Accomplished Development Manager with innovative leadership style and expertise in technical and people management skills.
Manage and deliver 4 quarterly releases and 4+ interim patch releases.
Have over 15 years of relevant IT experience into design and development on Microsoft .NET technologies.
Extensive skills on team leading and people management of 9+ years.
Currently, playing the dual role of Development manager and Tech lead. Managing 4 agile teams of 20+ team members on 2 different online banking platforms.
Experience on banking domain especially on Retail/Consumer Banking. Hands on with technology driven development and greater emphasis on building re-usable, highly generic and smarter components using suitable data structures, design patterns and architectures embracing best industry practices.
Greater exposure to Agile frameworks like SCRUM and KANBAN for software development.
Mentorship of new associates joining the team and prepare a plan around ramping up.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Development Manager
Fiserv
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2020 - Current
Manage 4 agile teams of 21 members in total.
Participate in design discussion on complex requirements, prioritization of defects/stories based on client priorities, grooming and capacity planning for sprint, oversee all agile ceremonies, participate and manage regression phase by prioritizing regression defects during hardening phase, consult Product Architects if team is in need of any technical assistance or direction.
With ever changing demands to product sustenance due to more clients signing up for product, requires devising newer strategies and adopt them. Have been involved in proposing strategies around process for effective delivery in short span of time.
Drive towards automating manual processes to reduce dependencies and improve efficiency of release execution
Take ownership on organizational and business unit initiatives.
Provide accurate weekly status reporting to Business Unit leaders and Internal management. Prepare monthly dashboard, billing of resources.
Established monthly 1:1 with each associate to understand issues and grievances and work on action items. Perform quarterly review for associates to provide timely, effective and detailed feedback.
Join critical discussion around time critical and important deliverables, escalations etc and be supportive to team.
Technical Lead
Fiserv
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
10.2011 - 03.2020
Lead Professional Services teams for custom implementation of Corillian Online Product to various customer in US. Was at onsite (US) and delivered customizations to various banks in US including US Bank, Bank of the West, Navy Federal Credit Union etc.
Design and development on important feature and integrations including Checkfree BillPay, Transfers, Cash Edge P2P and External Transfers, Check Image providers, FICO etc.
Architected technical solutions, prepared technical design document for feature development and integrations.
Participate and build Proof of concepts on newer technology adoptions and tools.
Drive security remediation for various modules of product.
Senior Analyst
Dell Services
Bangalore, Karnataka
02.2010 - 09.2011
Module lead for IDD Symphony product of Dell. IDD Symphony is offline sales application of Dell.
Design, development and bug fixes to Configuration module.
Managed integration points for tax computation as SME.
Build prototypes for new features.
Liaised with services teams for understanding service descriptions, prepare technical design specification documents and approval of design from Solution Architect.
Senior Software Engineer
SPAN Infotech
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2005 - 01.2010
Understand client requirements and build prototype with help of graphic designer.
Present prototype to client and get requirement sign off to commence development.
Prepare estimation for requirements and do resourcing planning and allocation.
Discussion with team on technical approach and implementation challenges.
Realize specification through coding, unit testing, integration testing, release and deployment to Dev and System Integration environments.
Defect analysis, resolution, perform various configuration management activities and status reporting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
SBRR Mahajana FGC, University Of Mysore
Mysore
08.1999 - 06.2002
Master of Computer Application - Computer Science
Manasa Gangotri, University Of Mysore
Mysore
08.2002 - 07.2005
Skills
People management
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Listening to classical carnatic music.
More recently, have developed interest in listening to classical carnatic music.
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H1B : Still has 16 months of work permit left.
Timeline
Development Manager
Fiserv
04.2020 - Current
Technical Lead
Fiserv
10.2011 - 03.2020
Senior Analyst
Dell Services
02.2010 - 09.2011
Senior Software Engineer
SPAN Infotech
08.2005 - 01.2010
Master of Computer Application - Computer Science
Manasa Gangotri, University Of Mysore
08.2002 - 07.2005
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science