resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Harishankar Narayanan",
    "label": "Senior Director - Product Development",
    "picture": "./harishankar.jpeg",
    "email": "nharishankar@gmail.com",
    "phone": "+91 9940177422",
    "summary": "Engineering leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing highly scalable, low-latency distributed systems for real-time payment processing. At Global Payments, I lead enterprise payment product engineering teams in India. At Volante, I improved the performance of the payment processing platform by 6x and led the transformation from an on-prem monolith to a cloud-native SaaS offering. My career spans from writing rendering engines and ML systems in C++ to leading 300+ developer organizations across payments, eCommerce, and gaming.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Chennai",
      "countryCode": "IN",
      "region": "Tamil Nadu"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Github",
        "icon": "mdi-github-face",
        "username": "github.com/codetiger",
        "url": "https://github.com/codetiger"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "icon": "mdi-linkedin-box",
        "username": "linkedin.com/in/code42tiger",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/code42tiger/"
      },
      {
        "network": "Blog",
        "username": "Codetiger",
        "url": "https://codetiger.github.io/blog/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Global Payments Inc",
      "position": "Senior Director - Product Engineering",
      "website": "https://www.globalpayments.com",
      "startDate": "2023-11-02",
      "summary": "Responsible for the enterprise payment product engineering teams in India.",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead enterprise payments engineering teams across India with 300+ engineers.",
        "Oversaw Worldpay's enterprise payment processing platforms serving merchants and large institutions including Netflix, eBay, Amazon, Booking.com, and Airbnb.",
        "Navigated the product through multiple corporate transitions — from FIS spin-off to Global Payments acquisition — ensuring engineering continuity and delivery.",
        "Designed and managed development of merchant onboarding across all products and platforms within the Worldpay ecosystem."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Volante Technologies",
      "position": "Senior Director - Product Development",
      "website": "https://www.volantetech.com",
      "startDate": "2019-01-30",
      "endDate": "2023-10-30",
      "summary": "Led the architecture and engineering teams behind VolPay, Volante's payment processing engine serving major banks and financial institutions.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a team of architects driving the technology strategy and platform architecture for the VolPay payment engine, serving clients like BNY, Citi, and Wells Fargo.",
        "Improved platform performance and throughput by 6x — from 30 TPS to 200+ TPS — significantly reducing infrastructure costs.",
        "Transformed the product from an on-prem Java monolith to a cloud-native SaaS offering, enabling Volante's first multi-tenant deployments."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "CaratLane",
      "position": "Engineering Manager",
      "website": "https://www.caratlane.com",
      "startDate": "2017-08-03",
      "endDate": "2019-01-18",
      "summary": "Led technical strategy and architecture across all engineering teams for India's largest online jewellery platform.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led the engineering team powering CaratLane's end-to-end e-commerce platform — from product discovery and user experience through to order fulfilment.",
        "Redesigned core platform services and architected the migration from a monolithic application to a microservices-based architecture.",
        "Built the company's first ML team, delivering product recommendation systems that personalised the shopping experience for customers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Altimetrik Inc",
      "position": "Architect, CC Lead, AnyDevice Capability Centre",
      "website": "https://www.altimetrik.com",
      "startDate": "2016-10-20",
      "endDate": "2017-07-31",
      "summary": "Led technical strategy for the Mobile & Web front-end capability centre, architecting 4 in-house frameworks and products with a team of 100+ developers. Drove client engagements from RFP through to product delivery.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected and led development of RMAD, a cloud-based IDE for mobile and web app development featuring collaborative code editing, drag-and-drop UI design, simulation, and debugging.",
        "Designed and built a multi-tenant mBaaS platform providing push notifications, deep linking, and authentication services, with support for client-deployed custom services."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Amtex Inc",
      "position": "Technical Architect, Consultant",
      "website": "http://www.amtexsystems.com",
      "startDate": "2014-02-04",
      "endDate": "2016-07-30",
      "summary": "Architected 5 products and built the mobile division from the ground up, leading a team of 45 developers across enterprise and consumer applications.",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed and maintained a distributed, highly scalable e-commerce platform for luxury furniture manufacturers (Instudio Designs).",
        "Built an emergency response system for the Chennai Police Department — a cloud-based platform with citizen-facing mobile apps and a police command centre, modelled after 911 (Inventcare).",
        "Architected an audio streaming server with cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile (Maestros Music)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Smackall Games",
      "position": "Founder & Technology Head",
      "website": "http://www.smackall.com",
      "startDate": "2006-01-06",
      "endDate": "2016-10-15",
      "summary": "Founded and grew a mobile app and game development studio from 2 to 20 developers. Built a cross-platform game engine for iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and Linux, and shipped 120+ apps across entertainment and enterprise.",
      "highlights": [
        "3 apps topped the iTunes Global Charts with over 5 million combined downloads, including an A'Design Award 2012 winner.",
        "Designed and built the rendering engine behind Iyan 3D, a cross-platform 3D animation app with over 2 million downloads.",
        "Built a gesture recognition prototype using a custom Machine Learning system in C++ with Hidden Markov Models, targeting embedded systems."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Real Image Media Technology",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "http://www.realimage.com",
      "startDate": "2005-01-05",
      "endDate": "2006-01-05",
      "summary": "Early member of the Qube Cinema server team, implementing content security for digital cinema using HASP (Hardware Against Software Piracy). Supported the successful deployment across 150+ cinemas in Tamil Nadu."
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "P.S.N.A College of Engineering & Technology",
      "area": "Mechanical Engineering",
      "studyType": "Bachelor",
      "startDate": "2000-05-04",
      "endDate": "2004-06-10"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "IoT Security Research — Covered by Futurism & ZDNet",
      "summary": "Reverse engineered a robot vacuum's firmware and protocols, exposing critical security vulnerabilities. Built an open-source replacement firmware in Rust."
    },
    {
      "title": "Ranked #1 in India — Google AI Programming Challenge",
      "awarder": "University of Waterloo, sponsored by Google",
      "date": "2011-11-26",
      "summary": "Built an autonomous agent for an international AI contest, ranking #1 in India (#127 globally) out of thousands of participants."
    },
    {
      "title": "A'Design Award — Best Product Design",
      "awarder": "A'Design Award & Competition",
      "date": "2013-03-24",
      "summary": "Awarded for a GPS-based terrain mapping app that reconstructs real-world terrain as 3D models."
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Engineering Leadership",
      "keywords": [
        "Team building & scaling",
        "Engineering strategy",
        "Cross-functional delivery",
        "Entrepreneurship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Domain Expertise",
      "keywords": [
        "Banking & financial payments",
        "Enterprise & merchant payments",
        "eCommerce platforms",
        "Video codec & 3D graphics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Architecture & Platform",
      "keywords": [
        "High-throughput system",
        "Event-driven architecture",
        "Microservices",
        "Cloud-native"
      ]
    }
  ]
}