Ambar Bokare

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India21 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Co-founded multiple successful startups.
Led engineering teams in hyper-growth environments.
Implemented innovative cloud cost optimization solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong engineering and product leadership skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product EngineeringSales ManagementEngineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

AWSAgileAgile MethodologiesAntC#CI/CDCloud AnalyticsCollaborationData ScienceDesignEJBEclipseEngineeringEnterprise SoftwareHibernate

About

Experienced Product, Engineering, Strategy and Operations Leader at Start-Up and Hyper-Growth companies. Experienced in Developing, Marketing and Selling SaaS products. Hands-on experience of taking the organization from 0 to 1, 1 to 10 and 10 to 100. Passionate about solving complex technical problems and building highly motivated teams.

Experience

21 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Clofio

Co-Founder

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Clofio is a MultiCloud FinOps Observability Platform.
1. Integrates with all Cloud Providers [AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.]
2. Provides a single pane of glass view for all your costs.
3. Allocates the costs - so that you know what amount is getting spent where.
4. Alerts and notifies you on events like anomalies or overspend
5. Helps you optimize cloud costs instantly [10% reduction in costs in first 30 days itself!]
My role-
Co-Founded Clofio.
Taking care of everything Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Design, etc.
Solution: Built a unique offering of product + services
Traction: Gained 100+ [India + US based] B2B paying paying customers
S&M: LinkedIn, Email and Networking-Event focused marketing.
Partnerships: Official partners with major cloud providers, and also with specialized cloud service providers

SalesPartnershipsProductEngineeringMarketingDesign+2

Cloudmahout

Co-Founder

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Help in reducing the cloud bill, and save thousands of $s for Small to Mid sized orgnaizations.

Redaptive, inc

Head of Engineering, India

Oct 2020 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Lead Distributed Software Development Team working on AWS-based IoT software platform, Mobile Apps, Data Science and SalesForce.
Engineering and Product:
Complete ownership of Critical Business Modules of application - Billing, Procurement, IoT Device Installation Mobile App and Opportunity Identification
Prediction of wastage and anamolies. Apply DS and AI to idnetify opportunities.
Setup processes for Collaborative Product Development, CI/CD, Estimation and Delivery.
Transformed monolithic multi-day billing process to serverless architecture for better tracking, control and transparency.
Conducted Company wide Product Demo and Feedback sessions for getting design feedback, better collaboration within teams and improved org awareness.
Worked with leadership on Compliance, Security Certifications and Investor Due Diligence
Lead the SalesForce and NetSuite Customization team.
Leadership:
Setup a Product Development Engineering Team for Redaptive in Pune from scratch.
Built the Product Development team from 0 to 60-member [US + India] organization (6 agile teams)
Setup Agile processes and practices
Bridge between Product and Engineering teams to achieve project targets

AWSIoTData ScienceSalesForceCI/CDAgile+2

Tricentis

Head of Engineering , India

Jan 2018 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

Engineering:
Owned 2 strategic products for Tricentis RPA - and Cloud Based QTest Analytics
Hands-on involved in technical and functional architecture/prioritization/estimation/planning
Migrated a monolithic application into C#/Java microservices based solution
Built strong CI/CD for Dev-Test-UAT and Prod environment with 100% Test Automation
Marketing:
Conducted sessions in conferences to represent the product and company
Technical and Non-Tech presentations in conferences and company booths
Leadership:
Setup a Product Development Engineering Team for Tricentis in Pune from scratch.
Hired top quality engineers and nurtured the Product Development team from 0 to 30-member organization (4 agile teams)
Setup Agile processes and practices
Got recognized – received the ‘President’s Club Award’

RPACloud AnalyticsC#JavaTest AutomationEngineering Leadership+1

Hsbc

Associate Project Manager

Aug 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune Area, India

IT-Product Owner of a new product within the bank. A centralized application which took inputs from Reuters for 150+ central bank rates, and based on Business-Defined-Profiles, convert the rates to applicable end-user Demand-Deposit rates. The application was responsible for supporting rates for balances worth 350 Billion US$ across different branches of HSBC.
Implemented a new product across 30+ countries within an year. Collaborated with Technical Teams, Regional Teams, Operations and Legal to overcome obstacles and drive the results
Worked with three software development product Vendors. Managed the selection process, delivery, relationship and contract negotiations with Vendors.

Project ManagementVendor ManagementCollaboration

Aci worldwide

Principal Software Engineer

May 2004 – Aug 2016 · 12 yrs 3 mos · Pune

Played role of Engineering Leader (Tech + Mgmt.) for and SOA-based Trade-Finance Product. Worked with Product team to identify the functional product roadmap. Own the technology roadmap, architecture, and resources. Owned the Customer Service and implementation.
Responsible for PreSales and Marketing of two products - TradeFinance and Corporate Banking in APAC region. Conducted PreSales presentations and executed POCs in more than 15 top banks in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India, etc.
Worked closely with Sales teams in submitting RFI / RFPs.

SOATrade FinancePreSalesMarketingEngineering LeadershipProduct Development