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Guna Shekar

@gunashekar

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Engineering leader specializing in Java, cloud-native microservices, and AI-driven automation.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a leadership role where I can drive cloud-native, AI-enabled product delivery, mentor engineering teams, and improve developer velocity and operational excellence.

I am a software engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on Java and cloud-native experience, and eight years of team leadership including managing teams of up to 28 engineers. I have led end-to-end delivery of AI bots and scalable microservices, driving measurable improvements in developer velocity, release cadence, and production reliability.

I specialize in designing and deploying resilient, observability-driven systems using AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines while integrating AI/ML solutions (NLP, LLMs, generative AI) to automate business and developer workflows. I focus on transparent people management, mentoring, and agile delivery to build high-performing, remote-first teams that consistently meet SLAs and product goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Manager, Software Engineering

GupShup

Jul 2024 - May 2025 (10 months)

Managed 28 engineers and drove roadmap execution for a high-throughput conversational messaging platform; architected dual AI bots and cloud-native microservices, reducing development cycle time by 35% and defects by 42%.

Spring Boot Hibernate Kubernetes Jenkins Helm CI CD Prometheus

Manager, Software Engineering

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024 (2 years)

Led a 16-member team delivering enterprise cloud applications and an AI bot, implemented AWS EKS-based infrastructure and data workflows, improving deployment agility and meeting SLAs consistently.

Java Spring Boot Hibernate RDS)S3 Kubernetes Pyspark Jenkins Docker EMR RDS

Software Engineer IV

Oracle Cerner

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022 (11 months)

Delivered backend services for healthcare products using Java, Spring Boot and MySQL, and engineered PySpark/Oozie pipelines on EMR to process petabyte-scale clinical datasets.

Java Spring Boot Hibernate MySQL Pyspark Oozie Amazon EMR DevOps CI CD

Alfresco Java Lead Developer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Oct 2019 - Aug 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Led a team building enterprise content management solutions with Alfresco, designing REST/SOAP integrations and applying containerized DevOps practices to improve deployment reliability.

Java Spring Boot Alfresco SDK REST SOAP Docker CI CD Performance Tuning Team Leadership

Lead Alfresco Developer

Amzur Technologies

Jul 2011 - Oct 2019 (8 years 3 months)

Headed development of Alfresco-based ECM systems, delivering custom modules and big data integrations while managing offshore/onshore teams for scalable content services.