A

Arumugam Shanmugam

About

Detail

VP @ NextLinkLabs | AI & Cloud Strategy Leadership | Cloud Architecture & Engineering | Cloud Operations | DevOps | SRE | Director | Vice President (VP) | He...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Contact Arumugam regarding: 
work
Full-time jobs

Timeline

work
Job
school
Education

Résumé

Jobs verified_user 0% verified
  • NextLink Labs
    VP of Engineering
    NextLink Labs
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)
    Lead strategic direction and operational excellence across Professional Services (DevOps and Custom Software Development practices), Presales Engineering, Operations, and Talent Management for a premier consulting firm specializing in modern software development, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. • Collaborate with executive leadership to define service offerings, go-to-market (GTM) strategies, and technology investments, positioning the company for growth in competitive cloud consulting and software development markets. • Direct end-to-end professional services delivery across DevOps and custom software development practices, building teams that deliver cloud infrastructure solutions, modern application development, and DevOps transformati
  • F
    Founder & Principal
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)
  • Caylent
    Cloud Engineering Manager (Cloud Architecture & Engineering)
    Caylent
    Mar 2022 - May 2025 (3 years 3 months)
    Led multiple cloud engineering teams delivering enterprise-grade AWS infrastructure solutions and Generative AI implementations for Fortune 500 clients. Managed technical strategy and architecture while building high-performance teams in a professional services environment. • Led and directed multiple engineering teams in the end-to-end development lifecycle of AWS-based cloud infrastructure solutions, ensuring seamless deployment and scalability for enterprise applications. • Spearheaded the refinement of operational practices and service delivery procedures during company growth phase, establishing scalable frameworks that accommodated rapid expansion while maintaining service quality. • Collaborated with client leadership to define produ
  • C
    Cloud Technical Leader (Consultant - Director)
    May 2021 - Jan 2022 (9 months)
    Directed company-wide cloud transformation initiative, leading strategic decisions on cloud adoption and implementation. Served as key technical liaison between C-suite executives and implementation teams for enterprise software company. • Facilitated engagements with CxOs, serving as a key liaison between business and technology leaders in a corporate-wide cloud transformation journey, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. • Orchestrated the formulation and execution of a comprehensive cloud adoption roadmap, overseeing the successful migration of workloads and establishing the Cloud Engineering and Cloud Ops teams from inception for MDF's e-procurement business unit. • Served as the technical authority for Cloud Migration decision
  • Morgan Stanley
    Cloud Specialist (Consultant - Vice President VP)
    Morgan Stanley
    Dec 2019 - May 2021 (1 year 6 months)
    Led enterprise-wide Azure cloud adoption strategy for Morgan Stanley, designing secure and compliant cloud architecture. Orchestrated migration of critical applications across multiple business units, establishing foundational frameworks that balanced innovation with the stringent security demands of the financial sector. • Drove Morgan Stanley's Azure cloud adoption journey as a Cloud Strategy Leader, delivering strategic leadership and solution architecture for App Dev teams, resulting in a streamlined and efficient migration of each business unit to Azure services. • Played a pivotal role in implementing Cloud Governance through Azure Policies and Automation runbooks for auto-remediation, enhancing the overall security posture through Ma
  • Tecsys Inc.
    Head of Cloud Architecture / Principal Architect & Devops (R&D)
    Tecsys Inc.
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 (1 year)
    Led cloud strategy and engineering for a supply chain software company, designing multi-account architecture and implementing centralized network solutions. Reduced deployment time by 80% through automation while enhancing security and scalability for this SaaS provider. • Engineered a Multi-Account architecture using AWS Organizations, introducing the "Tecsys Account Vending machine" to automate AWS account creation, reducing deployment time by 80% and ensuring consistent provisioning of baseline resources. • Spearheaded the implementation of a Centralized Transit Network Architecture through AWS Transit Gateway, enhancing VPC Peering and VPN Connectivity for all AWS accounts, resulting in improved network performance and greater Next-Hop
  • C
    Cloud Operations & SRE Manager
    Sep 2017 - Jan 2019 (1 year 5 months)
    Led distributed technical operations teams for Equifax, a major credit bureau, implementing modern monitoring solutions and driving cloud migration initiatives. Managed incident response and SLA compliance for mission-critical financial services applications in a highly regulated environment. • Led geographically distributed Tech Ops teams for Equifax's premier decisioning product, Interconnect v5 and SaaS Platform in Canada, achieving seamless migration of applications to Public Cloud, resulting in a streamlined and efficient operational environment. • Excelled in a multifaceted role as Operations Head, serving as the Subject Matter Expert for the Interconnect product, leading incident calls, hiring and mentoring operations personnel, and
  • SAP
    Software Engineer
    SAP
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2016 (4 months)
    Contributed to enterprise cloud applications development in a SCRUM-based agile environment. Supported SAP Customer Experience Cloud platform while gaining hands-on experience with modern development methodologies. • Provided technical developer support for SAP Customer Experience Cloud applications, efficiently resolving customer incidents while improving incident management processes in an agile environment. • Contributed to web application development using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and FIORI (SAP UI5), enhancing user interfaces and overall functionality. Skills: Agile | SCRUM | JavaScript | HTML5 | CSS | FIORI | SAP UI5 | Web Development | Enterprise Cloud | SaaS | Customer Experience | Production Support | Cloud Applications
  • Lebara
    Cloud Ops Manager
    Lebara
    Sep 2015 - Apr 2016 (8 months)
    Led cloud operations for a global telecommunications provider, managing AWS-based infrastructure for their IPTV streaming platform and digital services. Served as technical liaison between Canadian operations and London headquarters while driving operational excellence and customer satisfaction. • Led the CloudOps Team for Canadian region, managing both B2B and B2C support, showcasing strong customer-facing skills and ensuring high NPS scores. • Acted as an IT business liaison, representing the organization's Canadian IT team to the business at the London head office, fostering effective communication and collaboration between teams. • Provided robust support for Lebara Play, an IPTV product in Amazon Web Services, demonstrating hands-on ex
  • Infosys
    Systems Engineer Lead
    Infosys
    Feb 2013 - Jul 2015 (2 years 6 months)
    Led production support for enterprise-level retail applications, ensuring business continuity for SYSCO FOODS' supply chain operations. Managed 24/7 support with strict SLA compliance for critical B2B systems/ • Served as Subject Matter Expert for SYSCO FOODS' web applications used in B2B operations, overseeing Supply Chain and Warehouse Management systems while ensuring seamless order processing. • Managed 24*7 support for critical systems, maintaining strict SLA compliance and resolving P1 severity incidents to minimize business disruption. Skills: Java | Production Support | Supply Chain | Warehouse Management | B2B | KPI Management | Incident Response | SLA | IT Service Management (ITSM) | Retail Systems | Enterprise Applications
  • Confidential
    Founder / Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
    Confidential
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year 1 month)
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • Concordia University
    Concordia University — Master's degree, Software Engineering
    Concordia University
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 (3 years)
  • Anna University
    Anna University — Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology
    Anna University
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2013 (5 years)
    Strong fundamental knowledge in various aspects of Computer Science and Information technology like DBMS, Programming Languages like C, OOP(object oriented programming) concepts along with C++ and Core Java Programming, System Architecture, Business Intelligence
This is a community-created genome.