Chris Kaknevicius Email & Phone Number

Oakville, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Reporting to the CTO, responsible for aligning an Engineering organization of over 200 with the Index Exchange business strategy. Charged with aggressive growth of engineering capacity, building a data driven engineering culture, and making Index an amazing place to work.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Report to the Senior Vice President of Engineering, responsible for the leadership of the Client Side division, and the underlying client facing products, APIs and web experiences. Involved heavily in improving Agile mindset and processes, establishing organizational structure and maintaining a great internal culture while rapidly growing the organization. Strong focus on investing in orchestration, CI/CD, and most importantly people while pushing forward with a new client experience.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Report to the Vice President of Technology and charged with driving the strategy behind software quality by improving process, championing developer best practices and driving test automation strategy and architecture. Simultaneously responsible for driving development and integration of AccuMed software products and teams, an acquired organization.• Proposed and architected the vision and plan for a framework, team, processes, tools and strategy to support our overall quality and test automation programs• Initiated the SET program, distributing automation champions to teams in order to facilitate maintainable, scalable testing and development practices• Established overall development and testing standards; promoted, educated and helped establish best practices, processes and tools for PCC’s agile process. Worked with development teams to significantly reduce high severity incoming issues. Established KPIs and scoreboards to monitor quality.• Took responsibility for leading off-site development teams through customer transition, and converted several teams to full time PCC development teams as part of the permanent engineering organization.• Participated in cross-functional projects to establish support, development and hosting transition processes with various internal organizations

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Drove an initiative to introduce a significant test automation presence through a newly created Quality task force, to support the development organization in meeting goals around agile development practices and continuous and frequent feedback of quality.- Researched, piloted, recommended and implemented organizational use of a test management system and test automation technologies- Led a team in implementing a robust JAVA / TestNG / Selenium based test framework, with custom integrations into test management and defect tracking systems- Architected a test infrastructure and workflow to allow for frequrent and quick test execution through mass parallelization and a Selenium GRID of virtual automation nodes- Led a team in creating base line tests and a framework for future test creation, and implementing training to facilitate development team contribution and use of the test portfolio

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Contributed to the company as a partner and project manager, taking on development and business related roles.

Responsible for developing and maintaining corporate website, intranets, price lists and various business systems.

Oakville, Ontario, Ca

Bsc Hons, Software Engineering

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