# Vevek Pandian Vevek Pandian is a remote worker on Himalayas, Head of Engineering at Pexaworks, based in United Arab Emirates. Source: https://himalayas.app/@vevekpandian1 ```text I lead global engineering organizations building cloud-native enterprise platforms and AI-driven products. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Open to opportunities | | Location | United Arab Emirates | | Authorized to work in | United Arab Emirates | | Job categories | Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, Vice President Of Engineering, Chief Technology Officer | | Skills | Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, HTML, CSS, Spring Boot, React, Angular, NodeJS, Django, fastAPI, Laravel, WordPress, GraphQL, REST APIs, gRPC, iOS, Android, Large Language Models, GPT 4o, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, Falcon, AI Agents, Multi agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, LoRAs, QLoRA, PEFT, RLHF, Vector Search, Faiss, Pinecone, Pgvector, Lang Chain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Responsible AI, AI Guardrails, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit learn, Hugging Face Transformers, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, MLOps, LLMOps, MLFlow, Kubeflow, VLLM, Triton, Ollama, Ragas, Langsmith, AWS, EC2, Amazon EKS, Lambda, AWS Sagemaker, Amazon Bedrock, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch, Azure, AKS, Azure OpenAI, Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, API Gateway, SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Apache Spark, Kafka, Tableau, Power BI, IAM, OAuth, Zero Trust Architecture, SOC2, GDPR Compliance, Firewalls, HashiCorp Vault, OpenTelemetry, Jira, Confluence, Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCi, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, Postman, SonarQube, MQTT, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, Agile, CI CD, DevOps, Software Architecture, Engineering Strategy, Engineering Leadership | ## What I'm looking for ```text I'm open to relocation and looking to lead global engineering organizations building cloud-native, AI-first enterprise products, shaping multi-year technology roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes. ``` ## About ```text Engineering leader with extensive experience building and scaling distributed engineering organizations, modernizing cloud-native platforms, and embedding AI/ML into enterprise products. Proven track record leading teams of 50–60+ engineers and partnering with C-suite and product leadership on multi-year technology roadmaps — delivering ML-driven optimization gains, a 30% improvement in team engagement, and multi-million-dollar cost optimization across global organizations spanning the Middle East, Europe, India, and the United States. ``` ## Experience ### Head of Engineering (current) Pexaworks. Apr 2024 - Present ```text Scaled a global distributed engineering organization of 50+ and led AI/ML integration across core product workflows. Owned end-to-end product engineering for a cloud-native ERP platform and managed a $1M annual engineering budget. ``` Skills: OKRs, Performance-Management, Career-Development, Leadership-Development, Cloud-Native, ERP, Microservices, Event-Driven-Architecture, Agile-Transformation, CI-CD, DevOps, AI-ML, GenAI, Budget-Management, P-L-Ownership ### Senior Engineering Manager [Sixt](https://himalayas.app/companies/sixt). Nov 2019 - Mar 2024 ```text Led a distributed engineering organization of 60+ across the fulfilment division. Spearheaded ML and AI feature development for demand-supply matching, achieving a 20% reduction in vehicle upselling and improving fleet utilization. ``` Skills: Engineering-Management, Distributed-Systems, Microservices, Micro-Frontends, Event-Driven-Architecture, Agile, DevOps, CI-CD, Machine-Learning, AI, Supply-And-Demand, Fleet-Utilization, Budget-Management, Employee-Engagement ### Head of Engineering Thoughtbees, Subsidiary of New Era. Aug 2016 - Oct 2019 ```text Directed design, architecture, development, and delivery of multiple SaaS and mobile applications across e-commerce, financial systems, healthcare, ERP, and IoT domains. Served as primary client-facing technical lead and oversaw all engineering functions. ``` Skills: SaaS, Mobile-Apps, Ecommerce, Financial-Systems, Healthcare, ERP, IoT, technology-strategy, Client-Management, Requirements-Definition, Release-Management, Quality-Assurance, Team-Leadership ### Technical Manager [Identiv](https://himalayas.app/companies/identiv). Feb 2015 - Jul 2016 ```text Defined technology strategy across Mobile, Web, and IoT projects. Led creation and delivery of iOS and watchOS Chronicled apps and designed a Credential SDK for managing certificates and trust policies. ``` Skills: iOS, Watch-OS, Mobile-Development, Web-Development, IoT, Credential-SDK, Bluetooth-Low-Energy, Android, Project-Management ### Technical Architect [Photon](https://himalayas.app/companies/photon). Jul 2014 - Feb 2015 ```text Introduced new technologies and professionalized engineering teams. Designed and documented modern development practices for REST API integration and OAuth2 authentication, and architected a cloud-based platform for IoT device orchestration. ``` Skills: REST-APIs, OAuth, IoT, Cloud-Computing, Architecture, Engineering-Management, Training, Continuous-Improvement ### Technical Architect Pramati. Jun 2012 - Jun 2014 ```text Led the WaveMaker Developer Community and managed a team of designers and developers. Architected a Personal Health Record system and designed a mobile marketplace for fitness professionals, while managing CI environments. ``` Skills: WaveMaker, Drupal, WordPress, Jira, LAMP-Stack, Mobile-Development, CI-CD, Agile, Scrum, Team-Management, Architecture ### Team Lead [Morningstar](https://himalayas.app/companies/morningstar). Jan 2010 - May 2012 ```text Managed a team of developers to deliver Peergroups, a major MVC-architected module for comparing financial data. Developed project plans for the Transcripts iPad project and introduced CI using Jenkins/Hudson. ``` Skills: MVC, Financial-Data, Project-Management, Jira, CI-CD, Jenkins, Hudson, Python, RSS, jQuery, Team-Leadership ### Senior Software Engineer [Honeywell](https://himalayas.app/companies/honeywell-international-inc). Jun 2005 - Aug 2007 ```text Led a team of junior engineers in designing and developing test software for the DELTA system. Redesigned the legacy ATEasy framework, achieving a 100% performance improvement. ``` Skills: Test-Software, ATEasy, GUI-тестування, Object-Oriented-Design, UML, Use-Cases, Client-Liaison, Team-Leadership ## Education ### Birla Institute of Technology and Science Master of Business Administration, Business Analytics ```text Pursued a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Business Analytics. ``` ### Birla Institute of Technology and Science Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Instrumentation ```text Completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Instrumentation. ``` ### The University of Texas at Arlington Master of Science, Computer Science ```text Earned a Master of Science in Computer Science. ``` ## Tech stack - Postman - Splunk - Apache Spark - Tableau - Microsoft Azure - Google Cloud Platform - SonarQube - Kubernetes - Helm - Amazon EKS - Jenkins - CircleCI - GitHub Actions - MySQL - PostgreSQL - MongoDB - Node.js - Django - Laravel - Spring Boot - Redis - Terraform - Jira - React - JavaScript - Python - Java - PHP - Kotlin - Swift - Go - TensorFlow - PyTorch - MLflow - scikit-learn - Kubeflow - Kafka - MQTT - FastAPI - Istio - PagerDuty - Grafana - Prometheus - OpenTelemetry - iOS - Datadog - Confluence - Gemini - GraphQL - gRPC - WordPress - Ansible - TypeScript - OAuth2 - Git - Docker - SQL - Amazon SageMaker - LangChain - LlamaIndex - Ollama - Pinecone - vLLM - ArgoCD - Ragas - pgvector - Faiss - LangGraph - LangSmith - PEFT - Falcon - Android - Power BI - Apache Kafka To contact Vevek, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Vevek Pandian](https://himalayas.app/@vevekpandian): Engineering Leader, Sixt - [Raja Bose](https://himalayas.app/@rajabose): Engineering Manager, Zepto - [Zayne Nair](https://himalayas.app/@zaynenair): Head of Technology & AI, ROQ CX - [Chijindu Orji](https://himalayas.app/@ceejaeorji): Fractional CTO, OXygean - [Saqib Ejaz](https://himalayas.app/@saqibejaz): Senior Software Engineer, WeMove - [yameen akhtar](https://himalayas.app/@yameenakhtar): Lead AI Engineer, Turing - [Hasan Chaudhry](https://himalayas.app/@hasanchaudhry): ML/AI System Architect, Carveo.eu - [sarfaraz jamal](https://himalayas.app/@sarfarazjamal): Technical Lead / Solution Architect, G42/M42 Healthcare - [Sachin Mour](https://himalayas.app/@sachinmour): Chief Technology Officer, Hexis - [Muhammad Ijlal](https://himalayas.app/@muhammadijlal1): Engineering Manager | Backend & AI, Trivto