Indraja Punna

• Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager within one year for exceptional technical leadership, strategic team development, and consistent delivery excellence.
• Led product engineering efforts, collaborating closely with design and product teams to steer the product roadmap, and ensure the technical feasibility of features and solutions.
• Spearheaded incident response and debugging initiatives, earning three company-wide recognitions for decisive leadership in resolving major production issues.
• Transformed an underperforming team into a high-output unit, reducing delivery delays from three releases to consistently on-time feature launches.
• Owned and optimized the SCORM module, reducing bugs by 87% in a single release, while maintaining team velocity during key personnel gaps.
• Demonstrated agility by stepping up to manage an additional team in the Training & Coaching product area during a leadership gap, ensuring uninterrupted progress and delivery.

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings and drove an entire release within two weeks of joining, showcasing proactive leadership, adaptability, and a strong grasp of project requirements.
• Acted as the primary bridge between engineering, product, and design teams, ensuring alignment on technical direction and product vision.
• Implemented effective practices to boost team productivity and cohesion, assuming leadership responsibilities early on.

• Rose from first employee and team lead to VP of Engineering and Technology through three rapid promotions over eight years, demonstrating exceptional technical leadership and vision in a high-growth startup environment.
• Architected and launched four Martech SaaS products (WMS, Syndication, ContentBox, Accelerate) from the ground up, leveraging a microservices architecture, and driving the entire product lifecycle from ideation to scale.
• Built and scaled a robust engineering team, mentoring talent, and fostering cross-functional collaboration across product, sales, alliances, finance, content, and marketing to deliver business-critical solutions.
• Pioneered integration of advanced AI tools (AWS Rekognition, Google Cloud Vision, ChatGPT, Dall-E), and automated content workflows, achieving 24/7 service availability, and a 92% reduction in processing time.
• I defined and executed the product vision for Accelerate, a large-scale content marketplace, resulting in a 230% increase in orders within four months of launch, while ensuring technical excellence through hands-on code reviews and design leadership.

• Engineered a Node.js-based microservice for real-time BIN number delivery, and developed a MockBankService to simulate payment gateway interactions, integrating with 10+ banks for comprehensive testing.
• Streamlined deployment workflows by implementing CI/CD pipelines using Snap-CI, and efficiently deployed applications to staging environments.
• Configured robust development environments, leveraging virtual machines on AWS, ensuring scalable and reliable infrastructure for rapid development and testing.

• Developed automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver to streamline key QA scenarios, enhancing test coverage and efficiency for enterprise-level products, such as Wily Introscope and Clarity.
• Leveraged browser navigation timing APIs, and worked with diverse application and web servers to ensure optimal application performance and reliability.

Developed a web crawler and a price comparison dashboard, enabling Flipkart to monitor and compare book prices against competitors.