Jagadeesh Kona

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over two years of experience in engineering management.
Expertise in aligning project roadmaps with organizational goals.
Proven track record in driving innovation and team growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Manager with strong capabilities in team leadership and product delivery.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTeam ManagementDevopsProgram ManagementAgile MethodologiesWeb Applications

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsCapacity PlanningChefCloud ApplicationsCloud DevelopmentCommunicationContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationDockerDroneEnterprise SoftwareInterpersonal CommunicationJIRAJava

About

With over two years at Diligent, I serve as a Software Engineering Manager, leveraging my expertise in engineering management, team management, and web technologies to oversee high-quality product delivery and efficient team development. My focus is on aligning project roadmaps with organizational goals, ensuring seamless execution and performance optimization. Drawing on extensive experience in engineering management, I am committed to driving innovation, fostering team growth, and implementing streamlined processes to enhance operational excellence. My work centers around enabling successful product outcomes while maintaining a collaborative and goal-oriented environment.

Experience

Diligent

Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Amazon Web Services (AWS)MySQLTeam ManagementMicroservicesEngineering Management

Omuni

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2023 – Oct 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

End-to-End ownership in product delivery of Cloud and .One Pods; Ensuring the planning and on-time
execution of the quarterly roadmap items, by aligning with the Release process.
Tracking the Pod metrics (Strike Rate & Live Rate (> 90%), QA recycles (<= 1) ) and ensuring the
product delivery with high quality.
Prioritize application maintenance activities with Sprint cycle; To bring in more efficiencies & improve the performance of the existing systems.
Managing the engineering team (14 Dev/QA engineers); efficient staffing, team member individual
development and performance management.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)DevOpsPeople ManagementMicroservicesJavaJIRA+2

Ninjacart

Director Tech Program

Sep 2022 – Feb 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Owning the end-to-end program execution of Agri products (Retailer, Agrinet, Domestic Commerce,
User Growth) and on-time delivery of the product features.
Setting up the processes to bring in streamlined engineering practices across the tech organization, and ensuing the Sprint ceremonies and release management activities.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)DevOpsProgram ManagementMicroservicesJavaJIRA+1

Target

5 roles

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Sep 2022 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Working with the Engineering teams and Product Management organizations to set up the product
roadmap and communicate the plan/progress with Sr. leadership.
Designed and developed partner profile API using Spring REST Controller and implemented
authentication with Spring OAuth2; to cater partner metadata for EDI Next inbound/outbound
publishers.
Have performed database migrations from DB2 to Postgres. Re-designed the envelop processes from
legacy and developed Java Spring boot microservice to cater to the enveloping process functionality for edi distributed applications.
Developed CI/CD build pipelines (drone, docker, Kubernetes) to bring in seamless deployment
experience for EDI/Stores applications. As well, as developed functional test cases of the applications and integrated part of automated build pipelines, using Spock framework.
Experienced in driving a Scrum team to manage through stories, backlogs, and configuring
package/building the product within specifications or requirements, while adhering to quality
architectural and security standards.

Web ApplicationsDevOpsPeople ManagementMicroservicesJavaJIRA+1

Manager Delivery Services

Jan 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

Lead Delivery Services

Apr 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Team Lead

Apr 2008 – Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

Ibm

2 roles

Software Engineer

Sep 2005 – Aug 2006 · 11 mos

Developed new module to handle the SSN transfers functionality, with the combination of CICS/Cobol/DB2.
Developed programs to convert user profile data (Reformatting) into Client’s requested format.

Consultant Software Engineer

May 2004 – Sep 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

Developed new module to handle the SSN transfers functionality, with the combination of CICS/Cobol/DB2.
Developed programs to convert user profile data (Reformatting) into Client’s requested format.