Rahul Lodhe

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over 22 years of experience in enterprise software.
  • Expertise in AI, IoT, and Machine Learning.
  • Proven track record in team building and product innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in AI and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceProduct DevelopmentStakeholder EngagementInnovationQuality AssuranceSoftware Development

Other Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomationAutomation strategyBlockchainCollaborationCustomer engagementIoTMachine LearningMarket analysisProduct vision and strategyQuality assessmentQuality managementStrategic directionTalent acquisitionTechnical leadership

About

Engineering Leader with more than 22 years in world class company having extensive experience in designing, developing and testing enterprise software products. Expertise in domains like Analytics & Business Intelligence, IoT and Machine Learning. Responsible & accountable for driving global missions with Product Development, Processes and People. Managed end-to-end life cycles of onPrem and cloud enterprise software product components – from whiteboard designs to maintenance releases. 

 Experienced in building ground-up world-class teams, as well as in driving transformations of inherited teams. Building the team with Innovation as DNA and transformed employee engagement and trust score. Extensive experience in working with geographically distributed teams. Managing a development team of Managers, Architects, Product owners and Program managers. 
Excellent balance of Technical skills, Managerial skills and Entrepreneurial skills. Thrives in a 'start-up like' work environment.

Experience

Sap

6 roles

Vice President and Global Head Engineering of SAP Artificial Intelligence Copilot Joule

Promoted

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • 1. Achieve organization goal “Joule Adoption Across LOBs (Lines of Business)” :
  • Collaborate with the leaders of different LOBs within the organization to ensure smooth adoption of Joule. They will work closely with LOB stakeholders to understand their specific needs and develop strategies for integrating Joule into their respective products.
  • 2. Technical leadership: Responsible for providing technical guidance and leadership for the development and enhancement of the SAP Copilot Joule. This includes setting the strategic direction, driving innovation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
  • 3. Product vision and strategy: Responsible for defining the overall product vision and strategy for SAP Copilot Joule. This involves understanding market Generative AI trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to align the product roadmap with SAP's business objectives.
  • 4. Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Engaging building strong relationship with key stakeholders, including customers, partners, and internal teams, to gather insights, understand requirements, and ensure alignment on Joule's value proposition.
  • Overall, as the Global Engineering Head of SAP Joule, primary responsibility is to drive the successful adoption and integration of Generative AI capabilities across the SAP portfolio via Joule and ensuring that it delivers enhanced productivity, efficiency, and value to customer.
Technical leadershipProduct vision and strategyStakeholder engagementArtificial IntelligenceProduct Development

Co-Lead LeadTogether Forum

Mar 2019Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • SAP LeadTogether is vibrant community of 2500+ exerts and leaders at SAP Labs India. The community is divided into 11 forums bring colleagues together based on their job profile example Architects , Security, QA , Data science , User experience Etc across various Line of Business. each focus on sharing best practise , brining innovations and thought leadership . Also they collaborate across forums delivering cross engineering initiatives.

Senior Director, Head of SAP Artificial Intelligence Technology, India

Promoted

Jan 2019Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Director Engineering , Head of SAP Leonardo Industry Innovation kit development

Jan 2016Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Development lead for Leonardo Industry innovation Kits (based on IoT, ML and block chain)
  • Product development Responsible for incubating and building BI Admin console
  • Head of BI Global Test Centre focus on Innovation in testing/ automation and End 2 End testing with strong customer engagment
IoTMachine LearningBlockchainProduct DevelopmentInnovation

Director Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2014Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Globally responsible for testing of SAP-On Premise Analytics products
  • Manage & deliver quality software releases with the relevant quality assessment process
  • Engage with internal and external stakeholders to set strategic quality vision for existing and new products
  • Talent acquisition, development, employee satisfaction and retention.
  • Incubation of innovative product ideas, implementation of innovative quality concept
  • Drive highly Innovative quality team
  • Setup outstanding tests center team in short timeframe
  • Engage with customers and support them go live with SAP software.
  • Close collaboration with customers to improve product quality perception
  • Work with virtual and remote teams across locations in multinational and multi cultural environment
  • Expert in software development methodologies, product architecture
  • Speak and Present on a variety of topics in internal and external events
  • Experience in all type of testing methodologies
Quality assessmentTalent acquisitionCustomer engagementQuality AssuranceProduct Development

Development Manager

May 2006Mar 2015 · 8 yrs 10 mos

  • Quality Management Responsibility:
  •  Involved in all phases of product life cycle (Strategy, Design, Testing and development and Maintenance) from quality perspective.
  •  Have successfully managed teams working on manual/automation and non-function and functional testing.
  •  Managed various kinds of testing teams like Suite integration testing, Performance testing, product migration testing with strong focus on automation .
  •  Involved in customer engagement to define effective testing strategy by collaborating with customer facing organization.
  •  Define and Drive Automation strategy for product release and hence focus on improving productivity.
  •  Evaluating & improving the testing procedures continuously to ensure quality standards.
  •  Effectively coordinated the projects team with stakeholders at different locations.
  •  Handling multiple product releases simultaneously.
  •  Strategized, planned and implemented concept of Customer like testing on Customer like environment.
  • Brief technical skills:
  •  Hands on technical knowledge , strong analytical, programming and debugging and problem solving skills specially with J2ee and web based application.
  •  Functional knowledge in SAP SRM
  •  Database administration, SQL and PL SQL skills for Oracle and SQL Server.
  •  Strong technical and functional knowledge in Business Objects Suite of products specially on installation, migration and deployment.
  •  Automation framework development in QTP,eCATT and Silk.
  •  Understanding of performance testing and tools like Load Runner and QALoad.
  •  Deputed at customer site to resolve key performance issue.
Quality managementAutomation strategyTesting methodologiesQuality AssuranceSoftware Development

Business objects

Development Manager

Jan 2002Jan 2008 · 6 yrs

Quality managementAutomationCustomer engagementQuality AssuranceSoftware Development

Ness technologies - business objects

Team Manager

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

Imo communications pvt.ltd

Database Administrator

Jun 2000May 2003 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Tata consultancy services

DBA

Jan 1998Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

Education

SP Jain School of Global Management - Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore & Sydney

Strategic Leadership

Mar 2021Sep 2021

Manipal Institute of Technology

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Information Technology

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

certificate strategic capability for emerging leaders

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