Sheshadri M.

About

A mission-driven Digital Transformation leader with over three decades of experience architecting scalable, cloud-native platforms that solve complex business challenges. Passionate about leveraging technology to deliver products with tangible user value and improve outcomes, particularly within the healthcare and life sciences, and consumer products ecosystems. A dedicated mentor and collaborative leader focused on elevating team performance, fostering cross-functional alignment, and turning product vision into delivered reality. Managed engagements from $350K - $100M (with 30+% margins).

Experience

• Fractional CTO · CoHive LLC07-01-2022 –

  As Fractional CTO, Product Owner, architected, designed mobile app that helped college students find roommates. Developed ML algorithm using Cosine similarity to derive compatibility score. Learned Flutter, Material Design, Design Sprint, Python. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cohive-social/id6449164465 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=llc.appdogs.cohive&pcampaignid=web_share

• Chief Technology Officer · cohive.social01-01-2022 – 01-01-2025

  As Fractional CTO, product owner, architected, designed mobile app that helped college students find roommates. Developed ML algorithm using Cosine similarity to derive compatibility score. Delivered MVP in 8 months (part-time). Redesigned, rebranded, in 1 month to realize 85% user satisfaction improvements. Learned Flutter, Material Design, Design Sprint, Python.

• Advisory Sr. Manager · EY04-01-2019 – 11-01-2025

  Digital Transformation specialist, a maker of distributed systems, and an #Innovator who strives to #MakeOthersSuccessful.

• Senior Architect · Ernst & Young01-01-2019 –

  Enterprise Architecture Assessment | Large Media client - Led a small team of Enterprise Architects to assess Enterprise Architecture maturity across 8 Capabilities and 37 Focus Areas, helped craft EA Charter, catalog of recommendations to realize target state maturity and developed a prioritized roadmap across 9 EA value pillars. Cloud Architect & Team Builder | Large Consumer Client - Architected and led the development of an Azure integration platform, utilizing C#/.NET microservices, Blob storage, Cosmos DB, and Service Bus to enable seamless data flow and business capabilities. Cloud Architect & Team Builder | Large Diagnostics & Medical Research Client - Facilitated the strategy and development of a multi-cloud architecture integrating Salesforce and AWS, with a focus on Java microservices, Ping Identity, Snowflake, Kinesis, and Lambda to accelerate medical research data pipelines. Integration Architect & Team Builder | Large Hospital System - Spearheaded the technical strategy and integration with EPIC EMR, collaborating directly with clinical and business stakeholders to design a secure and scalable architecture that streamlined patient data access and third-party interoperability.

• Platform Architect · Philips Lifeline01-01-2018 – 04-01-2019

  Served as #ChangeAgent, #Intrapreneur and defined a highly distributed, asynchronous, reactive microservices architecture for NextGen product. Led a cross-functional, worked with multi-disciplinary teams, hyper-focused on delivering MVP. Incubated & promulgated proper use of Graph Database, CRQS/ES reactive stack, CI/CD with test automation, and Agile methodologies.

• Cloud Software Architect - Systems Engineering · Bose Corporation10-01-2016 – 01-01-2018

  IoT, Customer identity, Graph Databases. With an emphasis on end-to-end architecture across embedded, mobile and cloud: ● Defined IoT architecture for establishing product identity; defined manufacturing and e2e security models in collaboration with PKI experts; defined M2M messaging system requirements; conducted and published functional comparison of 14+ messaging solutions with goal of achieving C10M; proposed architecture for OTA SW Updates. ● Experimenting with Ethereum SmartContracts for IoT identity & product sharing. ● Championed use of Graph Database for Customer 360 data; defined graph data model; defined microservices architecture; implemented prototype using Vertx.io, Titan, Cassandra.

• Software Architect · Bose Corporation01-01-2015 – 01-01-2019

  With an emphasis on E2E architecture across embedded, mobile and cloud – defined IoT architecture for establishing consumer product identity; defined manufacturing and E2E security models in collaboration with PKI experts; defined M2M messaging system requirements.

• Platform Architect · Phillips01-01-2015 – 01-01-2019

  Acted as change agent, to define a highly distributed, asynchronous, reactive microservices architecture for NextGen product. Led a cross-functional, worked with multi-disciplinary teams, hyper-focused on delivering MVP. Incubated & promulgated proper use of Graph Database, CRQS/ES reactive stack, CI/CD with test automation, and Agile methodologies. Supported fall detection ML algorithm development. Delivered MVP in 3 months with fast follows over 6 months.

• Vice President of Engineering · Freebird01-01-2015 – 01-01-2019

  Defined vision for a highly scalable micro-service architecture, mapped the US Airspace into a graph data model capturing airline flight status, weather data, customer trips and price/purchase financial data. Learned Scala, defined external facing REST APIs, engaged an outsourced team of Scala developers, defined feature set, developed agile MVP roadmap with use cases, user stories, built CI, CD. Defined high-level architecture to drive real-time machine learning; applied supervised learning on weather and historical flight to predict flight delays, prices for assurance & alternative flights. Delivered MVP in 3 months; increased app responsiveness by 60%.

• VP of Engineering | Maker of Distributed Systems · Freebird, Inc.12-01-2015 – 07-01-2016

  Defined vision for a highly scalable micro-service architecture, mapped the US Airspace into a graph data model capturing airline flight status, weather data, customer trips and price/purchase financial data. Learned Scala, defined external facing REST APIs, engaged an outsourced team of Scala developers, defined feature set, crafted use cases,stories and executed 2 week sprints, instituted CI, CD and delivered MVP within 8 sprints. Defined high-level architecture to drive real-time machine learning. Distributed computing, Graph Data modeling & architecture, REST APIs, Scala, Titan Graph Database, Tinkerpop3, Gremlin, Gremlin graph visualization, Kafka, AureliaJS, Play, Akka, Kubernetes, Codeship.

• Software Architect · Bose Corporation01-01-2015 – 01-01-2019

  With an emphasis on E2E architecture across embedded, mobile and cloud – defined IoT architecture for establishing consumer product identity; defined manufacturing and E2E security models in collaboration with PKI experts; defined M2M messaging system requirements.

Education

• UPennMaster's Degree, Robotics
• Diamond Mountain UniversityAdvanced Buddhist Studies, Buddhist Studies
• Rutgers UniversityMS, Mechanical Engineering
• University of PennsylvaniaMaster of Science, Mechanical Engineering
• Rutgers UniversityBachelor of Science

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