Amir Kochak
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Bengaluru
Summary
A results-oriented leader with a strong track record of guiding teams, navigating complex projects, and delivering strategic outcomes. Experienced in the full lifecycle of solution development, from design to delivery and automation. Transforms teams into high-performing, autonomous units through effective mentorship and leadership development. Drives efficiency and speed through the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and leverages Grafana for proactive monitoring and performance optimization.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
EUROFINS IT DELIVERY CENTER
BENGALURU
05.2018 - Current
- Successfully led cross-functional teams across multiple high-impact and mission-critical projects, driving delivery excellence, stakeholder alignment, and timely execution under tight deadlines.
- Developed a PowerShell module to automate and streamline environment setup in Docker, reducing setup time for engineers from hours to minutes and significantly accelerating onboarding and development workflows.
- Conceived, designed, and built a high-efficiency CI/CD pipeline, significantly reducing turnaround time and establishing a scalable blueprint adopted across multiple projects.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive test automation framework, including test strategy development, project setup, tool selection (e.g., Playwright), and seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps) to ensure continuous testing and accelerated release cycles.
- Designed and implemented Azure dashboards to enable continuous health monitoring of build and release pipelines, providing real-time visibility.
- Developed and deployed metrics dashboards to provide actionable insights and end-to-end transparency into product, enabling data-driven decision-making across teams.
- Designed and developed automated smoke and sanity tests, integrating results into Grafana dashboards to provide real-time visibility on system quality and stability.
- Oversaw 7 concurrent projects, monitoring each for development milestone and quality control compliance.
- Worked with engineers to identify and remove software bugs.
- Mentored junior engineers through onboarding process and long-term team contributions.
- Reviewed code to check compliance with company coding guidelines.
- People management of 51+ direct reports.
LEAD CONSULTANT
ITC INFOTECH
05.2015 - 05.2018
- Designed and developed the architecture for the APIs and unit tests, enabling team members to deliver new endpoints quickly.
- Designed and developed the architecture for SPA using knockout.js and jQuery.
- Developed and deployed an Azure Blob Storage-based storage management solution featuring automated SAS token regeneration via access policies. This eliminated manual intervention and reduced release manager time by 10% per deployment.
- Engaging in client meetings to gather and discuss requirements.
TEAM LEAD
LELAFE IT SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
07.2011 - 05.2015
- Designed and developed a forecasting tool that accurately predicts financial inflow and outflow, improving financial visibility for customers by 30%, enabling more informed decision-making and resource allocation.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SNOWFLAKES SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
01.2011 - 07.2011
- Successfully migrated the entire application from on-premises to Azure, including testing, environment setup, and developing a data migration utility, reducing infrastructure costs by 50%.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
DZ INTERNATIONAL
01.2008 - 12.2010
- Contributed to all solution design aspects, business strategy, product integration, and technology by creating reusable components and a streamlined data access layer, resulting in a 25% reduction in development effort.
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science
Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Pune 05.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Stakeholder Management
Strategic Thinking
Team Building & Collaboration
Decision Making
Auditing & Compliance
NET, C#, T-SQL
PowerShell, Azure CLI
Automation
Azure DevOps, CI/CD
Docker
Azure
Timeline
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
EUROFINS IT DELIVERY CENTER
05.2018 - Current
LEAD CONSULTANT
ITC INFOTECH
05.2015 - 05.2018
TEAM LEAD
LELAFE IT SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
07.2011 - 05.2015
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SNOWFLAKES SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
01.2011 - 07.2011
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
DZ INTERNATIONAL
01.2008 - 12.2010
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science
Maharashtra Institute of Technology
05.2003 - 05.2007
Accomplishments
- Ranked in the top 10% of people managers' scorecards, org-wide, in Great Places to Work Survey.
- Recognized three times as a Key Talent at Eurofins, selected from a pool of 4,500 employees for demonstrating exceptional potential, leadership qualities, and the ability to take on roles with increased responsibility and complexity.
Certifications
- Certified CMMI Associate
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Languages
English
Hindi