Praveen Damodharan — CTO
• Senior engineering leader with 19 years of total experience in building and delivering highly scalable on-prem and cloud-native customer facing and platform services. This includes 7+ years of experience as engineering/people leader, leading managers, multi-cultural & multi-discipline engineering teams. • Expert in building customer focused teams from 0 to 1 and sustaining the teams 1 to end towards long term vision of the company. • Experienced in Product engineering, customer facing and platform services launches, improving customer experience and retention, digital transformation, Tech Strategy, Product roadmap & delivery, tech budgeting, mentoring, handling customers & stakeholders. • Lead teams of experienced software professionals and managers from top-notch engineering colleges, which had end to end ownership of product engineering and tech strategy. • A self-driven, result oriented servant leader with the focus on innovation that continuously improve customer experience, operational excellence, and efficiency of the team. • Experienced in Video Commerce, eCommerce, multi-tenant marketplace products and fintech products for banks. • Worked as a mentor winning the trust of team member and managers in the org by challenging them to succeed, inspiring them to achieve high, helping them learn through success as well as failures, rewarding them adequately for their performance and retaining best talents.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with extensive experience in product engineering and digital transformation.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 19 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Digital Transformation
- Product Engineering
- Stakeholder Management
- Video Commerce
- Agile Application Development
Career Highlights
- Led engineering teams for Amazon Prime and Prime Video.
- Achieved 80% latency reduction in banking services.
- Expert in building customer-focused engineering teams.
Work Experience
Kotak Mahindra Bank
SVP/Senior Principal Engineering Manager (2 yrs 9 mos)
Amazon
Software Development Manager [Amazon Prime] (9 mos)
Software Development Manager [Amazon Prime Video] (1 yr 9 mos)
Sabre India
Engineering Manager (1 yr 2 mos)
Wells Fargo
Technology Manager (2 yrs 1 mo)
Technology Lead (3 yrs 11 mos)
HCL Technologies [Misys (now Finastra) & Deutsche Bank COE]
Technical Lead (3 yrs)
China Systems Corporation - Middle East ( Payroll of Unique Solutions Middle East)
Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)
Excelacom Technologies
Programmer Analyst II (1 yr 9 mos)
Education
B.E at Anna University
Chief Technology Office Program at Indian School of Business
Post Graduate Program at Texas McCombs School of Business