Chandra Sekhar Battula

Chandra Sekhar Battula has a diverse work experience in the tech industry, starting with their current role as a Senior Manager - Data Platform Lead at TSB Bank from December 2022. Prior to this, they worked as a Lead Data Engineer at the same company from January 2022 to November 2022.

Before joining TSB Bank, Chandra Sekhar had a stint at Zebra Technologies, where they held the position of Technical Lead from November 2021 to January 2022 and Senior Software Engineer from June 2020 to October 2021. In both roles, they were responsible for designing highly scalable and reliable cloud-native applications for a fully automated data as a service (DaaS) platform.

Chandra Sekhar also gained valuable experience working for Tata Consultancy Services as an Assistant Consultant from October 2018 to June 2020, and as an IT Analyst from July 2015 to September 2018. During their time at Tata Consultancy Services, their work mainly revolved around interacting with business teams, user story grooming, and reviewing acceptance criteria for clients in the banking and financial service domain.

Chandra Sekhar began their career at Cognizant, where they first worked as a Programmer Analyst Trainee from August 2011 to August 2012. Chandra Sekhar then progressed to the role of Programmer Analyst from August 2012 to October 2014, where they were involved in the end-to-end software development lifecycle for insurance policy processing applications.

Before Cognizant, Chandra Sekhar had a brief tenure as a Technology Analyst at Infosys from November 2014 to June 2015.

Overall, Chandra Sekhar Battula has accumulated a range of technical and leadership experience in data platforms, cloud-native applications, and software development across multiple industries, including banking and financial services.

Chandra Sekhar Battula obtained a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Electronics and Communication from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, where they studied from 2007 to 2011. In terms of additional certifications, they acquired the following credentials: MongoDB Associate Developer from MongoDB in November 2023, Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist from Scaled Agile, Inc. in October 2023, AWS Certified Security – Specialty from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January 2023, AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty from AWS in November 2022, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate from AWS in May 2022, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate from HashiCorp in May 2022, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from AWS in March 2022, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Data Engineer from Google in October 2021, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer from Google in October 2021, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect from Google in September 2021, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer from Google in July 2021, Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I) from Scrum.org in September 2018, CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer from The Linux Foundation in November 2020, and NCFM Financial Markets: A Beginner's Module Certification from NSEIT LIMITED (date of acquisition not provided).