Bharath Raj

· Decisive Engineering Leader with 19 years’ experience of developing and applying new technologies to deliver exceptional final products.

. Combines technical engineering capability with effective management techniques. Dedicated to driving rapid, advanced product development through meticulous oversight of junior staff and hands-on participation.

· 11 years of highly effective technical leadership, people management and engineering management experience.

· Boundary-less leadership, Rapid experimentation, Stakeholder management and Customer engagement being core leadership style.

· Ability to learn fast, define vision and directions.

· Skilled at identifying, Preventing and solving problems.

· Capable to work at high performing and high pressure situations.

· Speed as a habit, Well organized, Responsible and Accountable.

Specifics as a Center Head:

. Leading the centre of about 450 employees in a matrix organization.

. Key initiatives successfully undertaken are to get the India center “Great Place to Work” certified in 2022, Successful Internal job transfer program establishment, Lead quarterly CSR activities, Chief sponsor of “Women in Tech Forum” and People Managers Forum.

. Recently initiated and sponsored the 2023 Internship programme in partnership with prestigious colleges across Bengaluru.

. More than 10 tech publications released on magazines and news portal like Business Transformation Asia, CxoToday, TechGig to name a few.

. Laying effecting branding strategy for the center with effective PR communications and Social media presence.

. Ensuring engagement score of the India centre is maintained at 80+ score in quarterly conducted Employee surveys, thus ensuring highly engaged and High performing teams.

· Bootstrapped "Incentives organization" at BHN India centre and successfully formed a team close to 60 development engineers and 5 Product managers

· Transitioned work from US, UK and Australia. Ensured most of the scrum teams reach steady state ahead of time.

· Leading and creating tech road map on various tech stacks including JAVA, .Net, Android, IOS and for other cloud based applications

· Work very closely with Business, Product management, Program Management, Customer success team and contribute to build multiyear product roadmap

· Hands-on reviewer of Design and test strategies on Resiliency, Performance, Capacity Planning and other non-functional critical aspects of Product development

· Provide overall people leadership to direct reports, coach Directors and Senior engineering managers, Senior Product Managers

· Define hiring strategies, setting and monitoring of Annual performance plans and career development of entire organization

· Ensure high engagement and happiness index of the organization

· At the site level, being part of the India leadership team, lead the "Manager's Forum", Contribute in building and introducing new engineering craftsmanship across product lines. Also, co-head the POSH committee.

· Exhibiting Core Strengths of Speed, Accountability and Crisis handling capabilities

· Drive Innovation and Customer Empathy across the organization

“Awards” at various companies on various aspects of behaviour:

· Going Above and Beyond

· Engineering Excellence

· Win together

· Customer Empathy and

· Drive for Results

· Everyday Leader

. Pillar of Success