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 accelerators.• 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.• Conceived & developed multiple solutions for clients (mentioned above) to digitalize business processes and improve efficiency, accuracy, ease of use.• Implemented process improvement & cost-saving initiatives by adopting automation tools (Excel/VBA/RPA) along with onsite/offshore coordination. • Performed people management, for a team of 50 FTEs, 4 architects and 3 Project Managers as well as drove recruitment for org building and conducted cross-skilling to improve competencies.

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.• Provided consulting to clients for penetrating new market segments & secure a business edge by conceiving application-landscape solutions (BIAL & LAX Airports and multiple SAP-based mining clients)• Conducted knowledge transfer initiatives to upskill & support Client Executives through account mining, revenue growth and client engagements.

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.