Prasad Kamthekar

CTO

Dublin, California, United States23 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led global engineering teams across multiple countries.
Successfully delivered AI Chat Bots for enterprise clients.
Established engineering standards and quality practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in AI/ML and global team management.

Contact

prasad.kamthekar@zoom.us LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipAi/mlProduct DevelopmentProduct LaunchEngineering ManagementAgile MethodologiesProgram Management

Other Skills

Code RefactoringAI Chat botGenerative AIFederated ModelEngineering team managementQA/AutomationAIChat BotAgile DevelopmentCareer LevelingSecurity PracticesGlobal Team ManagementSecurity DevelopmentTest AutomationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

About

Accomplished leader with successful track record of strategic program management, product launch, managing large programs within SaaS, Mobile and Public cloud environments for enterprise software. Proven expertise strategizing, designing, building, implementing, and optimizing and delivering technology solution to move business forward. Dynamic personality with strong communication and interpersonal skills; interface effectively with executive decision makers, program and project teams, partners, vendors. Experience in building offshore teams from ground up and creating global software delivery team Goal-oriented to achieve high-cost reduction targets and dedicated to high levels of customer satisfaction and meeting aggressive business growth. Driven and motivated executive with rare ability to infuse kindness and compassion in daily operations. Specialties: * Technology, Strategy, Leadership, Management * Building strong engineering teams across the globe (UK, Sri Lanka, India, Poland, Ukraine) * Delivering high-quality enterprise software products * Mentoring, coaching and motivating teams to achieve higher goals * Establishing Engineering Standards and process standards for key initiatives and delivering against it * Establishing Quality Standards with emphasize on latest Automation tools and build pipeline improvements

Experience

23 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Zoom

Engineering Leader

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

Built and successfully delivered AI Chat bot (complete life-cycle) for major enterprise customers, > 150 customers deployed with the Chat Bots supported by Generative AI and Federated Model approach
Build Engineering team to deliver new Zoom Product (Workforce Engagement Management) https://news.zoom.us/workforce-engagement-management/ from scratch. Manage a team >50 engineers in multiple timezones (India, China, US)
Build QA/Automation Team in India (Chennai) from ground up and implemented stringent quality development and monitoring practices including in-sprint automation, BCV, quality reporting, build monitoring/build breakers.
Led cross-functional teams to complete high-priority projects on time and within budget constraints.
Optimized resource allocation for maximum productivity, effectively managing engineering personnel and budgets.
Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of professional development and continuous learning within the team.
Introduced advanced AI and capabilities to enhance the Contact Center suite of products for end users.
Implemented new automation tools Selenium/Cypress/Cucumber along with the CI/CD pipelines to have robust product delivery system

Code RefactoringAI Chat botGenerative AIFederated ModelEngineering team managementQA/Automation+2

Solvvy (now part of zoom)

Head Of Engineering

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Establish the Engineering Organization Structure and goals, vision for the same.
Lead a team of Managers / Individual contributors in USA and India.
Managing the Engineering Organization overseeing Solutions/Sales Engineering, Core Application Development, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance and IT Support Teams.
Established key process initiatives around Agile Development, Quarterly Planning
Work with HR partner to establish Career Leveling guides, Career Paths and Goals setting for Engineering Organization
Driving the Security Practices at Solvvy, including but not limited to all Key Audit processes (SOC2, ISO 27001)
Managing the Vendor relationships, pricing, SOW, setup, processes for all Infrastructure (GCP) and Security (Lacework, SCC) vendors.
Participating in key Sales conversations with Prospects and Key clients.

Code RefactoringAgile DevelopmentCareer LevelingSecurity PracticesEngineering ManagementAgile Methodologies

Pearson

3 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Managed a Team of around 180 Engineers. (6 Direct include Managers and Senior Managers)
Led the Global Team - present in India, UK, Sri Lanka, Poland
Delivered the key initiative around Global English Platform for Pearson, driving growth of our Higher Education market.
Key member for Pearson Technical due diligence process for Acquisitions
Build the Key program for Security/Secure development in 6 months for the engineering organization -ground up

Code RefactoringGlobal Team ManagementSecurity DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipProgram Management