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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Managed and delivered complex high-profile programs, leading cross-functional teams spanning product and technology departments across various geographical locations-Directed scope, schedule, deployments and stakeholder engagement for these programs. Identified and mitigated program risks, ensuring minimal disruption to program timelines.-Collaborated with Product, Functional and Technical teams to bring the program plan into reality. Resolved blockers and removed impediments and communicate program status to key stakeholders in Product and Technology.-Partnered with Product on effective prioritized backlog management and feature definition. Partnered with the scrum teams to incorporate and contribute to sustaining frequent and high-quality delivery of prioritized features.-Conducted weekly stakeholder meetings to review progress, address issues, and adjust project priorities, achieving a 95% stakeholder satisfaction rate.-Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration & release planning, retrospectives and reviews.-Participated actively in Quarterly Execution Planning (QEP) to ensure alignment and coordinate dependencies with other Agile teams.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Successfully executed 20+ research projects, net worth around $10 million, in the span of 3+ years. Oversaw the end-to-end delivery of engineering projects, ensuring successful completion within scope, time, and budget constraints.-Championed the transition to Agile methodologies, resulting in a 30% increase in project efficiency and a 25% reduction in time-to-market.-Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and develop comprehensive project plans.-Facilitated effective communicationand stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment on project goals. Tracking and monitoring of metrics to control project goals.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Executed product development ofAutomotive AI Assistant framework and its components (Web application, server-side cloud applicationhosted on AWS, SDK, usage of Alexa voice services and Dialogflow).-Redesigned the data model by removing the duplicate records from the database while increasing the query performance by up to 53%.-Technical evaluation of New Project Ideas and leading continous learning and growth initiatives for the team.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Led a technical team of 3 developers towards successful product development andimplementation.-Automated the Dev-ops pipeline to reliably and efficiently compile, build and deploy ourcode to production compute platforms, reducing the error rate to 90%.