Arun Shankar
Sr. Software Engineering Manager
— Professional Summary
Senior Software Engineering Manager with 20+ years of comprehensive experience in the software industry. Demonstrated excellence in technology leadership, architecting data-intensive systems, and driving AI / Agentic software development using advanced LLMs like Anthropic Claude. Passionate about Agile practices, CI/CD methodologies, and scaling robust engineering teams to deliver high-performance enterprise solutions.
— Technical Skills
- AI
- Anthropic Claude based development · AI Integrations · Agentic workflows
- Architecture
- Data lake architecture · Relational data management · System design
- Database
- PostgreSQL · MySQL · SQL Server · AWS Aurora RDS
- Columnar / NoSQL
- Cassandra · Redis · DynamoDB · Snowflake · RedShift
- Cloud Services
- AWS RDS · EC2 · S3 · Athena · CloudWatch · Lambda
- Scripting
- Python · Shell Scripting
- Reporting
- Power BI · Clarity
- Engineering
- Schema design · Data engineering (OLTP & Analytics) · API development using ORM · JIRA
— Work Experience
Apr 2024 — Present
Sr. Software Engineering Manager
eSentire India
- Directing multi-disciplinary engineering teams to enhance and scale the core cybersecurity XDR platform capabilities.
- Overseeing development and deployment of intelligent agents for advanced threat detection and mitigation.
- Integrating AI / Agentic workflows utilizing Anthropic Claude to automate incident response and analysis.
- Driving engineering best practices, CI/CD implementations, and agile delivery metrics across the department.
Aug 2022 — Mar 2024
Software Engineering Manager
Encora Innovation Labs / eSentire
Sep 2015 — July 2022
Sr. Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Trellix / FireEye
May 2011 — Sep 2015
Senior Technical Lead
Intel Security / McAfee India
Sep 2007 — Apr 2011
Development Lead
Microsoft R&D India
Jun 2006 — Sep 2007
Sr. Software Development Engineer
McAfee India Centre
Dec 2004 — May 2006
Software Engineer
HP GDIC
Jun 2002 — Aug 2004
DB Developer
Theorem India Pvt. Ltd.
— Education
1999 — 2002
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A)
Bharathidasan University
1995 — 1998
Bachelor of Science in Physics
St. Joseph's College
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