About Me - Raja Ravi Varman

A. J. S. Raja Ravi Varman

Technology Leader | AI & Cloud Strategist | Platform Engineering | DevSecOps

📍 Chennai, India

Summary

Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Engineering, DevOps, Application Development, Security, Service Virtualization, and Quality Assurance of software systems.

Proven expertise in the domains of SaaS, CPaaS, FinTech & Consulting with a wide range of projects in CX, Voice Telephony, Subscriptions, Licensing, Credit Cards, Payment Gateways, and Financial Message Protocols (ISO8583, ISO20022).

Led the design, development, and delivery of highly available and robust cloud-native systems. Architected and developed scalable microservices, event-driven workflows, and serverless applications.

Subject Matter Expert in AWS Well-Architected Framework, Microservices, Containers, Kubernetes, Serverless, OpenTelemetry, CloudEvents, Event-Driven Architecture, CI/CD, Service Virtualization, Test Automation, Performance Monitoring, and Security Testing.

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager - SaaS

CloudBees2023 - Present

Driving engineering strategy for the CloudBees Unify AI-driven DevSecOps SaaS Platform, empowering global enterprises to adopt secure, scalable cloud-native workflows and accelerate developer productivity across the software build, test, deploy and release lifecycle.

Team Lead - Licensing Platform

Autodesk2020 - 2023

Led product team for licensing platform serving all Autodesk desktop products and cloud services. Implemented token-based licensing and subscription overuse prevention.

Tech Lead - International Payment Gateway

Fiserv2018 - 2020

Developed digital transformation strategy for payment gateway. Led compliance efforts with Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, PSD2, and GDPR.

Lead Engineer - Prepaid Card Issuing

Wirecard AG2016 - 2018

Led development of multiple modules in Wirecard Prepaid Issuing Platform including Authorization, Clearing, and Settlement of ISO8583 Payments.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture2011 - 2016

Subject matter expert in ISO8583, EMV, and payment scheme simulators. Led tokenization projects for Apple Pay and Samsung Pay integration.

Technical Skills

Programming

C#JavaJavaScriptPythonGo

Software Development

.NET CoreSpring BootNode.jsReactReact NativeNext.jsKafkaRabbitMQPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisCassandraOpenSearchAndroid DevelopmentiOS Development

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

TensorFlowPyTorchModel Context Protocol (MCP)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)LangChainHugging Face Transformers

Game Development

Cocos2d-xGodotUnreal EngineUnity

APIs & Architectures

RESTful APIsGraphQLgRPCMicroservices ArchitectureEvent-Driven ArchitectureServerless Computing

Cloud Platforms

AWSAzureGCPKongDockerKubernetes

DevSecOps

DataDogLaunchDarklyTerraformPulumiArgoCDSnykAnchoreSonarQubeStackHawkTrivyHashiCorp VaultSplunkOWASP ZAPJenkinsGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsOpenTelemetryBlazemeterJMeterPostmanWireMock