Director of Engineering
Seeni
Rengasamy
FAANG‑Level Engineering Leadership
Platform Reliability DevSecOps AI Integration Large‑Scale Systems ITAR Compliance
45
Engineers Led
400+
Releases / Year
90K+
Unique Users
99.99%
Availability Target
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Executive Summary

I lead a 45‑engineer organization supporting 400 releases per year across multiple products used by more than 90,000 unique users. My ownership spans reliability, platform engineering, CI/CD foundations, DevSecOps, developer experience, and release governance.

Currently scaling the organization to 65 engineers within 18 months — while maintaining high release velocity, zero downtime deployments, ITAR compliance, 99.99% availability, continuous audit readiness, and a culture of accountability and operational excellence.

My background includes work with defense customers, strict data governance environments, and 24×7 reliability expectations. I bring FAANG‑level engineering execution to teams where reliability, compliance, and scale matter most.

Scaled engineering orgs from 20 → 60+ engineers across 3 countries
🛡 Delivered zero-downtime deployments with automated rollback in 30–60 seconds
🤖 Drove AI adoption across SDLC with full compliance & privacy controls
📋 Reduced audit prep from 6 weeks to under 3 days via full automation
💰 DevSecOps consolidation delivering 35–45% tool cost reduction
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Teams I Build & Lead

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🏗
Platform Engineering
Cloud + on-prem hybrid
infrastructure at scale
02
📡
Site Reliability Engineering
SLO‑based incidents
24×7 on-call rotations
03
🚀
Release Engineering
Progressive delivery
canary + blue/green
04
🛡
DevSecOps / Security
SAST, DAST, supply chain
SBOM + IaC scanning
05
⚙️
Developer Productivity
20–25% productivity uplift
standardized toolchains
06
🤖
Data, AI & Compliance
AI strategy + automation
ITAR / FedRAMP aligned
07
🏛
Architecture & Strategy
Technical strategy aligned
to long-term business goals
08
📊
Compliance Automation
Immutable logs, SBOM gen
audit prep in <3 days
● BUSINESS IMPACT AT A GLANCE ●
3×–10×
ROI on Reliability
Investments
$30M
Downtime Cost
Avoided / Year
40%
Tool Consolidation
Savings
25%
Engineering Productivity
Uplift
80%
Release Frequency
Increase
<3 Days
Audit Prep
(was 6 weeks)
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AI Strategy for Engineering

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Phase One
Safe Foundation
  • Air‑gapped LLM deployments
  • AI code assistance with full audit logs
  • Secure prompt governance framework
  • Local embedding + search for docs
2
Phase Two
Engineering Intelligence
  • AI‑based SAST/DAST triage
  • Test selection & flake reduction
  • Automated runbook generation
  • SOP generation from incidents
3
Phase Three
Autonomous Support
  • Automated compliance evidence
  • ML‑driven reliability predictions
  • Release risk scoring pipelines
  • Intelligent pipeline auto-tuning
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Financial & Operational Impact

35%
DevSecOps Tool Consolidation
Consolidated 20+ overlapping tools into one integrated, governed platform — cutting costs by 35–45% while reducing operational risk and improving developer experience.
60%
Release Frequency Growth
Progressive delivery pipelines with canary deployments, blue/green strategies, and automated rollback in 30–60 seconds. 400+ releases per year, zero downtime.
Countries of Org Presence
Built and scaled engineering groups across 3 countries, multiple product lines, and cloud + on-prem hybrid infrastructure, all under 24×7 production SLAs.
20+
DevSecOps Tools Unified
CI/CD, SAST/DAST, secrets management, container security, IaC scanning, SBOM, supply chain controls, and observability — one platform, clear ownership.
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18–24 Month Engineering Roadmap

0–6 Months
Foundation
  • SRE + platform hires
  • Standardized pipelines
  • DevSecOps consolidation
  • SLO adoption
  • Zero‑touch monitoring
6–12 Months
Acceleration
  • Zero-downtime delivery across all products
  • Compliance automation foundation
  • AI-based SDLC enhancements
  • Release risk scoring
12–24 Months
Maturity
  • Mature incident management
  • AI‑powered engineering workflows
  • 99.99% availability established
  • Org scaled to 65 engineers
  • Unified reliability dashboards
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Career History

Boeing
DevOps / Platform Architect & Engineer Contract
Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs
Leading platform architecture and DevOps strategy in a defense and ITAR-regulated environment. Responsible for infrastructure reliability, CI/CD modernization, and AI-aligned engineering practices across mission-critical systems.
Program Management · Engineering Leadership · AI · Infrastructure · Reliability · Coaching
Catalia Health
Director of Engineering Full-time
May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos
Led engineering organization with full ownership of technical leadership, AI integration strategy, budgeting, and org development in a health-tech environment.
Technical Leadership · Budgeting · AI · Engineering Leadership · Creative Ideation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Principal DevOps Engineer
Sep 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr · Raleigh-Durham
Drove DevOps transformation and infrastructure reliability across one of the largest healthcare insurers in NC, applying AI tooling, pipeline automation, and engineering leadership across cross-functional teams.
Program Management · Reliability · AI · Infrastructure · Clarity · Coaching
MetLife
Principal DevOps Engineer
Nov 2018 – Jul 2019 · 9 mos · Cary, NC
Developed and implemented build process pipelines for both cloud and on-prem provisioning. Delivered infrastructure automation including patrol agent rollouts and complex business process management using IPsoft Ipcenter. Delivered via Agile methodologies.
CI/CD · Cloud Provisioning · Infrastructure Automation · Agile · AI
Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Senior Solution Architect — Cloud Technologies
Jul 2018 – Oct 2018 · 4 mos · Cary, NC
Strategic planning and roadmap development for cloud enablement and application migration from on-prem to AWS, including hybrid solutions architecture.
AWS · Cloud Migration · Hybrid Architecture · Strategic Planning
Credit Suisse
AVP IT
Aug 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Raleigh-Durham
Led global engineering teams across US, India, and Brazil (New York, Princeton, Raleigh, Bangalore, Pune) focused on culture, talent development, and organizational efficiency. Provided strategic, technical, and operational leadership spanning IT Delivery, IT Infrastructure Management, and Cloud Infrastructure — bridging business and technology across the full project lifecycle.
Global Teams · IT Delivery · Cloud Infrastructure · Talent Development · Engineering Leadership
IBM Software Group
Senior AIX / Linux Engineer
Aug 2012 – 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Raleigh-Durham
Managed IBM Library Infrastructure in the Software Global Service Organization supporting SaaS in a Hadoop environment. Designed and developed the Disaster Recovery plan for the Global Service Organization.
AIX · Linux · Hadoop · SaaS · Disaster Recovery
DivIHN Integration · Client: Wells Fargo Bank
Senior Unix / Linux Administrator
Jan 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Raleigh-Durham
Managed large-scale Unix/Linux production environments for internet-facing banking infrastructure. Handled SUN/Oracle servers, RHEL, Solaris, AIX, VMware ESX, SAN storage, Veritas NetBackup, and high-availability cluster environments. Coordinated hardware vendors and maintained 24/7 production stability.
Solaris · RHEL · AIX · VMware ESX · Veritas · SAN · High Availability
Earlier Roles · 2000–2010
Global Support / Infrastructure / System Administration
Stratus/AmEx · Deebecon/AT&T · Deebecon/Capital One · Fidelity Investments · Silicon House
Deep technical foundation across global enterprise infrastructure: Unix/Linux system administration, SAN/NAS storage, VMware virtualization, disaster recovery, shell scripting, and large-scale capacity planning. Clients spanned American Express, AT&T, Capital One, Fidelity Investments, and the State of New York. Began career in 1997 as a Utility/Power Plant Engineer in Chennai, India before transitioning to IT infrastructure.
Unix · Linux · Solaris · VMware · SAN · NAS · Veritas · Capacity Planning · Shell Scripting