About

Ashok Palaniswamy is a highly energetic and versatile IT professional with over 26 years of experience in development, design, and architecture. He has a strong background in conceiving software architecture, designing and implementing multi-tier applications, and is a strong advocate of openness, transparency, and accountability to balance strategic vision and pragmatic needs. Ashok has extensive experience with different elements in SDLC and actively practices Agile/Scrum, delivering robust implementations by applying optimal design patterns and best standards in software development. He is a self-motivated learner of new technologies, a knowledgeable mentor, and leader with excellent communication skills who can perform under high pressure both independently and in a team. Through his work experience, Ashok has gained good knowledge across various industries such as Food, Agriculture, Finance, Supply chain, Digital Marketing & SEO, Non-Profit, Publishing, E-Commerce & Insurance. He is currently working as a Sr. Product Development & Engineering Lead at Cargill, where he is responsible for leading a team of cloud engineers responsible for app modernization & cloud migration. He provides direction on engineering practices like continuous integration, testing, delivery & deployment of apps being built. He also works with regional delivery centers around the globe & helps dev teams to get onboard with using Cargill's cloud development & deployment pipelines. Ashok is an Agile Coach and trains and coaches the development team in Cargill Grain IT and other BU’s to get onboard with Agile software development practices using Scrum and turn it into a success. He also introduces some of the best practices in SDLC by using automation testing, Continuous Integration & one-click build TFS for agility. As a Technical Lead & Applications Architect, Ashok creates web and app development standards for developing quality software. He leads the team by webinars, and presentations on topics like RAD, Mobile, Responsive, etc. He also exposes the team to Azure/AWA Cloud computing, Mobility & Responsive Web. Ashok is also a Digital Marketing SME and helps BU's around the world in Cargill get onboard with SalesForce & ExactTarget for their Digital Marketing needs. He prepares guidelines for a Responsive email marketing experience, mentors users with best practices, and architects solutions for their business needs in Email, Mobile & Social Marketing needs.