Sudheer Obbu is a seasoned DevSecOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering Services Lead with 19 years of expertise in architecting, securing, and optimizing complex multi-cloud infrastructures. He currently serves as Vice President, Sr Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, where he has been since March 2014.
Throughout his career, Sudheer has demonstrated exceptional skill in innovating FinOps solutions, implementing GenAI for AIOps, and driving efficiency through automation initiatives. His work has consistently yielded impressive results, including a 90% cost reduction in resource utilization during non-business hours and projected annual savings of over $70 million through his EcoLightSwitch pipeline-as-code solution.
At JPMorgan Chase, Sudheer has led numerous transformative projects, including the reengineering of a high-performance payment middleware platform that processes over 7 million transactions daily with millisecond-level response times. His expertise extends to proactive security enhancement, where he has integrated threat model detection within DevSecOps pipelines and implemented automated observability for applications and APIs.
Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Sudheer held positions at Capgemini, Infosys, and Zyom, Inc., where he engineered enterprise integration solutions across financial services, logistics, retail, and supply chain domains. His work included designing Euroclear's capital markets middleware and developing real-time dashboards for inventory forecasting and cost analytics.
Sudheer holds a Master of Computer Applications from Osmania University and possesses several prestigious certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, and FinOps Certified Practitioner. His technical proficiency spans programming languages, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps tools, containerization, observability platforms, and AI automation.
A recognized innovator, Sudheer has consistently ranked in the top 3 places in firmwide hackathons and received multiple Consumer and Community Banking Tech Excellence Awards. He has also participated in the global BuildwithAI Hackathon 2024 and currently has a patent application in legal review for his EcoLightSwitch innovation.