Risk Management Engineering Manager

PRIYA KRISHNAMOORTHY

Hawthorn Woods, IL ***** 224-***-**** ************@*****.***

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Senior Engineering Manager

20+ years of IT experience managing engineering projects across the organization by leveraging cutting-edge technology and strategic leadership transform work cultures into inclusive, high performance teams.

Engineering Management: Accomplished career leading IT projects focusing on risk management, developer experience, cloud platforms, mission-critical applications and cloud platforms. Use empowering transparent leadership style to recruit and mentor technical professionals. Managed product and cross functional teams of full time employees and contractors.

Product Ownership: Set vision for products and led product management for Cloud platforms, critical applications and Risk management.

IT Industry Leadership: Winner of 3 President Plate Awards at Discover Financial Services; earned technology certifications; and presented at 3 industry conferences.Promoting a culture of continuous learning and lead by example.

DEI and STEM Advocacy: Value and proactively support diversity, equity, and inclusion team culture, especially for women in technology. Organizer and mentor for community and university STEM programs. WORK EXPERIENCE

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES Riverwoods, IL 2011 – Present Senior Engineering Manager, 10/2022 – Present

Leading engineering team of 15 technologists focused on developing risk monitoring applications and ensuring compliance through standardization, CI/CD pipelines and automation across global enterprise of 6,000+ engineers and 400+ teams . Product owner for risk monitoring applications and developer experience, including Golden Paths. Strategic Impact

● Development and maintenance of Compliance monitoring full stack cloud applications in cloud platform providing visibility of compliance controls at the team level.Posses knowledge of secure software development practices, from requirements to deployment and maintenance. Automated deployments using Ci/CD pipelines.

● Delivered a risk management view to ensure traceability of risk assessable units, reduce risk by adopting common practices, and report control effectiveness.Create, publish and continually improve well-formed, measurable, sanctioned practices and standards.

● Automated compliance attestations and assessments across enterprise-wide product teams towards risk reduction

● Enabled Compliance monitoring across 700+ application development teams across 60+ Director areas and 80+ Compliance controls towards risk management and assessments. Program Leadership

● Recruit and develop technical talent, conduct interviews for technologists and interns, and mentor 20+ team members. Recruitment and management of contractors as part of the engineering team.

● Ensure risk management compliance by implementing framework and applications to proactively identify risks throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), monitoring control effectiveness and establishing procedures aligned to policies and standards.

● Manage community-owned assets using InnerSource model, resulting in 60 software code community contributions benefiting teams across organization.

● Manage common engineering development platforms, consolidating tools and technologies using Backstage Open Source framework.

● Promote a culture of continuous learning and development across teams and peers. Product Ownership

● Plan overall strategy and deliver product features in an agile environment to align with enterprise goals, prioritizing work across cross-functional teams.

● Collaborate with different stakeholders to identify and effectively communicate gaps and project features for remediation tasks.

● Enhance product performance, increase team accountability, and improve customer satisfaction, setting product Key Process Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

● Improve product value, gathering feedback from community of 100+ engineers and prioritizing development needs based on input and user experience.

● Promote agile ways of working following best practices with automation and security first mindset. Expert Application Engineer, 9/2021 – 10/2022

Advanced software development enterprise-wide, improving practices like Open Source, Inner Source, and reuse.

● Saved 4,000+ developer productivity hours, implementing automation and self-service, including applications scaffolding with predefined templates and configurations.

● Accelerated application delivery, promoting adoption of Golden Paths across 27 applications teams, integrating 12+ systems and 14 products throughout organization.

● Boosted technology team’s onboarding experience 10%, delivering developer experience training to 300+ developers annually. Incorporated Golden Paths Into secure code training and compliance processes.

● Produced 300+ reusable assets, managing 5 engineering workgroups and facilitating 50 advocacy events.

● Established DevWorx program at Discover promoting community development and contributions with open ways of working.

● Sandbox development of common utilities before graduating into a formalized product.

● Training and educating communities around 35+ product teams on reuse. Practice Lead/Product Manager, 11/2019 – 8/2021

Led 5 vertically aligned cross-functional delivery teams to heighten infrastructure capabilities.

● Reduced team friction by centralizing infrastructure task intake and prioritizing solutions across teams.

● Delivered infrastructure capabilities to application teams-Fully automated traffic flips of end to end systems to improve productivity and manual tasks reduction.

● Product manager bringing together cross functional teams based on application area needs for delivery. Engineering Lead/Lead Cloud Engineer/Product Owner, 10/2016 – 11/2019 Managed 5 staff to architect and design GemFire Caching platform and cloud foundry platform for card, bank, and payment domains. Expanded role to Product Owner, defining roadmaps, and delivery based on customer needs.

● Transformed engineering culture to be more inclusive, leading consulting team to analyze engagement surveys, establish new leadership behavior guidelines, and improve frequency of executive communications.

● Provided caching solutions for critical workloads, managing 40+ GemFire clusters across organization.

● Reduced provisioning time by 99% (3 days to 2 hours), automating self-service caching platform deployments using Jenkins, vRealize, Vault, and Chef cookbooks.

● Enhanced caching platform by automating pipelines and handling installation, configuration, and upgrades.

● Automated application configuration deployments and provide self service for teams.

● Developed and maintained automation pipelines for Cloud Foundry environment, integrating Spring Cloud Services, AppDynamics, and caching services.

● Evaluate new vendor products and solutions . Architect use cases and best practice recommendations for Developers and Infrastructure teams

Engineering Lead/Junior Manager, 8/2011 – 10/2016

Managed team of 20 engineers and spearheaded middleware integration for mission-critical business use cases. Architected and designed solutions using WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, and ColdFusion.

● Accelerated delivery for many customer-impacting projects, including Amazon Rewards Pay and Apple Wallet, by automating deployments using Jenkins pipelines.

● Focused on developing junior engineers through performance feedback, coaching, and professional development.

● Automated deployment using CI/CD pipelines for the platform management and deployment. COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS-NORTH AMERICA Riverwoods, IL Onsite Manager and Engineering Lead (Client: Discover), 7/1999 - 8/2011

● Led engineering team to deliver and produce support for applications on mainframe and distributed platforms supporting Payments and infrastructure platforms.

● Datapower and websphere administrator specializing in datapower, websphere application server, cold fusion and tomcat environments.

● Led and successfully implemented key projects including Apple Pay environment setup and onboarding with Discover Network,Amazon cash back rewards redemption using Datapower EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical & Electronics Engineering Government College of Technology Certifications View All

● CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) ISC2 Oct 2024

● CCSP Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) ISC2 Dec 2024

● CSSLP The Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) ISC2 Feb 2025

● CISM Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) ISC2 Apr 2025

● FSOSD Financial Services Open Source Developer The Linux Foundation Feb. 2024

● AWS Certified Solutions Architect Amazon Services Oct. 2023

● AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Services Jan. 2022 COMMUNITY & INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP

● Organizer and Mentor, Young Scholars Technology Camp, Girl Scouts of America, Chicago, IL, 2024

● Mentor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Capstone Project, Chicago, IL, 2023

● Presenter, Reimagining Work-life Balance,” Grace Hopper Celebration for Women, Orlando, FL, 2023

● Presenter, “Open Ways of Working,” DevOps Enterprise Summit (IT Revolution), Las Vegas, NV, 2022

● Presenter, “Beat the Burnout Epidemic During Pandemic,” Grace Hopper Celebration for Women, Remote, 2020

● 3-time President Plate Award Winner, Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, IL, various years.

● Menttium Program participation, 2024-2025

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Databases AWS RDS, MongoDb, Redis Enterprise, ECS Storage, Pivotal GemFire, MySQL, Oracle, Cloud Cache, WebSphere, Extreme Scale, VSAM, DB2 Tools

JIRA, CI/CD tools - Jenkins, GitHub, Gradle, Nexus, Vault, Contrast, API Center, Service Now, Vault,Healthwatch, STS, RAD, IntelliJ, AppDynamics, Datadog, Wily Introscope, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler,, PPM, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Secure CRT, Möbius, Test Director, Documentum tool — webtop, phurnace, Endeavor, File-Aid, SPUFI, Chef, vRealize, Concourse, Harvest, ClearCase.

Platforms Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenShift, IBM WebSphere 8.0, IBM Mainframe, Apache web servers, Tomcat, JBoss, DataPower Products Product Management, JIRA, Agile methodologies Languages

Python, SQL, Groovy, CICS, COBOL, JCL, Shell Script

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