Ajaykumar Kamne

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expert in cloud infrastructure and microservices architecture.
  • Proven track record in product development and team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS technology leader with extensive experience in engineering and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Operations & LeadershipTechnical Architecture And ModernizationProduct ManagementTechnical DirectionTechnical VisionInfrastructure ManagementEngineering ArchitectureTeam DevelopmentPlatform DevelopmentMicroservices ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentTeam Management

Other Skills

Overcome ObstaclesCoachingIT StrategyAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentEasily AdaptableMaintainabilityMultiple DisciplinesDevOpsStrategic PlanningCloud Infrastructure & SREBudget ManagementBusiness MetricsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Coaching & Mentoring

About

Dynamic technology leader with 19 years of experience in software development, product delivery, and cross-functional team management. Proven ability to drive strategic initiatives and lead teams across Engineering, DevOps, Product Management, Customer Support, and Managed Services. • Leadership & Strategy: Managing the Bangalore site of 75+ employees and collaborating with executives on business and people strategies, including direct strategy discussions with the founder. Heading the Engineering, Product Management, Customer Support, and Services departments, driving alignment across these functions to achieve business goals. • Operational Excellence: Managed budgets, P&L, and compliance, securing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications. Established iterative processes to ensure high-quality, customer-centric software delivery. • Strategic Site Operations: Managing end-to-end facility growth, local P&L, and workspace safety protocols while fostering a unified engineering culture across diverse departments. • Product Development: Led end-to-end development for products in HCM, MDM, Desktop Management, and VAS, partnering with global teams to deliver high-impact, user-centric solutions. Experienced in agile methodologies, handling scrum, and deploying cloud-based solutions. • Architectural Modernization: Key contributor in transitioning from monolithic to microservices architecture, migrating on-premise solutions to the cloud, and managing team relocations. • Cloud Infrastructure: Expertise in designing scalable, cost-effective cloud solutions for SaaS, with robust monitoring and alerting systems to ensure reliability and performance. • Talent & Team Growth: Skilled in hiring, mentoring, and developing talent across technical and managerial roles in Engineering, Product Management, Customer Support, and Services. Demonstrated ability to foster a high-performing, collaborative team environment. • Cross-functional collaboration: Partnered with Business Development to define product vision, shape periodic roadmaps, enhance SEO, and drive lead generation, ensuring a cohesive approach to product success and customer satisfaction. • AI/ML Integration: Exploring AI/ML applications to enhance product value and stay competitive in an evolving technology landscape. • Customer-Facing Roles: Experienced in handling solutioning and IT reviews in presales calls, providing expertise on product capabilities and aligning solutions with client needs. Skilled in managing customer escalations within support to ensure high satisfaction and effective resolution.

Experience

Peoplehum

4 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Apr 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos · On-site

  • Along with other responsibilities mentioned, actively managed Bangalore site with 75+ people.
Overcome ObstaclesCoachingSite Operations & LeadershipIT StrategyAnalytical SkillsPeople Development+16

VP of Engineering and Product

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos · On-site

  • Additional product responsibilities apart from the Engineering responsibilities mentioned earlier.
  • 1. Responsible as a VP of Product Management, understanding the domain, analysing the market, studying competition and building a vision for the product.
  • 2. Collaborate with all the stakeholders like the Founders, Sales team, Marketing team and Customer Support team to work on prioritisation and define the roadmap for the product.
  • 3. Handling team of Product Managers and Designers to align with the product vision, review and deliver crisp and clear requirements with mocks as per the roadmap to the engineering teams.
  • 4. Responsible for hiring and mentoring the members to strengthen the team.
  • 5. Actively involved in getting ISO 27001 certified.
  • 6. understand the costs, build strategies to reduce them and work efficiently to manage P&L for the organisation.
Overcome ObstaclesCoachingSite Operations & LeadershipIT StrategyAnalytical SkillsPeople Development+16

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

  • 1. Responsible as a VP of Engineering, for defining technical vision, the path to achieving, planning and execution.
  • 2. Identified patterns to build reusable frameworks forming the core platform improving the pace and quality of delivery and consistency in user experience across the platform for the end users.
  • 3. Worked with customers and prospects to analyse their needs, understand complexities and help with solutions for them to succeed.
  • 4. Define processes in the organisation to deliver high-quality software iteratively achieving required gates and metrics without impacting any customers.
  • 5. Maintain highly scalable, highly available and robust infrastructure with required alerting systems to host the SAAS software in a very cost-efficient way.
  • 6. Responsible for hiring, mentoring and growing careers of over fifty people with various experience levels and a variety of expertise in developing backend, UI/UX, DevOps, Mobile applications and Quality Assurance.
  • 7. Work with the Product Managers and Customer Support Team to understand the requirements, support customer use cases and contribute to building a roadmap for the product.
  • 8. Communicate, collaborate and work effectively with different people working across geographies.
Overcome ObstaclesCoachingSite Operations & LeadershipAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentTechnical Direction+15

Director Of Engineering

Aug 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · On-site

  • 1. Responsible as a Director of Engineering, for defining tech stack, engineering architecture, design and development of various modules and their features in peopleHum.
  • 2. Maintain highly scalable, highly available and robust infrastructure with required alerting systems to host the SAAS software in a very cost-efficient way.
  • 3. Define processes in the organisation to deliver high-quality software iteratively achieving required gates and metrics without impacting any customers.
  • 4. Responsible for hiring, mentoring and growing careers of over fifty people with various experience levels and a variety of expertise in developing backend, UI/UX, DevOps, and Mobile applications.
  • 5. Work with the Product Managers and Customer Support Team to understand the requirements, support customer use cases and contribute to building a roadmap for the product.
  • 6. Work with the Sales and Marketing team to improve the SEO of the website, lead generation and understand the use cases of the prospects to suggest solutions and analyse customisations required.
  • 7. Actively involved in discussions with leads across divisions like engineering, product and business teams to define the vision and strategy for the product.
  • 8. Communicate, collaborate and work effectively with different people working across geographies.
Overcome ObstaclesCoachingAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentTechnical DirectionEasily Adaptable+12

Ibm india software lab private limited

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • 1. Responsible as a Senior Development Manager, for the design and development of the core platform of MaaS360 which acts as a central pillar for managing all Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops/Desktops running different operating systems like IOS/ Android/ Windows/ Mac.
  • 2. Played a key role as a member of the core architect team to plan and execute the journey to migrate from a monolithic architecture to a microservice-based distributed architecture.
  • 3. Responsible for delivering high-quality software within given timelines.
  • 4. Work with Product Managers and the Customer Support Team to understand the requirements and build a roadmap for the product.
  • 5. Design discussions, code reviews and mentoring junior members of the team
  • 6. Lead end-to-end release management life cycle involving coordination of features being developed across teams, their quality and their deployment into production environments.
  • 7. Responsible for managing the staffing requirements for the team.
  • 8. As a second line manager, managed five teams with eleven managers and leads having around 60 people.
  • 9. Have been responsible for handling technical projects, appraisal cycles and compensation for the team.
  • 10. Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment.
Overcome ObstaclesCode DesignCoachingAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentTechnical Direction+12

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • 1. Responsible as a Engineering Manager, for the design and development of MaaS360 for managing all Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops/Desktops running the Windows Operating System.
  • 2. Responsible for delivering high-quality software within given timelines.
  • 3. Work with Product Managers and the Customer Support Team to understand the requirements and build a roadmap for the product.
  • 4. Design discussions, code reviews, KT sessions and mentoring junior members of the team
  • 5. Lead end-to-end release management life cycle involving coordination of features being developed across teams, their quality and their deployment into production environments.
  • 6. Responsible for managing the staffing requirements for the team.
  • 7. Managed a team of around fifteen people in Bangalore and three people in the US as a first line for over four years.
  • 8. Have been responsible for handling technical projects, appraisal cycles and compensation for Bangalore-based employees.
  • 9. Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment.
Overcome ObstaclesCode DesignCoachingAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentTechnical Direction+11

Development Lead

May 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • Result of acquisition of Fiberlink
  • 1. Responsible as a Development Lead, for the design and development of MaaS360 for managing all Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops/Desktops running the Windows Operating System.
  • 2. Responsible for delivering high-quality software within given timelines.
  • 3. Work with Product Managers and the Customer Support Team to understand the requirements and build a roadmap for the product.
  • 4. Design discussions, code reviews, KT sessions and mentoring junior members of the team
  • 5. Lead end-to-end release management life cycle involving coordination of features being developed across teams, their quality and their deployment into production environments.
  • 6. Worked with distributed teams across Bangalore and US.
Overcome ObstaclesCode DesignCoachingAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentTechnical Direction+11

Fiberlink

Lead Developer

Oct 2013 – Apr 2014 · 6 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • 1. Responsible as a Development Lead, for the design and development of MaaS360 for managing all Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops/Desktops running the Windows Operating System.
  • 2. Responsible for delivering high-quality software within given timelines.
  • 3. Work with Product Managers and the Customer Support Team to understand the requirements and build a roadmap for the product.
  • 4. Design discussions, code reviews, KT sessions and mentoring junior members of the team
  • 5. Lead end-to-end release management life cycle involving coordination of features being developed across teams, their quality and their deployment into production environments.
  • 6. Worked with distributed teams across Bangalore and US.
Code DesignAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentEasily AdaptableSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Hands-on Technical Leadership+4

Onmobile

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • 1. Design, Development and Engineering Support for Cricket and Soccer Applications.
  • 2. Development of UI components required.
  • 3. Handling KT sessions for all the above when required.
  • 4. Sharing new ideas for the promotion and development of the product.
  • 5. Mentoring new recruits on their work.
  • 6. Discussing the feasibility and implementing the customization asked by the customers on the components developed by me.
  • 7. Managed and evaluated training programs for all the new joinees for two consecutive years.
Code DesignAnalytical SkillsPeople DevelopmentEasily AdaptableSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Team Management+2

Software Engineer

Jul 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • 1. Design, Development and Engineering Support for Cricket and Soccer Applications.
  • 2. Development of UI components required.
  • 3. Handling KT sessions for all the above when required.
Code DesignEasily AdaptableHands-on Technical LeadershipSoftware Development

Education

SJCE

BE — Electronics & Communication

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007

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