Sharan Nambiar
11 Flindosy Streeet, Algester,QLD
Summary
Visionary Chief Technology Officer with experience in leading technology teams and driving innovation. Expert in strategic planning, technology architecture design, and agile development methodologies. Proven track record of delivering complex software solutions, managing large-scale IT infrastructure, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Skilled in aligning technology initiatives with business goals to drive growth and operational excellence. Strong communicator and leader, adept at building and mentoring high-performing teams.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Technology Officer
Nightlife Music
2020.09 - Current
- Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives to modernize business operations and enhance customer experience. This helped Nightlife Music navigate through the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic on the Entertainment Industry.
- Led the restructuring of the Engineering team to enable efficiency and scalability. The new structure enhanced productivity and collaboration while allowing for the seamless expansion from 9 to 28 engineers.
- Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and partners that has helped Nightlife develop the next generation of its products.
- Oversaw the management of Nightlife's technology infrastructure to ensure that the designed architecture is optimized for performance while remaining within an annual budget of AUD 1 million
- Aligned IT strategy with organizational goals, fostering collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Monitored key business risks and established risk management procedures to ensure business continuity.
Senior Software Architect
Nightlife Music
2018.07 - 2020.09
- Worked with customers and technology partners to develop bespoke solutions on Nightlife's platform.
- Instituted processes to optimize costs of Nightlife's cloud infrastructure in AWS which resulted in a 30% reduction in costs.
- Engineered CI/CD pipelines, reducing cycle time from 5 minutes to under 30 seconds, streamlining automation for integration, testing, and deployment, ensuring swift, high-quality releases.
- Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.
- Identified and resolved bottlenecks in Nightlife's media player deployment, reducing setup time from 2 hours to 20 minutes, enabling efficient mass rollouts and improved client satisfaction.
- Implemented monitoring tools for proactive issue detection, reducing downtime due to unforeseen technical issues.
Product Manager & Software Architect
Nightlife Music
2017.07 - 2018.07
- Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
- Designed and developed the foundation for an Advertising service on Nightlife’s platform.
- Introduced Agile and Lean principles to the software team’s development methodology to ensure that the team could grow while maintaining rapid and high quality product development.
- Instituted DevOps principles and practices to bridge the gap between software development and software support and maintenance, thereby making it easier to manage Nightlife’s rapidly growing cloud platform.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to stay current on industry trends, making informed decisions for technology adoption.
Senior Software Engineer
Nightlife Music
2013.03 - 2017.07
- Identified the need for and then led the design and development of Nightlife’s cloud platform. The platform significantly increases the scalability of Nightlife’s products and services, and is now the foundation on which over 30 different products and services run.
- Worked with internal stakeholders to identify the core requirements to build a data analysis framework to accurately repatriate music royalties to artists. Subsequently designed and built the first version of this framework before leading a team of 2 engineers to build a more scalable version of the framework.
Software Engineer
Nightlife Music
2011.04 - 2013.03
- Worked with a team of 3 engineers to design and implement the core communication infrastructure that would bring over 5000 of Nightlife’s media players online and responsive in real time. This substantially increased the capabilities of Nightlife’s client services team and also paved the way for an expansion of Nightlife's product base by making the development of mobile applications possible.
- Designed and built functionality in Nightlife’s proprietary CRM to increase business efficiency.
Tutor
University Of Queensland
2010.02 - 2011.06
- Three Software Engineering Courses
Education
MBA -
University of Queensland
2024
GAICD - Company Directors Course
Australian Institute of Company Directors
2024
Bachelor of Engineering - Software
University of Queensland
2011
Skills
- Leadership and People Development
- Strategic Planning
- Digital Transformation
- IT Governance
- Change and Growth Management
- Systems Thinker
- Articulate Communication
- Negotiation
- Training and mentoring
Timeline
Chief Technology Officer
Nightlife Music
2020.09 - Current
Senior Software Architect
Nightlife Music
2018.07 - 2020.09
Product Manager & Software Architect
Nightlife Music
2017.07 - 2018.07
Senior Software Engineer
Nightlife Music
2013.03 - 2017.07
Software Engineer
Nightlife Music
2011.04 - 2013.03
Tutor
University Of Queensland
2010.02 - 2011.06
MBA -
University of Queensland
GAICD - Company Directors Course
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Bachelor of Engineering - Software
University of Queensland
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