ASHOK DATLA

• Providing assistance in developing and implementing program reviews.
• Advising and sharing expertise with Technologists.
• Assisting in technical designs for products

• Researching and creating strategic management, operational, and financial plans.

• Ramp up and build a team to scale and grow with the strategy of the company
• Provide vision and leadership for existing and emerging product and application technologies through an understanding of customer and business needs
• Cultivate sustained innovation to deliver exceptional products / platforms to customers
• Ensure implementation / continuous improvement of formal processes to support development activities
• Motivate people and provide (hands-on where needed) technical direction and guidance, as well as hands- on agile guidance
• Foster engineering best practices for the development of high-quality products
• Ensure integrity and quality through development processes
• Manage support, operations and maintenance of engineering deliverables
• Manage technical consistency and innovation based on a long-term vision
• Attract, retain, develop and manage engineering & technical talent pools including input into performance reviews and managing career paths
• Bring out the best ideas from the best engineers by empowering them and leading by example
• Build and maintain relationships with Product Engineering, Professional Services, Product Management, Account Executives, Senior Leadership Team, and strategic customers
• Development of new processes and practices to drive performance improvements
• Executes global / regional improvement programs
• Foster and create a highly collaborative culture with-in team using best practices & delivery excellence
• Foster and create a highly collaborative culture with in team using best practices & delivery excellence
• Help define and execute on offshore / location resourcing strategy
• Identify, manage and record escalation trends and collaborate with Product Development on product defects and trends
• Leads the local engineering team, manages performance and development of direct reports

• Development of new processes and practices to drive performance improvements Executes global/regional improvement programs Foster and create a highly collaborative culture within team using best practices & delivery excellence Foster and create a highly collaborative culture within team using best practices & delivery excellence Help define and execute on offshore/location resourcing strategy Identify, manage and record escalation trends and collaborate with Product Development on product defects and trends Leads the local engineering team, manages performance and development of direct reports
• As a Head of Delivery
• In the delivery role here are some noteworthy responsibilities I had undertaken
• Provided leadership to the Delivery managers / Program Managers / Project Managers in running the delivery and operations and drive the architecture, build, testing, with an aim to meet and excel the customer needs, as well as, internal needs, such as working closely with the Sr
• Leadership team and achieve operational parameters
• Build the foundation for all development and conceptualise different service offerings & solutions to customer, as well as in ensuring the delivery of services for customer contracted work
• Take ownership of all key performance parameters to drive the operating margin of the accounts
• Design and implement frameworks for performance optimization, scalability, security, reusability for delivery excellence and customer delight Ensure best practices in software development, agile methodologies and coding standards; institute change when necessary and appropriate
• As a Client Principal I was responsible for understanding the customer's business, the vertical, and strategizing software led solutions that meet the customer's business need
• I lead the software solution services pursuit, develops Software Solutions strategies and oversees delivery of complex engagements
• Ensured best practices in software development, agile methodologies and coding standards; institute change when necessary and appropriate
• TECHNOLOGIES:
• Java, J2EE, Laravel, Liferay 6.x, Drupal, Cassandra, MongoDB, MYSQL 5.4, MemCache, Redis, EHCache, Play
• Framework, Android, IOS, HighCharts, ICharts, FusionCharts, Tableau, Pentaho BI, Solr 4.x, Leading the whole architecture, design and development of the whole social collaborative platform that enables users to collect, share, discuss about any product available anywhere in the world
• We were a two member team who have been behind the whole architecture, design and implementation of the social platform
• ACHIEVEMENTS: Work under tight deadlines and released the 1st version of the platform in 3 months
• System is architected to support 10000 users and can be extended further within the cloud Introduced MemCached and more than 95% of the content that users sees is served from the cache
• Implemented NoSQL concept for data storage and simple MySQL for user credentials
• Implemented routing mechanism and distributed storage mechanism that determines where in the cloud the dataexists based on the globalid’s/users and gets the relevant information parallelly from various systems
• TECHNOLOGIES:
• PHP 5.3, Cassandra, MYSQL 5.4, MemCache

• Lead team of 40 people at Stanford GSB in various enterprise administrative, academic, simulation and social business systems
• Worked using agile metholodogies using techniques from SCRUM and XP, manage the development of an automated functional testing system for highly transactional registration system, prepare proof-of-concept prototypes and software architecture documents
• Prepare and present information about agile software development for GSB CIO on multiple occasions
• Mentoring developers on techniques from agile methodologies including refactoring and unit testing
• Adapting the XP Process to a fast moving development organization
• Discovering and writing use cases for an integrated testing system
• Develop system architecture and software prototypes for Course and Research assistance solution
• Senior member of technical team with expertise using Java/PHP and C#, application architecture and development work
• Worked on various registration algorithms, optimization and bug fix work
• Instructed course on software frameworks for Stanford
• Graduate School of Business developers
• Serve in an advisory role on issues of software architecture and agile methodologies for Solution Architects' various development projects
• Fulfill the engagement management role ensuring the outsourcing partners work with various constraints and expectations of Stanford GSB
• ACHIEVEMENTS: Substantially reduced overhead and operating costs of academic administration and academic operations processes through building their course registration and planning systems Introduced the concepts of Scrum, Extreme Programming, Test Drive development methodologies that greatly made the whole development cycle efficient and transparent
• Delivery in Time and with in the budget constraints Influence the enterprise model changes Executed project as the Lead Scrum Master working on with Scrum master over different shores.

• Oversaw and involved in the design, development, integration of its prestigious Front End server, Front End
• Client and its C-API’s that were made available for its clients as services to connect and trade using the Pacific stock trading platform
• ACHIEVEMENTS: Conceptualized, proposed, implemented and delivered the PCX Front end server
• 10 fold performance improvements in the front end UI by changing the architecture and introducting parallel processing, caching mechanisms
• Implemented the JNI implementations for existing PCX C API’s that were made the non C based used to connect to the PCX Platform to trade and query
• TECHNOLOGIES:
• Java, J2EE, JNI, JMS, C, Eclipse, Junit, Ant, MS-SQL 2000, thick client architectures with technologies such as Java
• Swings

• Involved in all phases of a product development lifecycle starting from Gathering market requirements, functional specifications, development etc to Beta Test
• This product is built to cater a very niche market that includes state owned pension funds, insurance companies and investment banks
• It is essentially a Tactical Asset
• Allocation Product
• It involves gathering the daily data from factset and working on evaluation of different entities like Rules, Strategies and Portfolio Decisions
• These evaluation details help the Users in making Tactical asset allocations in the current market
• This product also provides an extensive charting; reporting features to see how the rules, strategies and Portfolio Decisions created by the user performs in the market in getting excess returns
• ACHIEVEMENTS: Archtiect’ed the Rules based engine that serves the overall workflow of the portolio analysis
• Leveraged existing rule based javascript engines available in dotNet technologies, thus reducing the overall price of delivering the software
• TECHNOLOGIES, C#, ASP.

Project Description

• This application provides a neutral, anonymous, on-line marketplace for buying and selling Shaped
• Power(Structured) electricity, transmission, ancillary services and related products
• It facilitates a superior, unique method for reducing risks associated with buying or selling structured electricity products through matching and optimization algorithms, on-line negotiations and human – but market neutral structuring assistance
• The product provides its client with a powerful, yet easy-to-use set of tools for planning, evaluating and implementing shaped or standard electricity transactions
• It reduces the flow company deals with trading structured power which includes steps like RFP’s (Requests for proposals), Auctions, Merchant Structuring desks and Spot Markets with its application where clients have the following benefits Anonymity, neutrality,
• Flexibility and Liquidity
• It also involved developing modules for Search Engines for Marketing (SEM) used by power Merchants and Retailers

Responsibilities

• Involved in all phases of a product development lifecycle starting from Gathering market requirements, functional specifications, development etc to Beta Test
• This product is built to cater a very niche market that includes state owned pension funds, insurance companies and investment banks
• It is essentially a Tactical Asset Allocation Product
• It involves gathering the daily data from fact-set and working on evaluation of different entities like Rules, Strategies and Portfolio Decisions
• These evaluation details help the Users in making Tactical asset allocations in the current market
• This product also provides an extensive charting; reporting features to see how the rules, strategies and Portfolio Decisions created by the user performs in the market in getting excess returns

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Responsible to implement the message broadcasting module that serves as the communication medium for all message types between the platform API's or front end and the back end tx platform
• Designed and implemented the energy matching module that suggests the best match, least risk energy trade that is available that match the traders set match criteria
• Implemented E-lectrade’s patented risk and variance algorithms to suggest matches to traders
• Designed and implemented the portfolio management modules that serve as their dashboard
• Implemented E-lectrade’s future graph modules projecting prices, variances etc, based on past collected from various trades online (data available from all tradings that were made public in United states)

TECHNOLOGIES

Java, J2EE, JMS, KDB, Kx, PL

• Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement
• Implemented the message broadcasting module that serves as the communication medium for all message types between the platform API's or front end and the back end tx platform
• Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance.
• Delivered scalable system architecture to support high-availability trading applications.
• Designed and implemented the energy matching module that suggests the best match, least risk energy trade that is available that match the traders set match criteria. Implemented E-lectrade’s patented risk and variance algorithms to suggest matches to traders
• Designed and implemented the portfolio management modules that serve as their dashboard.
• Implemented E-lectrade’s future graph modules projecting prices, variances, based on past collected data from various trades online (data available from all tradings that were made public in United states).
  

• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
• Implemented Share Trading integrations using Java