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Chandramukhi Subbaraju Belagur

Chandramukhi Subbaraju Belagur

Bangalore

Summary

Principal Technical Program Manager with 19 years of experience leading complex, global technology programs across Retail, Finance, Analytics, and Omni-channel. Known for strategic alignment, technical fluency, and program delivery at scale, bridging engineering, product, and operations to realize business outcomes. Proven success in guiding organizations through tech transformation and Agile adoption, with deep expertise in stakeholder engagement, executive communication, and change leadership.

Liaises with subject matter experts to gather business requirements and implement platforms and processes to address needs.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Technical Program Manager

Walmart Global Tech (Labs)
Bangalore
12.2024 - Current
  • Partnered with market CXOs, VPs, and cross-functional leaders to align technology delivery with Walmart’s strategic objectives.
  • Piloted the WCP platform into a market in a record time of 3 months - Delivered the flagship program to bring the market onto the WCP platform within record time.
  • Managed risks at tech and business leadership levels, keeping high-impact initiatives unblocked and on track.
  • Led executive forums to resolve cross-domain conflicts, ensuring larger teams were aligned to shared goals.
  • Mentored program and project managers in stakeholder engagement techniques, raising maturity across the organization.
  • Defined metrics for success (availability, adoption, cost savings), and instituted dashboards for ongoing health checks.
  • Identified synergies across multiple retail and finance initiatives, eliminating duplication, and realizing multi-million-dollar savings.
  • Implemented multi-domain roadmaps for a market through LRP and AOP exercises.
  • Improved ways of working through driving AI adoption, new tooling, and workflows, and cutting planning cycles by 20%.
  • Guided build-vs-buy assessments by considering timeline, compliance, security, and scalability implications.
  • Integrated operational efficiencies, marketing, and customer experience perspectives into program planning.
  • Crafted compelling narratives for Massmart Market framing risks, trade-offs, and investment cases in business terms.
  • Facilitated decision-making forums with transparency and neutrality, building trust across multiple domains.
  • Enabled faster time to market through improved workflows and governance.

Senior Manager - Technical Program Management

Walmart Labs
Bengaluru
06.2022 - 11.2024

Senior Manager – Technical Program Management

Walmart Global Tech (Walmart Labs)

Technical & Platform Ownership

  • Led TPM execution for store platforms and e-commerce systems, supporting both retail operations and customer-facing digital experiences.
  • Owned delivery for on-demand online applications and e-commerce website platforms, coordinating across frontend, backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
  • Drove large, multi-quarter technical programs with significant architectural complexity and cross-org dependencies.

Greenfield Technical Leadership

  • Served as TPM lead for Greenfield platform builds, partnering with Architecture and Engineering to define technical scope, sequencing, and dependency strategy.
  • Established technical execution frameworks including milestone definition, dependency tracking, risk management, and launch readiness.
  • Enabled CRM and SEO integrations as part of Greenfield architecture, ensuring foundational technical readiness without claiming deep domain ownership.

TPM Org Building & Talent Development

  • Built and led a TPM organization of 6, initially composed of Project Leads and senior TPMs.
  • Promoted 2 Project Leads to Staff TPM roles, strengthening technical leadership capacity and execution ownership across the org.
  • Mentored TPMs on domain and technical depth, system thinking, influencing without authority, and executive-level communication.
  • Created succession pipelines and raised the overall technical and execution maturity of the TPM org.

Execution Excellence & Operating Model

  • Defined and ran TPM operating cadence including quarterly planning, architectural reviews, dependency management, risk mitigation, and executive reporting.
  • Improved delivery predictability by standardizing technical program management practices across newly formed and scaling teams.
  • Proactively surfaced architectural, scalability, and execution risks, driving data-backed trade-offs with Engineering leadership.

Executive & Cross-Functional Influence

  • Acted as a trusted technical execution partner to Market CXOs, Directors and VPs, providing clear visibility into program health, risks, and investment trade-offs.
  • Influenced roadmap sequencing by connecting technical constraints, customer impact, and delivery capacity.

• • Represented TPM leadership in senior forums during high-visibility launches and platform build-outs.

Staff Technical Program Manager

Walmart Labs
01.2020 - 05.2022
  • Established a Scrum of Scrums and Portfolio Management for a market.
  • Delivered a large-scale business consolidation program powered by technology consolidation, cutting across E2E retail domains.
  • Introduced and enabled the adoption of PI Planning for a market across all of the retail domains.

Project Manager – Finance Transformation / GNFR

Walmart Labs
01.2012 - 01.2019
  • Established Agile delivery practices in SAP and DevOps; coached Scrum teams and Scrum Masters.
  • Delivered large-scale finance transformation projects that streamlined reporting and reconciliation.
  • Led multiple scope programs, embedding transparency and adoption across business units.

Manager – Service Transition & Application Management

IBM
01.2009 - 01.2012
  • Managed Application Transitions across various domains
  • Executed service transition and operations for global enterprise clients.
  • Introduced optimizations that improved SLA adherence by X% and reduced incident handling costs.
  • Designed and managed service operations frameworks supporting business-critical applications.

Engineer – COE

HTMT
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Test Execution for multiple projects.
  • Contributed to test strategy, reporting, and RCA for enterprise programs.
  • Improved test execution efficiency and defect tracking processes.

Education

MBA - International Business

ICFAI
Dehradun

Bachelor's - Computer Science

Kuvempu University
Shimoga
06-2004

Skills

  • Strategic Planning for a market (LRP, AOP etc)
  • Stakeholder engagement and executive alignment
  • Portfolio and program governance
  • Team building - Coaching and Mentoring
  • Cross-domain integration
  • Security and site reliability
  • Risk management and change management
  • Data-driven dashboards
  • Success metrics definition
  • Agile transformation leadership
  • Technical program management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Agile methodologies
  • Metric definition and strategic planning
  • Problem identification and resource allocation
  • Effective communication and team leadership
  • Operational efficiency and decision facilitation
  • Work process optimization
  • Program strategy development and leadership
  • Team oversight and process improvement initiatives
  • Employee evaluations

Strengths And Values

  • Integrity
  • Empathy
  • Delivery
  • Customer Focus
  • Collaboration
  • Influential Communication

Websites

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Kannada

Certification

• PMP Trained
• SAFe Agilist
• CSM
• ITIL
• ISTQB

Timeline

Principal Technical Program Manager

Walmart Global Tech (Labs)
12.2024 - Current

Senior Manager - Technical Program Management

Walmart Labs
06.2022 - 11.2024

Staff Technical Program Manager

Walmart Labs
01.2020 - 05.2022

Project Manager – Finance Transformation / GNFR

Walmart Labs
01.2012 - 01.2019

Engineer – COE

HTMT
01.2010 - 01.2011

Manager – Service Transition & Application Management

IBM
01.2009 - 01.2012

MBA - International Business

ICFAI

Bachelor's - Computer Science

Kuvempu University
Chandramukhi Subbaraju Belagur