Ashwin Chandrasekaran

Ashwin Chandrasekaran is an experienced engineering manager, agile practitioner, and cloud architect with a rich background spanning over 17 years in various industries such as airlines, airports, travel retail, and automobiles. He excels in creating user-friendly and dependable products. In his recent role at DFS, Ashwin established a global DevOps practice, API, and B2B platform to drive continuous customer value and enhance partner collaboration. Currently, he serves as an engineering manager at UOB, leading the development of a real-time events platform. Ashwin's technical expertise includes Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API, Kafka, NiFi, MongoDB, AWS, and Kubernetes. His key skills range from software engineering, cloud architecture, Java programming, API development with Spring Boot, high-performance system design, to database design, DevOps, continuous delivery, Spring microservices, and data engineering. Besides, he is adept at project management, team leadership, vendor management, budget oversight, stakeholder communication up to CxO levels, production support, customer engagement, and recruiting top engineering talent. Ashwin holds certifications in Java programming, PMP, PMI-ACP, and W3C Mobile Web development. Noteworthy achievements in his career include successfully leading digital transformation initiatives towards DevOps implementation, enhancing team performance through Scrum adoption, streamlining hiring processes, and managing offshore delivery projects with precision.