Anil Kakde Email & Phone Number

Accountable for the global Technology Business Unit, Product Engineering, Delivery, CoEs, Strategy, people and P&L.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading a large team of over 200 resources to establish Application & Quality Engineering Practice as well as established & developed technology COEs for the same.
• Driving growth & alignment with the Enterprise vision, adopting multiple technology stacks (Web, Mobile, Low-code/ No-code, Data scraping & Quality) as a result.
• Reporting to the Co-founder and VP-Technical Consulting to lead teams, ensuring headcount growth, to create connections between products & clients by implementing solution patterns and technical & functional.
• Conceptualized first-in-world cutting edge digital products, drove roadmap, execution and delivery of multiple products.
• Conducting training to upskill the Client Executives while supporting account mining, revenue growth and client engagement
• Ownership of delivery of cutting-edge products, integrating Web, Mobile, ML, DS, Data Lakes, BI, etc.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Reported to the Director/General Manager and led a team of over 50 resources to provide solutions/services to multiple clients (Airbus, Volvo, Rolls Royce & FCA).
• Established a Software Centre (India), a Digital IT ODC to enable delivery across 7 countries, as well as enabled the growth of both.
• Implemented & scaled technology stack COEs, providing leadership to the team along with headcount growth for multiple technical stacks (Standalone, Web, Mobile, UX, RPA, ML & Analytics).
• Introduced a Digital Practice, defining/driving new processes, aligning the same with that of 7 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
• Arranged alignment of functions like presales, delivery execution models, governance, recruitment, engagement, project management, operations and quality.
• Drove establishment of digital COEs for Enterprise Applications, Analytics, Mobile, Automation (RPA), UI/UX by hiring/coaching SMEs, creating IP/demonstration, platform/app accelerators, collaterals and more.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Reported to the Senior Director and led over 15 resources to provide products/services to multiple clients (Emirates, SpiceJet, United Airlines & SAS Cargo),
• Spearheaded creation of two COEs for Digital Technologies (IoT & Cloud) that churned out products.
• Drove conceptualization, development and selling of products - DigiPet & PharmaTrack, (using Cloud, IOT, Blockchain & AI/ML) directing a distributed team.
• Coordinated with Sales, Consulting and Marketing teams to perform activities like - market research, design, roadmap creation, product feature planning, development, launch, pilot, marketing and sales.
• Defined business/technical vision, strategy roadmap & SME coaching while engaged in sales, marketing, consulting and creating partner ecosystem, as part of the Global Digital Strategy.
• Spearheaded business mining & provided consulting to clients by conducting tailored workshops to identify the unique business needs & pain points of the client to provide a suitable solution with early ROI.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Key Profile:
• Led a team of 5 resources for creating a B2B product, distributed application with failover and disaster recovery-based architecture design, with Java, Spring, jQuery, ESB and API management.
• Drove the design of the architecture, development and implementation of the product AQM, a platform for monetizing insurance information, gaining competence in Spring Framework.
• Performed multiple other tasks like Pre-sales support & business development and planning, scoping, estimation, execution & delivery of the assigned project for the client.
• Undertook Product Management activities, other than the development of the product, trial marketing of prototype, collection of market feedback, finalizing product design/features and defining GTM strategies.

Edison, New Jersey, USA

• Implemented B2C portal for a retail product Blue Cherry (Walmart, Kohl, Mark Jacobs & JC Penny in USA & Europe).
• Deployed and configured product for clients- Walmart, JC Penny & Mark Jacobs

Greensburg, Indiana, United States/ Bengaluru, India

• Clients - Honda, Sony, IBM & GMKey Profile (for above engagements)
• Developed Honda Civic manufacturing application suite (for Indiana plant).
• Developed various B2B & B2C apps covering spare parts sales and manufacturing process for Sony, IBM, GM.

Master Of Science - Ms, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Created project Object Relationship Management tool, developing it from scratch.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science, 71%

Activities and Societies: Created project Text to Speech, based on Speech engine developed from scratch.