Venkat Shailendra K

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

22+ years in IT & Gaming Industry.
Expert in Agile methodologies and change management.
Delivered 100+ cross-org programs driving 56% growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in the Gaming industry with a strong focus on Program Management and Agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementTechnical Product ManagementAgile MethodologiesProject DeliveryProject Management

Other Skills

CommunicationJIRAProject GovernanceProject CoordinationSoftware Project ManagementVendor ManagementAgile Project ManagementSDLCTeam ManagementRequirements AnalysisResource ManagementScrumSolution ArchitecturePMOBusiness Intelligence

About

- Dynamic techno-functional Leader with 22+ years of experience in IT & Gaming Industry and 12+ years of experience in Technical Program & Project Management - Experienced in building effective delivery teams, structuring delivery processes, evangelizing Engineering Processes and deft at change management - Established Teams, drove cross-org Program Charters from scratch managing large scale projects that Productized 200+ Features, Regulatory Requirements and Event Driven Needs - Comfortable strategic thinker in fast-paced, highly ambiguous start-up environments with sleeves up approach towards work - Experienced in Off-Shore Project Relocation, Process Set-ups, Team Formation. Expert in Multi-Location & Multi-Threaded client relationship management - Skilled at Resource Planning, Utilization & Management. Manage, monitor & maintain cross-engineering bandwidths, orchestrating activities spread across multiple geographies and deliver projects in planned manner - Champion of practices that enhance cross-functional Quality.

Experience

26 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Games24x7

4 roles

Director of Program Management

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

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Head - Programs

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

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Senior Program Manager

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Present · 10 yrs

Metamorphosised Engineering team, within 6 months of joining, into a professional delivery unit by replacing organic processes with structured ones. Reduced & stabilized Release payloads variance from 20% to around 5%
Established Program Charter and Headed Program Management team (6+) across 4 product suites and multiple requirement pipelines (Feature, Tactical, Tech Debts, Outages, etc)
Conceived & implemented processes and institutionalized appropriate forums amongst 9 stakeholder teams (Marketing, Product, UX & UI, Technology, Customer Support, etc) to convert company vision & annual goals into achievable milestones, executable plans and delivery pipelines
Coached & Evangelized Agile methodologies that transitioned the org from to Waterfall to Agile Practices. (Scrum + Hybrid models)
Enhanced Predictability, Quality and Execution pace by adopting engineering practices such as Code Review Process, Unit Testing Process, Outages Scrubs, Automation, etc
Founded & Structured cross org Program Governing Models, Delivery Processes & Communication Frameworks that scaled the execution pace of the projects by 2X. Delivered 100+ cross org Programs that helped to achieve 56% year on year growth (Last 3 years)
Lead and Own Programs through each phase of execution starting from business commit to development to launch and post-production ROI closure
Introduced, Institutionalized and Administered tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Asana, Slack, Confluence that streamlined, measured, monitored & aided delivery processes
Executed large-scale projects (> 4 months; 30+ stakeholders) with non-negotiable timelines like My11C, every year Diwali events, IPL Events, Multi-Tier Tournaments, 21 cards variant, Loyalty Revamp, Add Cash Changes, Single Page App, Carrom, Data Democratization projects, Experimentation Lifecycle Management projects etc.

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Delivery Manager

Sep 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos

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Ivy comptech

2 roles

Lead - Delivery Management

Promoted

Apr 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Owned and managed end-to-end point version releases. 50+ point version releases for 6 product suites orchestrated across 9 geographic delivery locations
Responsible for releases on gaming license partners platforms in Denmark (Danske Licens Spil A/S) & France (PMU) ensuring 100% compliance with European Regulatory guidelines. Headed and Managed 30+ releases with 100% compliance
Baselining, structuring delivery plan, ensuring adherence to procedures, identify & manage risks, ensure positive health of all Major releases. Participated in 40+ Releases
Headed multilingual operations(60+ resources) of Tech Support, Retention Support and Quality process with teams spread across multiple geographics (North America, Europe, Asia)
Pioneered a program to reduce the churn rate (by 25%) post-installation by performing RCA (data analysis) and Conceptualised in-house tools (like Contact management system) & drove the execution of these tools which improved productivity by 3x and reduced SLA by 80%

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Assistant Manager - Tech Support

Oct 2002 – Mar 2010 · 7 yrs 5 mos

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Asterix softec pvt ltd

Analyst - Content

Jan 1999 – Mar 2002 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Led the web solutions division team(size - 10+). Drove pre-sales and post-sales, client management for 100+ clients delivering over 120+ Websites & Portals
Productized functional requirements of clients. Convert Requirements into Specs, Produce Site Content, Monitor Development Life Cycle & Ensure Production Deployment
Delivered 10+ large scale Web Portals including a mammoth project of 4000+ pages web portal for Tata International

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