🚀 Leading the Charge in Middle School SEL with Palo and Internal Technology Excellence 🚀As the CTO and Founder of Talentnook, and CIO overseeing internal systems, I'm on a mission to revolutionize school education through our flagship product, Palo (palonow.com) ensuring our internal operations are optimized for peak productivity.🌟 About Talentnook and Palo:Talentnook is a pioneering edtech company enhancing the holistic development of every student. At Palo, we believe academic success is only part of the equation; emotional intelligence, resilience, and interpersonal skills are equally vital.🔧 Role and Responsibilities:CTO Responsibilities:Technical Leadership: Leading the development of Palo product development.Product Vision: Defining Palo's strategic roadmap.Team Building: Building and nurturing a team of developers and engineers.Partnership Development: Expanding Palo's reach through strategic partnerships.User Experience: Enhancing Palo's usability and effectiveness based on user insights.CIO Responsibilities:Internal Technology Management: Overseeing internal tech systems for smooth operations.Architecting CI/CD and DevOps Systems: Designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes.Technology Strategy: Integrating cutting-edge technologies to enhance productivity.Team Empowerment: Providing the team with the best technology solutions.Performance Optimization: Continuously improving system performance.Innovation and Improvement: Staying updated with industry trends and innovations.🎯 Our Vision for Palo:Palo is a catalyst for positive change in middle school students' lives. Our vision is to make whole child development a reality, delivering SEL to every student.🌱 Join Us:If you're passionate about leveraging technology to make a meaningful difference in education and shaping the future of middle school education, we'd love to hear from you.#EdTech #SocialEmotionalLearning #FutureOfEducation #TechnologyExcellence

Key Roles:- Technology Leadership- Team Management- Product Management- Collaboration- EnablementKey deliverables:• Leading, Hiring, and grooming up new Buildmasters.• Working with internal automation system to execute automated testing, DevOps system within global team providing round-the-clock service to internal customers.• Collaborate with over 60 core executive stakeholders along with other core services teams such as the release team, automation, and R&D community.• Responsible for certifying Core Releases using an automated build and testing system.• Primary contact point for executives and release team for Release quality metrics based onAutobuild system.• Product/Service Owner for Buildmaster processes/services• Overseeing team operations under the Scrum/Kanban model• Leading the transition of Branch Management responsibilities from RelEng team to Buildmaster Team.• Collaborating various R&D initiatives for smooth Salesforce deliveries

Key Roles:- Technology Leadership- People Management- Engineering Management- Solution DesignBuild and lead Development teams of 3-9 engineers located in different time zones.• Team management including Employee performance review and career development process.• Designing product integration with customer systems on (i.e. Siebel On Demand, Salesforce).• Product Design and Development of various high traffic software components• Requirement analysis and Project Management for the modules listed above• Estimation of Quarterly Release commitments and project execution to its successful delivery.• Technology expert for maintain production cloud environment.• Member of Tiger team for resolving key production performance issues.

- Designed the Licensing component for 'Unified Communication Management', one of key software product of company - Collaborated the product integration with Microsoft product 'SCOM'.- Development of Licensing module using J2EE technologies.- Development of SCOM Connector layer on .Net and C# technologies.- Drove team development under the role of ScumMaster.

Worked as Product Development Consultant to this start up company which is comming up with a Multi Media based portal. I never saw such a good mix of fun and work as I had working for Divvio.com

Provided consultancy services to various clients:- Gap Inc.- Insureworks (end client: SCIF)- IBM Inc.- School Specialty Inc- Divvio Inc.Key Services Offered:- People and technology management- Design and Development of various J2EE based enterprise solutions.

Pre-sales Technical architect worked various leads and converted those into concrete deals with different Telecom clients.

- Lead a team supporting enterprise software to global customer base. - Lead Dev team to develop in- house product 'Global Expense System'.

Senior Application Designer and J2EE Developer.