About

Dinakaran Sankaranarayanan is an experienced IT professional with nearly 16 years of experience in various technology stacks. He has spent the last 4+ years focusing exclusively on building and managing cloud-native microservices in AWS using Java and Nodejs in combination with Serverless Stack as well as Kubernetes. He is proficient in Java, MVC - Struts, JSF, Webservices - SOAP and REST, and JSR specifications, as well as Nodejs, and has basic knowledge of front-end stack - Angular, Bootstrap, etc. Dinakaran has hands-on experience with building solutions on top of AWS Serverless Stack of API Gateway and Lambda, K8S, Helm Charts, Kinesis, SQS, Redis, Aurora MySQL, and a host of other Managed Services of AWS. He has experience in supporting mission-critical services 24*7 across AWS regions and exposure to different business domains like Banking, Insurance, Life Sciences, Retail, eCommerce, and Human Resources. Dinakaran is skilled at collaborating with Product Managers and other cross-functional teams to prioritize initiatives, help in the planning of the OKR based on Product Roadmap, and align business overall priorities. He has been managing cross-functional teams of varied sizes from 3 to 10 over for over 4+ years. Dinakaran is well-versed in Team and People Management, Performance Management, Recruitment, and Coaching. Dinakaran's primary skills include Java and Microservices (2006 ~ 2020, 10+ yrs), Node and Microservices (2020 till date, ~2 years), AWS Serverless API Gateway, Lambda, SQS Managed Services (since 2018, 4+ yrs), K8S, Helm Charts, Kinesis, Redis, SQS (since 2021, 1+ yr), DevOps - AWS DevOps, CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins (3+ yr), and Observability - Cloud Watch, ELK, DataDog, X-Ray, PagerDuty. His secondary skills include Angular (1+ yr), Azure (6 months), and GCP Firebase (6 months). Dinakaran is currently working as a Software Development Manager at Amazon, where he is building Digital Payment Solutions for Emerging Markets. Prior to Amazon, he worked as an Engineering Manager at Lifion, where he managed two platform work streams with 4 to 5 engineers in each team. He also worked as a Writer at