Harish Porwal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 25 years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expert in driving digital transformation and cloud migrations.
  • Proven track record in Generative AI-powered initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on cloud-based solutions and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDigital TransformationGenerative AiEngineering ProductivityApi ManagementCloud IntegrationBig Data AnalyticsCustom Analytics SolutionsCloud-based Learning SolutionsProduct Development PracticesHana Technology PlatformProduct ManagementUser Interface FrameworkApplication Development ToolsApplication Development

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsApache Spark StreamingApplication ModernizationAutomated WorkflowsBig DataBusiness IntelligenceCloud ApplicationsDesign ThinkingDevOpsDistributed SystemsEvent Driven ProgrammingGen AIHANAHigh Performance Teams

About

Harish is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience driving large-scale engineering organizations (500+) and leading digital transformation across global product and financial services companies. He has a proven track record of bringing cloud-based products to market, managing full product lifecycles, and delivering high-performing, customer-centric technology solutions. Harish has led major modernization initiatives—including Application Modernization, Legacy Decommissioning, Agile@Scale, CI/CD, DevOps, and Cloud Migrations—and is at the forefront of Generative AI–powered transformation. He has successfully driven GenAI programs focused on engineering productivity, operational efficiency, automated workflows, customer experience enhancements, and next-generation product capabilities, enabling organizations to innovate faster and scale smarter. With experience spanning startups and global enterprises, Harish is known for building aligned, high-impact engineering cultures through OKR-driven leadership. He is passionate about leveraging cloud, AI, and modern engineering practices to unlock innovation and fuel sustainable organizational growth.

Experience

Wells fargo

SVP

Oct 2020Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Leading end-to-end digital transformation initiatives by optimizing the Service Management portfolio through application rationalization, modernization, and large-scale cloud migration. Successfully scaled enterprise applications to the cloud, improving performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  • Championing Generative AI programs that delivered tangible outcomes in engineering productivity, automated workflows, operational excellence, and enhanced customer experiences. Enabled teams to build next-generation product capabilities that accelerated innovation and supported scalable business growth.
  • Built and nurtured a high-performance engineering organization focused on execution excellence, agility, and continuous improvement. Collaborated with cross-functional leaders to align technology investments with strategic business objectives and drive measurable value.
Application ModernizationTechnology PortfolioInnovationHigh Performance TeamsCloud ApplicationsCloud Computing+1

Sap labs india

Vice President - API Management & API Business Hub

Sep 2017Sep 2020 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite mission is to accelerate the digital transformation of an enterprise by enabling, managing and simplifying consumption of its process and integration assets.
  • Engineering responsible for SAP Cloud Platform Integration Suite Services, namely
  • API Management
  • API's are the digital building block for enterprises, helping enterprises to connect their applications, data and devices across deployments. API Management enables to design, secure, analyse and scale APIs in a multi-cloud environment. It provides required visibility & control to consume and monetize API with real-time analytics and reporting.
  • API Business Hub
  • API Business Hub (api.sap.com) is the central catalog of SAP and selected partner APIs for application developers to search, discover, test and consume these APIs to build extensions or integrations using the SAP Cloud Platform.
Scaled Agile FrameworkSystems DesignScalabilityEvent Driven ProgrammingProduct DevelopmentBig Data+11

Boomerang commerce

Director Solution Engineering

Jul 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Key Responsibilities
  • Drive the vision, roadmap and development of Boomerang Implementation Platform (Big Data Analytics Pipeline, Workflow Monitoring, Business Alerts) to bring value to our customers in days rather than months.
  • Deliver Custom Analytics Solutions(Predictive Insights) to drive profitable pricing decisions
  • Scaling cross functional engineering teams (including implementation, analytics, product engineering, project management), setting up appropriate process and environment to Motivate, Inspire, Recognize and Rewards good performance.
  • Drive product usage & customer retention through an in-depth understanding of the business drivers of our customers and translate those needs into the configuration \ requirements of the product.
Apache Spark StreamingSystems DesignSaaSScalabilityEvent Driven ProgrammingBig Data+10

New rubric solutions

Head of Engineering

Feb 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Drive development of New Rubrics assessment & cloud based learning analytics solution.
  • Developed beautiful and engaging cloud based responsive learning applications, across devices and channels including Desktop Web & Mobile.
  • Scaled the assessment platform, incorporating various distributed architecture patterns (Single Page Applications, Micro Services Architecture, Load Balancer, Caching, Data Flow Pipelines, Orchtestration).
  • Exploreed machine learning and big data technologies to drive learning analytics and personalised recommendations.
  • Established strong product development practices like test driven development, continuous integration, continuous deployment and multi stage deployment environment.
  • Worked closely with the core team to identify the right MVP of the product/solution, drive the cost management through appropriate choices of deployment platforms, Evaluated multiple strategies to define product roadmap, product positioning and user scale.
  • Established practices to Operate the Cloud Infrastructure with utmost security / availability / reliability
Apache Spark StreamingMobile TechnologySystems DesignEvent Driven ProgrammingProduct DevelopmentBig Data+11

Sap labs india, bangalore

Vice President

Feb 2010Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Held complete responsibility of delivery, quality, performance, & customer support for SAP's ABAP for HANA Technology Platform – Application Modeling Tools and Services.
  • Delivered 3 Successful Major releases of HANA Modeling, HANA Analytics & Application Development Tools (ABAP 740, NGAP 3.0, and NGAP 4.0).
  • Implemented various Up-skilling and Technology Ramp-up initiates for the Development team to work with HANA / Big Data / Multicore architecture patterns and technologies.
  • Instituted Product Management Functions to closely engage with APAC Customers.
  • Improved development efficiency through continuous improvement initiatives - reduce development cycle time (sprint lengths, continuous integration), minimize re-work (messages, unwanted features), enhance product development practices (MVP, User Story Mapping, Release Map, Backlog grooming, Story Point Estimation).
  • Facilitated understanding of lean principles and applying them to people management practices.
Scaled Agile FrameworkScalabilityEvent Driven ProgrammingProduct DevelopmentCloud ComputingHANA+4

Sap labs india

Vice President \ Director

Feb 2009Jan 2010 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Held complete responsibility of delivery, quality, performance, & customer support for SAP NetWeaver Platform - User Interface Framework / Application Integration / Application Development Tools.
  • Successfully delivered 2 major versions on NetWeaver Platform Release Roadmap – SAP UI Flex Client Platform, NetWeaver Application Development Tools for SAP Cloud Applications.
  • Built a team of engineers, team leads, development managers, product owners, operations who can design and develop high quality technology solutions for the SAP NetWeaver Platform (Java, HTML, JavaScript, RIA, Eclipse, ABAP).
  • Spearheaded Implementation of Lean & Agile Practices within the development teams.
  • Handled evangelisation of SAP NetWeaver Platform across different forums.
Software Project ManagementMobile TechnologyProduct DevelopmentUser Interface FrameworkApplication Development Tools

Sap labs india, bangalore

3 roles

Development Manager \ Program Manager

Promoted

Jan 2007Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

  • Managed Development and Program Coordination for SAP User Interface Framework (Visual Composer, Web Dynpro).
  • Built a cross functional engineering team from ground up consisting.
  • Setup best practices for development (coding standards, review guidelines, testing process) and championed their adoption.
  • Worked closely with Architects and individual team members to choose right technology stack / influence design decisions.
  • Defined a multi year Product Roadmap, along with the Product Management & Business Development team, that meets both business and market objectives.
  • Coordinated Development across multiple locations, by establishing appropriate project management practices to handle delivery schedules and dependencies.
Software Project ManagementMobile TechnologyUser Interface FrameworkApplication Development

Project Manager

Promoted

Jan 2005Dec 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Project & Program Management responsibilities for User Interface Frameworks & Technologies in SAP NetWeaver CE Platform (NW CE 7.11, NW CE 7.20).
  • Key responsibilities include – Project execution and delivery, Multisite coordination, Creating a realistic, predicable and dependable release plan, Dependency management & Stakeholder’s expectations management.
Software Project ManagementUser Interface Framework

Senior Developer

Jan 2003Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

  • Responsible for development of Mobile Application Framework and Application Development Tools

Aztecsoft

Developer

Jan 1999Jan 2003 · 4 yrs · Bangalore, India

  • Responsible for development of Web Application Framework & Workflow Management.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

EGMP — General Management

Jan 2008Jan 2009

Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum

BE — Computer Science

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Govindram Seksaria Science College (GSS)

Pre University College — Science

Jan 1993Jan 1995

Oriental English Academy Trust

School

Jan 1983Jan 1993

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