Tarun Raja — Resume

Plano

• Engineering Leadership: Created and currently lead a cross-functional engineering division operating on a Kanban model, overseeing three critical workstreams: DevOps, Cross-Cutting Solutions (Libraries, AI Enablement, Architecture), and SRE.
• Team Management: Manage a hierarchy including three technical leads, developers, and a Program Manager. Enforced standardization across global time zones to accelerate delivery cycles and streamline development hygiene.
• Product Delivery: Spearheading the architectural design and feature rollout of a new Commercial Banking Portal for middle-market clients, enabling seamless cross-country payments and account reviews.
• Governance & Compliance: Direct the governance strategy for payment systems,ensuring strict adherence to international banking standards, data fitness, and regulatory information flows. Innovation: Leading "Rapid Prototyping deployment pipelines " and "AI Enablement" initiatives to integrate large language models (LLMs) and automation into banking workflows.

• Modernization: Led the modernization effort to migrate legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, ensuring systems remained current with the latest technology stacks.
• Tooling Development: Architected and developed the "Jules" library, a custom solution designed to facilitate "shift-left" testing patterns and streamline Kubernetes deployments.
• CI/CD Optimization: Developed and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines for multiple high-impact projects.
• Mentorship: Led a team of developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and guiding junior staff.
• Full Stack Delivery: Delivered full-stack applications utilizing JavaScript and Java.

New York

• Full Stack Development: Developed customer-facing single-page applications (SPAs) using JavaScript and Java Spring Framework, integrating third-party APIs and handling high-volume data transactions.
• Architecture & Risk: Instrumental in establishing software architectures by researching existing systems, identifying complexities, and mitigating potential implementation risks.
• Performance: Provided Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for a major banking initiative, resulting in a 3% Year-over-Year increase in user growth.
• Code Quality: Managed code quality and unit test coverage, enforcing best coding practices and reducing technical debt.
• Optimization: Tracked and managed Cross Browser Compatibility issues and managed web optimization, including CSS Sprites and best practices.

• Development: Developed customer-based applications and architected solutions to handle high volumes of data.
• System Design: Delivered hands-on support in designing, estimating, planning, and implementing IT system-related business solutions.