Siddharth Abbineni

The road keeps going

1. AssurantCurrent stint

   Assurant

   Sr Technology Automation Engineer

   I lead Astra, the cloud automation platform behind our infrastructure.

   Race report

   1. 01Use Astra to standardise provisioning and multi-cloud workflows across the enterprise.
   2. 02Run our Kubernetes clusters from development to production: deployments, releases and uptime.
   3. 03Build the cloud-native microservices and enterprise apps that run on both clouds.
   4. 04Automate configuration and CI/CD, so infrastructure takes far less hands-on work.
   5. 05Work with cloud architects and infrastructure teams on secure, resilient automation.

   • AKS
   • Ansible
   • Terraform
   • .NET
   • Python
   • Azure
   • AWS
2. Pinion2020 to 2025

   Pinion Services

   Senior Technical Specialist

   I led the architecture for Santander Consumer Bank’s move to Azure and AWS, and built the collections engine that raised debt recovery by 30%.

   Race report

   1. 01Led the Azure and AWS migration roadmap as Santander Consumer Bank’s solutions architect.
   2. 02Built Santander’s collections engine, which raised debt recovery by 30%.
   3. 03Designed 8+ core banking microservices and prototyped AI credit-risk models.
   4. 04Built a Positive Credit Register API and a document centre to tight regulatory deadlines.
   5. 05Added Stripe payments to Vatify and grew it from 100 to 1,000+ active users.

   • .NET Core
   • AKS
   • Terraform
   • Azure OpenAI
   • React
   • C4
3. Melite2016 to 2020

   Melite Technologies

   Senior Software Engineer

   I led five engineers building Studease, an education ERP/CRM, and built core modules of the Digital Curriculum platform.

   Race report

   1. 01Led 5 engineers building Studease, an education ERP/CRM used by 15,000+ students and staff.
   2. 02Built 4 core modules of the Digital Curriculum platform: 500+ concurrent users, 200+ courses.
   3. 03Wrote 2 REST APIs for our mobile apps, handling 10,000+ requests a day.
   4. 04Looked after source control, builds and deployments for 3 application streams.
   5. 05Rolled Studease out across 5 educational institutions.

   • ASP.NET
   • EF 6
   • LINQ
   • SQL Server
   • TFS
4. DPS Nacharam2012 to 2016

   Delhi Public School, Nacharam

   IT Consultant

   I led eight developers building the school’s ERP and CRM systems, and looked after its websites and campus network.

   Race report

   1. 01Led 8 developers building 3 ERP and CRM systems for 2,000+ staff and students.
   2. 02Automated the school’s SMS and email campaigns, cutting that manual work by about 60%.
   3. 03Built the parent portals, which raised parent engagement by 25%.
   4. 04Built and ran 4 school websites at 99.5% uptime.
   5. 05Advised on hardware and network design for 500+ devices across the campus.

   • ASP.NET
   • SQL Server
   • HTML / CSS / JS
5. QSP, Time Inc.2010 to 2012

   QSP, Time Inc.

   Application Developer

   I was the lead developer on the internal ERP portal, and I automated the finance team’s reconciliation and reporting.

   Race report

   1. 01Lead developer on the internal ERP portal, improving 5 workflows used daily by 200+ staff.
   2. 02Automated General Ledger reconciliation with finance, cutting manual data entry by 75%.
   3. 03Wrote 15+ SSIS packages that moved millions of records into the data warehouse every night.
   4. 04Built 20+ SSRS reports run by SQL Agent, saving about 10 hours of reporting a week.
   5. 05Ran the Sponsor Portal for 50,000+ users; adding social login lifted sign-ups by 15%.

   • C#
   • ASP.NET
   • SSIS
   • SSRS
   • SQL Server