Dhiwakar B

CEO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India15 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Expertise in cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
Proven track record of delivery excellence and team management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with strong capabilities in cloud-native architecture and agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipDelivery LeadershipFull-stack DevelopmentDigital Transformation

Other Skills

Global Cross-Functional Team LeadershipProduct EngineeringProduct Road MappingVendor ManagementStakeholder EngagementSAFePeople ManagementCoachingTeam BuildingProgram ManagementDevSecOpsAgileProcess ImprovementForecastingReal-time Visibility

About

Customer-obsessed engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience in working in high-performing teams and delivering scalable, mission-critical platforms in the Telecommunications Industry. Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture and modernizing products through SAFe Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD. Strong track record in shaping engineering strategy, 100% delivery accuracy and building a culture of technical excellence and ownership.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Hid

Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

Verizon

4 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Leadership & Strategy:
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● Led a 30-member high-performing engineering
organization, defining architecture, delivery
strategy, OKRs, and execution plans.
● Drove roadmap planning, partnering with
Product, Business, Operations, and End-User
groups.
● Established engineering governance, technical
design standards, and architectural guardrails.
Execution & Delivery:
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● Modernized core platform capabilities,
improving scalability, reliability, and operational
visibility.
● Enhanced delivery velocity by eliminating
blockers and driving process improvements
across Agile/SAFe ceremonies.
● Championed DevSecOps-first delivery,
introducing automated pipelines, quality gates,
and security scanning.
Impact:
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● Reduced PSC planning lead time by 46%
through unified forecasting and real-time
visibility.
● Enabled predictive PSC modeling, improving
infrastructure planning accuracy and reducing
dependency on manual processes.
● Elevated developer productivity by 30% through
AI-driven development and automation.
● Strengthened platform resilience through
improved observability, logging, alerting, and
performance tuning.

Technology LeadershipDelivery LeadershipGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipProduct EngineeringProduct Road MappingVendor Management+7

Sr Engr Cslt-Full Stack

Mar 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Contributions:
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● Owned end-to-end product development including requirements, HLD/LLD, system design, development, and testing.
● Built a Greenfield Platform with Microservices Architecture.
● Led distributed systems design efforts.
● Enabled platform-wide modernization adoption: CI/CD, automated testing, and quality frameworks.
● Collaborated with product, UX, and cross-functional teams to shape roadmap and delivery milestones.
Impact:
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● Rolled out a unified workflow to manage Power, Space and Cooling across Verizon's Central Offices.
● Reduced the Lead Time by 43%.

Full-Stack DevelopmentCross Functional RelationshipsDigital TransformationAgile MethodologiesStakeholder EngagementDelivery Leadership

MTS III Cslt-Sys Engrg

Promoted

Jun 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Contributions:
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● Owned end-to-end product development including requirements, HLD/LLD, system design, development, and testing.
● Refactored legacy monolith into independently deployable microservices, improving scalability and deployment agility.
● Led distributed systems design efforts.
● Enabled platform-wide modernization adoption: CI/CD, automated testing, and quality frameworks.
● Collaborated with product, UX, and cross-functional teams to shape roadmap and delivery milestones.
Impact:
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● Improved Time-to-Market by 20% through architectural modernization and automated delivery.
● Increased system reliability and predictability for FTTH provisioning at enterprise scale.

Digital TransformationStakeholder EngagementDelivery Excellence

Analyst

Apr 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Contributions:
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● Led requirement analysis, authored use-case documents, and developed high- and low-level
design specs.
● Delivered core middleware capabilities leveraging IBM Websphere MQ.
● Implemented features end-to-end including design, coding, and unit testing.
● Developed scheduled FTTH Provisioning Orders reports through PERL.

Wipro

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

Client: Fujitsu Network Communications, USA.
Contributions:
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● Embedded software / firmware Design & Development.
● Led requirement analysis, authored use-case documents, and developed high- and low-level design specs.
● Delivered core modules spanning ROADM, OTN switching, and SONET/SDH.
● Implemented features end-to-end including design, coding, and unit testing.

Project Engineer

Apr 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

Client: Fujitsu Network Communications, USA.
Contributions:
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● Embedded software / firmware Design & Development.
● Led requirement analysis, authored use-case documents, and developed high- and low-level design specs.
● Delivered core modules spanning ROADM, OTN switching, and SONET/SDH.
● Implemented features end-to-end including design, coding, and unit testing.