Senior Engineering Leader with 18+ Years Experience

GangaBhavani Tupakula

+91-996****** ********.*****@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/gangabhavani-tupakula-9933045b Manila, Philippines

Professional Summary

Senior Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale engineering teams, technology delivery, and digital transformation across healthcare, banking, retail, and airline domains. Proven expertise in engineering leadership, Agile delivery, cloud-native architecture, DevOps, and agentic AI implementations. Strong track record of delivering mission-critical systems with high availability, optimizing cost and performance, and mentoring high-performing engineering teams while aligning technology strategy with business outcomes.

CORE SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Led and scaled 5+ engineering teams, improving delivery predictability and code quality

Owned end-to-end SDLC, from architecture design to production support

Delivered cloud migration and modernization initiatives across Azure, and GCP

Built CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes platforms enabling faster, safer deployments

Implemented Agentic AI & GenAI solutions to automate workflows and enhance decision-making

Managed $500K+ IT budgets, optimizing cloud spend and vendor costs

Partnered with Product and Business leaders to align technology strategy with OKRs

Ensured compliance with GxP and data privacy regulations

Professional Experience

Zuellig Pharma – Manila, Philippines

Senior Engineering Manager

Led delivery of 25+ enterprise technology initiatives annually, achieving 95% on-time delivery and reducing delivery cycle time by 25% through Agile transformation and delivery optimization.

Directed cross-functional engineering teams (10+ engineers and QA), driving SDLC excellence, test automation, and a 40% reduction in production defects.

Implemented agentic AI and workflow automation frameworks, improving operational efficiency by 30% across business processes.

Architected and executed multi-cloud migration strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP), achieving 98% system uptime and reducing infrastructure costs by 20%.

Owned a $600K IT portfolio, optimizing resource allocation, financial forecasting, and vendor performance.

Strengthened stakeholder engagement and change adoption, resulting in 98% user adoption of new digital platforms.

Accenture – Manila, Philippines

Delivery Lead / Solution Architect / Technology Lead

Led multi-project delivery for global enterprise clients, ensuring alignment between engineering execution and business KPIs.

Designed and deployed cloud-native microservices architectures using Azure Functions, and GCP Cloud Run.

Improved client satisfaction and NPS by 22% through automation, process optimization, and delivery governance.

Drove large-scale cloud implementations with 98% system uptime, optimizing capacity planning and solution architecture.

Established vendor governance and contract management frameworks, ensuring delivery quality and budget adherence.

Led pre-sales and solution architecture engagements, translating complex business requirements into scalable, cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions with clear ROI.

Kony IT Services – Hyderabad, India

Technology Lead

Managed end-to-end SDLC for 20+ mobile and web applications, covering requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment.

Implemented automation and digital self-service solutions, improving delivery metrics and user satisfaction.

Delivered end-to-end digital solutions for wearable platforms, transforming sensor data into scalable, insight-driven user and enterprise experiences

Collaborated closely with business stakeholders, developers, and external partners to ensure delivery excellence.

Mahindra Satyam – Hyderabad, India

Senior Software Developer

Contributed to IT infrastructure modernization initiatives, achieving 35% cost savings through legacy system migration and risk mitigation strategies.

EDUCATION

Professional Certificate – Business Technology & Innovations with AI

Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad 2025

Bachelor of Computer Science

VR Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada 2003 – 2007

CERTIFICATIONS

Business Technology Innovations with AI – ISB

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Java SE 11 Developer

Kony Platform Developer

Cloud & Infrastructure:

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, ECS)

Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, DevOps, AKS)

GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, GKE)

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines

AI & Automation:

Agentic AI Development & Deployment (Vertex AI, Lang chain)

Workflow Automation (N8N, Workato)

AI/ML Integration & API Development

Tools & Platforms:

Cloud: Azure (App Services, AKS, DevOps), GCP (Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery)

DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD

AI & Automation: Vertex AI, LangChain, LangGraph Semantic Kernal,N8N, Workato

Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL, Flutter

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Git, Playwright, Postman

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Waterfall

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