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Devendra Saykhedkar

Director Of Engineering
Hyderabad,Telangana

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Summary

Strategic Engineering Leader with a distinctive portfolio ranging from industry titans Oracle and Microsoft to agile fintech innovators like Planful and HighRadius. Specialized in engineering leadership for crafting SaaS cloud solutions, particularly in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and consolidation. Recognized for driving transformation in diverse environments, elevating engineering efficiency, and delivering high-quality fintech products. Proven expertise in building large-scale data-intensive applications. Adept in leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including AI and machine learning, to drive innovation and enhance the value of solutions.
Believes in building culture of collaboration and innovation with continuous improvement in business processes. Key strengths are strong interpersonal skills, active listening, and attention to detail.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Director of Engineering

HighRadius
Hyderabad
01.2022 - Current
  • Part of engineering leadership for the development of SaaS cloud solutions at HighRadius, Overseeing the development and delivery of innovative software solutions, with a focus on the next-generation G4 platform for CFO Tech suite of products.
  • Led the engineering team in the successful design and development of data platform "Livecube" from scratch. LiveCube - is a no-code platform for Finance Business users with Excel like frontend with out-of-the-box AI capabilities to transform Order to Cash, Treasury and Accounting function.
  • Directing a high-performing team of 20+ engineers, fostering innovation and collaboration across Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, and Bangalore locations.
  • collaborating with product and design teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
  • Set budgets for engineering tasks, tailoring financial limitations to business goals and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for completed deliverables.

Director of Engineering

Planful, Inc.
Hyderabad
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Planful is FP&A cloud platform, as an engineering leader, managed and developed Dynamic planning platform team. Focused on building multi tenant SaaS product and features that enhance customer experience. Managed cross functional team of engineers from development, QA and performance engineers for the complete platform
  • Dynamic planning platform is used by 300+ Planful's customers
  • Drove redesign of Dynamic planning core product OLAP engine which Delivered 4x scalability in terms of tenant size and 100% performance improvement on background processing. This enabled onboarding of largest (4 times bigger than average customer
  • Delivered collaboration features for the product as part of User experience enhancement
  • Created new diagnostic tool to reduce turn around on office add-in customer issues. This helped support team collect client configuration and relevant logs and help customer without engineering intervention
  • Designed and delivered on add-in client distribution strategy for phased release deployments
  • Institutionalized deep quality and process focus within the teams Centered on unit testing and functional automation as part delivery to left shift the quality
  • At organization level, led organization wide program management managed team of scrum masters and senior program manager
  • Setup monthly release dashboard for engineering productivity, release quality and feature delivery progress for executive management
  • Establish monthly release process with Trunk Based Development for product development
  • Eliminated post release customer issues and hot fixes to zero
  • CSAT of 100% for quarter after rolling out new monthly release process
  • Led initiative across organization to push in-sprint automation, focus on unit and integration coverage improvement.
  • Established CICD pipeline based on Jenkins for gated check-in and automatic code promotion
  • Took ownership of assigned department-wide projects, presenting regular updates to senior leadership on progress and status.

Senior Software Development Manager

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
07.2017 - 12.2019
  • Part of India leadership for Oracle Log analytics public cloud service, which is integrated cloud solution to monitor, aggregate, index and analyze logs from applications and software infrastructure
  • Managed and developed teams across India and China
  • Handled data ingest, config management, tenant isolation, tenant clean up, metering and billing modules
  • On quality side, established infrastructure to achieve 100 % validation of log content validation (More than 200 log types supported by Service)
  • Introduced parallel test execution to reduce certification time by half
  • Helped reduce production issues related to missed logs or invalid log parsing
  • Doubled automated coverage of critical modules.
  • Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.

Principal Manager II

Host Analytics Inc.
Hyderabad
12.2014 - 07.2017
  • Led agile transformation within organization to establish scrum process, productivity metrics, scrum delivery metrics
  • Helped on-board 2 of largest tenants in terms of size, scale, and revenue in company history
  • This involved identifying defining perf metrics, performance measurement infra development, identifying perf bottlenecks, driving fixes and features delivery to meet committed timelines
  • Established process for vendor management, campus hiring, overall product quality process, quality metrics tracking and automation
  • Established Holistic QA strategy including implementing CICD pipeline, automation infrastructure, Quality processes, quality metrics and QA team development
  • Created infrastructure to validate data accuracy and data validation.
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.

Senior Test Manager

Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
03.2014 - 12.2014
  • Test owner for Microsoft's revenue protection and anti-piracy programs
  • These programs include product key distributions and product key BI
  • Drove MPSIT wide initiative to migrate on-premises pre-production environments to Azure
  • As Part of MSIT wide v-team for devices and services, initiated process to setup devices lab.

Senior QA Manager

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
07.2004 - 03.2014
  • Lead team of 15 QA engineers across India and China to drive QA for key revenue generating features like MWaaS, JVM Diagnostics, Coherence management, and Siebel Application management pack
  • Handled release wide QA ownership for Fusion middleware control release 12c
  • Handled Release of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c for all porting platforms (Solaris, AIX, Windows)
  • Setup teams in China development centre from scratch
  • Established development process for CDC to grant source access based on security configuration.

Systems Engineer

Wipro Technologies
01.2003 - 07.2004
  • As a Java developer, Developed workflow engine using Java/J2EE and SAX parser for parsing the workflow definition
  • Worked on EJBs, JMS and XML extensively.

Software Engineer

Assenmacher Networks Pvt. Ltd.
10.2002 - 12.2002
  • As PHP Developer, created time management application for work management for the employees.

System Analyst

Seagull Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.
09.2001 - 09.2002
  • As a Java developer, developed a tool for web-based publishing of tool using AWT and swing.

Education

Bachelor of Science (Physics) -

University of Pune
Pune, Maharashtra

Master of Computer Applications -

Government Engineering College
Aurangabad, Maharashtra
08.1998 - 01.2001

Senior Management Program - General Management

IIM
Kashipur
08.2023 - Current

Skills

Strategy, Direction and Roadmap

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Software

Java

Oracle, Snowflake, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache Solr

Kafka, ActiveMQ

Apache Spark, Apache Flink

Apache Zookeeper

AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

CICD Pipelines - Jenkins

Test automation infra - Selenium, Rest assured, TestNG, Junit

Certification

PMP

Timeline

Senior Management Program - General Management

IIM
08.2023 - Current

Director of Engineering

HighRadius
01.2022 - Current

Director of Engineering

Planful, Inc.
01.2020 - 01.2021

Senior Software Development Manager

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2017 - 12.2019

Principal Manager II

Host Analytics Inc.
12.2014 - 07.2017

Senior Test Manager

Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd.
03.2014 - 12.2014

Senior QA Manager

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2004 - 03.2014

Systems Engineer

Wipro Technologies
01.2003 - 07.2004

Software Engineer

Assenmacher Networks Pvt. Ltd.
10.2002 - 12.2002

System Analyst

Seagull Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.
09.2001 - 09.2002

Master of Computer Applications -

Government Engineering College
08.1998 - 01.2001

Bachelor of Science (Physics) -

University of Pune

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