Padmakar Damaraju

• As a technology and strategy leader, I spearhead initiatives that position our solutions at the forefront of enterprise transformation:
• Go-to-Market Technology Strategy: I lead the development and evolution of differentiated, high-impact solution offerings aligned with market demand and client transformation agendas.
• Revenue Acceleration: I collaborate with sales, marketing, and practice teams to drive pipeline growth and shape pursuit strategies—often engaging directly in high-value enterprise opportunities.
• Executive Client Engagement: I serve as a trusted advisor to CxOs, representing our point of view in executive briefings, webinars, and thought leadership forums.
• Solution Innovation: I champion the continuous enhancement of our solution portfolio across AI, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, and enterprise integration—ensuring we stay ahead of emerging trends.
• Deal Shaping & Architecture Oversight: I oversee early-stage solution design and proposal development to align win themes with client needs and delivery capabilities.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: I drive alignment across technology and delivery teams, while mentoring solution architects and core team members to elevate execution and impact.
• Thought Leadership & Market Sensing: I represent our perspective on emerging technologies through published insights, client workshops, and GTM enablement initiatives.

As the Head of Enterprise and Technical Architecture for Equifax Secondary Credit, Mortgage, and Auto business unit in the United States Information Solutions (USIS) division, I lead the team that generates over $200 million in annual revenue from our technology offerings. We provide consumer and commercial risk management solutions to businesses across the United States, specializing in areas such as Consumer Credit, Commercial Business Credit, Risk Decision Services, Identity and Fraud Products, Mortgage, Auto, Property Segments, Data-Driven Marketing, and Analytics.

One of my notable accomplishments is leading the software architecture and development for a SaaS-based platform that handled millions of transactions per day. This resulted in a 40% increase in revenue for the company, demonstrating my ability to deliver innovative solutions that drive business growth.

As the LDA (Lead Design Authority) in the space, I work closely with my team to enforce Development Standards, develop Proof of Concept (POC) technology solutions, and manage technical risks associated with all technical decisions and platform dependencies. Furthermore, I am leading the migration of all USIS applications to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and overseeing the Cloud Transformation journey, which leverages Cloud Native, Always On, and Multi-region approaches to ensure scalability and resilience.

My leadership extends beyond technical responsibilities, as I have also led the Merger & Acquisition efforts for the business unit. Additionally, I have modernized legacy systems for data exchange, resulting in improved efficiency and cost savings. I have also mentored and managed teams of software architects and developers, providing guidance on architecture, design, and coding practices.

Overall, my expertise in enterprise and technical architecture, coupled with my experience in risk management, has enabled me to drive business success and deliver innovative solutions that help our clients manage risks and make informed decisions.

• Fostered work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover.
• Drove strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.

Lead the company wide digital and technology transformations for more than 20 clients including BP, Humana, EY, United Airlines, L'Oreal, Florida Blue, Grant Thornton, United Airlines.

• Lead setup and scaling of Centers of Excellence (COE) including SaaS digital transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Salesforce, Contract Management, Document Management, Data Hub, Process Automation, Data Analytics, AI .
• Secure funding for 80+ members practice team. Lead business development strategy, execution methodology and development playbook. Continuously recruiting and training onsite and offshore teams
• During the last 2 years developed value-based proposals, and pricing models to sell ($200M+)-value projects
• Driving customer success by defining a digital strategy and executing a transformation for a $8.5B co Energy company. Led evaluation of company’s customer and employee journey, business & technical capabilities to define an $20M+ implementation road map to scale revenue growth. Defined the execution approach and delivery plan for each initiative, secured the budget and resources, Successfully lead the global execution teams.
• Conducted assessment for Enterprise Architecture for a $37B+ software & audit company. Produced 50+ recommendations to stabilize the overall architecture and reduce the customer support ticket volume from 100+ to less than 10 per day. Produced roadmap and delivery plan for execution in the integrated global team environment
• Drove customer success by defining a data strategy and executing a transformation program for a $152B Health Care company. Led evaluation of company’s customer and employee journey, business & technical capabilities to define an $30M+ implementation road map to scale revenue growth 5% over two year period. Defined overall target enterprise architecture for the transformation

• Defined Digital CX strategy, digital reference architecture, and roadmap for a $2B+ toy manufacturing company.
• Lowered time to market by 25% by introducing lean architecture stack: transformed legacy monolithic application landscape into the customer-centric, responsive, adaptive, scalable, and secure solution. Implemented Cloud based Big Data and Analytic.
• Reduced the purchasing cost by $1M by implementing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service ( PaaS) products,
• Raised CSAT from 3.5 to 4.8 and increased order capture by 30% through introducing multi-channel self-service portal and automating critical business processes.
• Planned, managed and forecasted resources and budget. Led a global cross-functional team ot business users, leaders, vendors, designers and developers). Introduced offshore model and agile delivery

• Led digital transformation for a large manufacturing company, responsible for portfolio management, project delivery, communications, resources and financials.
• Secured 60% growth in orders volume by consolidating ERP applications into integrated Order Management System and moving to online retail model (5+ million orders per month from across 16 countries)

• Developed a comprehensive and flexible suite of enterprise business applications for Boeing to address the complete value chain (from ERP to Supply chain management and customer interactions).

• Played leading role in helping clients (Naval Sea, AIMS, MAERSK) define the direction, architecture and delivery of the core components for Oracle migrations.
• Developed and tested customized reports, procedures, packages and library files. Implemented new standards