ajith suggala
@ajith_s
Application engineering leader with 7+ years driving automation, incident management, and reliability outcomes.
What I'm looking for
I’m an application engineering leader with 7+ years of experience building and mentoring high-performing support teams across HR tech, AI/ML, and enterprise software. I focus on SLA adherence, escalation ownership, and turning engineering work into measurable business impact.
Most recently, as a technical lead for production support at Accurate Background LLC, I owned incidents and escalation decisions across 3 critical production applications serving enterprise HR clients. I led a 5+ engineer group, built a mentorship program that reduced onboarding time by ~30%, and improved first-call resolution rates through structured guidance.
I drive reliability through operational excellence—eliminating 40% of manual support toil via automation, establishing cross-functional war-room processes, reducing average MTTR by 25%, and embedding a post-mortem culture to prevent recurrence. Across roles at Cognknit Semantics and Navtech, I improved triage and RCA practices, reduced incident resolution time by ~20%, debugged and hotfixed under production pressure, and supported scalable web reliability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Application Engineer
Accurate Background LLC
May 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)
Served as technical lead for production support of background verification systems, owning SLA adherence and incident escalation decisions for enterprise HR clients. Led automation and incident-management improvements that eliminated 40% manual support toil, reduced onboarding time ~30%, and lowered average MTTR by 25%.
Wildlife Conservation Volunteer
Animal Warriors Conservation Society
Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 5 months)
Volunteered in wildlife rescue and habitat conservation activities, supporting ongoing rescue and conservation efforts. Contributed to team operations focused on protecting local wildlife and improving habitat conditions.
Application Engineer
Cognknit Semantics
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year)
Owned end-to-end resolution for AI/ML platform incidents across 10+ enterprise customers, managing SLAs from triage through confirmed closure. Reduced average incident resolution time ~20% by standardizing triage templates and reusable RCA documentation adopted by the support team.
Application Engineer
Navtech
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 8 months)
Acted as primary technical escalation point for production incidents, performing root cause analysis and delivering documented resolutions within agreed SLAs. Debugged and hotfixed AngularJS front-end issues under pressure, and refactored legacy code to improve maintainability and reduce recurring incident volume.
Data Analyst
Zen3 Infosolutions
May 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 1 month)
Analyzed large-scale Bing search datasets to support query prediction and relevance modeling. Promoted to Quality Analyst and Subject Matter Expert within 6 months, leading cross-project quality reviews and coaching junior analysts to meet weekly and monthly quality targets.
Education
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Google Cloud Skills Boost
Introduction to Generative AI, Generative AI
2024 - 2024
Completed the Introduction to Generative AI program on Google Cloud Skills Boost in 2024.
SCSVMV University
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering
2014 - 2018
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering at SCSVMV University, Kanchipuram from 2014 to 2018.
Cisco
CCNA, Networking
CCNA certification from Cisco.
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