Amit Kulkarni
Senior R&D Leader
Pune
Summary
Strong, committed, proven leader in global organization with 20+ years of experience in leading multiple product teams delivering high quality enterprise framework software in PLM domain using SAFe methodology keeping Product, People, Process as priority. 18+ years with DISW, last 8+ years focused on strategic planning, defining product roadmap, managing innovation, software change management, program planning & execution, customer escalations, people management including remote teams, drive quality of enterprise product through automation.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Software Engineering Senior Manager
Siemens Industry Software
Pune
01.2021 - Current
- Plan, execute and deliver products like Siemens Web Framework, Teamcenter Active workspace & legacy Rich Client working through multiple scrum teams with high quality standards
- Maintain Product road map and journey map
- Evaluated hiring, firing, promotions requests and Salary management
- Built a strong development team with ownership mindset
- Manage large-scale projects and introduced new processes, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
- Responsible for yearly releases and month patches
- Inculcate innovation culture in team through Innovation days, Hack-a-thons, publishing white papers and filing patents
- Participate in Strategic planning process to define wins for your product areas
- Follow Safe Agile practice for Solution delivery working with multiple value streams and ARTs
- Conduct brainstorming sessions and workshops
- Data driven decision making by reviewing and analyzing reports, records
- Boosted team member productivity by enhancing performance monitoring and instituting motivational approaches.
Software Engineering Manager
Siemens Industry Software
Pune
01.2017 - 12.2020
- Develop & maintain roadmap, backlog for multiple products
- Hiring, firing and Salary decisions
- Cultivated partnerships between product management, R&D team, Quality and UX personnel to create holistically designed final products.
- Provided regular feedback to both junior engineers and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
- Interacted with customers like GM, Toyota, Nissan, BMW & many more to resolve escalations, improve satisfaction and integrate feedback on in next planning cycle.
- Stakeholder management through collaboration across teams
- Integrated prescribed processes and conventions during project planning to align products with internal guidelines.
- Implement Test Driven Development methodology
Software Engineering Associate Manager
Siemens Industry Software
Pune
01.2015 - 12.2016
- Develop and manage backlog for Rich Client framework team.
- Handle customer escalation in product areas
- Product delivery through 6 month releases & monthly patches on timely basis working with release management
- Handle PMP, PIP & Salaries
- Implement Agile methodology following all Safe Agile ceremonies like planning, community of practice, retrospective etc
- Led development on 3 simultaneous capability development, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.
Software Engineer Senior
Siemens Industry Software
Pune
01.2011 - 12.2014
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet product management requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software interfaces.
- Collaborated with customers to define solution requirements.
- Delivered unit-tested systems using TDD & SOLID principle in prescribed timeframes.
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Careful & critical code review to maintain code quality
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures for Teamcenter Unified Rich Client Framework .
- Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments.
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of complex enterprise software Front End features using Java, SWing, SWT, Jface eclipse technology
Software Engineer
Siemens Industry Software
Pune
05.2005 - 12.2010
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop enterprise level software "Teamcenter Enterprise" for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
- Worked on customer facing Teamcenter Multisite solution working closely with Nissan
- Participated in all SDLC steps to deliver features, Bug fixes, refactoring etc
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of server side features using C++ & Teamceter propritery language.
- Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members.
Education
Advance Management Programme Corporate Leaders - Senior Leadership Development Program
Indian Institute of Management
Indore 06.2021 - 09.2022
Foundation Leadership Programme -
Siemens Learning Excellence
Germany 11.2017 - 09.2018
Inspire Series -
Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad 01.2016 - 06.2016
Master of Science - Computer Science
Dr D. Y. Patil College
Pune 06.2000 - 09.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Dr D. Y. Patil College
Pune 06.1997 - 06.2000
Skills
Strategic planning
undefinedVision
To be a strategic, honest, impactful & empathetic global organization leader
Timeline
Advance Management Programme Corporate Leaders - Senior Leadership Development Program
Indian Institute of Management
06.2021 - 09.2022
Software Engineering Senior Manager
Siemens Industry Software
01.2021 - Current
Foundation Leadership Programme -
Siemens Learning Excellence
11.2017 - 09.2018
Software Engineering Manager
Siemens Industry Software
01.2017 - 12.2020
Inspire Series -
Indian Institute of Management
01.2016 - 06.2016
Software Engineering Associate Manager
Siemens Industry Software
01.2015 - 12.2016
Software Engineer Senior
Siemens Industry Software
01.2011 - 12.2014
Software Engineer
Siemens Industry Software
05.2005 - 12.2010
Master of Science - Computer Science
Dr D. Y. Patil College
06.2000 - 09.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Dr D. Y. Patil College
06.1997 - 06.2000
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