Technical Lead | Product Development, Agile Delivery & Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Thane
Summary
Product‑first Engineering Leader with 13+ years building customer‑facing SaaS and on‑prem products across retail fuel, POS/self‑checkout, ATM/branch automation, and banking.
Led cross‑functional teams to deliver end‑to‑end product roadmaps that improved adoption and operational stability; delivered transformations that cut adoption time by 65% and increased release cadence twofold.
Owned program planning, estimations, and sprint governance for multi‑release initiatives; improved delivery predictability through OKR alignment, disciplined backlog management, and engineering metrics.
Designed and delivered microservice architectures, ensuring highly available, maintainable platforms that meet compliance and resilience SLAs.
Built and mentored high‑performing teams, established onboarding and training process, and raised engineering maturity to support multi‑region delivery.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevSecOps controls (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker) to reduce post‑release interventions and increase deployment confidence. Designed a robust Git branching strategy to ensure parallel project goals, timelines and seamless merging in different environments.
Consistently recognized for innovation and performance; trusted partner in RFPs, client engagements, and roadmap planning with a track record of zero‑impact rollouts.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead – Professional Services
Diebold Nixdorf
09.2022 - Current
Productization & Release Strategy: Migrated product upgrades into client‑specific custom repos, reducing product upgrade window from ~3 months to 5 weeks and enabling quarterly releases.
Operational Resilience: Cut post‑upgrade P1/P2 incidents by 85%, delivering sustained zero‑impact rollouts across multi‑site programs.
Delivery Leadership: Owned agile delivery for a 22‑member cross‑site team, accountable for estimations, sprint execution, and SLA adherence.
Platform Delivery: Launched POS and self‑checkout solutions for major fuel retailers (Ampol, BP) with fuel‑pump and loyalty integrations, ensuring transaction reliability at scale.
DevSecOps & Automation: Implemented CI/CD and DevSecOps (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker), removing manual deployment steps and improving deployment success and recovery.
Client & Commercial Enablement: Supported RFPs and acted as client technical lead for requirements triage and solutioning, improving delivery fit and client satisfaction.
People & Quality: Mentored engineers through regular 1:1s and code reviews, raising code quality and team velocity.
Lead Engineer – IVT Analytics & Security Services
Diebold Nixdorf
07.2021 - 09.2022
Engineered full‑stack solutions (Angular, .NET Core) and real‑time analytics with Power BI for security platforms; integrated dashboards with live data pipelines.
Built and hardened CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker, Azure DevOps) to standardize deployments and reduce rollback events.
Implemented Azure AD B2C with MSAL for customer identity flows, improving authentication resilience and compliance.
Led code reviews, release strategies, and mentoring to raise code quality and team velocity.
Architected an enterprise MDM platform with golden‑record pipelines; designed star schema, database‑agnostic ingestion, and configurable transformation logic.
Delivered ~50% of cross‑site implementation and QA automation (Protractor, Cucumber); cut data reconciliation effort and improved analytics trust.
Led modernization POC for legacy desktop products to web‑based platforms; validated UX, architecture, and migration approach for production re‑engineering.
Mentored distributed teams and streamlined onboarding to reduce ramp time.
Senior Software Engineer – ATM & IVT Systems
Diebold Nixdorf
05.2015 - 10.2018
Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for unified communication integration in ATM video teller systems, working with Skype 2015 and CounterPath.
Revamped legacy Windows Forms applications for modularity and maintainability; contributed to Angular-based bill payment modules.
Supported transition and ownership transfer from Canada to India engineering hub.
Pioneered Parallel Self‑Test multithreading for ATM platforms, saving maintenance staff several hours per service cycle and earning an Innovation Award.
Built and mentored a new India R&D team to support Agilis 91x and Maintenance Operator Console; developed deep expertise in XFS CEN standards and multi‑vendor ATM models.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Software Technology
C-DAC
Navi Mumbai
01.2012
Bachelor - Computer Applications
International College for Girls
Jaipur
01.2010
Skills
Agile Delivery
Technical Skills
Backend- .Net Core, C#, Microservices, RabbitMQ
Frontend- Angular, React
Database- SQL, Redis
CI/CD- Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins
Cloud & Infrastructure- Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
Project management tools- JIRA, confluence
Soft Skills
Negotiation & Conflict Management
Team Building & Interpersonal Skills
Analytical Problem Solving
Leadership and Delegation
English (C1)
Achievements & Recognitions
Reduced client upgrade cycle from 3 months to 5 weeks — ≈65% shorter upgrade window; moved upgrade releases from semi‑annual to quarterly.
Cut post‑upgrade P1/P2 incidents by 85%, delivering sustained zero‑impact rollouts across multi‑site programs.
Pioneered Parallel Self‑Test multithreading for ATM platforms, saving maintenance staff several hours per service cycle and earning an Innovation Award.
Rated Exceed Performer for six years and recipient of the Key Employee Award.