Phaniraju Pavagada

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams to build high-performing user interfaces.
  • Generated over $3M revenue through innovative app development.
  • Drove corporate innovation and strategic vision.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AdTech expert with a strong focus on UI scalability and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesUi Performance And ScalabilityJavascriptProject ManagementTeam Building

Other Skills

PHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UIHTML 5CSS3SecurityKendoMongoDBMySQLWindows AzureAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaNode.jsRESTIntegration

About

Technical leader in internet domain, with extensive experience in building and mentoring a high performance engineering team contributing towards strategic vision of the organisation and building the best user experience in software systems. Highlights - Ability to build and mentor a confident and highly motivated team. - Extensive experience in designing/implementing best-performing-scalable user interface - Good problem solving skills and project management skills - Ability to drive innovation in a corporate environment - Strong initiative and capability to work in a fast paced environment, building strategy for the organisation and products

Experience

27 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft india

4 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2017Present · 8 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Building a team for mobile app development of Microsoft Teams
ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesJavaScriptPHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UI+14

Principal Software Eng Manager - Office 365

Aug 2015Apr 2016 · 8 mos · "Vigyan", Lavelle Road, Bangalore

  • Ramped up new team on Android technologies and built an app for Outlook Groups
  • Outlook Groups enables teams to take part in the latest discussions, share photos/notes and collaborate on files
  • Came up with many innovative ideas and converted them to features of the app.
ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesJavaScriptPHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UI+14

Principle Software Eng Manager - Display Advertising Platform

Aug 2013Jul 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · "Vigyan", Lavelle Road, Bangalore

  • Responsible for all the UI modules of display advertising platform which
  • used to make a revenue of 1 billion dollars.
  • My main responsibility was to build a team, build an high performing UI, drive innovation to improve the product.
  • I came up with the idea of Growth hack day and drove it across all the teams to encourage and build a culture of innovation.
  • Built a lightning speed, excel kind of list view for managing all the campaigns.
  • I was the end-to-end tech lead for many scenarios. I was responsible for design and architecture , coordination with multiple teams across timezones and project management.
  • I built a team of 15 people which used to build/maintain all the UI modules.
  • I designed the single page architecture of the developer-as-advertiser product and integrated with windows phone store.
  • I designed the generic and secured way of creating a mobile ad dynamically with very minimal steps.
  • Won the first prize across India for the idea presented in Microsoft hackathon.
ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesJavaScriptPHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UI+15

Principle Software Eng Manager - Bingads

Feb 2011Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · "Vigyan", Lavelle Road, Bangalore

  • Responsible for UI of many key modules of bingads platform.
  • With few college hires, I mentored and built a strong UI team.
  • Along with the constraints of legacy systems, we built an highly performing user interface.
ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesJavaScriptPHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UI+15

Time inc.

Executive Director

Apr 2016Present · 10 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Built a strong team which can help TimeInc to evolve in its digital first strategy, building platform services and world class user interface to showcase the high quality content produced by Time Inc.
  • Built a strong engineering excellence process to ensure high scalability and performance
  • Built a BOT for help desk making the process efficient and reducing cost.
  • Created a strong mobile apps team (both native and hybrid) and created VR/AR enabled apps which generated more than $ 3M revenue.
  • Migrated foundry sites to better infrastructure to reduce more than $ 1M cost per year overall.
  • Responsible for content management system which was the backbone of 30+ brands and came up with many ideas to increase the user engagement
ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesJavaScriptPHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UI+14

Yahoo!

2 roles

UI Architect

Apr 2009Feb 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • UI architect of advertiser platform of Panama(Yahoo Search Marketing). Panama was Yahoo's major revenue generating product of the time across 20+ markets.
  • Built many features like targeting, import tool etc.
  • Designed and built many infrastructure components like Dos attack controller etc.
  • Responsible for campaign optimisation and weight optimisation tools, which used to run ads of advertisers automatically without much involvement.
  • Responsible for migrating users from Yahoo to Microsoft platform.
ScalabilityAgile MethodologiesJavaScriptPHPASP.NET MVCjQuery UI+14

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2004Apr 2009 · 5 yrs

  • I was responsible for architecture/design and development of UI infrastructure for recruiter platform of Yahoo Hotjobs.
  • Lead the development of all UI modules
  • Designed and developed a self serve platform for recruiters. Implemented analytics infrastructure to generate funnel report.
  • Key member of platform re-write of entire Hotjobs recruiter and business management platforms.
  • Integrated the hotjobs platform with several large back-end systems like vertical search tool etc.
  • Collaborated with multiple teams across timezones and defined interfaces for integration with recruiter platform.
  • Recipient of Yahoo! Ratna Team award in recognition of work done in HotJobs.
  • Recipient of ‘All Star Hotjobs’ Individual award in recognition of work done in Hotjobs .

I2 technologies india pvt ltd

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2003Apr 2004 · 6 mos · Airport Road, Bangalore

  • I was part of the team which developed i2shell - a supply chain management tool used for Integrated Planning & Refinery Scheduling. In my small stay at i2, I designed and developed Resource scheduler modules like Tank transfer workflow, and lifting workflow.

Trivium systems

Technical Staff

Mar 2001Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Sadashiva Nagar, Bangalore

  • One of the core members of the team that developed SimpleRM – an eCRM application for small-mid-sized market.
  • I was involved in the migration work - from SimpleRM 2.1 to 3.0
  • Involved in the development of data import tool
  • Drove the effort of internationalization of Process automation module
  • Developed view configuration editor for generating or modifying views
  • Developed LogSlice which is a tool to analyze logs and debug issues
  • Developed licensing tool for SimpleRM which will be used by admins to generate license for clients.
  • Developed the installer for SimplerRM

Mirronex india pvt ltd

Software Developer

Jul 2000Mar 2001 · 8 mos · ITPL, Bangalore

  • One of the developer of MxConnect - a web-based e-commerce hub that acts as a marketplace between companies and their staffing suppliers. I was involved in
  • Design and development of Requisition Module
  • Internationalization of MxConnect.

Compusol

Software Engineer

Jan 2000Jun 2000 · 5 mos · DVG Road, Bangalore

  • Compusol was developing a software for maintaining all the details of Udupi constituency. It was for the municipality of Udupi. I was involved in the development of many of the features of the product.One of the important feature I developed was adding/updating/searching for different services (hospitals, cooperative societies etc.) in the city.

Grasp corporation

Software Engineer

Nov 1998Dec 1999 · 1 yr 1 mo · Tumkur

  • Grasp corporation was a start-up with just four employees. It was into banking software and had its own product for day to day necessities of banks. The software is used by lot of co-operative banks across Karnataka. I was one of the developers of this product and contributed to many features. I was also involved in client installations, training for bank employees and providing support.

Education

Siddaganga Institute of technology

BE — Computer Science

Jan 1994Jan 1998

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