Sathish Challa

Program Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India25 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 24 years of overall experience in engineering management.
  • Expert in scaling startups and leading remote engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in product ideation and revenue generation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in engineering management and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementTechnical LeadershipEngineering ManagementTechnical Project ManagementTeam LeadershipSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsApache PigBudgetingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Change ManagementCloud ComputingConfluenceCross-Functional Team ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer SatisfactionData AnalysisDatabases

About

+ Having 24 years of overall experience and 14+ years of Engineering management experience. + Had experience in scaling up the startups and championed the startup culture. + Had 9 years of experience in heading remote engineering team for US organization, handled overall engineering responsibilities of one of the business line. + Ideated a new product and generated the separate revenue for the organization. + Working with team, mentoring, managing their performance and providing up-skilling is my strengths. + Develop/drive prototypes to prove/present the feasibility of various technology solutions and expedite the pre-sales cycles. + Having good technical knowledge to ask engineers right questions about architectural and product decisions and manage the roadmap and reduce the technical debt of products + Project management with Agile/Scrum/Kanban/waterfall + Self-development by being proactive in identifying and participating in training and development programs, classes, seminars to strengthen self capabilities for future performance

Experience

25 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Mphasis

Program Manager

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Revolutionizing customer interactions in APAC and ME through AI-powered conversations
  • https://www.mphasis.com/home/corporate/news/coverage-report-mphasis-kore-ai-partner-to-transform-customer-and-employee-experience-for-enterprises.assetType.null.html

Kore.ai

Associate Director Delivery

Nov 2022Aug 2023 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

System PerformanceProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProgram ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam Motivation+28

Exponential ai

Engineering Manager

Jun 2017Nov 2022 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Provided all the experience and skills required across the different verticals like Dev, DevOps, test engineering and performance engineering without limiting to the role.
  • Helped in scaling up the startup to 90+ head count and delivered the platform and solutions
  • Responsible for the solutions ownership and enabling the presales team for customer demos
  • Helped in delivering the modules that are required for platform and balancing the stabilization in rapid development phase
  • Successfully delivered couple of custom solutions that solves very important use cases in administrative audit and Payment Integrity in healthcare.
  • Architected, designed and delivered automation frameworks to the organization to achieved configurable automation, so all solutions/teams can leverage without code
  • Setup the CI/CD pipelines and reporting framework
System PerformanceProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProgram ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam Motivation+30

Linkedin

Test Engineering Manager

Apr 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Handled tools development, testing responsibilities for the products: home-page, pulse, publishing, groups, messaging, relationships, slideshare, Search, Communication gateway and emerging market products.
  • Completed following trainings apart from other online trainings: [In]troduction, Interview[In], HostManager, Hiring Senior Talent, Gradle training, [In]troduction to Managers, Manage[In], Negotiation skills, Transformation training.
  • Jump started with hands on test automation for spam and content filtering product and helped in their smooth release cycles.
  • Ownership of test strategy and automation for products
  • Framework discovery, feasibility, adaptation, customization at all levels of release pipeline [CI/CD]
  • Effective tracking of quality trends, test automation, stability of execution, defect tracking and horizontal initiatives
  • Good at handling functional and non functional testing aspects
  • Know how to bring collaboration and break silos to achieve the efficiency.
System PerformanceProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam MotivationSoftware Development+16

Ipass

3 roles

Sr. Engineering Manager

Sep 2010Oct 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Managed major back office server infrastructure products for mobility and unity business lines [6+ Products for mobility business and 10+ products for unity business]
  • Increased sales success with innovative features on customer facing portal by providing data analytics, maps, heat maps and trend analysis and monitoring
  • Saved OpEx for company by providing good level of automation in provisioning and tech support operational departments
  • Enthusiastic and hands-on to develop support tools and enables mainstream development work is uninterrupted
  • Achieved high success rate and saved cost by migrating the mission critical auth fabric cloud platform for the mobility business to new tech stack with good monitoring capabilities
  • Contributed on competitor products analysis and product council discussions
  • Established the trusted and open communication between all cross functional teams and worked as a cohesive team.
System PerformanceProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProgram ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam Motivation+26

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2007Sep 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Responsible for all hiring, mentoring, performance of individuals, product deliverables and quality
  • Provided best communication to exec team on engineering activities by setting up a dashboard to decipher the status
  • Managed acquisition and merging activities successfully with complete compliance to non-disclosure
  • Migrated the mobility business customer portal and major back office products to open source servers and saved OpEx for organization
System PerformanceProduct DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam MotivationStakeholder Engagement+17

Sr. Project Leader / Project Lead/ SSE

Sep 2001Sep 2007 · 6 yrs

  • Provided project management support required for critical customer project on client side products
  • Helped organization to get CMM-level3 compliance
  • Delivered required EAP protocols support on AAA auth fabric compliance to 802.1x authentication.
  • Investigated and presented the business case on usage of RSA-secure Id on auth fabric products
  • Helped the team to adapt XP methodology and first in organization to introduce it
  • Introduced load testing methodologies using JMeter and Selenium tools.
System PerformanceProduct DevelopmentTeam MotivationSoftware DevelopmentProblem SolvingPeople Management+8

Alcatel-lucent enterprise

Software Engineer

Apr 2000Sep 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on SNMP and NMS products of Alcatel IND switches and routers
  • Worked on one of the module [PolicyView] of best breed of NMS product [Omnivista] of Alcatel switches/routers
  • Successfully handled the knowledge transfer of products from and to HQ office
Product DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Global info systems

Trainee and Software Engineer

Sep 1999Mar 2000 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Exposed to all software development aspects and practicalities
  • Participated in requirements analysis and module developments required for the product
  • Had been in process of integrating different systems/technologies for an enterprise application
Software Development

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Engineer’s Degree — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1995Jan 1998

SES-SN Murthy Polytechnic College

Polytechnic Diploma — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1991Jan 1995

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