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Hemachandiran L

Hemachandiran L

Vice President Product Engineering

Summary

As a mission-driven engineering leader with over 18 years of experience, I have successfully managed and grown technology organizations. My expertise in product and project management spans across all stages of engineering and delivery, having worked in e-Commerce, Retail, and Telecom domains. I have deployed domain-agnostic products and delivered site-specific solutions of scale, leveraging my strong technical skills and proficiency in multiple programming and scripting languages.


My leadership and communication skills have enabled me to drive corrective actions through continuous communication, technology adoptions, and process improvements. With a passion for innovation and problem-solving, I am committed to delivering high-quality products and services that exceed customer expectations.

Accomplishments

  • Product Demonstration in TMForum, MWC
    Presented the range of products such as Smart Invoice Pro,
    Loyalty Management, and the key differentiators these can
    bring across domains in Kuala Lumpur, TMForum & Mobile
    World Congress, Africa
  • Cracking Million $ deals
    As Head of Product Engineering, conceptualized and
    implemented Digital offerings, go-to market strategy and key
    partnerships which has enabled to win multiple million $
    deals over the last decade.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President Product Engineering

Diksha Technologies Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2011 - Current

Handled $5mn+ projects across Telco and Retail verticals, including proposal & RFP response with commercials, defining functional & technical architecture, Agile project management & resource management, delivery responsibility & milestone planning & achievement

- Coordinated with multiple stakeholders to develop innovative solutions that were in line with Organization objectives.

- Identified opportunities and risks for delivering the company's products, including opportunities for innovation, and assessment of technical hurdles to the business success.

- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define product launch strategies and build the road map

for new features and improvements.

- Attract and retain high-caliber software engineering talent needed to deliver against Diksha's Product

Portfolio roadmap through high-performance, on-time and on-budget development programs.

- Engineered marketplace startup Hyppr which is designed to seamlessly scale for millions of transactions.

Engineering Lead

Accenture, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
08.2008 - 06.2011
  • Handled multiple client engagements spanning across service integration, migration & quality assurance.
    - Involved in Requirements gathering and provide Estimates on Complex Migration initiatives for a
    Telecom operator in Australia. Worked closely with stakeholders to manage the expectations and
    suggest solutions.
    - Provided optimal solutions to change requests that resulted in increased customer experience,
    customer satisfaction and financial gain. Lead cross vendor discussions and to cover all integration
    touch points.
    - Managed team of 10 on all aspects of Design, Development, Testing and Deployment

Subject Matter Expert

Diksha Technologies, Nortel Networks
Bengaluru
04.2004 - 07.2008
  • Worked on Switch Transformation project for BSNL's Tamil Nādu (All circles). Involved in MSC and BSC
    transformation from Motorola to Nortel; Custom BSS interfaces development for Celcom, Malaysia
    - Delivery of three crucial custom interfaces – Blacklist Performance optimization, LBX payment input
    file parser, Analysis of Duplicate CDR's
    - System/files Backup Handling, Software Patch Loading, and announcement. Performance Analysis: -
    Traffic Data collection and Analysis; Quick & accurate troubleshooting of network fault, along with
    Operations section. Assisting in Installation & commissioning of NORTEL DMS100-GSM (SWITCH)

Education

Master of Engineering - Electrical Drives & Embedded Control

College of Engineering, Anna University
Gunidy. Chennai
01.2002 - 2005.04

Skills

Product Management

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PRODUCTS & KEY PROJECTS

Hyppr
Hyppr is a marketplace platform connecting customers to their neighborhood stores.
- Collaborate with design team to arrive at AWS-hosted solution, highly scalable platform built using Microservices based architecture.
Technology platform built using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Consul for Service Mesh and Flutter / React.js for App UI, MongoDB and
Postgres for DB. Operational Monitoring is done using CloudWatch and Grafana
- Define Product Roadmap, User Experience Journey and technical architecture.
- Formulated business plan and strategy, developed business model, and participated in all facets of the business development.
- Conceptualize and implement in-house CRM and CMS Systems
- Instrumental in growing the business from zero to revenue of INR 30Lakhs /month. Achieved month on month growth of 50% on average.


LMS - Loyalty Management System
LMS is built industry agnostic loyalty & rewards platform leveraging on varied customer journeys.
- Future proof product enabling businesses to define loyalty and reward customers and playing a key role in retention.
- Built on microservices framework, LMS is a plug-n-play platform with configurable rules defining earning and burning methods.
- Key components include configurator, missions, avatars, two-way rewards (earn & burn) for HTML5 games, reward categorization (points,coupons, reward type)


Smart Invoice Pro - Airtel Africa
SIP is an invoice rendering platform producing documents in varied formats.
- Rolled out SIP across 14 countries covering postpaid and enterprise services.
- Common framework across all the countries resulted in huge $ savings for customer.


GCI - Digital Transformation Projects
GCI is Alaskan based Telecom providing Quad Play services across the region.
- Initiate, develop and drive project plans for GCI Digital Transformation across the organization.
- Design, prepare and facilitate results-oriented alignment meetings against key milestones which includes Rural Broadband Service
transformation, E2E settlement automation for Wholesale business, Developed Robust invoice viewer platform and enabled Rewards functionality based on customer spending pattern.
- Involved in various custom integration design and delivery.


GCI - Polaris Transformation
Polaris transformation was aimed to migrate multiple application stack which were catering to wireless, fixed & enterprise services into
single netcracker stack
- Involved in Migrating two instances of Kenan Billing systems to Netcracker Billing system on all LOB's.
- Transformation completed with the efficiency rate of 99.9%

Telstra Clear (Vodafone), New Zealand - Work point Interface
Telstra Clear (Now Vodafone New Zealand) offers Triple Play services across the country.
- Involved in upgrade of two instances of Arbor Billing system to Kenan FX Billing system on all LOB's. Transformation completed with the
efficiency rate of 99.5%
- Responsible for transforming all the integrations from legacy scripts to API's.
- Managed Database migration from Sybase to MYSQL
- Designing new work point for automating the manual provisioning process which involved integrating billing with Clarify (CRM) and TIBCO system (Switch)


Other Notable Projects
Worked with customers across the globe to deliver niche solutions across the spectrum.

- Femto Implementation, Optus Australia

-Real-time rating engine, Telenet Belgium

-Custom Interface development across BSS components, Celcom Malaysia

Work Availability

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Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Timeline

Vice President Product Engineering

Diksha Technologies Pvt Ltd
07.2011 - Current

Engineering Lead

Accenture, Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2008 - 06.2011

Subject Matter Expert

Diksha Technologies, Nortel Networks
04.2004 - 07.2008

Master of Engineering - Electrical Drives & Embedded Control

College of Engineering, Anna University
01.2002 - 2005.04
Hemachandiran LVice President Product Engineering