About

Suren VB is an Engineering Manager II at Uber with over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. He is a calm and composed hands-on technology leader who is passionate about building teams, processes, and products to solve challenging problems optimized for impact. At Uber, Suren manages a team of talented individuals who are responsible for the efficient release of the company's apps to Google Play and App Store. He also oversees the development of the next generation mobile and backend testing infrastructure, as well as code quality at Uber. Prior to his current role, Suren worked as an Assistant Vice President of Technology at Deutsche Bank, where he co-founded several automation tools that provided automation across different internal business and IT organizations, eliminating daily "toil" with a tech stack of Angular, Python Flask, Ansible, ELK, Openshift, Azure, and Oracle. He was responsible for building and delivering a pipeline for continuous automation and pioneered in engineering Ansible as the strategic Configuration Management tool in the bank. Suren's responsibilities at Deutsche Bank included defining the technology roadmap, building and mentoring teams, resource and product management, vendor management, KPI and product presentation to senior management, solution architecture, REST API development, cloud migration to Red Hat Openshift and Azure, and center of excellence for Red Hat Ansible. He also talked to potential users to expand the adoption of the product, gathered feedback and feature requests from users, and served as a Scrum Master (Agile Champion). He saved approximately 9M EUR for the bank in 2019. Before Deutsche Bank, Suren worked as a Solution Engineering Lead at Adobe. He holds a B.Tech in Information Technology from Coimbatore Institute of Technology and a UX Designer certification from CareerFoundry. Suren's technical expertise includes senior software engineering, Ansible, Azure, testing, mobile and backend infrastructure, product management, microservices, Flask, Python, and AngularJS. With 14.79 years of relevant experience, Suren is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a technology leader who can build and lead teams to solve complex problems.