Arun Mathew
Strategic Programs & Planning Manager
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Mathew is a Strategic Programs & Planning Manager with over 17 years of experience delivering complex technology and transformation programs across automotive and manufacturing at Ford. He leads the Global Manufacturing Tech Refresh—migrating 78 plants and 15+ product teams to modern cloud, containerization, and virtualization platforms—while consistently hitting 100% schedule performance and financial targets within 1% variance. A certified program manager with deep expertise in GCP, ITSM, and automation, he combines hands-on technical understanding from earlier engineering and application roles with strong governance and risk management. Arun drives measurable operational improvements through retrospection and Six Sigma-informed process changes that have cut incident resolution breaches and reduced incident volumes. He also contributes to open-source tooling for backend configuration parsing, extending a popular Go library to support EDN and multi-file scenarios—demonstrating an appetite for practical engineering alongside program leadership. Based in Chennai, he is focused on keeping manufacturing operations competitive through pragmatic technology adoption and continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 7, Engineer’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 7 at Bharathiar UniversitySenior Secondary, Biology, General, Senior Secondary, Biology, General at St.Mary's Boys Higher Secondary School
French, English
Github Skills (6)
configuration-management10
go10
environment-variables10
testing10
yaml8
toml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ilyakaznacheev/cleanenv
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Arun primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `cleanenv` library to support new configuration file formats. They added support for parsing EDN files, including the necessary code and tests. Furthermore, the user contributed an example demonstrating how to parse multiple configuration files, and another example showcasing custom setter implementation. These additions enhance the library's versatility and provide practical usage examples.
golangconfigurationenvironment-variablesenvironment-configuration
arunvm123/icon-shelf
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
SVG icon manager for developers.
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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