Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Organized and ran meetups, workshops, and events across AI/ML and Quality tech fields to foster community growth and engagement.
• Published daily knowledge-based articles and curated a tech newsletter to support communities and job seekers.
• Advocated for tech advancements and promoted tech evangelism within the community to drive innovation and collaboration.

Mar 2023 – Oct 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Expanded India regional team and accelerated product delivery by 15% through strategic recruitment,
• process & technology improvements.
• Led the software engineering organization through designing, developing, testing, and delivering
• distributed systems using Agile development, DevOps & React, Django, and Postgres tech stack.
• Established a successful collaboration with the sales team to drive product offerings and customer
• satisfaction
• Directed a successful large-scale strategy, customizing SaaS for on premise deployment for a major bank,
• reducing deployment time and ensuring 100% compliance with industry regulations.

Nov 2010 – Jan 2023 · 12 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Engineering leader, Leading engineering teams for Ellucian
• Leading & partnering with cross-organization teams across R&D, cloud, and product management to lead many initiatives
• Trained large team of new joiners to successful transition and fitment across teams
• Skilled in providing leadership, direction, strategy, and vision in the areas of technology/cloud to facilitate and enable growth & business agility
• High learning agility, adaptability, resilient as a leader, many examples of quickly able to learn, scale and adapt to make the company competitive in the market and keep the company as a leader in technology and innovation
• Mentored, coached, and transformed teams with a culture of accountability, collaboration, and quality first, driving significant productivity improvements
• Coordinating with key stakeholders including Group VPs, Regional directors & Business Heads across the regions to support company initiatives like cloud, SaaS
• Experience leading various team sizes including engineering managers
• Engineering Leader | Technology Transformation | SaaS | Cloud | Devops | Innovation

Sep 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Engineering Leader
• Scope estimation, planning, time management, scheduling, project costing, and budget management
• Successfully worked with diverse teams in multi-geographical locations and experienced in managing multiple projects
• Proactively initiated quality assurance policies and procedures to significantly reduce errors and maintain efficiency at 99.5%
• Created Subject Matter Experts within the department as 'go-to' mentors sharing expertise while elevating cross-training within the department
• Provide project progress reports to the project team, stakeholders, management, and executives
• Regularly reviews, reallocates and checks priorities within the Project to align with organizational goals and direction
• Engineering Leader | Technology Transformation | SaaS | Cloud | Devops | Innovation

Feb 2005 – Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Played a critical role in an offshoring telecom project
• 1+ Year of on-site experience at Accenture Canada
• Lead and managed team, resources spanning across offshore and onshore

Jul 2002 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• Played role of developer
• Coding, testing & support
• Worked with customers to document requirements