Gautam Mukherjee
Vice President Platform Engineering
Summary
- Strategic Engineering Leader, Product Evangelist, Thought Leader, and passionate about building great products & high performing engineering teams
- Scaled start-ups organizations to Global Engineering centers establishing product engineering culture and brand value
- Expert in New Market launches - First to offer Cloud-ERP GST SaaS compliance solution in India
- Featured in 30 most trusted start-up brands in CEO magazine
- Community engagement and Speaker at Times Expo, Hindu Business Online, United News of India Dataquest on Cloud Automation
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vice President Platform Engineering
Nextgen Healthcare
Bangalore
10.2018 - Current
- Leading product engineering portfolio of 8+ SaaS products (450+ global team), mobile – iOS & android, messaging/Interop, Enterprise Data Cloud, and population health analytics.
- Heading Platform engineering - Increased release efficiency by 15% YoY with CI/CD, PaaS, and performance engineering, AWS.
- Leading Lean-Agile transformations at NextGen. Time-to-value reduced by 20% YoY
- Leading the innovation group for research into AI/ML, Data Science to build products of the future.
Head of Engineering /GM - Global Capability Center
Avalara
Pune
07.2012 - 10.2018
- Transformed the India BU from a start-up execution center to a 600+ global capability center delivering a portfolio of cloud applications – international tax engines, and ERP connectors. Managed R&D center budget ~ 30 Mn USD and HR, finance functions
- Built a culture of ownership, accountability, customer focus and proud recipient of Great Place to Work
- Reduced OPEX by $500,000 with software automation and budget efficiencies
- Built highly scalable (>16 Million TPS) systems on the cloud supporting 58 million transactions Cyber Monday traffic
- Led the first SaaS GST offering for the new Indian market and Amazon EU
- Led launch of new SaaS GST product to India. 100+ customers & 10 channels in 2 months.
- Managed end-end product, client, and media engagements
Engineering Manager
UnitedLex
Kansas
11.2011 - 07.2012
- Built next generation of electronic data discovery product that can process data 5X faster, scalable, and provides great UX to operators in comparison to the legacy system in place.
- Designed forensic imaging applications and electronic discovery system (Silverlight, WCF, SQL, and Parallel programming .NET
- Manage a team of 20+ (Architect, Senior Developers, and QA) across offshore locations
Engineering Manager
Sigma Micro/SpeecCommerce
Indianapolis
07.2008 - 11.2011
- Led a global technology team (150+) in direct consumer retail and e-commerce application.
- Built 24X7 off-shore application support and development teams
- Led team in the delivery of multiple critical order integration (WinForms, BizTalk and SSIS) applications with the e-commerce platform of Kalio thereby increasing order processing efficiency by ~20%
- Delivered RFID integration project for Warehouse Management that reduced operational errors by 25% compared to existing manual user entry process
Senior Software Engineer
Kaplan Financials(Washington Post)
Atlanta
08.2006 - 07.2008
- Led development of the web-based course and event management systems that supported increased customer UI experience Part of Washington Post group of companies
- Led Kaplan’s flagship G2 compliance workflow management solution that led to 25% increase in customer adoption
Software Engineer
Pilgrims Pride
Atlanta
09.2005 - 08.2006
- Developed supply, distribution, and warehouse management applications for the second-largest food producer& packaging company in the world.
- Designed RFID integrations and automatic inventory reconciliation applications that resulted in 20% gains in efficiency
Programmer Analyst
Center for Biotechnology Genomic Medicine
Augusta
09.2004 - 10.2005
- Developed applications for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the premier advanced scientific laboratory in the USA for analyzing experimental data for Diabetes.
- Developed genome sequencing and charting applications for data visualizations
Software Engineer/Instructor
Lamar University
Beaumont
07.2002 - 08.2004
- Developed College of Business website and internal tools for college administration
- Taught computer science and programming, networks and security to undergraduate programs
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Lamar University
Texas USA 01.2000 - 05.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Bangalore University
Bangalore 12.1993 - 10.1999
MBA - Management Information Systems
Institute of Management Technology(IMT) Ghaziabad
Delhi 01.2015 - 08.2016
Skills
Expert at scaling R &D centers from start-up/mid-size to high-performing Engineering Global Capability centers
15 Years’ of senior product engineering leadership experience in US product organizations and SaaS offerings
10 Years international experience in Project Management, applicatiions development and building high performing engineering teams
Certification
Project Management Professional(PMP)
Timeline
Vice President Platform Engineering
Nextgen Healthcare
10.2018 - Current
MBA - Management Information Systems
Institute of Management Technology(IMT) Ghaziabad
01.2015 - 08.2016
Project Management Professional(PMP)
03-2013
Head of Engineering /GM - Global Capability Center
Avalara
07.2012 - 10.2018
Engineering Manager
UnitedLex
11.2011 - 07.2012
Engineering Manager
Sigma Micro/SpeecCommerce
07.2008 - 11.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Kaplan Financials(Washington Post)
08.2006 - 07.2008
Software Engineer
Pilgrims Pride
09.2005 - 08.2006
Programmer Analyst
Center for Biotechnology Genomic Medicine
09.2004 - 10.2005
Software Engineer/Instructor
Lamar University
07.2002 - 08.2004
Master of Science - Computer Science
Lamar University
01.2000 - 05.2002
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Bangalore University
12.1993 - 10.1999