Praveen Chintamani

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in enterprise and digital technology leadership.
  • Expert in AI ML strategy and cloud technologies.
  • Proven ability to build high-performing technology teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and B2B technology leader with extensive experience in engineering management and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipEngineering ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

AI strategyAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsElasticsearchEnterprise ArchitectureJavaLeadershipMachine LearningMicroservicesPeople DevelopmentREST ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

About

With over 20+ years of experience in enterprise and digital technology, I am a seasoned leader who spearheads strategic technology planning and execution initiatives. I am currently working as Vice President of Engineering at WorkSpan an AI First #1 co-selling platform. Helped organisations to build the AI ML strategy using cloud technologies from defining objectives, tools and techniques, use cases and ROI, iterate and improve and building the CoE My primary focus lies in defining future state technology architectures and crafting comprehensive roadmaps, while also establishing clear visions for IT modernization and coexistence strategies. I also possess expertise in evaluating vendor technology products, offering valuable recommendations on package solution purchases while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Additionally, I have a proven ability to build high-performing technology teams from the ground up, handling budget planning, talent acquisition, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence within the organization. As a domain expert in supply chain management and B2B platform development, I have successfully designed, developed, and executed large scale enterprise solutions that cater to the needs of thousands of customers and orders per day. I have also enabled API first approach, SaaS delivery model, E2E tracking, and seamless integration with third-party logistics providers. Furthermore, I have strong expertise in cloud computing, systems architecture, and microservice architecture, using AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira, Git, MySQL, and MongoDB as my preferred tools and technologies. I am passionate about building and scaling tech and talent for Arzooo Commerce and Fintech, and making strategic decisions for buy-build-partner scenarios. Areas of Expertise: Product Development, Engineering Management, Product Management, Program Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Research and Development (R&D), Software Project Management

Experience

Workspan

Vice President of Engineering

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • As VP of Software Engineering at Workspan, I drive the vision and execution of Agentic AI across both internal processes and customer-facing features. My role spans defining the AI strategy, leading high-performing engineering teams, and embedding autonomous agents to optimise workflows, enhance product capabilities, and deliver measurable business impact. I ensure responsible AI governance, foster innovation through AI-first engineering culture, and scale systems with enterprise-grade reliability while collaborating with partners and customers to co-create next-gen AI solutions.
AI strategyengineering leadershipautonomous agentsworkflow optimizationproduct capabilitiesresponsible AI governance+2

Freelance

Fractional CTO

Jun 2024Nov 2024 · 5 mos · Remote · Remote

  • Helped multiple orgs to scale from 1 to 10

Arzooo

3 roles

Vice President of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2024Aug 2024 · 7 mos

Software DevelopmentLeadershipElasticsearchAgile MethodologiesMachine LearningEngineering Management+1

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2023Dec 2023 · 8 mos

  • Leading Arzooo B2B engineering team
  • Building platform for B2B omni-channel commerce
  • Responsible for ensuring SRE operations for org
  • Responsible for enabling data drive development to help PODs to increase productivity
  • Establishing strategic alliance with major tech companies
  • Established Tech roadmap for Arzooo Commerce Tech and Fintech
  • Scaled Arzooo commerce App to handle 10K RPS
  • Scaling SCM solution for SaaS
  • Hiring and Growing talent for B2B and Fintech
  • Enabling processes to operate at 100x scale
Software DevelopmentLeadershipElasticsearchAgile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementProduct Development

Director of Engineering

Aug 2022Apr 2023 · 8 mos

  • Responsible for building supply chain products and distributors technology platform. Scaled SCM and
  • Distributors platform from 1 to 10+.
  • Built SCM platform to cater to 10K orders per day
  • Enabled API first approach in ensuring platforms are enabled for SaaS
  • Built integration platform for seamless integration with 3PLs
  • Enabled E2E tracking for all miles providing real time analytics for control tower
Software DevelopmentLeadershipElasticsearchAgile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementProduct Development

Intuit india

Group Development Manager

Mar 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for building and scaling mid-market and high-value customer solutions.
  • Build tech road map in close association with tech architects and product owners
  • Providing engineering leadership for the QuickBooks platform which is clocking revenue of 1.7 bn USD
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software DevelopmentLeadershipElasticsearchAgile MethodologiesEngineering Management+1

Sclen.ai

Chief Software Architect/CTO

Sep 2018Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Rebuild TMS (Logistics and Trasnportations) to SaaS subscription-based on Microservice architecture.
  • Build highly scalable cloud-based solutions for the logistics industry serving and managing most of the marquee clients in India
  • Responsible for implementing DevOps culture leading to many first features in the market
  • Managing IT budget within the constraints
  • Negotiation with technology vendor partners
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software DevelopmentLeadershipElasticsearchJavaAgile Methodologies+2

Y media labs

2 roles

Director Of Technology

Promoted

Apr 2017Jan 2018 · 9 mos

  • Enabling startups to sustain and scale by providing SaaS-based solutions
  • Helping enterprise companies in Digital Transformation, right from strategy to implementation
  • Executed projects for some of the top 50 fortune companies
  • Recruited tech team across different skill levels; DevOps, Containernizarion, Full stack developers, SQL and NO SQL DBs
  • Participation during the pre-sales call, RFQs, Evaluation, POC lead to an effective increase in conversion rate
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software DevelopmentLeadershipJavaAgile MethodologiesEngineering Management+1

Lead Software Architect

Feb 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Leading Enterprise Application Services team
Software DevelopmentLeadershipJavaEngineering Management

Gale partners

Technology Evangelist

Jul 2015Jan 2016 · 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Helped in setting up the offshore center right from scratch to handling large scale projects
  • Helped in enabling processes and tools for executing large scale projects
  • Established open source technology excellence by hiring talents at different levels
Software DevelopmentLeadershipEngineering Management

Target

2 roles

Senior Technical Architect

Apr 2011Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Responsible for architecting the global project for property management solution
  • Played a key role as a security architect in identifying the security threats across different application
  • Involved in migrating a legacy POS application to a modern solution which was executed at the cost of 100mn USD
  • Lead the RFQ process for IWMS packages and key decision-maker in choosing the vendor
  • Played key role dueing the security re-haul process
Software DevelopmentLeadershipEngineering Management

Technical Architect

Aug 2007Mar 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Designed and Architected store people management using MS stack
  • Designed and Architected merchandising solution using MS stack
  • Strategizing sunset of legacy applications without impacting the key business activities
  • Played a key role in reorganizing the source of truth for enterprise integration architecture
Software DevelopmentLeadershipEngineering Management

Honeywell

Development Team Lead

Mar 2004Aug 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Design and Develop process solutions for the oil and gas industry
  • Leading development team across different locations
  • Contribution in building reusable components
Software DevelopmentLeadershipEngineering Management

Kshema technologies

Software Engineer

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

Software DevelopmentLeadership

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Executive Leadership — Artificial Intelligence

Gulbarga University

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

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