MANIKANDAN SUBBIAH

manikandansubbiah@gmail.com +971 54 45 29 377

I’m a 23-year experienced IT strategist and FinTech Digital Transformation Leader, with high business acumen and adept at
presenting and implementing digital strategies for multiple fortune 100 companies. Collaborated with multiple customer
entities to conceptualize and implement digital factories, Mobile office and a complete end-to-end digital enablement and
transformation roadmaps. Conducted multiple digital innovation workshops to identify the digital (mobile, social and cloud)
disruptions and the transformation approach (business and technology) for the same. Conceptualized and implemented
various IP solutions / propositions with niche business value proposition and a very high ROI.
I’m a dynamic and efficient result focused technology & architecture leader, able to strike the right connect with all the internal
and external stakeholders with an experience of managing a 35+ million project portfolio. Earlier, for Satyam Computers, I
have successfully built, directed and held responsibilities of a unit of headcount around 1500 and managed its revenue
estimates, actual revenues, costs, profit & loss, resource plans, etc. and drove various pipeline towards that. I’m adept at
driving and collaborating with both technical and business teams, to design and develop an assortment of commercial quality,
high performance digital enterprise production systems and bridging the gap between business and technology.
As part of the architecture team of various large organizations, I have managed the integration between applications using
different middleware technologies such as Oracle Fusion Middleware, Websphere, TIBCO, etc., with the objective to
orchestrate the consequent realization of a sound information architecture and solution architecture across middleware
platforms and have continuously analysed and built the principles and direction of the middleware technologies based on
business objectives and in strong collaboration with other architecture disciplines.
I have very good experience of more than 5 years in design, development, implementation, configuration administration,
troubleshooting and performance reengineering of complex enterprise & integration systems based on Oracle Fusion
Middleware (Oracle SOA Suite 11g/10g Oracle BPEL, Oracle ESB/Mediator, Oracle BPM, Oracle Service Bus OSB,
OWSM, Oracle Business Rules Engine, Oracle ADF and Oracle EM Oracle BAM), Oracle WebLogic Server 11g/12c, Oracle
Web Tier (HTTP Server, Traffic Director) 11g/12c, Oracle WebCenter Suite and IBM Websphere Stack (WebSphere Portal,
WSOD, WebSphere BPM, WBE, WebSphere Adapters, WMQ, WAS) with strong expertise in areas such as SOA based
integration using Oracle Service Bus, ESB, systems architecture, component design, implementation, and deployment
processes, Connector frameworks, Web Services and XML Standards.
I currently have a growing interest on various innovative areas of technology, such as RegTech, FinTech, Digital
Transformation, Digital Innovation Labs, Digital Strategies, Ultra-high-touch Digital Banks & Businesses, Digital
Touchpoints/Omni-Channel solutions, Digital Wealth, Disruptive new economy modelled Businesses, Systems Integration,
Innovation Management, Open Data, Open APIs, Open Banking, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Artificial Inelligence, IoT &
Robotics. I enjoy working in innovative, fast-changing, highly demanding multi-national environments.
WORK EXPERIENCE – LAST 6 YEARS
Independent IT Consultant Apr. 2018 –Present
● Currently working as a Principal Consultant for Intelloger, a startup company based in UAE.

● As a Principal Architect for IntuitME, a Healthcare IT Products company based in Dubai, responsible for reengineering

their SIMPLEX Himes HIS product.

● As a Lead IT Architect Consultant for Deloitte Middle East, worked with the Senior Management (CIO, department

heads, etc.) of General Department of Artificial Intelligence, Dubai Police General Headquarters on their Enterprise
Digital Transformation & Artificial Intelligence Enablement Programme and was responsible for the assessment of the
client’s technical environment using Deloitte’s frameworks, review client's technical documents, led technical meetings
with the client's technical team and bring technical expertise to help validate understanding, providing inputs to the team
to prepare for these meetings, present the findings to the client's top management, produce the current state assessment
deliverable, develop the IT Strategies, Business Strategies, Roadmaps and value-based Future State architecture and
technology landscape (including WSO2 stream processing) for transforming Dubai Police to a leader in right utilization of
all appropriate and cutting edge technologies.
● As a IT Lead Managing Consultant for A.T. Kearney Saudi Arabia Limited (an entity of the U.S based top-tier consulting

firm), worked with General Commission of Audiovisual Media (GCAM), Riyadh, KSA on the Enterprise Digital
Enablement Programme and was responsible for assessing the client’s current business and IT functions, articulation of
their IT business requirements (functional, non-functional, etc), design and development of as-is organization-wide as-is
and to-be Business and IT Architecture that includes all domains and sub-domains, develop IT Strategic Roadmap and
blueprints for the organization and craft the required RFPs to source & implement the required IT and GRP platform that
aligns with the target IT architecture.
● As a Lead Technical Consultant of Int’l Computing Solutions, Dubai, leading the architecture, design and development

for customized implementations of Enterprise COTS products such as Information Builders Data Suite (iWay Service
 Bus, Omni-Gen Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality (DQ) Editions, iWay Big Data Integrator 1.5.2, BPM,
WebFOCUS), Sciforma Portfolio & Project Management Suite, ZyLAB eDiscovery & Information Governance products.
Prepared Technical Proposals for an RFP for a Data Platform using Info. Builders Data products for Mubadala Group,
Abu Dhabi.
Software Dev. Head & CTO Blurose Technologies, Dubai Dec. 2016 – Apr 2018
● Responsible for managing all operations within Blurose including Regional Business Plan, Profit & Loss, Overall GP &

EBITDA, YoY growth and achievement of defined KRAs.

● Lead a team of BDMs, Solution Specialists, Cloud Specialists, Technical Consultants and Inside Sales to position overall

portfolio stack on Software Procurement Services (SPS), Cloud Services, Digital Transformation & Mobile Office services,
Technical Support, Managed Services and Professional Services.
● Engage with C-level executives at customers and VAR partners on assessing their corporate vision on governance, risk

and compliance and enabling them with use cases, architect solutions, cloud consumption and cost optimization.
● Coordinate with strategic alliances such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP, AWS, VMware and more to on business

development, marketing, product roadmaps, trainings, certifications, solution design, and reselling engagements across
consumption models.
● Devise and implement GTM and TTM strategies to increase and expand Blurose offerings in this emerging region and

cloud adoption; Engage with vendor and industry forums to keep abreast latest trends, technologies and innovation.
● Define team KPIs and Targets; Conduct periodic performance reviews and present the same to the regional and board

level management.
● Led the digital labs & product innovation CoEs and created multiple innovation prototypes built into digital disruptive

products through a UI/UX studio and digital factory.

● Managing the hiring, on boarding, performance settings & evaluation, mentoring, career path establishing, developing and

releasing technical and business teams.

● Led various large teams in architecting, designing, developing, testing, deploying and maintenance of apps for SaaS

platforms, web, mobile, desktop and data analytics. Ensuring non-functional requirements such as compliance, regulatory
and audit and architecture requirements are met. Performing code reviews, refactoring of team’s source code.
● Developed architecture and design for various API driven Cloud Native SaaS solutions by utilizing Spring, Spring Boot,

Java, RxJava, Microservices, DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure Automation, Containerization, On-
demand virtualization, Systems at Scale, Public Cloud, DDD, etc.
● Designed and developed an RPA based Digital Marketing solution for using UiPath, Python, R, MongoDB and SQLite.

● Lead the development of a complex POV solution for consensus-based short-term lending of Ethereum crypto-currency,

based on Smart Contracts on distributed ledger for the Ethereum Blockchain platform, using Solidity.
● Developed a Machine Learning (deep learning) based PoV solutions for content automation, image recognition and video

analytics algorithms such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Support Vector Machines, k-Nearest Neighbors,
Naive Bayes, Random Forest, Neural Networks using Python based machine learning libraries such as sci-kit learn,
TensorFlow, Caffe, Torch, Keras.
● Participated as an independent consultant in the refinement of the AI algorithms of LTA, Singapore for their AI driven

Data Science & Predictive analysis of Fast data related to road traffic and applying dynamic toll periodic slabs to reduce
traffic congestions. Developed prototypes on Python ML modules such as scikit-learn, mlpy, Milk and pyDatalog.
● Architected and lead the development of a fintech based MVP for automated cryptocurrency trading using ML/AI, Deep

Learning and NLP. This was a SaaS modeled, highly secure and scalable trading platform built for Windows Azure cloud
infrastructure deployment with Azure Machine Learning, Azure SQL Server and ASP.NET Core as the primary software
tools used. To provide near real-time data analytics, Azure Stream Analytics and Azure SQL Data Warehouse based
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture was built.
● Managing the hiring, on boarding, performance settings & evaluation, mentoring, career path establishing, developing and

releasing technical and business teams.

● Analysed the costs, value and risks of implementing Information Technology infrastructure.

Lead Technology Architect Accenture (Italy), Dubai Jan. 2016 – Dec. 2016
● Defined the Reference Architectures and architectural blue prints and application design of du/Emirates Integrated

Telecommunications Company’s large-scale Self-Service eCommerce platform with stringent non-functional requirements.
Architected and designed the security architecture using IAM integration with Tivoli IAM.
● Contributed to du’s IT strategy and Enterprise architecture by providing inputs on middleware related standards and

matters such as Containerization and Microservices.

● Architected and designed the interactions between the business applications, processes, and services in the du’s distributed

and heterogeneous application infrastructure landscape through low-cost, standards-based integration using Microservices,
Event Driven architecture and SOA. The EAI SOA and BPM based TIBCO middleware integration platform used TIBCO
ActiveMatrix Service Bus 3.3.0, ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.0 / BPM and Rendezvous to integrate with systems such
 as Self-Service portal, DROOLS, Siebel CRM, Oracle WebCenter Portal and Core OSS and BSS Systems.
● Designed and Developed the Business Process & Business Rules (Decision Tables & Decision Trees) in jBPM/Drools
rule engine.
● Lead the architecture and design streams of Al Futtaim’s Middlware Technology Modernization engagement based on
Oracle Fusion Middleware (Oracle SOA Suite 11g/10g, Connector frameworks, Oracle BPEL, Oracle ESB/Mediator,
Oracle BPM, Oracle Service Bus OSB, OWSM, Oracle Business Rules Engine, Oracle ADF and Oracle EM Oracle BAM).
Regional Technology Head – Capgemini UK Plc, Riyadh Aug. 2013 – Dec. 2015
Digital Disruptions
● Spearheaded IT & Managed Services Targets ($30M) by leveraging existing Business Strategies & Alliances,
Budgeting, Business Development, New Ventures and Partnerships.
● Lead the Digital Touchpoints / Channels & Mobile practice, developed and delivered digital strategy and roadmap
for multiple customers comprising of Digital Factory, Innovation Factory, Mobile Office, Enablement &
Transformation roadmap and UX studios.
● Handled Conflict Resolutions and Sales Negotiation on Large Projects /Opportunities.
● Developed & executed strategy to deliver product globally and with alternative channels. Built M2M/IOT
propositions that attract solution providers and developers to use and join Capgemini’s IOT ecosystem Engaged
technical decision makers, industry influencers, policy makers, and business leaders of existing and potential
customers to drive awareness and early adoption of Capgemini‘s technologies, platforms and products. Lead
Architecture assessment and design for infrastructure domains that provide core capabilities for the client enterprises.
Have proven track record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations
and in interactions with partner and customers in the development or implementation of IoT or Cloud-Based
solutions.
● Developed the enterprise architecture, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio
and technical architecture, for Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia.
● Developed an overall digital strategy for Ministry of Finance, Saudi Arabia, to ensure that their ambition is aligned
with their strategic goals.
● Developed the enterprise architecture, including business architecture, information architecture, application portfolio
and technical architecture, for various Ministries of Saudi Arabia. Developed an overall digital strategy for Ministry
of Finance, Saudi Arabia, to ensure that their ambition is aligned with their strategic goals.
● Lead the architecture, design and development of a Large-scale Data Analytics (Big & Fast Data) based Hafiz
Unemployment Support Programme of HRDF, MoL, KSA and was responsible for defining a green field global
architecture framework. Built a holistic view and roadmap of the company’s technology strategy, processes,
information, and information technology assets. Created and maintained enterprise wide IT architecture vision,
responsible for defining IT technical strategies and roadmaps, and providing views of the systems in the context of
the vision and roadmaps. Lead the design, modeling, development and maintenance of architectures cross system
tactical architecture models, views, and documentation (service catalogs, technical inventories, system landscapes,
etc.) for delivery, development, and support of projects.
● As a sub-contractor of Al-Elm KSA, led a team of 14 to architect, design, develop and rollout the Hafiz platform for
HRDF, KSA and Ejar rental services e-network for MoH KSA, using IBM Middleware Stacks - WebSphere (Portal,
WSOD, BPM, WBE, WebSphere Adapters, WMQ, WAS), IIB, IBM HTTP Server, Tivoli Suite (TIM, TAM, TDI),
Oracle.), JEE, Spring Framework, Hibernate, RabbitMQ, Alfresco, Oracle DB, Redis, Cassandra, Jenkins and Jira.
● Architected and designed the Hafiz Integration Layer using IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB),
WebSphere Process Server 8.5.6, IBM Process Designer 8.5.6, IBM Integration Designer 8.5.6, IBM Business Process
Manager, IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, SOA, Java, SQL Connectors, JSON, BPEL Processes, ESB
Mediations, SOAP and REST Web Services, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath etc.
● Created a comprehensive digital strategy and 3-year roadmap for a confidential mobile virtual network operator
(MVNO) rapidly elevating digital outreach, engagement & service across all platforms, identifying costs,
dependencies, to deliver a mix of continuous optimization and transformational experiences. Assessed and
benchmarked current digital properties, including web, mobile, social, digital marketing (email, search, and
advertising) and data capture/utilization vs best-practices within and outside their industry.
● Developed & executed strategy to deliver product globally and with alternative channels. Built M2M/IOT
propositions that attract solution providers and developers to use and join Capgemini’s IOT ecosystem Engaged
technical decision makers, industry influencers, policy makers, and business leaders of existing and potential
customers to drive awareness and early adoption of Capgemini‘s technologies, platforms and products. Lead
Architecture assessment and design for infrastructure domains that provide core capabilities for the client enterprises.
Have proven track record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations
and in interactions with partner and customers in the development or implementation of IoT or Cloud-Based
solutions.
Principal Architect Consultant Infosys Technologies (India), Riyadh Jan. 2013 – Aug. 2013
● Architected, Designed, Developed, Tested and Implemented a Private Cloud Based Social Business Platform for Saudi

Telecom Group, Riyadh, using IBM Connections 4.0, WebSphere Portal, WMQ, WMB, WAS, IBM HTTP Server, Tivoli
Identity Manager (TIM), Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI), DB2 and Microsoft VSTS.
Architected the Windows Hypervisor based virtualization infrastructure platform for the solution. Achieved seamless
integration of various On-premises OOB & custom-built applications with Connections.
● Developed the data strategy for the STC’s data platform of STC Group, which included planning the compliant data

storage, security, sharing & publishing within STC, big data, and business intelligence, data management (data quality, data
integration, MDM, RDM), ETL architecture, enhancing data collection procedures and developing algorithms, models &
visualizations to better aid predictive analytical and big data analytics use-cases execution, information delivery
mechanisms, etc.

EARLY CAREER
Fusion Middleware Lead Consultant Oracle Consulting, Singapore Jan. 2012 – Jan. 2013
Principal Architect Consultant NCS, Singapore Jan. 2011 – Jan. 2012
Technology & Architecture Leader DXC Technology (CSC), Bengaluru Jul. 2009 – Jan. 2011
Technology Head – MS Enterprise Sol’ns. Tech Mahindra (Satyam), Pune Mar. 2008 – Jul. 2009
Lead Data Architect Consultant Saudi Business Machines, Khobar Nov. 2007 – Mar. 2008
Retail Applications Platform Lead Arab National Bank, Riyadh Jan. 2006 – Nov. 2007
Lead Architect Consultant Huawei Technologies, Kuwait Jul. 2005 – Dec. 2005
Lead PMO Consultant TCO/PCFC (Dubai World), Dubai Jan. 2005 – Jun. 2005
Senior Systems Consultant Gulf Computers LLC, Dubai Apr. 2004 – Jan. 2005
Principal Technical Consultant Ducont FZ-LLC, Dubai Dec. 2000 – Apr. 2004
Lead Applications Architect Dubai Customs, Dubai Dec. 1999 – Dec. 2000
Senior Technical Analyst Sterling Systems, Doha Jun. 1996 – Dec. 1999

EDUCATION
Masters in Information Tech. Brookdell University, USA Aug. 2014 – Jul. 2015
● Database Management, Advanced Programming, Networks and Telecommunications, Information technology,

Computer science, Computing Concepts, IT project Management, Management Information Systems, Information
Technology Management, Operating Systems Design, etc..
Master of Science, Mathematics Annamalai University, India Oct. 1997 – Aug. 1999
● Algebra, Real Analysis, Differential Geometry and Tensor Analysis, Differential Equations with Applications, Set

Topology, Analytical Mechanics and Theory of Relativity, Complex Analysis, Functional Analysis, Graph Theory,
Optimization Techniques, Mathematical Statistics, Neural Networks.
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics University of Madras, India Jul. 1993 – Sep. 1996
● Linear Algebra, Algebraic Structures, Trigonometry, Calculus and Coordinate Geometry of 2 Dimensions, Coordinate

Geometry of 3 Dimensions and Probability, Calculus and Differential Geometry, Differential Equations and Laplace
Transforms, Vector Calculus Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms, Statics, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Discrete
Mathematics, Special Functions, Elementary Number Theory, Special Function, Discrete Mathematics, Probability and
Statistic, Numerical Analysis, Operation Research, Dynamics, Numerical Methods using C.
Higher Diploma in Software Engineering Aptech University, India Jul. 1993 – Jan. 1996
● Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computing Concepts, RDBMS, Advanced Programming, Design Patterns,

Software Architecture, System Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, Digital Logic, Data Structures and
Algorithms, Objected Oriented Programming with C++, Microprocessors and Its Application, Unix and Shell
Programming, O/S Design, Software Testing & QA.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect Professional
Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect
Certified Six Sigma Certified Green Belt Professional
PMI Certified Project Management Professional
Certified ScrumMaster
IBM Certified DB2 Professional
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
KEY SKILLS
IT Domains: IT Strategy, Digital Transformation, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, Risk and Control Self-
Assessments, IT Resilient Systems, Quality Assurance, Business Applications, IT Vendor Management, IT Business
Units, IT Program & Project Portfolio Management.
Domains: Travel, Retail, Government, BFSI, Telecom, Energy & Oil, G2C, B2B, B2C, e-Commerce.
Banking LoBs: Payments & Cash Management (PCM) – EBPP, Payments, Collections, Clearance, Reconciliation,
Liquidity, etc.), Billing (Prepaid and Postpaid), Retail (Lending, Cards, Core Banking, and Channel Banking - Cloud,
Social, Internet, Mobile Web, Mobile Native Applications, SIM Toolkit, Phone Banking/IVR/VRU, Kiosk, Teller ).
Exposure in Financial Markets, Investment (Exchange/OTC traded Derivatives, Investment Banking, FX, MM,
Equities), Islamic, Commercial, and Wholesale Banking, Regulatory Compliance & Reporting.
Processes: PSD2, PCI DSS, Open Data, Open Banking, GDPR, COBIT, TOGAF, Zachman, Six-Sigma (DMAIC)
Quality Programs, SEI-Comma, AGILE, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE), Scrum, Hybrid Agile, Waterfall, SDLC,
PMO/PMI, PMI PMO maturity cube, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley act, SAS 70, CMMI, PCMM, Uptime FORCSS.
Business Services and Frameworks: IBM Insurance Application Architecture (IAA), Information FrameWork
(IFW), Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Information Systems Architecture Framework (ISW), etc.
Web Frontend Frameworks: Vue.js, Angular 6, jQuery 3.3.1, d3.js, Chart.js.
Backend Frameworks & Libraries: Java (JEE, JME, JSE), Spring, Spring Boot, .NET 4.7.2, ASP.NET 4.7.1,
ASP.NET MVC 5.2.5, CodeIgniter 3.1.8, Laravel 5.6.20, OpenCart, Bootstrap 4.1.1, node JS, RxJava, RxAndroid.
Technical Concepts: Microservices, Containerization, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing & infrastructures (SaaS,
PaaS), Distributed Applications, Application Integration services (MicroServices, ESB, SOA, Event Driven, BPM,
EAI, MOM), Data Integration, CI/CD, SWIFT protocol, FIX protocol, OOPS, OOAD, UML/RUP.
Middleware Stacks: Oracle Fusion & Web Center, IBM WebSphere, TIBCO ActiveMatrix, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ,
MSMQ, IBM BPM, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, Camunda BPM, jBPM, BizTalk Server, IIB, WSOD, Drools, etc.
Enterprise Service Bus: Oracle Service Bus, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus 3.3.0
Technologies & Methods: JHipster, MapStruct, Dozer, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Jenkins, Jira, etc.
Relational DBMS: RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), SQL, PL/SQL, ESQL, T-SQL
NoSQL: Riak, Redis, DynamoDB, MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Neo4j.
Big Data: Hadoop Ecosystem (Hbase, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Sqoop), Zookeeper, Ambari, Impala, Spark, Flume, Storm), Kafka,
Avro, Akka, Splunk, etc.
Data Analytics Platforms: Exadata, MicroStrategy, WebFOCUS, Qlik Sense, Power BI, SSRS
Data Management stacks: Oracle, Informatica, Information Builders, ETL (DataStage, CloverETL, SSIS), etc.
Data Solutions: Coherence, Hazelcast, MemSQL, Data Grid (Apache Ignite), In-Memory Distributed Caching
(Memcached, Infinispan, SAP HANA, Oracle Coherence, ActiveSpaces, Redis), Hazelcast, Velocity, Teradata, Gephi.
Case Tools: Erwin Data Modeler, Cool Gen), TOAD, SQL Navigator
Programming languages: C#, Java, PHP, Python, Scala, Erlang, JavaScript, C, Lua and R.