Pradeep Kumar Perumal — Technical Program Manager

Business outcome-oriented TPM with 13.5+ years of professional expertise, possessing a robust understanding of both business & technology. Managing stakeholders across geographies(US, Europe, HK, SL, India) and multiple levels(CXOs, Heads of Technology/Business). Software development experience - 3+ years | Ex-Cisco Post graduation - PGDM from IIM Lucknow, M.Tech. from IISc Bangalore Instructor experience - 4+ years TPM Coach @ Interview Kickstart | 2+ years CAT coach @ IMS, CL Hobbies - Equity market investing, Chess Career highlights - 1. Leading large-scale projects(50+ SHs span & 1+ year time span), cross-functional tech initiatives (15+ pods/teams) across multiple industries serving 100M+ users globally 2. Setting up E2E grounds-up process initiatives, like annual/quarterly roadmap planning(4000+ Cr revenue generating), capacity management(300+ engineers, 15+ teams), sprint reports, data-driven decision making, release cadences(project specific, mobile app, services), and many more. 3. Institutionalized the company towards data-driven decision-making frameworks by setting metrics like SDLC spans, planned vs actual capacities, estimate variances, reasons of delays, quality, and schedule variances. 4. Creating 15+ JIRA workflows based on the team requirements(Pager Duty alerts, CoEs, Data Science, DevOps, and many more) to ensure process adoption and adherence is 100%. 5. Managed the E2E release cycle across 30+ microservices with Web/Mobile app releases (Backend service releases, Frontend Platform services, App releases (Android, iOS))

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Program Manager with expertise in Gaming and E-commerce industries.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 14 yrs

Skills

Program Management
Data-driven Decision Making
Product Road Mapping
Project Management
Product Management
Data Analysis
Regulatory Compliance
Software Development

Career Highlights

Led large-scale projects impacting 100M+ users globally.
Established data-driven decision-making frameworks.
Successfully launched a new Poker game projected to generate significant revenue.

Work Experience

Games24x7

Prinicipal Technical Program Manager (6 yrs 3 mos)

Akamai Technologies

Technical Program Manager II (9 mos)

Amazon

Technical Program Manager II, Catalog Quality (2 yrs 8 mos)

HSBC

Project Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Cisco Systems

Senior Software Engineer, Telepresence Over IP (2 yrs 10 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Product Management Certification Program at Duke University

M.TECH at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

BE at RV College Of Engineering

Pradeep Kumar Perumal

Technical Program Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led large-scale projects impacting 100M+ users globally.
Established data-driven decision-making frameworks.
Successfully launched a new Poker game projected to generate significant revenue.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Program Manager with expertise in Gaming and E-commerce industries.

Contact

pradeepcedt@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementData-driven Decision MakingProduct Road MappingProject ManagementProduct ManagementData AnalysisRegulatory ComplianceSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile LeadershipAgile MethodologiesAgile ScrumAlgorithmsAnalyticsAttribute Fill RateBusiness ReviewsCC++Capacity ManagementChange ManagementCoachingCollaborationCommercial Banking

About

Experience

14 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Games24x7

Prinicipal Technical Program Manager

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

E2E managing pods(Wallet pod, Acquisition pod, FE platform pod) of 150+ engineers
a) Driving the roadmap discussions across multiple product pods(like RummyCircle, My11 Circle, PokerCircle, Wowzy), which are generating Re 4000+ Crores annually.
b) Planning the E2E capacity management (150+ engineers) across the pods, quarterly/annually, and allocating/managing the bandwidth across the pods
c) Set up the processes from scratch in terms of the data collection mechanism for creating the benchmarks in the tech teams. Measured, monitored & optimized SDLC steps, which reduced & stabilized schedule variance from 20% to ~6% & improved predictability by 75%(delivery within the 0.5 sprint deviation).
d) E2E process management (like cross collaboration, defining milestones, sprint reports, retro of retros, dashboards ) across pods in terms of product life cycle
e) Institutionalized the company towards data-driven decision-making frameworks by optimizing processes like JIRA workflows, estimation models, Delivery and Release Processes, Communication Frameworks that reduced build rejections by 80+%; release rollbacks by 75%; bugs/developer-week by 50%
f) Managing/Mentoring 2 TPMs in terms of growth, performance cycle.
Successfully launched a new Poker game(Lobby, GameTable) from inception, which is generating Re 50 Cr/annually(projected to increase to Re 2000+ Cr in the next 5 years)
a) Created a E2E plan(detailed Gantt) for 25+ engineers across multiple pods(Poker pod, Event detection system, Wallet pod, FE platform pod, Product apps pod)
Drive the scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retro & demos).
b) Collaborated closely with Evenbet company(external partner for the Game engine)
c) Managed the E2E release cycle across 20+ services with Android app release (Backend service releases, Frontend Platform services, App releases(Android))
Promoted from Senior TPM to Principal TPM

Agile LeadershipData-driven Decision MakingVendor ManagementGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipCapacity ManagementRelease Management+2

Akamai technologies

Technical Program Manager II

Jun 2019 – Mar 2020 · 9 mos

Responsible for E2E implementation (PDLC) of enhancement features in Media Services Live; Project Planning & Dependency management
Dashboard & Feature Tracking in JIRA & Confluence; Chairing Quarterly Sprint Operational metrics; Improving the workflow & Processes

Project PlanningDependency ManagementJIRAConfluenceProgram ManagementProject Management

Amazon

Technical Program Manager II, Catalog Quality

Oct 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for improving Customer Searching in Amazon Catalog by improving attribute fill rate and attribute consistency rate across 16MPs
Identifying the key metrics & driving them; Single POC for Tech, Business & Ops teams; Chairing the quarterly/monthly business reviews
Key Projects:
1. Improve the Seller Ingestion experience by increasing the valid values (for relevant product attribute pairs) in Seller templates
2. Improve the Customer purchase decision by increasing the completeness rate of critical product attributes in Amazon Catalog
3. Delivered an Productivity gain of 100FTEs(~20%) through Tech & Ops initiatives across 400+ resources across 10+ programs
4. Developed the framework for Ops project lifecycle(Artefacts, toll gates, milestones) and created the requirements to develop the tool
5. Define quality metric; Standardised baseline & year-end quality metric;Developed sampling methodology across 30+ different tasks

Customer Searching ImprovementAttribute Fill RateBusiness ReviewsProduct ManagementData Analysis

Hsbc

Project Manager

Apr 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Successful implementation of a regulatory electronic funds transfer payment system, “Common electronic funds transfer switch” (CEFTS) in Sri Lanka for retail banking customers (inwards and outwards) and commercial banking customers (only inwards)
Successful migration of 12 trade processes (40 FTEs) from the HSBC India operations to HSBC Business services(BS)

Regulatory ComplianceProject Management

Cisco systems

Senior Software Engineer, Telepresence Over IP

Aug 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

Single handedly owned the development of the movement module of the Telepresence cameras–the motors(pan, tilt, focus, zoom, iris); Chaired the spirit planning & daily updates (Agile scrum software development methodology)
Collaborated with the video team(Oslo,Norway) in implementing auto focus and auto exposure in video cameras
Single point of contact with hardware team and testing team in successfully launching 4 video cameras to production
Collaborated with the UI team & business team in successfully developing proof of concept for brushless dc motors

Agile ScrumCollaborationDevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProject Management