Nilesh Shirbhate — Director of Engineering

Engineering leader passionate about building high-performing, world-class Engineering teams & deliver enterprise-class cloud-enabled products. 20+ years of experience shipping software products, and 12+ years of engineering management experience. Currently, heading the India Engineering team @ Kickdrum India Development Center. Prior to this, I was Engineering Leader responsible for the team developing Cisco's Fog Director software and IOx- Cisco's app hosting framework. Cisco Fog Director Software is an enterprise-class IoT app life-cycle management software. • 20+ years of experience shipping software products, 12+ years of engineering management experience. • A leader with prior experience leading development, quality assurance, and project mgmt. disciplines. • Tremendous cross-functional project management experience and experience managing Technical Managers, vendors, offshore partners, and customers. • Strong technical background & people leadership • Lead large & distributed agile teams consisting of architects, developers & QA Automation Engineering. • Server-side development - robustness, scale, performance. • Engineering Leadership Experience with Data Center Solutions, storage, virtualization & cloud. • Startup mindset • Proven track record of delivering complex projects on-time • Building and transforming teams into high-performing, agile, high-energy teams which deliver start-up levels of productivity, with the design and quality of a mature product team. • A track record of attracting, developing, and retaining top talent. Ability to manage and motivate large teams and organizations • Rich experience with leading complex projects and large teams, including remote/offshore development teams in fast-paced environments. • Ability to think customer-focused, plan pro-actively, and communicate effectively Technology experience: Programming languages: Java, Java/J2EE, Python,REST Technologies: VMware, Storage, Unix, Operating systems, AWS Cloud

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in IoT and cloud computing with extensive experience in engineering management.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 24 yrs 9 mos