Technology Operations & Operational Resilience

Building reliable technology operations for complex, regulated enterprises.

I help banks, fintechs and enterprise engineering organisations improve production stability, operational resilience and service performance.

Known for bringing clarity to complex environments, aligning technical and business teams around measurable outcomes, and leading calmly through high-risk change and service disruption.

Experience20+Years across enterprise technology operations
Customer scale~10MCustomers supported through critical conversion
Change reliability60%Year-on-year reduction in failed changes
Event noise3.5K→1.5KWeekly monitoring events reduced
Operational Resilience StudioLive assessment

Event Noise & Operational Cost Assessment

Live
Annual noise103,740
Capacity5,187 hrs
Recoverable$144K
20+ YEARS · GLOBAL BANKING · PRODUCTION SERVICES · OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE · EXECUTIVE GOVERNANCE
Executive snapshot

Leadership across critical technology operations.

Experience spanning global banking platforms, service delivery, operational resilience, production support, major incidents, change governance and strategic partner management.

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Global production operations

Leadership across business-critical banking, payments, middleware and customer-facing technology services.

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Cross-functional leadership

Coordinating engineering teams, service owners, business stakeholders and external partners around shared outcomes.

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Executive governance

Turning operational risk, resilience evidence and service data into priorities, ownership and investment decisions.

Career foundation
InfosysCognizantBarclays
Executive case studies

Evidence of measurable operational impact.

Three examples of how I diagnose operational problems, create leadership alignment and improve service outcomes.

Case study 01

Reduced failed changes by 60% year on year

Business problem

Repeated post-release instability reduced confidence in production change.

Leadership insight

The issue was not change volume alone, but inconsistent readiness, validation and ownership.

Strengthened service acceptance, release controls and post-change accountability—improving stability and engineering confidence.
Case study 02

Reduced weekly monitoring events from ~3,500 to ~1,500

Business problem

Operational noise consumed engineering capacity and obscured meaningful service signals.

Leadership insight

Alert volume was a capacity and response-quality issue, not merely a tooling issue.

Prioritised alert rationalisation and observability improvements—recovering engineering attention for reliability work.
Case study 03

Supported a critical conversion affecting ~10M customers

Business problem

A complex enterprise milestone carried significant customer, operational and partner risk.

Leadership insight

Success depended on end-to-end readiness, command governance and recovery preparation.

Aligned teams around service continuity and recovery readiness—delivering near-zero customer disruption.
How I lead

Calm in crisis. Clear in complexity. Accountable for outcomes.

My leadership style combines operational discipline with practical judgement and a strong focus on people, customers and measurable improvement.

Build trustCreate transparency, clear ownership and reliable follow-through.
Simplify complexityTranslate technical risk into decisions leaders and teams can act upon.
Develop peopleCoach teams through challenges and build confidence in operational leadership.
Lead calmly through crisisBring structure, pace and communication discipline to high-pressure recovery.
Owner's mindset

Commercial thinking beyond enterprise technology.

Alongside my enterprise leadership roles, I've built ventures in food delivery, transportation and renewable energy. Those experiences strengthened the qualities I bring back into large organisations: ownership, commercial judgement and customer-first decision making.

Commercial thinkingBalance service quality, operational risk, cost and long-term value.
Customer obsessionMeasure success by customer outcomes, not just technical metrics.
Product mindsetContinue building practical leadership tools through the Operational Resilience Studio.
End-to-end ownershipStay accountable from diagnosis through execution and sustained improvement.
Operational Resilience Studio

Executive decision-support tools for modern technology operations.

A growing portfolio of practical leadership assets focused on resilience, production stability and engineering productivity.

Current portfolio

The Studio demonstrates how I frame operational problems, prioritise interventions and communicate decisions.

Event Noise & Operational Cost AssessmentLive
Incident Impact & MTTR AssessmentBuilding
Change Risk & Readiness AssessmentBuilding
Executive Resilience DashboardRoadmap
Service Health ScorecardRoadmap
Operational Maturity AssessmentRoadmap
What colleagues say

Trusted for ownership, judgement and calm leadership.

“Akash combines technical excellence with operational leadership, consistently improving stability, reducing operational noise and bringing clarity during critical incidents.”

Abhi Sachdev Technology Command Centre

“Akash brings people together across engineering and business teams, driving improvements while keeping complex incidents calm, structured and moving in the right direction.”

Sharan Bhardwaj Vice President, Barclays
Future-ready operations

AI-enabled Technology Operations—applied responsibly.

Focused on governed use cases that improve incident triage, operational intelligence, change-risk decisions and engineering productivity while preserving human accountability.

Incident triage Operational intelligence Change-risk support Engineering productivity
Let’s connect

Open to Head and Director-level opportunities.

Technology Operations · Service Delivery · Production Services · Operational Resilience