro-service for easy maintenance and enhancements.

Overlooked the Data Analytics team to implement better business reports to help make better business decisions.Doubled the size of the team in 6 months from the time started and continuing to grow the same.

Work closely with product, sales, and customer success team to define right solutions for the end users and customers.

Implemented features like automated course enrollment to manage learning pathways and ability to add new payment partners easily.

Worked closely with other leaders in the organization to ensure timelines and budgets.

An active contributor in setting the company’s long-term roadmaps and objectives to enhance customer experience.

Tech Stack: Azure Cloud, .NET, Python, Angular +, JavaScript, SQL, No-SQL (Couchbase), Kubernetes, Kafka, Nifi, Logi Analytics.

XPO LOGISTICS, LTL, Portland, OR 2013 – 2020

Engineering Manager 10/2015 – 4/2020

Managed and led a team of 30+ people in varied roles (Product Analysts, Project Manager, Developers, Quality Engineers), spread across four countries (USA, Argentina, Uruguay, India). XPO is a top 10 global provider of transportation and logistics services with a highly integrated network of people, technology, and physical assets.

Delivered IT solutions for the back-office suite of enterprise products used to generate orders and disputes.

Achieved strong results for the Order Entry application, generating 55,000 orders daily by over 500 users, and generating about $50 to 70 million daily revenues.

Processed about 40,000 disputes, worth $17 million, in a year using the Disputes Resolution application. Responsive design was used to make the application mobile friendly.

Led the effort for business to define and prioritize areas of improvements.

Coached the teams to use proper Agile/Scrum process.

Established ROI (Return on Investment) and dependencies for effective delivery.

Collaborated with UX designers to create effective workflows.

Implemented a “shift left” QA mindset to think quality right from project inception.

Reviewed test plans and helped QA engineers on producing effective test and QA automation strategies and delivered high quality products.

Supported and enabled architects and developers on technical solutions, leveraging latest technology stack.

Helped team members develop their skills towards their career aspirations, resulting in Employee Survey improvement in People Development.

Converted a Lead QA to a Developer and promoted a Career QA Engineer to a Senior QA Engineer.

Built a team of 40 QA/automation engineers in one year to support all LTL products.

Implemented QA and QA automation best practices for all product teams to adopt.

Developed a robust automation framework ground-up to help speed up QA cycles and delivery.

Built various test data generation tools that were used for critical efforts.

Used as part of a large implementation to help 40 business users test complex scenarios in 4 weeks.

Generated about 80,000 test data records that were needed to test the complex application.

Reduced testing time by 3+ months and eliminated the need to hire an additional 30+ short-term contractors, resulting in over $800,000 of savings.

Tech Stack: Java, Angular 2+, Elastic/Kibana, Exadata, Kubernetes, TIBCO, Selenium, SQL Tools, Netsuite.

Principal QA Engineer, Lead 9/2013 – 9/2015

Led a team of automation and performance test engineers for complex transportation and warehouse management applications.

Created and implemented a 3-year automation/performance test vision and roadmap for all major accounts using the applications.

Worked on major accounts like Amazon, Nike, etc. to ensure high quality and high performing products were implemented in their respective warehouses.

Participated in several process improvement activities and coached team members in incorporating the same.

Tech Stack: HP QTP, Performance Center/Load runner, CA Dev/Test.

CAMBIA HEALTH SOLUTIONS/THE REGENCE, Portland, OR

IT Delivery Lead 11/2006 – 8/2013

Led and managed a QA team across multiple projects, leading, coaching, and monitoring daily activities. Cambia Health Solutions is a nonprofit healthcare company based in Portland, OR. It is the parent company of Regence, a member of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association operating in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Washington.

Implemented automation best practices and helped automate complex projects.

Conducted software engineering training classes for in-house test analysts to help them become automation engineers, hence increasing the speed of test execution by 3 times and delivering products faster to the business.

Delivered the ICD-10 project successfully with high quality.

Tech Stack: Java, XML, SQL, Groovy, RFT.

INTEL CORPORATION, Portland, OR

Senior Software Engineer, QA Automation 1/2000 – 6/2004

Performed several roles including Business Analyst, Quality Lead, Process Improvement Mentor, Automation Architect and Project Manager.

Designed and built automation for the Home Network Architecture, UPnP Server SDK, and IPsec Stack; UPnP Serve SDK automation was also used by external partners to test with their home-grown products.

Led development of automated tests to do performance and compatibility testing of various network cards with different Intel processors.

Tech Stack: Java, C++, XML, Python.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science and Engineering

Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science

Bangalore University, India

Advanced Diploma in Systems Management, NIIT, India

PODCAST

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TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Java, C++, Python, ML/Deep Learning, AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud, XML, SQL, Groovy, RFT, HP QTP, Performance Center/Load Runner, CA Dev/Test, Angular 2+, Elastic/Kibana, Exadata, Kubernetes, TIBCO, Selenium, SQL Tools, Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript, Cypress, Appium, Azure Cloud, .NET, Kafka, Nifi, Logi Analytics

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