Vikas Sharma

VP of Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India22 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Expert in managing diverse engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in delivering high-impact software solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Enterprise Software expert with extensive experience in software development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentPeople ManagementProcess ImprovementMachine LearningUi Development

Other Skills

HiringJavaDistributed deploymentsCybersecurity complianceMicroservicesAutomation testingAngularNodeJSC++QTJavaScriptDesign PatternsMultithreadingAlgorithmsShell Scripting

About

Started working on the ERP platform as Sr. Manager, Platform Engineering at OpenGov, Pune. Prior to joining OpenGov, I worked with Rocket Software to lead Engineering teams in IBM DB2 Query Management Facility product suite, that provide Business Intelligence capabilities to enterprise customers having deployments on IBM Mainframe systems. I was responsible for entire SDLC including security, high availability and performance at scale. I am also responsible for supporting customers, prioritize urgent Interim fix releases. Before joining Rocket Software in May-2022, I worked at PTC Software, Pune, built and lead the team to deliver Customer enhancements and bugs in ThingWorx IIOT platform which is offered as SAAS and KepServerEX. I also lead team on development and 100% test automation of ThingWorx Flow which is Microservices based application, enabling it to be ready to use by enterprise ThingWorx platform customers. Prior to PTC Software, I worked on Automatic Content Recognition and Advertisement recommendation projects at Samsung India Software Center, Noida. I implemented content recognition program using machine learning and created architecture for Ad recommendation project. I also worked on creating a user interface in JavaScript, Bootstrap, JQuery to display status of all machines in the cluster and TVs guide. I have 20+ years of experience in mid to large level enterprises working on product development, maintenance, security using Distributed architectures, Microservices, Cloud computing, AWS, REST APIs, Java, C++, Docker, OpenShift, RDBMS, Redis, Kafka, Jira, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and Machine Learning for Image Recognition. I have received many awards and recognition during my career. I am passionate about developing talent, aligning teams towards organization goals, performance management and strong processes.

Experience

Opengov inc.

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Rocket software

Senior Manager

May 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • QMF is a complex product suite built on eclipse RCP, RAP frameworks. It comes with both desktop and web applications supported on zOS and LUW operating systems. Supporting these products with new development like Supporting newer versions of Java, Distributed deployments, Multifactor authentication and FIPS 140 cybersecurity compliance is non-trivial to plan, execute due to underlying framework and documentation limitations.
  • Own end-to-end development and maintenance efforts on IBM DB2 Query Management Facility suite of products including requirements gathering, scoping, grooming, estimation, planning, implementation, testing, documentation, compliance processes and releases. The team could deliver 20% Epics, 30% bugs, 25% automation increase year on year.
  • Extensive interfacing with all stakeholders like offering managers, product management, technical support, solution advisors, documentation and security teams.
  • Hiring, mentoring, motivating, leading, managing diverse teams on Software Product R&D, maintenance, security and quality assurance. Use precise Objectives and Key Results to track the work. Follow Agile methodology software development to allow us to be flexible.
  • Supporting customer issues within SLAs which enabled me to achieve customer retention rate of more than 95% every year. Conclude if an ask is a potential product enhancement.
People ManagementSoftware DevelopmentProcess ImprovementHiring

Ptc

4 roles

Senior Software Development Manager

Apr 2021Apr 2022 · 1 yr

  • Setup, lead and manage a new diverse engineering team of 12 members to prioritize customer enhancements and bug fixes on ThingWorx IIOT platform which is offered as SAAS with active-active high availability, multi-tenant and KepServerEX.
  • Lead and managed teams to work on highly available and scalable microservices architecture based ThingWorx Flow product development. Completed 100% automation testing (unit, integration, selenium) for all connectors to get it ready for enterprise customers.
  • Lead team to work on MVP of Web version of ArborText Editor from scratch. Created architecture, design, plan end-to-end development of the product including integration with PTC Windchill PLM using OData based REST APIs for in-browser edits for technical documents. Used Java and Angular for backend and frontend respectively.

Software Development Manager

Promoted

Oct 2018Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Built and managed high performing team of 8 members.
  • Worked on Thingworx Core platform.
  • Worked on very high impact enhancements done in the product. This involved work using Java, Git, Servlets, Tomcat, Websockets.

Section Manager

Oct 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr

  • Managed, mentored team of about 6 members to dedicate best of their capabilities and skills on project work.
  • Worked on Thingworx Flow Orchestration product used for creating workflows.
  • Involved with enabling many connectors to work successfully. Worked with OAuth authentication, TypeScript, NodeJS.

Software Technical Consultant

Dec 2016Sep 2017 · 9 mos

  • Worked on a new project from scratch. It was about online version of desktop based application.
  • This involved developing front (bootstrap) and backend (Java).
  • Challenge was to auto save the document to prevent data loss due to network unavailability.
  • Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Angular 2, REST APIs, OData standards

Samsung electronics

Chief Engineer

Jul 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Implemented automatic content recognition program using machine learning and recommend best matches from popular e-commerce websites like ebay, amazon.in using Java.
  • Created high level architecture for advertisement recommendation. I also worked on solution to evaluate suitable no-sql database (Cassandra DB), in-memory database (Redis) and queue (Kafka) using NodeJS microservices.
  • Created graphical user interface in Angular to display status of the machines.

Autodesk

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2011Jul 2014 · 3 yrs · Pune

  • Complete UI revamp for desktop based Meshmixer product using C++, QT library. Added 3D Printing module to the product by integrating printer driver.
  • Porting Windows based product to install on MAC OSX. Worked on makefiles to enable building on new platform.
  • Worked on a complex project aiming to perform solid modelling over the web. I contributed to UI development which used JavaScript and JQuery.

Ptc

4 roles

Technical Lead

Feb 2011Jul 2011 · 5 mos

  • 1. Fully managed strategically significant module Jt - ProE file format export import.
  • 2. Worked on Customer sponsored projects.
  • 3. Received Special award for technical excellence.
  • Technologies: Java, C/C++, Javascript

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2010Jan 2011 · 10 mos

  • Added numerous important functionalities to existing product. Received Excellence Award for exceptional contribution to product development.
  • Technologies: Java, C++

Software Engineer (Engineer II)

Nov 2006Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Product development in C++. Worked on Server-Client application layer.
  • Technologies: Java, C++

Software Engineer (Engineer I)

Jun 2005Oct 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Worked in Sheetmetal Geometry, Unix environment, C language

3dplm software solutions limited

Software Engineer

Mar 2004Jun 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Worked on Geometry stuff. Learned lot of C/C++.

Bharat forge ltd

Assistant Manager

Jun 2003Mar 2004 · 9 mos

  • Worked in International Trade Division. Resposibility was to manage Chinese Manufacturing Companies' overall accounts. Also, business development was an important part of the job.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science

Jan 1999Jan 2003

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Software Systems — Computer Science

Jul 2007Aug 2009

Instrumentation Ltd School, Kota, Rajasthan

Higher Secondary

Jan 1996Jan 1997

Instrumentation School, Kota

Senior Secondary — Mathematics and Science

Jul 1997Apr 1998

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