// PRAHLAD KUMAR SHARMA

Technology executive with 20 years leading mission-critical platforms — building toward IT Director and CTO mandates.

IT Director · CTO Candidate · Technology Executive

(20 years · Govt of India scale · 100+ AMCs · 550+ production systems)

Leading the technology platform behind Government of India financial systems — serving 100+ mutual fund AMCs and the investors who depend on them. Bringing the same operating discipline to every organization I lead.

// ENGAGEMENT
ROLE
Deputy Manager — IT (Tech Lead)
UTIITSL · Govt of India
SCOPE
100+ AMCs · Nation-scale platform
Trillions in NAV transactions
EDUCATION
B.Tech CSE — JNTU Hyderabad
4× Oracle Cloud certified

Leadership Themes

01
Strategy · Transformation

Modernizing a regulated financial platform without taking it offline — a CTO playbook.

02
Leadership · Org Design

Building engineering teams that own the worst night of the year — and the best.

03
Reliability · Governance

SLO-driven IT: turning uptime from a number into an operating model.

04
Cloud · Architecture

Choosing the boring layers: a pragmatic cloud strategy for regulated workloads.

// FEATURED PROGRAM

The largest platform modernization in our organization's history.
Zero downtime. Zero data loss.

Sponsored and led an in-place modernization of 100+ production database servers and the underlying operating-system estate (RHEL 6.10 → 9.7, MySQL 5.7 → 8.0) across a regulated financial-services environment processing live investor transactions. Multi-quarter program, multi-vendor, multi-team — zero SLA breach, zero data loss, full audit acceptance.

SCOPE
100+ systems
DOWNTIME
0 minutes
AUDIT FINDINGS
0 critical
Hyderabad, IN · UTC+5:30
Available globally · Relocation open
Open to IT Director & CTO roles