Raghavendra Deshpande Email and Phone Number

Able to own programs from inception to deployment and operations through multiple stagesBuild and lead the team and grow a sustainable and engaged business relationship with the client.Sustainable and consistent project/program delivery

• Drive successful execution of projects by managing schedules, resources, dependencies, and risks of multiple Application Modernization projects which transform Legacy Information Warehouses/Applications into microservices. • Planning and execution using Agile methodologies and tracking using JIRA.• Regular status meetings with Senior Managers to provide the roadmap of various projects.• Coordinate cross-functional and cross-geo teams on the delivery of new features and maintaining released products. • Adopt and refine processes to ensure high quality, security and productivity • Invest in career development/planning and growth of team members • Contribute in hiring, developing and retain top talent • Introduce and sustain development processes aimed at high quality and efficiency. • Deliver solutions combining contemporary Cloud, AI and Analytics skills with deep industry expertise

• Enable developers on emerging technologies such as Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cloud Native, App Modernization and Blockchain provisioned on IBM Cloud.• Experience with IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public cloud, and related industry/technical concepts.• Hands-on experience with design and development of scalable applications. Develop rapid prototypes and proof of concepts to facilitate decision making and creating the mindshare which will influence revenue. • Help enterprise clients to architect and implement solutions using emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cloud Native and App Modernization.• Participate in the analysis, architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale enterprise grade products & platforms.• Reviewing and maintaining technical documentation, plus creating other support materials for developers• Acting as an advocate for developers, reporting and acting on observed areas for improvement and also mentoring them.• Actively participate in open-source projects and being a member of the open source community • Regular speaker in many technical conferences such GIDS, Open Source India, Nasscom, Cypher, TechGig, Blockchain Consortium. Regular speaker and manage hackathons across major academia.

Watson Health – Curam Product DevelopmentRoles and Responsibilities - Technical Lead - Provide hands-on technical leadership and contribute for the delivery of the Curam Product Development. Help define system architecture and tactical solutions for the critical business services implementations.Scrum Master: Manage and plan the project execution to ensure delivery success. Engineering Manager - Through mentoring and reviewing, help other engineers make architectural decisions, improve code quality and ensure the higher quality delivery. Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for improved development processes. Inspire, mentor, develop and lead a team of high performing engineers.Release Manager Responsible for delivery of enterprise modules and also a release manager for all the ongoing and upcoming releases.

Providing consultancy to Ministry of Ontario for extensively using Cúram OOTB functionalities such as Enterprise Framework, Case Management, Provider Management, Reporting, Evidence and Verification, Financials, Service Planning, Organization and Security, Common Intake, Alternate Service Delivery, Appeals, Investigations, Supervisor Workspace and Communication.Working on Advisor Infrastructure and creating a Proof of Concept for raising issues if the evidence details are partially entered.

• Design, develop and integrate the functionalities of Curam Decision Assist, Supervisor workspace, Cúram Funded Program Management, Cúram Provider Management modules such as Training Program, Attendance, Roster management, Service delivery. • Design and implement new widgets using the Cúram Renderer Framework.• Design and document required customizations/extension points and configurations of Cúram Provider Management.• Worked on various customer cases addressing all the customer queries on Cúram Provider Management functionalities.• Involved in reviews of the deliverables and various take-on activities.• Unit test of developed functionalities and writing Junits.• Guide the team members on proper implementation of the solutions using Persistence Infrastructure framework and involved in planning and tracking of the work so that there were timely deliveries.• Regular conference calls and status updates with the Product Manager• Ownership of all activities under project management, hiring, mentoring, coaching, people development and ensuring on-time and quality delivery of project. • Exposure to Water fall / Agile methodologies development process implementation. Hands-on with Requirements Analysis, Design and Implementation of features and enhancements. Coordination with cross-functional teams viz… Product Management team, Release management team, Senior Management, QA organizations, Consulting folks, customer support team and customer

Build and Release Engineer, Onsite coordinator and Project Lead.Worked as senior developer at onsite in client facing roles in various projects in the telecom and insurance domains with the clients Orange-UK and ING-Holland respectively. I was involved in various Java projects and did analysis, gathered requirements, designed, developed and tested the solutions and implemented the same. Lead and coordinated the project team of 15 members. Delivery responsibility for 2 projects

Software engineer reporting to Module leader. I worked on the Logistics domain with client DHL. The projects on which I had worked were mainly the migration projects. I was mainly involved in development using Java and related technologies. I wrote shell scripts to extract data and process the same depending on the business logic.