Aditya Gundecha

New Look

Lead a platform team of ~20 engineers, owning delivery strategy and engineering culture across New Look’s e-commerce platforms.

• Set the delivery strategy for the Fabric programme, moving the organisation from monthly releases to on-demand delivery — meeting a board-level business metric for rapid feature deployment and competitive advantage.
• Made shift-left, quality-first delivery the default, embedding QA earlier in the lifecycle and shifting the team’s operating model away from late-stage firefighting toward faster, lower-defect release cycles.
• Championed DevOps culture across the Fabric programme and the wider organisation, aligning development and operations around shared ownership and measurably increasing deployment frequency and reliability.
• Directed the automation roadmap that removed manual release toil, significantly reducing deployment times and improving uptime across e-commerce platforms.
• Grew the capability of the team and partner departments through mentoring and coaching in CI/CD and cloud automation, raising productivity and engineering standards across multiple departments.

Equal Experts

Led cross-functional delivery and advised client leadership on cloud strategy for John Lewis, Waitrose and O2.

• Led cross-functional teams delivering cloud infrastructure for John Lewis, Waitrose and O2, ensuring seamless operations across Azure and AWS.
• Authored cloud-governance frameworks that guided client teams toward scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud — with knowledge transfer that left the capability in-house.
• Owned the migration strategy for critical O2 services across Azure and AWS, coordinating internal client teams and external partners through delivery.
• Ran leadership workshops that equipped team leads at John Lewis and Waitrose with advanced DevOps and cloud-native practice, accelerating their transformation journeys.
• Mentored engineers across client engagements, building a culture of continuous learning in cloud management, security and automation.

Siemens PLM

Led the platform modernisation of MindSphere — an industry-leading IIoT and Digital Twin platform — toward cloud-native delivery.

• Led teams through the move from Application Service Environment to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), setting the target architecture and migration approach.
• Established multi-cloud CI/CD pipelines from scratch, giving teams a repeatable delivery path across environments.
• Directed the observability strategy, standing up a stack on Azure-native tooling plus Grafana and Prometheus to give teams a shared view of production health.
• Owned a cost-optimisation initiative that saved up to $1.5M per year on Azure infrastructure — turning platform ownership into measurable business value.
• Oversaw delivery of 50+ services on Azure DevOps and the re-homing of around 80 microservices onto a modern, observable platform.

Siemens PLM

Core member of the Cloud inception team that delivered the MindSphere PaaS from the ground up.

• Helped stand up the MindSphere PaaS as part of the founding Cloud inception team, automating deployments for 32+ microservices across 4 lines of business.
• Drove the migration of 40+ application instances from on-premise infrastructure to Azure public cloud.
• Removed 50,000+ lines of deprecated code from a $1.2M project baseline, dramatically reducing development overhead and risk.
• Owned availability of production and development systems built largely on Azure VMs and AKS.

Siemens PLM

Delivered features for Teamcenter — a PLM system connecting people and processes with a digital thread for innovation.

• Authored 50+ technical design documents and implemented business logic for 20 features.
• Contributed to an Android application (a Code Review application) that was selected for patent registration.