Giri Kesavan

Giridharan Kesavan is an accomplished Chief Systems Architect at Visa since November 2020, managing a large Kubernetes cluster supporting various use cases such as SCaaS and MLP, and previously focused on building a Big Data stack with the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Prior to Visa, Giridharan served as Solutions Director at Robin.io, architecting and implementing CI/CD pipelines and DaaS solutions on Kubernetes, and held roles at Hortonworks as a Sr Release Engineer, Yahoo! as a Tech Lead in Release Engineering, VMware as a Build & Release Engineer, and Cognizant Technology Solutions as a Senior Associate. Giridharan's career began as a Software Engineer at Aavanor Systems, with a strong educational background including an MCA in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University and a B.Sc in Physics from St Josephs College.