Akhil Gajendran
Bangalore,KA
Summary
- 20+ years of IT Industry experience working in with excellent and demonstrated skills in Functional, Technical, Process and Managerial skills.
- In-depth industry knowledge in Retail, Supply Chain, CPG, Trade Promotions, Logistics Domains and have rich experience in Personal and Investment Banking.
- 11+ years of Project management experience in managing large teams across Development, Support and DevSecOps projects.
- 7+ years of onsite experience and 3+ years as Onsite Project Manager.
- Delivered many successful end-to-end implementations of Projects in Java, React, Angular, AI/ML, Gen AI, SRE, DevSecOps, Salesforce, GCP, AWS, Database platforms.
- Good hands-on knowledge on Java, Springboot, GCP, AWS, PL/SQL and Unix technologies.
- Certified with Java, Project Management, Agile and Domain skills.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Infosys Limited
Bangalore, India
06.2021 - Current
- Successfully onboarded 2 large clients from Pre-Sales, Request for Proposal (RFP), Contract signings, Team Staffing, Project Delivery, Support and Continuous Improvements.
- Single point of contact for client leadership for Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Governance meetings and consistently delivered Engagement Level Feedback of 6 or more on a scale of 7.
- Built support/development team of 30+ developers, testers and architects; oversaw knowledge transition, handled staffing, budgeting & appraisals.
- Introduced Gen AI and Machine learning capabilities by achieving 20% YoY cost savings for clients.
- Delivered key initiatives: Visual Search (Google AI), MS Teams Gen AI chatbots (NL2SQL), Flatbed Delivery Center integration, and anomaly detection in EDW.
- Mentored junior project managers, fostering professional growth and improving team performance.
Project Manager
Infosys Limited
Bangalore, India
07.2017 - 06.2021
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver ecommerce platform across 15 global sites; migrated to Azure Cloud.
- Acted as Scrum Master, managing JIRA boards, Kanban & sprint releases.
- Created system dashboards using New Relic, Grafana & Nagios; improved MTTR on production issues.
- Led load testing initiative for peak performance validation.
- Partnered client in continuous improvement by introducing EASE (Eliminate, Automate, Shift Left & Enable) approach, performed costing/licensing analysis, recommended IT goals & future roadmaps.
Project Manager
Infosys Limited
Atlanta, USA
11.2014 - 05.2018
- Managed on-site delivery at client location in Georgia, USA; planned & executed monthly releases.
- Anchored POCs to validate solutions and reduce technical risk.
- Oversaw 10+ offshore team members; handled risk management, scheduling & audits.
Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
Bangalore, India And Atlanta, USA
01.2010 - 10.2014
- Developed and enhanced integrated trade planning application using AJAX, Struts, Spring & MyBatis.
- Designed solution architecture, managed SVN configuration, defect prevention, and DR functions.
- Anchored POCs to validate solutions and reduce technical risk.
Developer /Module Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore, India
06.2005 - 12.2009
- Developed multiple banking & investment systems in JSP, Struts, Spring, Hibernate & PL/SQL.
- Prepared ERDs, class diagrams & low-level designs; supported UAT & global rollouts.
- Built batch programs & stored procedures for credit card and hedge fund applications.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Anna University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu01.2005
Skills
- Retail
- Supply Chain
- CPG
- Logistics
- Personal Banking
- Investment Banking
- Waterfall
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Angular
- React
- JSP
- Vercel
- Java
- Spring
- Springboot
- Microservices
- Kafka
- AWS DMS
- Appflow
- GCP Pub/Sub
- DAG
- Workato
- Automic
- Oracle
- Sybase
- Postgres
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Maria
- Dynamo
- Mongo
- AWS Datalake
- SOLR
- GBQ
- HBASE
- Tomcat
- JBOSS
- WebLogic
- Struts
- Hibernate
- MyBatis
- GCP
- AWS
- Azure
- OCI
- PCF
- Windows
- Unix
- Linux
- Ubuntu
- SNOW
- JIRA
- Remedy
- Eclipse
- Visual Studio Code
- IntelliJ
- NetBeans
- Tortoise
- Toad
- ASEISQL
- PL/SQL Developer
- Rational XDE
- Junit
- Mockito
- Selenium
- JMeter
- Blaze meter
- Locust
- JENKINS
- Build Kite
- GearSet
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- SVN
- New Relic
- Grafana
- Nagios
- Dynatrace
- CloudWatch
- Splunk
- GCP Log
- Salesforce
- Magenta POS
- Lectra PLM
- Stibo
- P360
- SAP Hybris
- Oracle RMS
- RDW
- MFP
- EBS
- Manhattan WMS
- Tealium
- Braze
- Optimizely
- Trufit
- Bazaar Voice
- Google Merchant center
- Dressipi
- EShop
- Slyp
- Google Retail Search
- Antavo
- Clicktale
- Content Square
Certification
- Sun Certified Java Developer J2SE 1.4
- Infosys Global Agile Developer Certification
- Infosys Certified Scrum Master
- Infosys Certified Business Consultant
- Infosys Domain certification in Retail CPG, Warehouse, Logistics
- Java
- Project Management
- Agile
- Domain skills
Additional Information
Work Authorization: Australia Work Visa.
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Infosys Limited
06.2021 - Current
Project Manager
Infosys Limited
07.2017 - 06.2021
Project Manager
Infosys Limited
11.2014 - 05.2018
Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
01.2010 - 10.2014
Developer /Module Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2005 - 12.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Anna University
Personal Information
- Total Experience: 20.3 years
- Title: Senior Project Manager
- Visa Status: Australia Work Visa
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
- Work Permit: Australia Work Visa
Visa Details
Australia Work Visa