Mahesh Venkatesh Shet — Director of Engineering
➤ 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Automation Engineering expert with a strong focus on Quality Engineering.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 23 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Engineering Productivity
- Project Management
- Automation Engineering
- Quality Engineering
- Test Architecture
- Network Management
- Test Automation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Team Management
- Space Technology
- Mentorship
Career Highlights
- Reduced onboarding time from 10 weeks to 2 days.
- Achieved 97% automation success rate in testing.
- Mentored over 450 engineers across various domains.
Work Experience
Narvar
Director Of Engineering (Engineering Productivity) (4 yrs 8 mos)
MobileIron
Sr. Manager - Automation and Quality Engineering at MobileIron (2 yrs 4 mos)
Flipkart Internet Pvt Limited
SDE-3 (Cloud Platform Team) (2 yrs 2 mos)
Cisco
Tech Lead (Collaboration Business Unit) (2 yrs 9 mos)
Juniper Networks
Staff Engineer (2 yrs)
VMware
Tech Lead (1 yr 5 mos)
Tata Elxsi
Specialist - Networking (2 yrs 4 mos)
ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization
Scientist SD (5 yrs 11 mos)
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Canara Bank School Of Management Studies
Master of Technology - MTech at B. M. S. College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) at K.V.G College Of Engineering, Mangalore University
Diploma at R.N. Shetty Polytechnic