Swetha Shankar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India29 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

24+ years of experience in product and project engineering.
Expert in leading Agile high-performing teams.
Proven track record in technical transformation and product delivery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Telecommunications and SaaS with a strong focus on product development and Agile methodologies.

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Agile MethodologiesCisco TechnologiesCross-functional Team LeadershipEmbedded SoftwareEnterprise SoftwareIPIntegrationLeadershipManagementMobile DevicesPMPProduct ManagementProgram ManagementProject ManagementSaaS

About

24+ years of experience leading Product/Project Engineering, Customer Delivery, Vendor Partnership Management with global/cross functional teams. My key strength is the ability to transcend boundaries - from being a strategist and playing an executive leadership role, to that of a technical leader working with the team to implement the laid out strategies. Immense experience of building and leading Agile high performing teams. I have been at the forefront of leading the Agile and Technical/ Technology transition of organisation while delivering Products successfully to customers across the world.

Experience

Amazon

Director, Software Development

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Red hat

Director Engineering

Oct 2018 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Director Engineering responsible for globally leading the Developer Product & Tools Engineering group. This group is the key to Developer Experience on hybrid cloud platform

Cisco

3 roles

Director Engineering

May 2012 – Oct 2018 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Engineering Director with a dual responsibility
Product Development of the next generation Products for STB's.
End to End Solution and Service Delivery to the European Customers.
Responsible for building and leading a team of 200+ engineers. Passionate about driving the technical transformation of the engineering talent, to build the Continuous Delivery systems in the embedded domain.

Vice President Development

Promoted

Dec 2005 – May 2012 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Head of the Applications and User Experience Solutions for PayTV customers across the world.
I was head of the Interactive TV solutions for all Global customers across different platforms and devices.

Development Manager

Apr 2001 – Dec 2005 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Head of the Global InteractiveTV Application and Games Group delivering to leading customers like BSkyB, Nickelodeon, Disney, TataSky etc.
I also led the New Initiatives (research group) developing strategic engineering products and solutions