Mahesh Venkatesh Shet

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Reduced onboarding time from 10 weeks to 2 days.
  • Achieved 97% automation success rate in testing.
  • Mentored over 450 engineers across various domains.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Automation Engineering expert with a strong focus on Quality Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ProductivityProject ManagementAutomation EngineeringQuality EngineeringTest ArchitectureNetwork ManagementTest AutomationCollaborationNetworkingTeam ManagementSpace TechnologyMentorship

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAttention to DetailBusiness ContinuityCC++ClearCaseCloud ComputingCoachingCommunicationComplex SystemsConflict Management

About

➤ AI Practitioner - Generative AI, Agentic AI (N8N Workflows, Make.com) ➤ Enterprise Software-SaaS & Backend Programmer | Developer and Customer Productivity Engineer | Double-Digit Percentage Recurring Revenue Growth | Creative and Love Innovations. ➤ Author: I write on Medium about System Design, Mythology and Life Science-related articles ➤ Awards: Elected as the best Manager across org in Pulse Surveys, Cisco Star and Cisco Pioneer awards, Extra Mile awards. ➣ Led a team to implement a streamlined customer onboarding process, reduced the onboarding time from 10 weeks to 2 days. (Implemented dynamic integration automation based on Customer Configto reduce onboarding further down by 3 weeks)This resulted in a faster and more seamless onboarding experience, enabling quicker time-to-value and improved customer satisfaction. ➣ Most recently executed projects with my team on e-commerce systems such as messaging, carrier management, Returns, Promise, Data Extraction, etc. Added Roadmaps for the teams to execute, operate, learn and contribute to org goals. ➣ Helped implement Shift Left in QE and Security. Added tools to boost developer productivity, tools for CI/CD, tools for events validation, saved cost on licensing, developed tools for product pricing, provided security solutions for meeting compliance, worked on Security testing, Implemented Performance Frameworks, etc. ➣ Worked on various domains and industries: Networking, e-commerce, Security, Space Technology, OCR Engines, SAAS products, Compliance etc. I have tried dirtying my hands on ML (especially NLP - Sentiment Analysis). I am well-known for reducing tech debts wherever I have worked. ➣ Transformed Manual QE engineers to Automation Developers, Automation Developers to full-stack from Engineers. Built strong teams that delivered always with quality and on time. Led teams across boundaries as well. Mentored more than 450 engineers in various areas. I am an experienced Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience. good at learning, creating and innovative at work, have helped improve productivity at work, and worked across departments from engineering to customer solutions to sales/pre-sales to build productivity tools. I have been a good learner throughout my career. I have delivered projects always on time, with quality. Never had the opportunity to miss my project release dates so far. The logos I worked with include ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), First American Corporation, Tata Elxsi, VMware, Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Flipkart, MobileIron and Narvar Inc.

Experience

23 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Narvar

Director Of Engineering (Engineering Productivity)

Aug 2019Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Remote

  • Worked as a Director Of Engineering Productivity. Some of my contributions include:
  • 1. Product Development - Planning, Design, Reviews and Delivery (Web hook Self Serve for Customers)
  • 2. API Documentation Generation for Java Services
  • 3. Test Harness for any product event generation with Magic Commands
  • 4. Salesforce CRM implementation in Retool
  • 5. Faster Customer On boarding to the Narvar Platform
  • 6. Automated Test Generation for Validation of onboarded customers - Customer UAT
  • 7. Self Serve for Customer Data interaction
  • 8. Performance Test Framework implementation for all internal services PEAK Support
  • 9. Single Source Of Truth - Services Catalogue for All Services at Narvar, based on BackStage
  • 10. Code-less Automation for Carrier Teams.
  • 11. Contributed to Security Testing and Automation.
  • 12. ADA for compliance is automated
  • 13. Automated Security Testing for in SOC-2 Audit and Internal Security Audits
  • 14. Developing tools for Support and Implementation Teams. Implementing on Efficiency Metrics - Developer, Support Teams. Incident Management, Managing and owning 3rd Party tools like Retool, Jenkins, Github, CircleCI etc.
SizingBusiness ContinuityCommunicationProblem SolvingQuality AssuranceComplex Systems+52

Mobileiron

Sr. Manager - Automation and Quality Engineering at MobileIron

Apr 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore · On-site

  • Worked as Sr. Manager - Automation, Product Design, and Quality Engineering. At MobileIron I contributed to the following:
  • 1. Built a Strong Team that delivered the best to the organization.
  • 2. Designed Docker Based Automated framework for Multi-stage Pipeline, which created test docker cluster, Ran tests for all the services, logging the results into the database, take a decision to run the tests by creating a production-like cluster on the Staging environment, ran the tests, destroyed the cluster and gave a green/red flag based on how the solution worked.
  • 3. I Added a lot of innovation at work. This reduced the regression cycle from two weeks to two hours.
  • 4. Reduced the number of bugs from 500 to single digit in two years.
  • 5. I was identified as the Finest Manager in Pulse surveys held across the organization.
  • 6. Managed multiple projects, took care of helping and guiding Dev Teams while there was no Dev Manager for the team for more than three months, carried out performance tests, security tests, contributed to AWS cost-saving, Saved more than $8000 per month for my team.
  • 7. Had an excellant record of on date releases for more than 30+ releases.
SizingBusiness ContinuityCommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsProduct Road Mapping+46

Flipkart internet pvt limited

SDE-3 (Cloud Platform Team)

Feb 2015Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Developed automation frameworks for OMS (Order Management Systems), Payments, Internal Config Engine, Cart, Checkout Systems, and other customer-facing systems. Mentored many teams on Quality and Automation practices. Prior to this, there were no automation frameworks for these systems. Parallelly automated more than 6 services. Automated at most 600 test cases in two days :)
  • Developed code for automatically onboard the services to pipeline and run the tests as part of the PR merge. Carried out performance tests for payment services and other services.
  • Participated in program planning, participation in design, worked on Productivity Engineering Tools, Automated bug filing, Got Converted as SDE from SDET, worked on Loadbalancers, Haproxy for forward-proxy and reverse proxy management, developed tools to help in day to day activities.
SizingBusiness ContinuityCommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsAgile Methodologies+33

Cisco

Tech Lead (Collaboration Business Unit)

May 2012Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Worked as a Test Architect for collaboration business unit. Designed a timeslice-based, horizontally scalable, automation Framework for help in testing the product solution, which reduced the time to run automation from 36+ hours to 2 to 3 hours and brought of automation success rate from 65% to 97%.
  • Participated in Test Design, Mentored the teams of size 40+ engineers, onboarded Contracting team to the product through Automation, Participation in agile practices from defining stories for teams to the execution of stories.
  • I was awarded a Cisco Star for my Automation Contributions and Cisco Pioneer Award for Best Team.
SizingBusiness ContinuityCommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsCross-functional Team Leadership+33

Juniper networks

Staff Engineer

May 2010May 2012 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Working as a Test Architect. Responsible for Automation and Testing of Network Management systems and Innovations in the workplace. Filed a patent, developed Framework for use across the org (this helped reduce a few hours of time for every setup made for testing and for different teams), developed tools to speed up deployments for helping sales teams, and mentored people.
Business ContinuityCommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsProject Management SoftwareContinuous Integration (CI)+17

Vmware

Tech Lead

Dec 2008May 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Single-handedly developed the test automation for Virtual NIC's testing, helped a lot of teams to get onboarded to Automation. Filed patents and presented papers for VMWare Radio.
  • Worked in collaboration with US teams in getting automation in good shape and catch the product bugs.
CommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsProject Management SoftwareQuicknessTeam Leadership+13

Tata elxsi

Specialist - Networking

Aug 2006Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Managed a team of 21 Engineers, onboarded more than 350 engineers onto Python, Tcl/Tk, Automation, managed customer meetings for various customers, worked on managing a team for Development, Automation, and Testing. I was awarded an "Extra Mile" award for the best work. Had a CSAT rating of 4.95 out of 5.0 from customers. Had the best training average of 4.8 out of 5.0.
  • Managed/Developed Tata Elxsi's intellectual Property named "TelTaf". Helped teams in estimation on timelines, efforts.
Business ContinuityCommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsQuicknessManagement+14

Isro - indian space research organization

Scientist SD

May 2000Apr 2006 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Hassan, Karnataka, India

  • Worked as Scientist/Engineer SD at ISRO in the area of Attitude and Orbit Control. Apart from work, I also contributed to Staff Welfare and was vice-president of the Staff welfare association. Taught mathematics to students at blind school, conducted a lot of events both for Office and the Staff.
  • I was a member of the Code review committee and also was part of the Contingency committee for Natural disasters. I mentored a lot of people on space technology and developed a lot of tools for day-to-day operations, specific events analysis, preparation of schedules, etc. Developed design for multi-space-station management.
CommunicationProblem SolvingComplex SystemsQuicknessTeam LeadershipCoaching+8

Education

Canara Bank School Of Management Studies

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Marketing

Jan 2012Jan 2013

B. M. S. College of Engineering

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

Jun 2008Jun 2011

K.V.G College Of Engineering, Mangalore University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) — Electronics and Networking

Jan 1994Jan 1998

R.N. Shetty Polytechnic

Diploma — Electronics And Communication

Jun 1991Mar 1994

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