Kiran Madhunapantula

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India30 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 27 years of diverse IT industry experience
Expert in building high-performance teams and distributed innovation
Passionate about human capital development in rural India

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and software development expert with a strong focus on co-creation and innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentIp Co-creationEntrepreneurshipProject Management

Other Skills

Product EngineeringEnterprise Software DevelopmentCo-creationBrand AwarenessBusiness ScalabilityScrumLean Software DevelopmentObject Data ManagementLean ManufacturingProject Management OfficeManagement Information SystemStrategySoftware Project ManagementSOABusiness Planning

About

Believes that co-creation model is the way forward for software companies and enterprises to win the market place with innovation. Believes that software offshoring industry must transform itself, adapt a business model based on collaboration and distributed innovation, and truly become an integral part of the customer value chain. Believes that trust and transparency are essential in partnerships. Has been in the IT industry over 27 years, in various roles ranging from software engineering to executive management to tech entrepreneur. As a venture partner in nSKi partners BV., invested in a handful of innovative software product companies. Professionally, passionate about working with companies who want to produce software as their IP, and about building high performance teams and organizing distributed innovation. Personally, passionate about human capital development and creating opportunities in rural parts of India towards an organic national growth. Has started a not-for-profit foundation to work towards that cause. Chairman-Emeritus of India-Netherlands Business Association (INBA) chapter of Hyderabad (served as president 2009-2018), with great motivation to foster mutually beneficial business and cultural relationships between India and the Netherlands. Specialties: Products, Platforms and Eco systems IP co-creation Setting up and operating high performance teams Lean Software Development, Distributed innovation through Scrum Guiding companies to bootstrap and position themselves to achieve growth

Experience

Xebia

2 roles

COO | Product Engineering

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Responsible for building Product and Platform engineering business and establish authority in enterprise-grade standard software development.

Product EngineeringEnterprise Software DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development

Chief Operating Officer of coMakeIT, now Xebia Product Engineering

Jan 2007 – Mar 2021 · 14 yrs 2 mos

Co-founder of coMakeIT in 2007 and joined forces with Xebia in 2021. Now operating as Xebia with dedicated focus on co-creation of IP together with software businesses globally.
Responsible for making businesses succeed in CoCreation of software products in partnership model.
Company grew from 20+ headcount in 2007 to 400+ headcount by 2018, with customer base expanding across the Netherlands, Germany, France, Canada, Denmark, Norway, US, UK and Australia.
Responsible for increasing brand awareness of product engineering services globally by building networks of people and organisations for business scalability.

Co-creationBrand AwarenessBusiness ScalabilityIP co-creationEntrepreneurship

Cordys

Director, R&D

Oct 2003 – Dec 2006 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Responsible for product development operations of Cordys in Hyderabad, to build world class Cordys BPM solution (now called BOP) in collaboration with teams in the Netherlands.
Implemented the project management practice based on Scrum and lean software development.
Implemented Human capital theme based HR discipline
Steered the development organization to develop execution capability besides superior research capability.
Instrumental for product re-restructuring by layered approach of fine-grained product components.

Product DevelopmentScrumLean Software DevelopmentProject Management

Baan company

Development Manager

Feb 1998 – Oct 2003 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Responsible for building Object Data Management (ODM) functionality in BaanERP standard package
Responsible for building Lean Manufacturing solution as an add-on to BaanERP, by setting up collaboration between teams located in Hyderabad, the Netherlands and Canada
Responsible for setting up Project Management Office in Baan Hyderabad to improve project management practices and discipline

Object Data ManagementLean ManufacturingProject Management OfficeProject ManagementSoftware Development

Itc agrotech ltd

Programmer

Dec 1995 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Designed and developed a management information system for the Oil palm business unit of ITC Agrotech, that enables the company to trace and track the oil palm product from the nursery to the refinery.

Management Information SystemSoftware Development