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ajith suggala

@ajith_s

Application engineering leader with 7+ years driving automation, incident management, and reliability outcomes.

India
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or Engineering Manager role in application support or platform reliability—where I can own SLAs, lead incident management, scale automation, and mentor teams to deliver measurable uptime and MTTR improvements.

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

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Current

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%.

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Current

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.

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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.

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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.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Google Cloud Skills Boost logoGB

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 logoSU

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.

CI

Cisco

CCNA, Networking

CCNA certification from Cisco.

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