- With over 25 years of experience in building and leading engineering teams in the US and India responsible for architecting, designing and developing highly scalable cloud SaaS and on-premise enterprise software products for tier 1 customers across the globe. - Have demonstrated a long-standing record of technology leadership that includes technology architecture, strategic planning, product development and systems integration with a strong belief in innovation, openness, team building and mentoring. - Worked in early stage startups to large MNCs touching a whole gamut of engineering and management roles. - Leadership: Goal oriented and led by example multiple teams to achieve corporate goals in a fast-paced challenging business environment. Firmly believe in open communications and empowering the team to achieve results with heavy bias on innovation and teamwork. Have built engineering teams from ground-up mentoring in best practices and focus on product ownership and customer-delight.- Strategy planning and direction: in the last 2 start-ups influenced executive management in strategy planning and setting the direction for engineering organization both – technology wise and execution – - Budgeting and Finances: as head of engineering organizations am responsible for budgeting and managing the OpEx including hiring, retention, increment decisions on the people front and CapEx for the department.- Technical Expertise: Hands on techno-manager – With a deep passion for technology and urge to keep up with the latest, have worked hands-on alongside development teams. - Product Lifecycle management / SDLC: Well versed with various phases of product development having worked at almost all levels in a development organization. Employ the right set of processes to achieve quality results. Having worked in a startup environment had to wear different hats right from strategy building, requirement gathering to delivery of quality product. - Program management: Effectively managed multiple programs concurrently across geographies for the last 15 years with live dashboards. Estimating, scheduling and monitoring to ensure on-time quality delivery working across different functional groups. - Customer Interaction: Comfortably partnered with pre-sales to interact with customers across the globe to understand and solidifying their requirements as well as sorting out field issues to arrive at mutually agreeable resolutions in acceptable timeframe striving for customer delight.