Jaikumar Gidwani

Director of Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India24 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 23 years of experience in Software Engineering.
  • Expert in managing teams and executing strategic IT plans.
  • Proficient in Agile methodologies and project management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Software Engineering and IT Management within the enterprise technology sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

People ManagementManagementResource ManagementPerformance ManagementVeritas NetBackupVeritas Cluster ServerVeritas Volume ManagerNetBackupClusterStorageSun ClusterIT Infrastructure ManagementIT Operations ManagementQuality AssuranceSoftware Quality Assurance

About

23 Years’ of experience in Software Engineering, Results and effort oriented professional, recognized for taking on major initiatives, and adapting to rapidly changing environment and achieving mission-critical targets. Software Engineering | Scrum Master | Provisioning | Business analysis | Software Quality Assurance | Project Management | Enterprise Storage | Enterprise Backup | Integration | DSS |Cloud | SaaS | Automation |Production |Operations | Management | SDLC | QBR and MBR| COE | MPP Experienced leader in providing technological direction to teams and executing programs and maintaining budgets. • Proficient in taking decision and supervising a team of software specialist. Thorough knowledge of developing and implementing strategic plans for information technology development. • Experienced in analyzing needs of optimizing technology resources and maximizing production. • Implement & Manage state of the art QA/production infrastructure with Reliability & Availability. • Reduce the risk by implementing different security solutions to avoid data loss & business risk. • Align Security with Business Goals & avoid Business risk • Build Strong Organization to support Business to achieve business goals Management – Strategic planning & Management, Organizational Improvisation, Business consulting, Budget Planning & Forecasting, Resource Management, M&A • Software Product Solutions – Enterprise storage and backup, Distributed storage systems, AWS, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storages, SAN/NAS, Networking, Automation, Integration & Optimization, Consolidation, Migration, ServiceNow and Etrack. • Discover requirements, define Road Map. Implement SDLC best practices, define different roles & responsibilities of team sub-functions. Reduce Process overheads. •Define KPI's and KRAs, Implement Project management best practices to track projects. Define SLAs, track/manage MBRs/QBRs. Agile Scrum/Kanban Methodology, GIT, Bitbucket. Bamboo, JIRA and confluence. • Build DevOps team to support CI/CD for various products. • Digitally Transformed various processes to increases productivity & accuracy • Providing Support/Suggestions to Development Team. Understanding Requirements of Internal Costumers & Providing solutions, planning, supporting management for Budgeting

Experience

24 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

Ibm

Senior Development Manager

May 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Dell technologies

Senior Manager Software Engineering

Dec 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Product ManagementPeople ManagementManagementResource ManagementPerformance ManagementLeadership

Seagate technology

Engineering Manager

Sep 2020Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Veritas technologies llc

2 roles

Sr Princ Project Mgmt Spec

May 2015Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Engineering Manager

Dec 2003Jul 2013 · 9 yrs 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Wipro limited

Principal Engineer

Aug 1999Dec 2003 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Education

Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Nawrosjee Wadia College

HSC — Science

Jan 1993Jan 1995

Hutchings High School

ICSE — ICSE

Jan 1992Jan 1993

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