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Sagar Palkar

Operations Associate

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years in global support leadership.
  • Expert in support transformation and CX strategy.
  • Proven track record in elevating customer satisfaction.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Support Operations Leader in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Service Delivery ManagementTechnical EnablementCoaching

Other Skills

Partner EngagementCross-functional Team LeadershipEnablementPresentationsCustomer SatisfactionPresentation SkillsBusiness reviewDecision-MakingProgram ManagementService-Level Agreements (SLA)Performance AnalysisStrategic VisionCommunicationProject ManagementBusiness Process

About

I am a Support & Operations Leader with 16+ years of experience scaling global support organizations across APJ & EMEA. I specialize in Support Transformation, CX Strategy, Partner Enablement, and AI-driven Support Operations. My leadership philosophy centers on clarity, trust, and continuous improvement. I build high-performing teams, enable technical depth, and design processes that improve customer outcomes and operational efficiency. Over the years, I have: • Led multi-region Support teams and complex 12×5 operations • Architected org-wide changes (Project Saturn) to modernize Support • Elevated CSAT to world-class levels through quality & coaching programs • Built leaders who moved into Engineering, Escalation, Sales & PSG • Launched programs that improved readiness, efficiency & cost savings I’m passionate about transformation, people development, and strategic problem solving. My next decade is focused on leading global Support/CX organizations or driving cross-functional transformation

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
16 yrs
Current Experience

Akamai technologies

8 roles

Senior Manager Support Services

Promoted

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Service Delivery ManagementPartner EngagementTechnical EnablementCross-functional Team LeadershipEnablementCoaching+19

Manager -Technical Support

Oct 2017Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Service Delivery ManagementTechnical EnablementCross-functional Team LeadershipEnablementCoachingPresentations+18

Quality Team Lead

Promoted

Apr 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • In addition to the Lead role I was given the opportunity to create a new framework for Quality in Ccare. with below responsibilities
  • Coordinate Quality program
  • Maintain the Quality audit sheet on an ongoing basis, to include the latest
  • Ensure effective monitoring, through a random sampling process
  • Maintain a Global Monitoring schedule, across Geo’s and ensure new TSE’s
  • Follow the calibration process to maintain standardization in a way that
  • Based on the QA summary, derive a developmental plan to improve QA updates based on audit-findings and industry best practices have more proctoring than tenured TSE’s
  • Managers, Leads and Quality auditors; audit TSE’s scores and work with Line Managers to provide the right level of feedback to TSE’s
  • Communicate Quality scores on a weekly monthly basis
  • Provide inputs for Product enhancements to PLL’s, where applicable
  • Drive long term quality initiatives to help achieve the overall Quality vision
  • Drive the Quality Council process with the Manager
  • Apart from reporting, share insights/ inferences with Management on a monthly
  • basis that highlights any change in behavior of individuals or systems
Service Delivery ManagementTechnical EnablementCross-functional Team LeadershipEnablementCoachingPresentations+15

Team Lead

Apr 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr

  • ● Inspire each and every team member to perform and produce their best.
  • ● Determine the duties and responsibilities of individuals in a team.
  • ● Analyze the individual performance of each team member and motivate them to perform even better
  • with the help of daily/weekly reports, Provide guidance and solutions to improve.
  • ● Organise training workshops with Technical experts on weekly basis to improve the performance of the members.
  • ● Set up and drive Hot case meeting once a week. This included the discussion on hot issues, Service Incidents, motivating the team members to create Knowledge Base articles on the new issues reported.
  • ● Responsible for Centralized case assignment and finding right resources, making sure the case queue is clean before and after the US East shift.
  • ● Responsible for any Transitions for both Standard and Paid support on daily bases from EMEA to US East, confirm the transition quality, and assign appropriate resources.
  • ● Responsible for any Escalations during the shift, finding right resources and handling the customer communication/providing action plan, coordinating with internal teams and working towards the solution.
  • ● Offer solutions to the top management in improving the technical aspect of the team.
Technical EnablementCoachingCustomer SatisfactionDecision-MakingProgram ManagementService-Level Agreements (SLA)+4

Senior Technical Solutions Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2013Apr 2014 · 8 mos

  • ● Worked on all the Major Event supports in Ccare: Which proves the ability of handling high profile customers, quick decision making, command on the product being supported,
  • ● Worked extensively on all most all the products including Site, and streaming, GTM and EDNS.
  • ● SME of 4 products : Media Analytics, Download analytics, WAF and Akamai Instant.
  • ● Security background: I have a past experience of working in Security product like SonicWall Firewall,
  • Attended trainings on Certified Ethical Hacking (certification exam in a month)
  • Experience in Mentoring and training:
  • ● Trainings for New Folks joining Akamai.
  • ● Mentoring of all the New Hire, Bringing them up to speed in 2 months of joining the floor.
  • ● Continue working with the peers on the floor and making sure they step up to higher level of expertise.
  • by providing guidance, helping with documentation and on day-today cases.

Technical solution engineer ll

Apr 2012Aug 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • 2. Worked on all the Major Event supports in Ccare: Which proves the ability of handling high profile customers, quick decision making, command on the product being supported,
  • 3. Worked extensively on all most all the products including Site, and streaming, GTM and EDNS.
  • 4. SME of 3 products : Media Analytics, Download analytics and WAF
  • 5. Security back-ground: I have a past experience of working in Security product like SonicWall Firewall, Attended trainings on Certified Ethical Hacking (certification exam in a month)
  • Experience in Mentoring and training:
  • 1. Starting from trainings for New Folks Joining Akamai on Site.
  • 2. Mentoring of all the New hire Joining, Bringing them up to speed in 2 months of joining the floor,
  • 3. Continue working with the peers on the floor and making sure they step up to higher level of expertise, by providing guidance, helping with documentation and on day today cases,
  • Awards:
  • 1. Spot Award for work in IPL 2011.
  • 2. Spot Award for work in Apple Event support.
  • 3. Spot Award for working continuously on all the major events in akamai.
  • 4. Rock star Award for bringing the New-hires on floor and mentoring them in last quarter,
  • 5. Peer Recognition Award for last quarter,

Technical solution engineer

Promoted

Oct 2011Mar 2012 · 5 mos

  • ● Inspire each and every team member to perform and produce their best.
  • ● Determine the duties and responsibilities of individuals in a team.
  • ● Analyze the individual performance of each team member and motivate them to perform even better
  • with the help of daily/weekly reports, Provide guidance and solutions to improve.
  • ● Organise training workshops with Technical experts on weekly basis to improve the performance of the members.
  • ● Set up and drive Hot case meeting once a week. This included the discussion on hot issues, Service Incidents, motivating the team members to create Knowledge Base articles on the new issues reported.
  • ● Responsible for Centralized case assignment and finding right resources, making sure the case queue is clean before and after the US East shift.
  • ● Responsible for any Transitions for both Standard and Paid support on daily bases from EMEA to US East, confirm the transition quality, and assign appropriate resources.
  • ● Responsible for any Escalations during the shift, finding right resources and handling the customer communication/providing action plan, coordinating with internal teams and working towards the solution.
  • ● Offer solutions to the top management in improving the technical aspect of the team.

Associate Technical solution engineer

May 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

  •  Integral member of a team responsible for quickly resolving highly technical, complex issues and providing solutions to customer problems.
  •  Clearly communicate with customers via telephone and email to ensure that you understand the issue and they understand the resolution.
  •  Work independently with our customers' technical teams on post-sales technical issues. The investigation of technical issues may involve data analysis from Akamai's distributed network and an in-depth examination of the interaction between Akamai and the customer's web server infrastructure.
  •  Work closely with and manage issue-specific cross-functional teams composed of Engineering, Operations, Sales, Professional Services, and Account Management representatives.
  •  Define requirements and develop tools/scripts to automate troubleshooting.
  •  Develop methods and best practices for delivering outstanding service.
  •  Define, coordinate, and prioritize customer feedback and ideas into engineering requirements for future enhancements to Akamai's services. Work closely with Engineering and Product Management to implement these enhancements.

Sonicwall

Product Support Engineer

Sep 2008May 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore India

  •  Providing online support for Sonic WALL UTM Products to the Customers.
  •  Suggesting deployment of Sonic WALL products in the Customer Networks.
  •  Handling Partner Support Calls.
  •  Filing DTS (Defect Tracking System), which involves working, close with the
  • engineering team ( finding the bugs – Change Management )
  •  Responsible for configuring and troubleshooting Sonic WALL UTM Products.
  •  Involved in actual Installation, Implementation and Configuration of Products
  • as per Customer’s requirements.
  •  Solving interoperability issues. E.g. Vpn b/w Sonicwall and CISCO etc.
  •  Monitoring of customer’s site remotely and then work on reporting tool to
  • gather the data on day-today basis (as per customer’s requirements).
  •  Implementing Hardware Failover and WAN Failover for redundancy in
  • network.

Education

Kendriya Vidyalaya

Jan 1991Jan 2014

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Electronics — English

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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