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Noida, Up, In

Noida, Up, In

Leveraged (Generative) AI for building next generation Enterprise Search, Virtual Assistant, KCS and other products. Leading the overall Engineering & Technology, Data Science and Product Management teams.At Goals101.ai, I created a Horizontal AI/ML Platform (Alpha) which was selected by VISA & Mastercard as the platform to create hyper-personalized & targeted offerings for cardholders. At Octro, In CEO’s words: I transformed the organization to a performance-oriented culture supported by facts, transparency & accountability. - Led Engineering & Technology organizations; grown team to ~100 members from ~35- Created a performance-oriented culture supported by facts, transparency & accountability. Received special recognition from the CEO for that- Implemented Agile Scrum from scratch for all teams which significantly improved planning & delivery- Led Data Engineering team to improve efficiency & optimize infrastructure to support business growth for next 2-3 years with the current DC resources. This resulted in significant savings as previously we were purchasing additional DC resource every quarter to support business growth- Set up the Automation testing group & performance/volume testing from scratch - Significantly improved employee engagement & voluntary (regrettable) attrition. When I joined the *voluntary* attrition rate was >60% (annualized) which was brought down to ~5-10% in the last 2-3 quarters- Set up PMO organization and processes from scratch which has streamlined governance of continuous feature deliveries- Restructured team to create self-contained game development & delivery teams- Reduced total number of field defects by >40% (within 9 months) w.r.t. Jan, 2022 level. Total number of defects also reduced by > 20%; - Introduced a transparent quarterly talent assessment process (along with career advancement framework)- Achieved ~50% velocity improvement & reduced wastage by 30-40% (in terms of SPs) during development of most games

Madanpur, West Bengal, In

At ProjectX, we envision building a future where advanced computing is universally accessible, unbounded by hardware limitations or geographic barriers. Our mission with InfinityOS is to provide a seamless and affordable cloud-based computing platform that empowers every individual and organization to achieve more, on anything from anywhere in the world.ProjectX was incubated by some students from the same area where I grew up and studied till class XII (Palpara Village - Nadia district in West Bengal).ProjectX Achievements and Accolades so far:- Received Grants from Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Electronics and IT- Received 200,000$ cloud grant from Google for Startups- Selected as India’s best Student startup and was selected to represent India at Tiger Launch Global Finals at Princeton University on a Full Ride scholarship.- Won Best Startup of the Year - Cloud at the Startup Story Entrepreneur Awards (SSEA) 2024!- Won World Trade Center Innovation Award at Eureka IIT Bombay among 17 thousand other startups who participated.- Received the GSEA EO Kolkata award and first prize from Ritesh Agarwal for our prototype.

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Recognized by the Chief Product Officer for my leadership skill and for successfully driving the Engineering team towards much higher ownership, quality and velocity while keeping voluntary attrition to < 1% - One of my products was recognized as one of the Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products globally- Significantly improved Engineering planning & productivity; achieved 25-50% improvement in productivity and Improved planning effectiveness (Committed vs actual) from ~50% to 90%+ for most groups over a period of ~1 year - Expanded team by adding 150+ experienced members in ~1-2 year (experiences ranging from ~5 to ~25 years) & created multi-site Product Development operations - Achieved >30% reduction in field defects. Increased automation from ~25% to 90%+ and reduced rework/wastage through several continuous improvement initiatives to "shift left" to catch bugs much earlier in the development cycle and by creating a quality-oriented culture supported by well defined metrics & ROI targetResponsibilities:- I led large product and engineering (software development) teams in India USA & Europe: Systems (the largest division in India focusing on ERP product development) and "Digital Interactive (B2B)"- Leading a team of Delivery Heads, QA Heads, architects, developers, manual & automation testers, product managers/product owners/business analysts & DevOps people to build the next generation product for our Cloud (SaaS), Digital, Business Intelligence (BI) and Web Applications offerings (with Microservices Architecture (MSA) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)). - We are using Agile methodology and .NET Core, C++, Java, SQL Server, CSS, HTML5, Ruby on Rails, C# and AngularJS- Leading the team to adopt new architectural/platform initiatives: Shift-left concepts, Docker, Micro services, GIT, Message Broker (Kafka / RabbitMQ), DevOps - CI / CD with automated testing framework, Configuration Management (Chef/Puppet/Ansible)

Noida, Up, In

As the Global Product Head and BU Head, I managed Engineering, Product Development & monetization (P&L) of the flagship ERP product (FinnOne and FinnOne Neo) along with Digital Lending & horizontal solutions/products on Mobility, Advanced Analytics / Machine Learning & Cloud (SaaS) which I incubated during my tenure. Led a large team of Software Developers, Product Managers, Domain Consultants (Product Specialists), Manual & Automation testers and Business Analysts.Incubated & led successful commercialization of:Machine Learning product (Lending Analytics was recognized among world's top 10 by QY Research)::- Led architecture/design of core algorithms in machine learning: K-means clustering analysis, Random Forest, Neural Network, Time series, k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Logistic Regression, Decision Tree (Classification Tree / Regression Tree), Association Rule (Market Basket Analysis), risk-based credit scoring strategy, Strategic Tree, Behavior Scoring- Data Science practice, Data Warehouse, PoC for Big data with HDFS Ecosystem (Map/Reduce, Hive, Apache Spark, Pig, HBase, Yarn, Flume, Sqoop) & Python / RCloud (SaaS) product:- Led creation of "Cloud Native" version of our flagship product using a thin client UI & leveraging AWS APIs. - Led other aspects of our Cloud product design including Uptime & HA, Disaster Recovery, Maintenance & Support, Upgrades and Updates, SoW, PoCs, demos etc. Product Management:• Introduced the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) process with 3 gate structure, created comprehensive Product Strategy and established 6-monthly roadmap driven product releases (using G1, G2, G3 phase-gate process)• Created a prioritized roadmap based on cross-geo recommendations. Identified target markets, segmentation, product positioning, messaging, pricing, and technology & channel partnerships for quick monetization• Created Competition & SWOT analysis, Sales playbooks, Battlecards, product differentiation & profitability tracking

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked for 6+ years (in 2 tenures - 2000-2003 (pre-MBA) and 2008-2011 (post MBA)) Saas & Predictive / Prescriptive Analytics Solution Development, Product Management, Project Management and Strategy & Planning areas

Mba, Marketing And Finance

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Computer Science