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Ganesh Sahai

CTO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India28 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 25+ years of experience in technology leadership.
  • 11 patents filed showcasing innovation prowess.
  • Recognized as a top CTO by HRAI.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and technology innovation leader with extensive experience in software development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology ManagementLeadershipInnovationProduct ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Continuous ImprovementC++Creativity and InnovationEngineeringSoftware DesignData AnalysisScriptingJavaUser InterfaceKnowledge ManagementQuality AssuranceTestingTeam Management

About

Ganesh Sahai is an IIT & IIM alumnus with around 25+ years of industry experience having worked with companies like Adobe & Oracle. He is currently working as global CTO at Nagarro. For year 2024 (and for 23 as well) he was chosen as one of “24 of 2024 : Tech Pioneers: CTOs Building the Future of Technology” by HRAI. He was in top 50 nominees for Economic Times ETCIO People’s Choice Awards. He has been an entrepreneur on multiple instances and did multiple ventures in various roles like Co-Founder and CXO. His passion towards technology, innovation, people and business led to setting up of great teams and release of world class products doing successful businesses. His innovation streak led to filling of 10+ patents. He has setup multiples communities and engages on various topics related to technology, business, people and innovation. He is a TedX, Nasscom & IEEE speaker and is author of recently published book “Improve On” (https://amzn.in/d/2VsFUKY ) on the topic of excellence transformation shaping enterprise and individual excellence.

Experience

28 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Nagarro

2 roles

CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

Promoted

Mar 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

  • Nagarro is a global software development and technology consulting company that provides services for digital disruption to Fortune 500 companies and leading ISVs. Nagarro specializes in solving complex and strategic services for clients, and is known for agile engineering, co-innovation and high-quality standards.
Cross-functional Team LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Continuous ImprovementTechnology ManagementLeadership

Senior Director Of Technology

May 2019Feb 2020 · 9 mos

  • Nagarro is a global software development and technology consulting company that provides services for digital disruption to Fortune 500 companies and leading ISVs. Nagarro specializes in solving complex and strategic services for clients, and is known for agile engineering, co-innovation and high-quality standards.

Oracle

Director Software Development

May 2018Apr 2019 · 11 mos

  • Oracle is a well known database company, but, over the years it has been growing rapidly in Iaas, Paas and Saas. In this direction it is building cutting edge next generation cloud technologies and infrastructure to cater to the needs of the world’s leading organizations. Currently, I have been leading a team working on various pieces of this next generation cloud and building applications on it which is used by millions across the world.

Magicbricks.com

Consulting Engineering Manager and Agile Coach

Oct 2015Mar 2016 · 5 mos · Noida

  • Worked as consulting Engineering Manager and Agile Coach for the complete software development team (around 125 members) for a major real estate e-commerce platform Magicbricks. Looked after roll out of a major overhauled mobile applications on Android and iOS(using Swift). Streamlined and mentored the complete web application team in moving to Agile Scrum way of delivery and acted as their Agile Coach. Worked with this team for around six plus months.

Bookmyinterview.in

CEO / CTO / CPO

Feb 2014Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • As CEO / CTO / CPO at BookMyInterview.in. I conceptualized this novel idea, implemented and launched a basic pilot on my own in Feb'2014 and now scaling rapidly as a fully operational and growing platform. I have played multiple roles in this organization and looked after various functional areas like technology, product requirements, sales and marketing, finance , HR and operations. For these roles from time to time I have been coding, testing, writing requirement specs and doing telecalls, making marketing plans, generating leads, doing sales negotiations, hiring and firing people and managing overall operations. There have been lots of hands on work that has been done in this role.
  • Though, Bookmyinterview.in did not scale well, however likes of it came up thereafter and some went on to become unicorns.

Implen

Senior Software Developer and Architect

Feb 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida

  • Helped in building architecture of the complete product. Worked extensively on front end based on HTML5/Javascript on Sencha framework. Wrote various Sencha custom components. Integrated the same with the backend using RESTful APIs based on Node.js and its various modules. Also, implemented backend apis especially the ones related to push notifications. Coordinated various activities of remote team of developers and testers and reviewed their work from time to time. Worked on this project for almost 2 years and released a successful product in the market.

Mount sinai health system

Consulting Program Manager

Jul 2013Jan 2014 · 6 mos · Noida

  • Worked as consulting program manager for patient data collection system and mobile medical test applications for Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. This was a .Net based application with MS SQL server database at the backend and hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud platform. It was designed and implemented from a scratch to collect various patient data for research and analysis. Along with this we made Sencha and Cordova based hybrid applications for Android and iOS device for various medical tests which patients can easily use to schedule, track and complete their tests. Coordinated all the activities of the various projects esp. streamlining tasks and communication between the US team and remote team and helped in defining architecture, programming and testing of various projects.

Whiztrain

Director (Trainings, Software Services & Products)

Dec 2012Apr 2018 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • The motto of Whiztrain is to enable people “Unleash the whizkid in you”. The focus is on providing technology trainings(esp. on innovation), software services and innovative products to the people and organizations.Did successful delivery of software projects and consulting services for clients like Unilever, CresTech, Simple Time, Chartliytics, Ennovative, CSR technologies, Implen etc. Successfully rolled out new innovative products in the market. Here I have been acting as the business unit head for training, services and product development divisions and responsible for end to end operation of all these divisions.
  • During this period, I have also:
  • Associated as Senior Developer and Architect with Implen. Helped in architecting the complete product. Worked extensively on front end based on HTML5/Javascript on Sencha framework. Wrote various Sencha custom components. Integrated the same with the backend using RESTful APIs based on Node.js and its various modules. Also, implemented backend apis especially the ones related to push notifications. Coordinated various activities of remote team. Worked on this project for almost 2 years and released a successful product in the market.
  • Worked as consulting Engineering Manager and Agile Coach for the complete software development team (around 125 members) for a major real estate e-commerce platform Magicbricks. Looked after roll out of a major overhauled mobile applications on Android and iOS. Streamlined and mentored the complete web application team in moving to Agile Scrum way of delivery and acted as their Agile Coach. Worked with this team for around six plus months.
  • Been associated with Crestech as their principal consultant.
  • Conducting role of CXO at BookMyInterview.in. I conceptualized this novel idea, implemented and launched a basic pilot on my own in Feb'2014 and now scaling rapidly as fully operational and growing platform.

Aristocrat

Head of Engineering Department

Apr 2012Nov 2012 · 7 mos · Noida

Mixorg

Co-Founder

May 2011Aug 2011 · 3 mos · New Delhi

  • It was an exciting initiative that I along with Sachin, Gaurav and Pankaj took on in the area of social media service. More details can be found at : www.mixorg.com

Adobe

2 roles

Technology Manager

Jul 2004Mar 2011 · 6 yrs 8 mos

  • Managed various teams, products and core technology releases for Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Creative Suites, Illustrator and InDesign.
  • Major Achievements and Activities at Adobe:
  • Nominated for the one of the top Adobe worldwide award "Founder's award".
  • Have got approved 16 patent ideas resulting in filing of 11 patents.
  • Some of ideas were accepted by the new products and features team as top business ideas and was
  • recommended for EIR "Entrepreneur in Residence" programme.
  • Leading quality initiatives in role of "Quality Leader"
  • Promoted 6 times in a span of 8 years.
  • Honoured with significant achievement award.
  • Made part of the management incentive program.
  • Helped in recruiting new people and setting up new teams at Adobe India. Scaling from around 50 to upto 5000.
  • Actively contributing towards social causes by associating with organizations like Goonj and also internal
  • community TreeIT for tree plantation

Software Engineer

Aug 1999Jun 2004 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • As a software engineer worked on various imaging and document technologies. Was part of roll out of multiple releases of various versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Technology ManagementC++Creativity and InnovationInnovation

Scpl : shrishti communications pvt. ltd

Faculty Coordinator and marketing executive

Apr 1999Jul 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Was computer science faculty and marketinng executive for IIT Kharagpur distance eduction centre.
  • Also involved in testing of eForms startup for a California based company started by ex-VP of Oracle.
EngineeringSoftware DesignSoftware Development

Wisdom education

Founder

May 1997Mar 1998 · 10 mos

  • The vision was to establish a education setup which would prepare the aspiring students to prepare
  • themselves to do well in the engineering entrance examinations. It attracted lot of students and in the short
  • span of 3-4 months the strength has risen to 100.

Vardhman

2 roles

R&D Officer

Promoted

Jul 1994Jun 1995 · 11 mos

  • Apart from various R&D projects worked one was collating the data the data generated from various online and
  • offline testing instruments and analysing for overall quality of production.

Associate R&D Officer

Aug 1993Jun 1994 · 10 mos

Education

IIT Delhi

Bachelor — Technology

Stanford University

Machine Learning

Jan 2017Jan 2017

University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Gaming Management Certificate — Gaming Management

Jan 2012Jan 2012

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Management

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

SGRRITS

MBA — Finance

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

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