Praveen Damodharan

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams for Amazon Prime and Prime Video.
  • Achieved 80% latency reduction in banking services.
  • Expert in building customer-focused engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce engineering leader with extensive experience in product engineering and digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital TransformationProduct EngineeringStakeholder ManagementVideo CommerceAgile Application Development

Other Skills

AJAXAmazon DynamodbAmazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaCapital MarketsCloud ApplicationsConsumer ProductsDistributed ComputingEAIEJBESBFeature EngineeringFlex-Mate FrameworkIT Project Implementation

About

• 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.

Experience

Kotak mahindra bank

SVP/Senior Principal Engineering Manager

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Tech@Kotak is a recently setup in-house engineering and digital transformation org of Kotak Mahindra Bank, which is formed with leaders and team members from top tier companies. KMBL is transforming from a leading consumer bank to a technology company that offers world-class financial services.
  • To know more about Tech@Kotak, watch videos in https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/tech-kotak/
  • Leading the engineering org that is building critical Tier 1 services in-house to improve customer experience and stabilise the core banking system of the bank. We had recently launched cloud native platform product that handles 75M+ customer requests per day and counting. These tier 1 services solves current challenges regarding scaling, availability, reduction of load and latency across systems. With the launch, we achieved 80% reduction in latencies for digital channels (mobile banking) of the bank , thus improving the Customer experience for mobile banking features like balance inquiry, transactions inquiry, account listing inquiry, OneView, transaction enrichment, TD summary inquiry, automated collections and recovery, push notifications, in-app notifications etc.,
  • This launch enabled the bank to move towards real-time approach for all critical use-cases to delight and retain customers. The successful launch and impact has been mentioned in AWS blog.
Distributed ComputingCloud ApplicationsAmazon Web Services (AWS)RedisApache KafkaPeople Management+8

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Manager [Amazon Prime]

Aug 2022May 2023 · 9 mos

  • I lead the core services engineering team powering world-wide Amazon Prime - the earth's most loved membership program. Being an engineering leader, I owned 18 services including Prime membership subscription fulfilment service (SFS) and digital membership fulfilment network (MemFN) which enabled 37MN+ Prime sign-ups in the year 2022.
  • In addition to the above, I handled the engineering charters such as Prime Promo Codes (PPC), 3rd party billed membership signups and other offerings including Membership Stacking, Bundling, Gifting of Prime, eXtensible Fulfilment network and Pricing Promotions of the membership program. Been part of high-velocity events (Prime days, Live matches) and time intensive gamedays for the Prime services that we owned.
Stakeholder ManagementStrategic HiringOperational ExcellenceMentoringPerformance ManagementProject Delivery+4

Software Development Manager [Amazon Prime Video]

Nov 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • I was part of rapidly growing Prime Video (PV) Commerce payments engineering team that contributed to the services for customer offer/plan upgrade for worldwide customers. Led this team to deliver local currency supported Prime video payment methods for 13+ emerging countries.
  • I partnered with Prime expansion tech team to expand PV payment methods in new Prime territories such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Sweden, Poland, Egypt and Belgium. I helped in building and managed a brand-new charter to launch Alternate Payment methods worldwide for PV and drove high-scale launches benefiting multi-million (MM) customers.
  • I owned the engineering execution and launch of alternate payment methods such as Pin-less Debit card in Brazil, Gift Card support in Mexico, iDEAL for Netherlands and customer retention projects. I was involved in planning, execution and delivery of the development automation framework under go-faster initiative for PV launches.
Over-the-Top Content (OTT)Stakeholder ManagementMentoringProduct EngineeringVideo CommerceOperational Excellence+5

Sabre india

Engineering Manager

Sep 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Being an Engineering manager, led end-to-end feature developments of a scalable and highly available cloud native Hospitality product from scratch. I led multiple agile teams, being hands-on in feature/user story discussions, effort estimation, execution, design reviews, interactions with customer UAT teams and customer launches. Built self-organised engineering teams with high predictability that can delivery high quality features .
Agile Application DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementProduct EngineeringFeature EngineeringOperational ExcellencePerformance Management

Wells fargo

2 roles

Technology Manager

Jul 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Software Development Manager - Wealth & Investment Management Technology.
  • Leading the team of developers for Application suite Modernization for 401K Retirement business in US. Responsible for delivery of project from offshore Wells Fargo Enterprise Global Services ( WellsFargo GIC).
  • Lead innovation project in the team/org.

Technology Lead

Jul 2013Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Technology Lead in Capital Markets- FX developments
  • Part of development team for "FX- Customer Management & Reporting (CMR)" application which is backbone for FX cluster of applications like Global Foreign Exchange, Back Office Exchange , Misys OPICS , DTCC Reporting , Front-end Customer FX online and other FX Compliance applications.
  • CMR also deals with handling Sales PnL and Commission Sharing for FX Customers, Compliance activites like Dodd Frank , FATCA etc.,
  • Technologies Used : Adobe Flex , EJB 3.0, Hibernate, Oracle 11g, Oracle Coherence, Autosys , JIL scripts, Mockito, NDM
  • IDE : Eclipse , Intellij IDEA

Hcl technologies [misys (now finastra) & deutsche bank coe]

Technical Lead

Jul 2010Jul 2013 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • As a part of HCL BFSI group, involved in product development,Customizations,Interface developments, and implementation of Banking projects.
  • Worked for following clients ;
  • Misys International Banking Systems ( now Finastra )
  • United Overseas Bank - Singapore. (Misys/Finastra Products)
  • Tech consultant in Misys/ Finastra team for system analysis, development and implementation of Trade and Cash management Portal for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China and Indonesia.
  • Involved in Interface development, batch jobs development, integration of Misys portal and UOB back office systems.
  • Work with bank's EAI team for the implementation of end to end System Integration and transactional flow.
  • Deutsche Bank AG- Germany [Investment Banking Project]
  • Worked as a Tech Lead in System analysis, development activities, handling project releases, optimizing fixes and guiding the junior members in the team.
  • Coordinating with stakeholders and gathering requirements working with various upstream and downstream system teams.
  • Been in on-call rotation for diving deep and resolving production issues as and when it is reported, based on the severity of the issue.
  • Involved hands-on in Tech-Refresh activity of the project which is migration of the project from Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g database.
  • Efficiently handled client interactions in the project via team status huddles, requirements gathering and global change management.

China systems corporation - middle east ( payroll of unique solutions middle east)

Software Engineer

May 2008Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · United Arab Emirates

  • Involved as Technical consultant in development, customization of region specific Trade Finance Modules of Eximbills & Customer Enterprise products.
  • Engaged in onsite improvements of Trade Finance modules & interfaces, interacting with bank business and technical team.
  • Involved in development of the Front-end as per client’s brand marketing suggestions.
  • Involved in implementation activities and DevOps.
  • Launched Trade finance product in following banks;
  • 1) First City Monument Bank - Lagos, Nigeria.
  • 2) Boubyan Bank -Kuwait, Middle East.
  • 3) Abudhabi Commercial Bank - Abudhabi,UAE.

Excelacom technologies

Programmer Analyst II

Jul 2006Apr 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Telecom OSS Product Development, R&D of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB),Metasolv,SOA framework, Schedulers.
  • Involved in the development of MetaSolv components like Engineering Work Order (EWO) Extractor Component, Export Access Specific Request (ASR) Component, Authentication & Authorization module, Reports module and Implementing MetaSolv Gateway Server.
  • Involved in developing and implementing MetaSolv Connectivity based on Naming Service.
  • Involved in MetaSolv performance analysis & monitoring using APM tools.
  • Involved in Research & development on EAI Concepts and Service Oriented Architecture.
  • Involved in implementing the ESB as a generic back-end which handles communication from application to external systems.
  • Involved in Design, Development and Unit Testing.
  • Fixed defects and made enhancements in existing modules to make it test adaptive.

Education

Anna University

B.E — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

Indian School of Business

Chief Technology Office Program — Organizational Leadership

Sep 2023May 2024

Texas McCombs School of Business

Post Graduate Program — Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Jan 2019Jan 2020

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