Emmanuel Thangaraj

Led a global engineering organisation of 100+ across the US, India, Brazil, and UK, including engineering managers, leads, and senior ICs.

• Owned full engineering budget, vendor strategy, cloud spend governance, and annual/quarterly forecasting for an $80M+ SaaS platform.
• Partnered closely with Product Directors, CPO, and GTM teams to drive prioritisation, roadmap predictability, and customer-centric delivery.
• Defined engineering structure, hiring roadmap, and operating model to support scaling and better cross-team alignment.
• Introduced multi-agent AI automation, MCP integrations, and developer copilots-improving developer productivity by 30% and reducing deployments from days to minutes.
• Reduced VAT/Sales Tax onboarding cycle from weeks to hours through AI-driven workflow automation.
• Led cloud, platform, and security modernization roadmaps to improve scalability, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Established DevSecOps foundations including Zero Trust, SAST/DAST automation, CI/CD governance, and container security.
• Strengthened security and compliance maturity by embedding Secure-by-Design principles and aligning engineering practices with GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 requirements.
• Implemented SRE frameworks-SLO/SLI, observability, distributed tracing-reducing RCA time by 80%.
• Played a key engineering leadership role in M&A activities, including technical due diligence, architecture risk assessment, and scalability evaluation of acquisition targets.
• Led post-merger engineering integration, aligning acquired platforms, teams, and SDLC practices with Avalara's cloud, security, and compliance standards.
• Drove vendor consolidation and rationalisation post-acquisition, reducing overlapping tooling, cloud spend, and external service dependencies.
• Owned strategic vendor management across cloud providers, SaaS tools, security vendors, and system integrators-governing contracts, SLAs, renewals, and cost optimisation.
• Partnered with Finance, Legal, and Procurement teams on vendor negotiations, commercial terms, and long-term sourcing strategy.
• Embedded Agile, Kanban, and SAFe-based delivery models across global teams, improving predictability, flow efficiency, and cross-functional alignment.

• Led FileMaker Cloud engineering (40+ engineers) including leads, architects, and senior ICs across backend, cloud, DevOps, and SRE.
• Strengthened engineering culture through coaching, leadership development, and delivery discipline.
• Modernized FileMaker Cloud into AWS-native microservices and API-led architecture-resulting in 3× scalability and 70% faster releases.
• Implemented Infra as a Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, observability, and secure development lifecycle across engineering.
• Collaborated with Apple engineering and compliance teams to ensure global security and platform readiness.
• Worked closely with Apple procurement, security, and partner teams to manage strategic vendors and ensure platform readiness during organisational and product transitions.

• Led engineering for distributed, event-driven analytics powered video platforms, processing millions of video events and metadata streams across customer environments.
• Delivered distributed systems modernisation, improving platform availability by 20–30%, reducing latency, and increasing fault tolerance across core services.
• Established CI/CD, DevSecOps, and monitoring practices, reducing release cycles from weeks to days and lowering production incidents through automated testing, security checks, and observability.

• Delivered enterprise modernization programs, mission-critical systems, and cloud-aligned platforms across global teams.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.