Dean Jain
Dynamic Leader, Open Source Champion, Leads and Build Large Scale Platforms
Senior Director - Sr. Staff Engineer at Amex
Biography
18+ Years of Software Engineering Experience!
Innovative Leader + Hands on Technologist, a rapid and forever learner, strategic big-picture thinker yet a pragmatic innovator who rapidly crystallizes concepts/ideas to life, with a deep desire to learn and coach…
I engineer large scale technology transformations. I thrive in complexity with passionate drive to simplify it.
Bring a fresh, outside-in perspective to help understand and solve the core technology challenges to create & deliver truly transformative experiences, platforms and ecosystems.
Drive informed investment decisions through detailed assessment of the capabilities, underlying technology architecture, talent using simple visual artifacts to connect the dots and then cut across teams/organizations to get it done fast.
Current Technology Focus Areas: Current Technology Focus Areas: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF Certified), SOA, Reactive System, Microservices Development, Java EE (Sun Certified), Kotlin, GoLang, Spring, SOAD, Big Data (MapR Certified - Spark & HBase Developer), Hadoop, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch, Apache Solr, ELK Stack, REST, Swagger/OpenAPI, GraphQL, ServiceMesh, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MemSQL, Apache NiFi.
Interests
- Building and Running Large Teams
- Large Scale Software Engineering
- Leadership
- Cross Collaboration
- Enterprise Architecture
- Platform Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data
- Cloud Engineering
- Services / APIs / SOA
- Open Source / Inner Source
- Data Integrations
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science, 2003
SATI Engineering College
Harvard Certificate in Leadership Excellence, 2016
Harvard Business Review - HBR
