Kiran Pyneni
AVP, Digital Architecture, Cloud and Engineering at CVS Health
CVS Health•Farmington, Connecticut, United States
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An accomplished leader with 25+ years of progressive experience which includes building high performing teams, driving culture of innovation, leading large & complex transformation initiatives and producing quality software efficiently etc. Following are some of the key experiences and skills.• Proven track record of building strategic platforms and products and making it operational.• Extensive knowledge and experience in SAFe, Agile and Waterfall etc. methodologies• Rich experience in building the products – Access and Identity Management, Privacy, Preferences and Consent, Next Generation Authentication and Communication Controller etc. • Strong experience in building SaaS/PaaS based products, leading technology transformations and driving the adoption across the enterprise by building required APIs / Services / Frameworks. • Experienced in transforming teams to DevOps culture by establishing pipelines and CI/CD practices.• Strong experience in building digital products – Mobile & Web applications using RESTful APIs, Micro services, Java, IIB, Kafka, ReactJS, Angular, XML, APIc, SAML, WebAuthn, Cloud (Azure / AWS), Okta, OAuth, OIDC, Multifactor authentication, authorization and NoSQL database such as MarkLogic etc.• SME knowledge in functional areas of Healthcare – Identity, Preferences, Communications, Claim, Member Enrollment, Provider and Billing etc., and others – Life & Annuity, Retail, Banking, Energy and ERP etc.• Created strategies and led the efforts of setting up CoE – Center of Excellence for engineering and QA organizations which include best practices, tools, data, automation and metrics etc.• Great experience in setting up offshore development centers, managing vendor partnerships and contract models – Managed Services, T&M and Fixed bid etc.
Career Timeline
- CVS HealthCurrentNov 2023–Present· 2 yrs 11 mos
- Associate Vice President, Digital Architecture, Cloud, EngineeringCurrentDec 2025–Present
- Executive Director, Digital Architecture, Infrastructure and EngineeringJul 2025–Present
- Executive Director of Digital Architecture and EngineeringNov 2023–Nov 2025
- Jun 2008–Oct 2023· 15 yrs 4 mos
- Lead Director, Digital Engineering2017–Oct 2023
- Director, Next Generation Center of Excellence (CoE) & FrameworksDec 2012–Dec 2016
- Sr. Manager, Technical Testing PracticeJun 2008–Dec 2012
- Aug 2007–Jun 2008· 10 mos
- Lead, ProjectAug 2007–Jun 2008
- 2004–Aug 2007· 3 yrs 7 mos
- Manager, Delivery2004–Aug 2007
- Aug 2000–Dec 2003· 3 yrs 4 mos
- Lead, TechnologyAug 2000–Dec 2003
- Dec 1999–Aug 2000· 8 mos
- Sr. DeveloperDec 1999–Aug 2000
Education
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.)
Computer Science
Acharya Nagarjuna University