Milind Duraphe

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States35 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful transitions to Agile methodologies.
Pioneered cloud solutions with multi-million dollar impacts.
Built and scaled teams across multiple countries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Solutions Architect with extensive experience in enterprise software development.

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Skills

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Master Data ManagementProduct DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSOAEnterprise SoftwareOffshore Software DevelopmentTIBCOBig DataSoftware Project ManagementData QualityProduct ManagementESBMiddlewareSaaSEnterprise Architecture

About

Accomplished professional with proven success in managing large geographically distributed teams and launch of offshore development hubs. Startup experience as the founding member of Velosel Corporation (Velosel was first to create a software product for Master Data Management and was acquired by TIBCO). Managed several intellectual property assimilation and M&A. Developed several business applications for Telco, FSI, Retail (~100M license revenue) and team collaboration. Led organization transformations to Agile, and technology pivots to cloud. Rapidly scaled out teams in USA, India, China and Latin America. Knows how to build new products quickly, from scratch. Executive presence; Interacts comfortably with customers and CxOs. Leads by example and continuous mentoring. Change agent. Makes right technology choices and asks the right questions. Hands-on management style. Not afraid to move out of comfort zone, learn new technologies and business domains, and to do get into code. Likes to develop enterprise applications for the cloud in a nimble team with the startup mindset. Pioneered agentic solutions to realize multi-million $ impact. In his spare time, loves to watch documentaries, political dramas and to read historical fiction.

Experience

Atlassian

4 roles

Head of Enterprise Trust Engineering

Dec 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Make Atlassian cloud attractive to large enterprises. Attract mega customers with data residency, data governance and protection, and compliance with FedRAMP, HIPAA and FSI regulations.
Manage development of Atlassian Access and Atlassian Administrator.

Head of Enterprise Trust Engineering and Cloud Shift

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Leading Atlassian Engineering to remove blockers for enterprise customers.
Innovating through AI and agentic solutions.

Head Enterprise Cloud and Migrations Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Make Atlassian cloud scale to large enterprises and provide a migration path from server to cloud.
Attract mega customers with data residency, data governance and protection, FedRAMP, HIPAA and FSI regulations.

Head Cloud Platform Services Group

Aug 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

All things cloud, AWS, SaaS, and micro services.

Oracle

Group Vice President of Engineering (Fusion Middleware)

Jun 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Redwood Shores

Developed software for Oracle PaaS, SaaS platforms and Fusion Middleware on-premise, including new products ($1 billion license revenue portfolio). Spearheaded horizontal architecture initiatives and pivot to the cloud. Developed common components for PaaS, including a reference implementation of the PaaS cloud service.
Led, managed and implemented transition of the entire middleware group to the Agile development methodology. Shortened on-premise delivery cycles from multiple years to 4 months and cloud deliveries to 1 month

Tibco software

2 roles

Vice President of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Palo Alto, California

Grew TIBCO’s integration ecosystem product portfolio, developed new products from scratch (100 M license revenue). Conceptualized and implemented two new products (TIBCO Fulfillment Orchestration and TIBCO Clarity), and doubled the number of connectors for TIBCO’s service bus (BusinessWorks). Led pivot to the cloud and BigData solutions, managed SaaS products and DevOps
Turned around troubled Loyalty Management SaaS business unit. Reduced the cost of operations and support, and re-built the engineering team.
Rapidly hired talented teams in India, China and US to scale the organization and retained most of teams for over ~8 years.

Senior Director Of Engineering

Aug 2005 – Mar 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto, California

Managing development of Master Data Management software and Telco order fulfillment orchestration
Vertical solutions for Telco, FSI, Retail, Manufacturing

Velosel (acquired by tibco)

Vice President Of Engineering

Aug 2000 – Jul 2005 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Santa Clara, California

Part of the founding team that created the new product space of Master Data Management (MDM) and Product Information Management (PIM). Wrote core modules and created an enterprise class product. Had big retailers, manfuacturers, oil and gas companies as referenced customers. The product was so liked by its customers that when the company was in financial difficulty, the customers proposed to form a consortium to buy it.
Worked without the salary for a short while and loved the every day of the startup experience. Started India development center and hired ~20 engineers.

Deutsche bank, singapore

Project Manager (Global Projects) - Technology Center of Competence

Jul 1995 – Jul 2000 · 5 yrs · Singapore, Frankfurt, Barcelona

Directed development of several banking products, owned the products’ core technical architecture and vision. Managed global projects and interacted with peer groups in Europe, America and Asia
Wrote lightweight in-memory DB and a data replication tool for Oracle DBMS 7 to reliably replicate data in a master-master configuration