Pankaj Sharma — CTO

Hands-On Tech Leader with a Hands-Off Leadership style (grown from tech hands on to full responsibility as a functional head), Successfully operate high performance engineering teams to drive business outcomes, Leader with strategic and technological depth to run large scale tech modernization efforts. Valued C-suite contributor at Executive and CxO level. A leader who is driven by results and technology having rich experience and expertise in the areas of (that's how the career has progressed which has given me exposure and solid expertise in these domains - CIO space) Distributed Systems, Site Reliability Engineering/Observability, DevOps (DORA), Micro services, System Design, Software Engineering and Development, API integrations, Infrastructure & Platform Technologies, Full breadth of Cyber Security - CISM, DevSecOps Technologies and Network Engineering - which all combines to build world class and large scale secure production engineering capabilities. In-depth understanding of the consumer Internet and retail Industry, building scalable and resilient systems, driving automation efforts, driving culture change towards high performance and adapting latest technologies, leverage open source tools/technologies providing greater cost efficiencies, Development of production operations tools, Building Teams from the ground up, setting up and streamlining processes, building cross-functional rapport and improving stakeholder satisfaction enabling continuous business/revenue growth. Leadership, Strategy and Business Outcomes: Emotionally intelligent people leader with an executive presence, empowering staff with clear objectives, deliverables and expectations. Providing supportive coaching and identifying development opportunities, while promoting performance excellence. Financial Acumen and Responsibilities: Managed sizeable annual functional budgets achieving significant cost savings while ensuring appropriate levels of investment in long term technology initiatives, Continuous attention on cost optimization across the IT/Tech landscape, through IT /Tech system rationalization, workload optimization using automation and dedicated cost reduction initiatives. Stakeholder and Relationship Management: Collaborative and empathetic relationship management skills with key stakeholders including external vendors and internal teams and always striving for ‘win – win’ outcomes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Cyber Security and Infrastructure Management within the Retail and Technology sectors.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 16 yrs 6 mos