Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

• Karat's mission is to bring quality, efficiency, and equity to the technical hiring process. Karat’s AI software platform helps companies bring consistency and quality using their content and calibration algorithms for the scoring of candidates. The 24/7 global network of trained interview engineers allow organizations to focus on software development, not managing the process of technical interviews. Karat's data platform allows organizations to get better visibility into hiring funnel efficiencies, and to benchmark their talent (role by role) against peer organizations. Clients include Wal-Mart, Citi, BNY, AMEX, Schlumberger, Atlassian, and many other global organizations.
• As strategic advisor, Tanuj will actively participate in regular interactions with Karat’s executive leadership and go-to-market teams, and provide guidance on how Karat’s existing and upcoming product offerings & positioning address the needs of global teams, including India-based Global Capability Centers (GCCs).

Jan 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Trusted by 200+ Global 2000 for digital transformation of their Office of the CFO, HighRadius is the market leader of native AI based software for Order to Cash, Accounts Receivables and Treasury Management.
• Tanuj is the Chief Technology Officer, leading a team of over 1200 full time employees across Engineering, Product Management and Data Science for the Integrated Receivables Product. The global Cloud Engineering and Technical Support teams also report into Tanuj.

Mar 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

• Cambrian Lab's mission is to make practical and effective product development solutions affordable, widely available and easy to adopt for organizations of all sizes.
• As Strategic Advisor, my role is to help scale some of the innovative solutions coming out of Cambrian Labs such as Zflow, a digital workflow engine for the modern supply chain. Learn more about Zflow at zflow.io.

Nov 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Tanuj Vohra was the Head of Business Management Segment within Broadcom's Enterprise Software Division. responsible for industry leading products such as Clarity PPM and Clarity Service Management. In this role, he was responsible for the 300M+ P&L for these products, leading a global team consisting of Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, and Customer Success and Adoption.

Sep 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Tanuj Vohra was Senior Vice President and Head of the India Technology Center, largest development center for CA Technologies globally. In India, CA Technologies had development offices in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Tanuj had direct management responsibility for 1200 plus employees and worked closely with business units and sales to deliver products across all CA Technologies product lines in DevOps, Security, Agile Operations & Management, Application and Infrastructure Management, API Management, Payment Security and Mainframe.

Mar 2017 – Sep 2017 · 6 mos

• In this role, I was responsible for accelerating the digital transformation of India leveraging Microsoft assets. The team was focused on customer problems that cut across org/product boundaries, leveraging the India stack and other assets.

Oct 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• In this role, I lead and managed the Program Management organization at Microsoft IT, India, a team of 150+ Program Managers and 100+ vendors, responsible for delivering mission critical enterprise services across multiple service offerings. The Program Management role at Microsoft is a healthy blend of business & engineering. It is about using business insights, partnering with software engineering and service engineering teams, and working through the entire life cycle as the advocate for the end customer. My key accomplishments in this role were:
• Accelerated agile adoption. Moved the needle on agile across the portfolio, from 30% to 70%+. 50+ certified scrum masters, conducted multiple CSM and CSPO trainings for the org
• Drove cloud adoption. Focus on PaaS and SaaS, IaaS mostly where applications were marked for sunset/sustain.
• Incubated data sciences. Built a data sciences COE from the grounds up, hiring data scientists, and getting multiple folks in the org trained on predictive analytics/machine learning.
• Accelerated hiring: Added over 50 people into the team in the last eight months, mostly lateral hires from the industry, and from tier one business schools
• IT Showcase: Coordinated over 1000 customer engagements across industry, academia and public sector, showcasing Microsoft technologies deployed at enterprise scale
• Core member of MSIT global Software engineering leadership team, responsible for providing roadmap, strategy, and priorities for the software engineering efforts across Microsoft IT
• User Experience: Ramped up a team of ten user experience professionals, significantly improving the quality of our designs, while providing self-service tooling for engineers
• Telemetry and Flighting: Increased the number of releases 5x, using rich telemetry and flighting to mitigate risks
• Based on my contributions, I was one of the 13 finalist for the Microsoft IT Circle of Excellence nominations for FY16

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

• General Manager for a team of 400 engineers and over 500 vendors tasked with delivering high quality IT services for Microsoft. These solutions range from enterprise services such as BI, ESB, MDM, and ERP connectors, to line of business applications and services leveraging social, mobile, cloud, and data (SMAC). The team delivered over 600 releases over the last year across a variety of technologies and business domains.
• As the leader for the Dev discipline within MSIT India – I was responsible for driving initiatives to improve technical excellence, delivery excellence, move quality upstream, and create focused career growth for over 500 Dev professionals within MSIT India. The primary charter was to standardize architecture, improve delivery efficiency, innovate with new technologies, up-level manager competency, hire the best and the brightest in the industry, and provide tools and frameworks across the organization.
• As a core member of the Architecture Board and the Standards Review Board for MSIT, ensured architectural consistency, regulatory compliance, and drove focused innovation across all MSIT implementations.

Jul 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

• General Manager for a team of 500 engineers and vendors tasked with delivering high quality enterprise services that drive product and operational excellence, agility and customer centricity, while leveraging standards to reduce complexity and costs. These include Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Enterprise Service Bus, ERP connectors, and related technologies.

Jun 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Overall responsibility for the SQL Development Organization in India. Primary ownership for SQL Server Database Application Management, and SQL Server Compact.
• Ownership of SQL Server Management Studio – where the team contributes to SQL Server’s TCO vision by building rich manageability experiences for our boxed product and the cloud. The team is working on enhancing manageability for all aspects of SQL Server, including deployment, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, security, monitoring & diagnostics.
• End to end business ownership for SQL Server Compact - an embedded, small footprint database engine targeting applications for mobile-devices, desktops, middle-tier and rich internet apps (RIA). Responsibilities include managing the development team, and owning the roadmap for SQL Compact, and its role in Microsoft’s overall web and breadth data strategy.
• Key accomplishments include rebuilding the team, creating a new vision and strategy focusing on cloud, and putting together an execution rhythm to release in a more agile manner.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs

• Responsible for execution and future roadmap for test and virtualization products at Microsoft, as part of the Visual Studio family of products.
• Owned the key product scenarios for Microsoft’s entry in the new market. Released test and lab management capability in Visual Studio 2010 – the products have been a resounding success in the marketplace. Strategy involved focus on the untapped generalist tester market segment, with emphasis on virtualization to bridge the dev/test barrier. The team leveraged multiple assets from other product groups (such as System Center) and Microsoft research.
• Developed the field enablement plan, and the overall go-to-market strategy, for the components. I also owned the overall community engagement plan for the products, working closely with product marketing, field, and business development. I engaged with multiple partners including Fortify, MicroFocus, Sogeti, and LionBridge to bring solutions to market on top of our platform.
• Drove thought leadership in the test space via active participation in world-wide test communities and conferences. Keynote speaker at several events across the world, and general secretary of StepIn India. Worked extensively with the key SIs worldwide to drive adoption and revenue wins.
• Created and chaired the Program Management board for Microsoft India Development Center – with a focus on up-leveling the skills for that discipline, and to foster the community.

Sep 2007 – May 2008 · 8 mos

• Responsible for world-wide development for Rational Portfolio Manager product – managing a team of 100+ employees distributed across US, Canada and Bangalore.
• Defined the strategy and roadmap for the products, managed execution.
• Patent plateau holder at IBM, 4 patent filings
• Experience with global distributed development of projects
• Experience hiring, retaining, and growing senior technical talent

Aug 2005 – Sep 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Responsible for 100+ person team, delivering 100M+ in revenue via ownership of multiple products such as Rational Functional Tester, Rational Manual Tester, Rational PurifyPlus, Rational Robot, Rational TestManager, and Mainframe Host Integration technologies. Responsibilities included business and strategy development, along with development, test, build and install ownership.
• Patent plateau holder at IBM, with 4 patent filings. Lead the invention disclosure team for IBM Rational India, and co-ordinated patent efforts across IBM India Software Labs for two years.
• Part of an IBM world-wide initiative to improve quality software engineering practices, with a special emphasis on distributed development.

Jun 2000 – Aug 2005 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Shipped multiple versions of PurifyPlus runtime analysis tools on UNIX platforms. Managed a team of up to 20 resources on that project across dev and test.
• Managed a distributed team of engineers in four countries to deliver new functionality based on Eclipse IDE as part of IBM Rational's next generation of developer-test tooling in Rational Application Developer. Responsible for the overall architecture and design of that solution.
• Chief evangelist of the technology within IBM, including interaction with sales, technical sales, and other development groups.

Jun 1997 – Jun 2000 · 3 yrs

• Worked on Purify/Quantify/Purecoverage support for Solaris and HPUX. C/C++ and assembly language development.

Jan 1996 – Jan 1996 · 0 mo

• Worked on run-time optimizations of C/C++/Assembly code for industry leading tools such as Purify/Quantify/PureCoverage.