Kiran Samudrala

• Delivering Best-in-Class Payment and UPI Experience: Ensure the delivery of seamless and reliable payment and UPI experiences, backed by robust engineering.
• System Reliability: Build and maintain systems that "Just Work," emphasizing reliability and user satisfaction.
• Scalable Product Development: Lead the development of scalable products, ensuring they can handle increasing demands and user growth.
• Innovative Solutions: Foster innovation by creating products designed for the next 100 million customers across India, staying ahead of market trends and user needs.
• AI and ML Integration: Implement AI and ML techniques to develop efficient routing algorithms, enhancing success rates and overall efficiency.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement and spearhead initiatives to boost efficiency and effectiveness across the payments and UPI systems.
• Team Building: Build and lead a high-performing engineering team from scratch, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence in delivering cutting-edge payment solutions.

• Central Planning for Supply Chain Management: Implement AI-based central planning systems to optimize supply chain management, improving inventory management, demand forecasting, and logistics.

• Restructuring the Tech Organization: Led the restructuring of a 2500-member tech team, enhancing organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implementing OKRs and Budget Allocation: Established and implemented the OKR process, allocated budgets for business units based on prioritization frameworks aligned with organizational goals.
• Setting Tech Excellence Goals: Defined and prioritized tech excellence goals, ensuring alignment across the tech organization.
• Strategic Initiative Development: Assisted in the development and execution of strategic initiatives, aligning them with overall business objectives.
• Streamlining Operations: Enhanced operational efficiency through streamlined processes, fostering effective communication and coordination among teams.
• Overseeing Key Projects: Monitored and managed key projects and programs, ensuring timely delivery within scope and promoting cross-functional collaboration.
• Executive Support to CPTO: Provided executive support and guidance to the CPTO, including preparing briefs and reports, and representing them in various meetings and forums.
• Managing Stakeholder Relationships: Cultivated and managed relationships with internal and external stakeholders, fostering strong partnerships leading special projects and task forces as needed.

Develop roadmaps and solution architectures, guiding teams to achieve organizational objectives with the highest quality standards. Contributed to the Seller Flex team, delivering Warehouse as a Service solutions to Amazon Sellers worldwide.

• Established the program and strategy charter for Myntra.
• Developed roadmaps and solution architectures, guiding teams to achieve organizational objectives with the highest quality standards.
• Successfully led major programs such as SCM, Multitenancy, and Compliance across Myntra.
• Defined new strategies to accelerate development processes, successfully implementing BPM strategy across Myntra and Jabong

• Lead TPM -Successfully led major programs such as Amazon Global Store and Free Exchanges (Softlines).
• Develop roadmaps and solution architectures, guiding teams to achieve organizational objectives with the highest quality standards.
• Manage multiple programs/projects, resolving issues related to common infrastructure, resources, and methodologies.

• Built an 80-member team from scratch in under two years and successfully delivered OTT and digital broadcasting programs across EMEA, Asia Pacific (South Korea), and the USA.
• Responsible for rebuilding systems based on AI for Adaptive Streaming Quality,Personalized Recommendations , Content Categorization and Tagging
• Achievements: Ranked among the top 3% of Cisco's Top Performing Executives; received the NDS CEO award.
• Demonstrated vision, determination, and skills for high-level revenue-building strategies, leading to high CSAT scores and successful projects in South Korea (CJ Cable and Korean Telecom) and the USA (Cox and Comcast), including the world's first commercial OCAP solution launch in Set-top Box technologies.

• Served as a Tech Lead spearheading the development of the First HDD-based Jukebox.
• Technologies: Utilized Embedded Java, .NET, and COM for Jukebox management software on PC.
• Notable Achievements: Received the Star Performance award and PSC Key Contributor award within six months of joining.

• Working as a Software Engineer