Hi there, I'm Parth
Software Engineering Manager | AWS Serverless & Event‑Driven | CI/CD & SRE | FinTech & Platform Leadership

I'm a Software Engineering Manager who runs calm, high‑performing SWE/SDET teams and builds reliable, compliant platforms on AWS serverless. With 13+ years of experience across FinTech, consulting and AI‑enabled systems, I specialise in balancing quality, velocity and compliance in regulated environments. My work sits at the intersection of people, platform and process, ensuring delivery excellence while continuously raising the engineering bar.

🚀 Leadership & Impact

Multi‑team cloud migration: Led multi‑disciplinary engineering programmes migrating monoliths to event‑driven microservices on AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS, S3).

Operating model & portfolio governance: Defined the engineering operating system (OKR cascades, quarterly/PI planning, trunk‑based CI/CD standards ) to align engineering with business outcomes. Improved predictability and reduced carry‑over while ensuring PCI compliance.

Org design & culture: Built and scaled multicultural onshore/offshore teams—hiring, levelling and coaching engineers, running 1:1s and blameless post‑mortems, and fostering a high‑trust, high‑accountability culture. Managed vendor contracts and budgets while saving £ through FinOps/cloud‑cost optimisation.

NLP‑driven insights: Created an internal ML tool (Python, SpaCy, Hugging Face) to analyse team feedback and engineering telemetry, providing data‑driven insights that informed portfolio investment decisions.

🔧 Technical Focus

Cloud & Architecture: AWS serverless and microservices leveraging event‑driven design.

DevEx & Delivery: CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Jenkins and trunk‑based development; quality gates; containerization; GitOps; feature flagging; agile & program management (Scrum/Kanban).

Reliability & Observability: SRE adoption with SLIs/SLOs, monitoring and tracing via CloudWatch, New Relic and ReportPortal; incident and problem management.

Automation in Quality: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, Pact (contract testing), k6; shift‑left and API‑first strategies; Dockerised, self‑service test environments.

👥 People & Culture

I believe that simplicity, transparency and empowerment drive engineering excellence. I focus on building high‑performing teams through:

Hiring & levelling: Designing rubrics and bar‑raiser loops to attract, assess and develop talent.

Coaching & mentoring: Running regular 1:1s and skip‑levels; career development plans; fostering psychological safety and autonomy with accountability.

Operating rhythms: OKR setting, roadmap alignment, sprint rituals, quarterly/PI planning, and executive QBR/EBR communication.

High‑trust culture: Blameless post‑mortems, continuous improvement, clear ownership (RACI), and measurable outcomes.

🤝 Connect & Collaborate

I'm always excited to collaborate on cloud transformation, platform engineering, DevEx improvements, and reliability initiatives—especially within FinTech and other highly regulated domains. Feel free to reach out:

LinkedIn: parthiban-rajasekaran

Medium: @rajasekaran.parthiban7

Email: rajasekaran.parthiban7@gmail.com

Thanks for stopping by, now let’s build something reliable and impactful together!