Pranav Kohli Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Wales, United Kingdom

• Team Management – Leading a team of 12 engineers across two locations, managing a spectrum of junior to senior talent with diverse technical skills: enhancing collaboration and increasing project delivery efficiency by 40%.• Standards and Best Practices – Established and ensuring adherence to development standards and best practices for performance and scalability, resulting in a 25% decrease in review and rework efforts.• Performance Monitoring and Measurement – Setting clear and quantifiable SMART team goals to enhance professional growth, and boost in-sprint delivery throughput by 20%.• Coaching and Mentoring – Leveraging coaching and mentoring techniques, enabling the team to surpass 90% of their annual goals.• Incident and Issue Management – Pioneered the creation of a comprehensive incident management runbook, cutting resolution times by 40% and increasing team efficiency by 20% through detailed escalation procedures, communication protocols, and recurring issue resolutions.• Recruitment – Crafted experience-based targeted question sets that were crucial in successfully onboarding mid-level and senior engineers. Adopting a targeted approach resulted in the seamless onboarding of new hires and integration into their teams quickly.

Wales, United Kingdom

• Designed and developed a large-scale transformation of Payment Gateway and Billing Systems. A major project highlight is the successful migration of over 15 million active payment cards.• Implemented the Separation-of-Concerns software design principle – a definitive factor in creating self-contained, reusable code components with high cohesion and low coupling. The reusability of the core product exceeded 60% for subsequent implementations.• Employed a synchronous web service request-response model, resulting in a significant reduction in payment transaction time. Eliminated two batch processes leading to annual savings of over 150 hours.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Created High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents for a mid-size Europe based Insurer – for their Policy system transformation; accelerating development time due to clearer project scope; and a 10% decrease in post-deployment bug fixes through improved code maintainability and testability.• Organized weekly meetings with Business, Architecture, Quality, and Deployment teams, resulting in a 40% increase in cross-functional communication efficiency.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivered a large-scale transformation project for a leading Personal Line Insurer in the United Kingdom. Owned the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the Interactive Payment Gateway, from defining, designing, delivering, testing, and deploying, to maintaining the system.• Completed the project ahead of schedule by 4 months, saving over 100 person-days of effort.• Steered the project implementation from a technical delivery standpoint, accomplishing the project objectives with the highest quality standards, and exceeding stakeholder satisfaction by 95%.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for the overall technical delivery of a large US-based Insurer for their Claims system transformation. Led a team of 2 senior and 2 mid-level experience engineers.• Provided clear direction and mentored team members on crucial concerns, offering guidance and support to enable them to perform at their best. Achieved a notable 15% increase in project efficiency, streamlining the processes and enhancing the outcomes.• Re-engineered the project by introducing Agile principles while guiding the team on code review and rework best practices. This accelerated project delivery by 5 months and reduced post-release defects by 40%.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed well-structured Interface Specification documents for a large Europe-based Telecom provider, resulting in a 10% reduction in development time due to clear API definitions.• Written and executed over 50 Unit and Integration tests that conformed with the use-case specifications.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Created web-based solutions for a US-based Medical Transcription organization. Adhered to development standards and industry best practices, thus accelerating delivery time by 2 months; while keeping unit, quality, and post-release defect count to a minimum.• Maintained active engagement with various delivery departments throughout the 18-month project lifecycle, contributing to requirements analysis, development, and unit testing.