Surya Mohan Godavarthy

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Established a Center of Excellence from ground-up.
  • Led high-performing engineering teams across multiple companies.
  • Expert in developing scalable cloud-native applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Engineering Leader with expertise in E-commerce and Telecommunications, focusing on scalable cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ArchitectureCloud-Native ApplicationsCoaching & MentoringCommunicationContinuous ImprovementCross-functional Team LeadershipDatabasesEntrepreneurshipFault Tolerant SystemsInfrastructureJavaKey Performance IndicatorsLinux

About

PURPOSE Create brands that outlast me and make this world a better place VISION To cultivate a growth mindset and nurture exceptional leaders who make me redundant. MISSION Nurturing a high-performance engineering culture and product mindset that delivers phenomenal business outcomes by solving the most complex and ambiguous problems, while having fun & camaraderie.

Experience

Intuit

Group Engineering Manager

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Stockx

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2020Oct 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Played a key role in establishing India COE(Center Of Excellence) from ground-up(0 to 80 members in 22 months) collaborating closely with VP(SiteLead) and Head of India Recruitment
  • 2. Built and led a high performing full stack engineering team(30+ members, 2-EMs, 2-TPMs, 2-TechLeads, 4-SDETs, 6-FEs,15-BEs) and nurtured role model engineering culture exemplifying StockX core values
  • 3. Acted as Head Of Engg role for Money Platform/ Services team owning the end-to-end customer experience for Payments/Payouts/Cashflow ops of StockX worldwide digital trading marketplace across geographies(NA,EU,AP)
  • 4. Played a key role in devising long-term Roadmap, Vision, Mission, and Technology Strategy for the Money domain collaborating with Product leadership, Key Stakeholders, and Top Leadership
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementRelease Management+17

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Manager

May 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • I was part of AWS EBS organization lead multiple teams in - Snapshots/Backup domain.
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementRelease Management+18

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Nov 2016Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • I am part of the Amazon.in Customer Experience org in Bangalore. My charter is Customer Engagement- build solutions to engage customers and make Amazon.in is a great place for discovery,research, hang-out. Our main focus areas are building habit-forming products, providing relevant and personalized content, assist customers in their shopping journey(Chat-bots,Voice) and delight them with gamified digital experiences.
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementRelease Management+18

Snapdeal

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • 1. Envisioned and delivered Highly distributed and auto scalable In-House API Management Platform with below capabilities.
  • 2. Led and delivered Snapdeal User Generated Content(UGC) Platform replacing the legacy platform supporting User ratings and reviews, Customer QnA, Self-Service moderation workflows
  • 3. Build mobile app for account managers to improve the seller mentoring, personalized advisory, education. Key business results achieved are multi-fold increase in account manager's productivity.
  • 4. Played key role in fixing long standing problems in Orders and Returns and resulted multi million savings in customer returns.
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementRelease Management+17

Idisha info labs

Co-founder and Lead Architect

Apr 2014Nov 2014 · 7 mos · Bangalore

  • iDisha(instant disha) aimed to enable commuters move from 1 location to another location fast and economical.
  • Contributions & Achievements
  • 1. Rest API cloud based platform development from scratch for quick IOT based consumer products
  • delivery in transportation domain
  • 2. Delivered architecture that is distributed and componentized in the form reusing building blocks that can be embedded inside other products/applications OR deployed in stand alone mode keeping in mind platform/product usecases
  • 3. Delivered multiple frameworks that greatly eases the developers effort in handling the infrastructure services(rest api invocation & response processing, sending Android Push notifications,Sending emails/SMS, Event processing, Android MVC..so on)
  • 4. Developed mobile based(android) and web based products connecting to API based platform in B2C domain
  • 5. End to end handling of all activities such as technology finalization, prototyping and POC delivery, architecture,design,coding and testing
  • 6. Deployment of total echo system in amazon web services cloud platform
  • 7.Working closely with founder/CEO in envisioning the platform/product/features
  • 8. Recruited core tech team and mentored/groomed them on Technologies/Software Engineering Activities(analysis/design/coding/testing/deployment/tools usage)
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementRelease Management+17

Huawei

5 roles

Senior System Architect

Aug 2012Apr 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Architecting,Designing,Requirements engineering,Leading Team,End to end delivery responsibility
  • Product Description:
  • Business Activity Monitoring Solution for 'Telco SOA" BU
  • Contributions & Achievements:
  • a) Lead the prototype based on event driven architecture that succesfully accepted huawei technology team
  • b) Involved in competetior analysis, product features envisioning,requirement analysis,architecure,design and hands on coding.
  • c) First formal version deliverd with in 3 months
  • d) Won "COO Incentive award for 2013 Q4 for delivery"
  • e) Lead a team for 4 members with end to end mentoring,grooming in Software Engg,SDLC, Ageile Development Principles
  • Product Description:
  • Process management console part of "Telco-SOA" BPM Platform
  • Contributions & Achievements:
  • a) Highly scalable web application build on REST APIs to monitor the BPM engine in real network
  • b) Involved technology stack finalization,architecting,designing and hands on coding
  • b) Won appreciation from peers for it's design and adherence to rest API design principles
  • c) Lead a team of 4 members with average experience of 6 months
  • d) Delivered on time with high quality
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementRelease Management+14

System Architect

May 2011Jul 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Product Description:
  • "SOA Studio"(Eclipse IDE Plugin) for Telco-SOA BPM Platform for end to end modelling of BPM/SOA/WEB platforms
  • Contributions & Achievements:
  • a) Delivered Eclipse IDE which is highly competitive compared to other competitors in industry such as TIBCO,IBM Websphere Process Server
  • b) Involved in requirement analysis,architecting,designing and coding of all features coordinating with process engine team and onsite teams in Belgium, China
  • c) Visited china to discuss with fellow teams of the plaform to envision the requirements/features
  • d) Lead a team of 3 to 6 members with average experience of 1.5 years and successfully delivered on time with high quality
  • Project Description:
  • Security Standards Compliance of "iSAP middleware platform"
  • Contributions & Achievements:
  • a) Involved in ensuring security compliance of platform components
  • b) Coordinated the overall effort at platform level and played key role in establishing unified maven repository for permanently solving the jar usage issues
  • c) Overall release size has been reduced by 17% and signifcant gains reducing the memory footprint of existing deployments
  • d) Platform compliant to Industry standard security guidelines and also EU security guidelines at the end
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementOrganizational Leadership+10

Software Development Manager

Jan 2009Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Platform : ISAP middleware platform Metaweb/Workflow/Portal Components
  • Contributions & Achievements:
  • Above components are deployed in 37 production sites across the globe(Asia-pacific,Middle east,Europe)
  • Handled cross functional team involved Developers/Testers/UX/IDG members and successfuly delivered approximately 80 releases
  • Involved in end to end ownership(planning,implementation,testing,delivery and deployment)
  • Handled a team size ranging from 14 to 32 people(peak size is 32)
  • Handled 100% people management role along with overseeing requirement analysis,features implementation,Architecture/design/code reviews
  • Played key role in grooming the new members to make them align with Quality Standards,SDLC activities and process compliance
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementOrganizational Leadership+10

Senior Technical Leader

Promoted

Dec 2007Dec 2008 · 1 yr

  • Contributions & Achievements
  • Played key role in delivering the new features in Metaweb/Workflow domains
  • Lead a team of 6 to 8 members mentored them in domain/technology/platform
  • Deep involvement in architecting/design/coding/bug fixing and final delivery of the products
  • Worked closely with other peers(architects,tech lead,developers/managers) and proactive in team level trainings
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementOrganizational Leadership+10

Technical Leader

Apr 2007Nov 2007 · 7 mos

  • Product:
  • Web based modelling tool for iSAP Workfow
  • Contributions & Achievements
  • First web based modelling tool comply to XPDL2.0 stadard
  • Handled technology finalization,requirement analysis,architecure,design and coding
  • Providing technical guidance to a team size of 18 developers
  • Lead a team 22 people in 6 months delivering the above product on time
  • Played key role in adaptation of best practices and non-functional issues handling(memoryleaks in IE, web performance best practices
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementOrganizational Leadership+8

Hewlett-packard

Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2005Mar 2007 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Responsible for leading a team of 4 engineers to deliver localization,content mgmt modules of "eprime"(HP ecommece store front enterprise application).
  • 80% technial with hands on coding and 20% team management
  • Responsible for mentoring new comers, overall delivery quality and performance of team.
  • Won awards and appreciations from onsite tech lead and project manager for on time delivery,efficiency and quality
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementOrganizational Leadership+8

Answerthink

Technical Consusltant

May 2004Mar 2005 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • PL/SQL coding and own data integration adapaters implementation in PL/SQL for a Fortune-500 finalcial company
  • Responsible for Coding/Testing
  • Have been recognized as best contributor among a team of 5 mmebers
ReliabilityProblem SolvingCommunicationArchitectureStakeholder ManagementOrganizational Leadership+8

Ezcomerce global inc

Software Engineer

Mar 2003May 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked as a java/j2ee developer.
  • Part of the team that developed enterprise web portals for B2B customers.
  • Successfully deployed for leading indian pharmasutical companies "Dr Reddy's" and "Ranbaxy"
Problem SolvingCommunicationStakeholder ManagementObject Oriented DesignDatabases

Tulip infoway

Software Engineer

Aug 2001Feb 2003 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderbad

Problem SolvingCommunicationObject Oriented DesignDatabases

Education

Institute of Product Leadership

Executive MBA — Product Leadership

Nov 2023Present

University of Madras

B.E — Computer Science

Jan 1998Jan 2001

AMIE(Institute of Engineers, India)

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 1997

V K R & V N B POLYTECHNIC

Diploma — Computer Science

Jan 1992Jan 1995

Govt High School

10th — General High School

Jan 1987Jan 1992

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