Dev Panajkar

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Vice President and CIO - Digital Transformation @ Xclaymation
Cary, NC, US
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Cary, North Carolina, United States, United States
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About Dev Panajkar

Proven track record with over 25 years of extensive experience managing and delivering diverse technology engineering functions such as Cloud Transformation, Digital Consumer, Retail and Cross Channel, Brand Marketing, ERP/CRM/Supply Chain, Sales, R&D and General IT Management. • Led Strategy domain, Chief Of Staff (CMO/CIO), Manage Digital & Marketing group, lead the 3 year SBP (Strategic Business Plans), AOP (Annual Operating Plan), PI planning & QBRs. • Led Enterprise Architecture (EA) Domain, instituted governance e.g. ARB processes.• Led Digital Cloud Transformation for Dollar General with Google Cloud (GCP) and at Nike's eCommerce platform to native AWS architecture • Led Product Management domains and moved from Project to Product using a 2-speed model.• Managed Enterprise PMO (TPMs, RTEs, SMs, POs) domains. Strategized on enterprise wide Agile adoption.• Strategized & implemented the transition to DevSecOps with emphasis of Crawl/Walk/Run model of people, process and technology • Managed highly scalable, distributed micro services and event driven architecture to support 4.5 million users in 10 mins with asynchronous processing for optimum user experience• Led domain driven design with API-first approach using elastic micro services to enable migration of e-commerce platform and applications to cloud native architecture• Led engineering team to continuous delivery with multiple daily deploys in production by building integrated automation test suite with CD pipeline and enabling 90% code coverage • Drove the roll-out of Cloud based enterprise Big-Data Platform supporting real-time streaming for personalization & micro-batches for key enterprise capabilities. Created the culture of 'Data as a Product (DaaP) and Data democratization. Technology – GCP, AWS EC2, DynamoDB (NoSQL), Redis cache, NewRelic, Splunk, etc. Budget/Portfolio – Managed a $150M IT portfolio spanning multiple global businesses Team – Built and managed large engineering organization of 160 engineers – Transitioned people/process to DevSecOps using continuous deployment methodologyKPI’s – Defined & implemented organization wide KPI dashboards for variety of metricsSavings – Reduced team size by 20% by migrating from Traditional Plan/Build/Run to DevOps – Reduced Infrastructure cost by $3 million by Just-in-time scaling (prod and test) – SLA - Improved MTTD by 70% and MTTR by 50% – Brought the micro services response time to 200ms or less – Increased Availability/Uptime to 99.999

Dev Panajkar's Current Company Details
Xclaymation

Xclaymation

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Vice President and CIO - Digital Transformation
Cary, NC, US
Website:
xclaymation.com
Employees:
21
Dev Panajkar Work Experience Details
  • Xclaymation
    Vice President And Cio - Digital Transformation
    Xclaymation
    Cary, Nc, Us
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  • Dollar General
    Sr. Director - Cloud & Digital Solutions
    Dollar General Jun 2022 - Present
    Goodlettsville, Tn, Us
    Led Product & Digital Organizations. Integrated Change Management Office (CMO) into PMO. Created reporting & governance processes. Moved from Project to Product. Hired Directors, Enggs, TPMs, SMs, RTEs. • Created Enterprise Architecture Org & played the role of Chief Architect. • Managed product strategies for multiple digital initiatives (Cloud, Website, Apps) for increasing customer engagement, loyalty and conversions. • Created a 2-speed Product Model org with 11 agile pods and integrated planning with other domains via LRP/AOP/PI Planning & QBRs • Led numerous Digital & Cloud Transformation initiatives and implemented a multi-cloud strategy with 3 key hyper-scalers GCP, Azure & OCI. • Implemented GenAI POCs using Gemini, VertexAI, Copilot. DaaP Evangelist
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  • Advance Auto Parts
    Ecommerce And Retail Executive - Digital Transformation
    Advance Auto Parts Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
    Raleigh, Nc, Us
    • Responsible for creating the long-term technology vision & roadmap of all digital strategy, devising actionable methods to replace the company’s aging technological architecture with future-proofed, cloud-based systems that paved the way for sustained B2C business growth• Defined strategic vision, managed budget, and efficiently allocated resources to deliver cutting-edge products and services that optimized the interactive shopping experience for customers• Managed the strategy & implementation of AAP's 1st customer facing Mobile App (on iOS & Android platforms). The app improved top-line growth & improved margin. App has received the highest rating on both platforms• Established first ever Product Development org and CI/CD pipeline at the company, building and scaling a high-performing, customer-focused division that doubled in size to reach 70+ employees• Transformed on-premises, IBM Websphere, JSP centric ecommerce platform into a modern, versatile suite of services on AWS that grew eCommerce traffic by 80+% and enabled the company to outperform sales projections by 10-15% annually• Collaborated with Enterprise Architecture to architect B2C support services for the company’s 7,000+ stores in the US• Collaborate, infuse innovation and mentor a high-performing technology team• Manage CapEx, OpEx budgets and manage vendors, internal & external vendor teams • Drove adoption of AI/ML & Advance Analytics by implementing DaaP and democratizing data. e.g. Used DaaP in AAP Personalization Platform and Recommendation Platform. Created 'AAP Innovation Lab'• Defined clear communication channels at all levels, delivering frequent presentations to Board Members, C-Suite leadership and relaying critical updates to key stakeholders• Chief Of Staff (CMO), Manage Marketing group, lead the 3 year SBP (Strategic Business Plans), AOP (Annual Operating Plan), PI Planning & QBRs.
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  • Marathon Petroleum Corporation
    Senior Director, Data & Technology Transformation
    Marathon Petroleum Corporation Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
    Findlay, Ohio, Us
    • Oversaw for Marathon’s cloud transformation initiative, vendor relations for cloud services, cloud security engineering, and all foundational development • Drove the roll-out of Cloud based enterprise Big-Data Platform supporting real-time streaming for personalization & micro-batches for key enterprise capabililities. Created the culture of 'Data as a Product (DaaP) and Data democratization. • Led the cloud transformation across multiple cross functional organizations. I was responsible for building, evolving, and sustaining a culture of continuous engineering excellence and improvement in cloud technologies (serverless, micro-services architecture, multi-region tech stack, etc.) • Scale the engineering organization by establishing a strong pipeline of talent and focus on team development.• Provide effective coaching and technical guidance, communicate as necessary with all levels of managements, employees, and partners.• Drove cloud engineering best practices including developer tool kits and DevOps practices across an extensive community of over 400 s/w engineers.
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  • Columbia Sportswear Company
    Sr. Director - Ecomm & Retail
    Columbia Sportswear Company May 2015 - Apr 2016
    Portland, Oregon, Us
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  • Nike
    Sr. Director, Commerce Platform Engineering
    Nike Jun 2013 - Apr 2015
    Beaverton, Or, Us
    • As an executive thought leader participated in C-suite discussions to drive ideation of Nike’s Direct to Consumer multi-year technology vision across global commerce tech platforms (Retail & eCommerce)• Collaborated with executive leaders to build out a unified Commerce Platform, which includes technology convergence for multiple product domains, driving uniformity and consolidation of in technology stack, driving product development effectiveness and productivity up, allowing development teams to do more with less effort.• Led efforts to solve large, complex problems, setting a compelling vision to gather support from all stakeholders, navigating competing technical and product requirements, identifying, and communicating effectively with all stakeholders, considering both immediate tactical needs and long- term success.• Worked with Product, Platform and Engg leaders across organizations setting up vision, plans, KPIs, measuring progress and driving execution to advance key valuable initiatives quickly, reducing risk on critical projects by advancing our tech stack. • Manage the budget process and all deadlines related to technology. Including alignment & allocation of people, projects and performance of all technology & related functions of Nike’s Direct to Consumer engg org.• Fostered a proactive, results-focused tech culture that is responsive to the needs of the business. • Drove org culture change & mindset shifts by articulating a Nike’s digital transformation vision and effectively galvanizing change agents• Influence the vision & strategy to enable Nike’s eCommerce across channels (retail, nike.com, SNKRS), services & features, maintaining the high-quality service for the existing portfolio while also innovating products to provide integrated experiences. • Drove outstanding biz outcomes with effective & fast decision making that takes into account the interests of all four key stakeholders – employees, customers, shareholders, and partners
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  • Nike
    Director - Engineering & Delivery
    Nike Apr 2008 - May 2013
    Beaverton, Or, Us
    Upgraded flagship eCommerce platform powering $4 billion revenue via nike.com website and mobile apps to native AWS cloud. Strategic aspect was to break the monolithic platform into a highly distributed architecture to enable faster time to market and 100% improvement in performance. Completed the project 8 months before projected time. - Added key multi-channel online fulfillment capabilities like "order today deliver tomorrow" to customer, seamless integration between web & mobile applications. These capabilities are key to company's omni-channel fulfillment roadmap- Redesigned Checkout application to reduce number of steps through Buy Path, enhance payment options & provide single view of customer orders across all Nike channels.- Created a strong partnership with Product and Engineering leadership in creating a vision of building eCommerce as platform via microservices powered API that can be reused across native app & web experiences- Active involvement in solution architecture to ensure high resiliency under concurrent load using asynchronous design patterns like CQRS, circuit breaker, etc.- Built DevOps team from scratch by hiring highly skilled polyglot engineers and hands-on managers - Evangelized open source JAVA framework and tools like Netflix OSS (Eureka for service discovery, KeyStone pipeline) - Implemented continuous delivery utilizing test driven development by having automated unit, contract, integration and performance tests integrated in pipeline and 90% code coverage enforced using static code analysis tool Sonar Qube - Started the inner sourcing culture by building community of practice on agile, tools and pipeline- Led creative engineering solutions to mitigate the bottlenecks of third party integrations by enabling client limitation based throttling in async pattern- Built detailed monitoring and alerting for APIs that enabled proactive issue detection with minimal MTTD and optimized MTTR for optimum consumer experience
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  • Nike
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Nike May 2006 - Apr 2008
    Beaverton, Or, Us
    Led a team at Nike Retail that provides consumers a unique Retail Brick & Mortar shopping experience. The team was responsible for the evolution of technology capabilities to support Global Retail expansion, POS Systems, Mobile POS - Cross Channel and Seamless Experiences across retail concepts.• Oversaw Agile and SCRUM approach to Project Life Cycle on POS releases as well as ensured that quality is achieved on the $18 million project to update retail store systems and software in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.• Ensured success on the 1st Nike Mobile Point-of-Sale solutions in Retail with integration with Digital Commerce.
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  • Nike
    Engineering Manager
    Nike Jul 2004 - May 2006
    Beaverton, Or, Us
    Managed Small & Medium sized projects in the organization. Successfully managed the CSP of the projects Images XML, XOut etc. Involved in initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closing activities of the project. Also managed budgeting, resource planning and business analysis.• Managed the scope, schedule and cost of the XOUT project. This application provides Nike customers with an off-line order form and the ability to transmit to Nike using standard Internet email. The Application supports 5 countries in Asia Pacific, 4 languages and all order types and currently accounts for about $30 Million in annual retailer revenue.• Developed the schedule and managed the execution for the Images XML project. This project initiated by the BML group changes the way image requests are submitted and received.
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  • Nike
    Technical Lead
    Nike Jul 2000 - Jul 2004
    Beaverton, Or, Us
    Lead Siebel development team on the Planning functionalities for SalesIT & Go-To-Market in Siebel and other applications by providing complete support (research, diagnose & resolution) for global teams namely USA/Canada, EMEA & AP. Lead & Implemented various projects for Order Capture (Nike .Net) & Assortment Planning (Siebel & Planet applications).
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  • Mafatlal Consultancy Services
    Principal Erp Consultant/Project Manager
    Mafatlal Consultancy Services Jul 1998 - Jul 2000
    Enterprise Resource Planning consultant. Implemented 2 end-to-end implementations of then # 2 ERP called BaaN. Responsible for implementing BaaN ERP packages at MCS Client sites including ERP package enabled business process reengineering, configuration and integration of ERP application with legacy and other best of breed applications. Clients included Bharat Bijlee Limited, Bombay, India and GTC Industries, Bombay, India.
  • Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd.
    Sr. Process Manager
    Goodlass Nerolac Paints Ltd. Jun 1995 - Jul 1998
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, In
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Dev Panajkar Skills

Sdlc Agile Methodologies Waterfall Software Quality Assurance Requirements Gathering Quality Assurance Quality Center Business Analysis Integration Cross Functional Team Leadership Management Test Planning Business Process Project Management Requirements Analysis Leadership Software Project Management Testing Process Improvement User Acceptance Testing Visio Agile Project Management Strategy Scrum Organization It Operations Test Automation Hp Quality Center Performance Testing Test Management

Dev Panajkar Education Details

  • Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School
    Business Administration And Management
  • University Of Mumbai
    University Of Mumbai
    Marketing
  • Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (Vjti)
    Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (Vjti)
    Production Engineering

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Dev Panajkar works for Xclaymation

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Dev Panajkar's current role is Vice President and CIO - Digital Transformation.

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Dev Panajkar attended Harvard Business School, University Of Mumbai, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (Vjti).

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Dev Panajkar has skills like Sdlc, Agile Methodologies, Waterfall, Software Quality Assurance, Requirements Gathering, Quality Assurance, Quality Center, Business Analysis, Integration, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Management, Test Planning.

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