Malahar Pinnelli

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of technology and business leadership.
  • Expert in scaling high-performance global teams.
  • Proven track record in digital transformation initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with extensive leadership in digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipProduct StrategyEngineeringBuilding Engineering

Other Skills

Account ManagementBusiness Service ManagementBusiness StrategyCloud ComputingCoaching & MentoringCommunicationCorporate FinanceCross-functional Team LeadershipCybersecurityDigital TransformationE-commerceEmployee EngagementEnterprise ArchitectureGlobal DeliveryGrowth Management

About

I am a visionary technology and business leader with over 20 years of experience in driving technology delivery, creating and scaling high-performance global teams, and providing thought leadership and solutions for the e-commerce domain. I have co-founded and advised several successful start-ups and organizations, leveraging my expertise in IT strategy, service management, and software development. Currently, I am the SVP Technology at SMC Squared, a company that helps clients build and manage dedicated global capability centers for software engineering and digital transformation. In this role, I am responsible for establishing and leading the technology organization, setting the culture of innovation and design thinking, and overseeing the platform development and governance. My mission is to enable and empower the teams to deliver high-quality, cost-effective, and scalable solutions that meet their business needs and goals.

Experience

7-eleven global solution center – india

VP & Country Leader

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Smc squared

SVP Operations & Managing Director

Feb 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

EngineeringEntrepreneurshipBuilding EngineeringInfrastructureCommunicationCoaching & Mentoring

Ecolab

Vice President & Managing Director

Sep 2018Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

  • As a Site and Engineering Leader, my role started with establishing legal organization, initial technology team and scaling them to 700+ people strong digital transformation team across all enterprise IT & Digital capabilities
  • ▪ Establish and Scale Digital Organization to support product development and digital transformation.
  • ▪ Establish Culture of organization to drive design thinking and innovation
  • ▪ Establish all process, polices and governance model for the Digital Center Initiative
  • ▪ Platform Owner for Global Applications and ERP System
Public SpeakingEngineeringMarketing StrategyProduct StrategyMarketingBuilding Engineering+7

Ecolab digital center

Managing Director & Country Leader

Aug 2018Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • As a Site and Engineering Leader, my role started with establishing legal organization, initial technology team and scaling them to 700+ people strong digital transformation team across all enterprise IT & Digital capabilities
  • ▪ Establish and Scale Digital Organization to support product development and digital transformation.
  • ▪ Establish Culture of organization to drive design thinking and innovation
  • ▪ Establish all process, polices and governance model for the Digital Center Initiative
  • ▪ Platform Owner for Global Applications and ERP System
Public SpeakingEngineeringMarketing StrategyMarketingBuilding EngineeringInfrastructure+7

Pepelwerk

CPTO & CO Founder

Oct 2017Present · 8 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • More than 17 years of business and technology leadership have brought me to this moment – pepelwerk, a better way for people find work. Our amazing and inspired team created pepelwerk, a better way to connect people to work and solve “the unsolvable” problems associated with job searching, career building and overall work-life happiness. For the first time, pepelwerk puts individuals (talent) in the driver’s seat, capable of receiving feedback that will help guide them towards the best opportunities
EngineeringEntrepreneurshipProduct StrategySoftware as a Service (SaaS)Building EngineeringInfrastructure+8

Pfsweb

AVP Technology & Managing Director, India

Oct 2015Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Led and Established Multiple Practices in India to deliver , Oracle Commerce (ATG), Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware), SAP Hybris, Agency services, IT System, IT Services and Business Services
  • Anticipated growing pains proactively and established automation of multiple processes to cope up with growth
  • Driving quality delivery of Technology across multiple E-Commerce platforms Driving QA Process & Automation; Driving productivity improvement initiatives such as base implementations and reusable assets
  • Lead the Presales and solutions teams & overall responsibility to manage India P&L, Finance, Legal, HR, Facility, Operations & Compliance
  • Providing leadership across non technology teams by partnering with the Parent office leadership
  • Highlights:
  • Successful track record of driving delivery, technology, operations, merger and acquisition, sales, finances, human resources, legal and infrastructure in India IT Industry; Drove the transition from multiple locations across the globe and centralized the delivery in India across all service areas
  • Successfully transitioned PFS Manila “Business Services” operations (Credit Fraud Analysis process) of a team of 100 plus to India, that increased efficiency and boosted productivity
  • As a firm believer in Training, grooming & investing on employees for achieving organizational & customer success
  • Personally led the teams of design, construction and branding for transforming the 60,000 SQFT office space into world class office environment
Building EngineeringCommunication

Rev solutions

2 roles

Managing Director – Global Delivery (Acquired by PFSweb)

Promoted

Jan 2013Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Joined REVTECH Solution Inc, which was an ATG implementation partner for E-Commerce solutions as an ATG E-Commerce Solutions Architect to manage the on boarding of clientele onto a data driven, easy to market ATG E-Commerce platform from existing home grown e-commerce platforms
  • Promoted to Head of Technology at REVTech Solutions, within 16 months of joining, built a fully functional base E Commerce web & mobile site on ATG & Endeca with full blown integrations such as Master PIM, OMS, Fulfillment, Inventory Management, Recommendations, Amazon, PayPal, Cyber source, BML, Gigya (Social Integration) and Ominiture analytics;
  • Promoted to MD for Global Delivery during a very critical phase and has been credited for the complete turnaround, transformation & scale up of the organization, leading to a successful acquisition by PFSweb, post which is currently spearheading the organization as AVP Technology & MD for India
  • As MD for Global Delivery spearheaded all operations of the organization including Finance, HR, Talent Acquisition, Administration & facilities; Initiated team cross training in technology to keep them challenged with learning opportunity and career growth. This enabled organization to retain talent and achieve better utilization
  • Providing strategic inputs and lead the implementation of strategies across employee retention, organization structure and growth
  • Oversee and manage vendor selection, negotiation and finalizing the contracts with vendors
  • Highlights:
  • Took over the role of Managing Director during a very critical downward spiral phase which reduced to less successfully Turned around & Transformed the organization that is today scaled to more than 450 strong and vibrant organization
Communication

Director Technology, India

Jun 2009Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Growth Path: Solutions Architect & Head of Technology – India
  • Responsible for the delivery and technical competency of team members
  • Established Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) ground up, managed resources and delivery of multiple SFCC engagements
  • Led scoping, estimation, solutions & presales
  • As Solutions Architect, Led implementation of multiple complex Ecommerce installations on Oracle ATG Platform; Domains included Ecommerce for Telecom, Retail, Apparel, Manufacturing & Beauty
  • Highlights:
  • Build strong expertize in ATG Technical team to deliver complex ATG solutions; Successfully established a new “Demandware practice” technical team, & ensured efficiency in management of resources and delivery of multiple Demandware engagements
  • Successfully implemented multiple eCommerce projects for clients from different business lines and geographies
Communication

Tata consultancy services

Lead Solutions Architect

Mar 2001May 2009 · 8 yrs 2 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

  • Started as a Developer in the Architecture team of TCS’s “Large Scale Enterprise Application” team which equipped with the formative experience for budding into a full-fledged Architect for developing enterprise wide reusable frameworks; Joined a corporate initiative of TCS for building re-usable asset catalog that included conducting town hall meetings across TCS for “Reusability & Catalog Usage”
  • Moved on as Lead Architect at Target Corporation handling the whole distribution pyramid on all TCS projects, executed multiple projects, developed reusable frameworks which were made “Target Enterprise Standards” and reused in all New Application development
  • Part of Enterprise Architecture group in the initial phases of technology transition into Spring and iBatis framework; Lead Architect on TCS internal Reuse initiative to build base J2EE platform and promote reuse across Open Source applications to improve productivity by 20%
  • Part of architecture team of the first J2EE project of size 200+ man years to build a custom ERP
  • Designed and Built frameworks similar to Struts, J2SE and Process Engines when they did not exist
  • Led the teams in performance testing, production configuration and deployment
  • Highlights:
  • Lead Architect for projects such as IMN, CMPI and ATG Migration and conversion projects at Target corporation
Communication

Start- up

Software Engineer

Sep 2000Feb 2001 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Jan 1996Jan 2000

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