Komalkumar Turkar
Director Of Technology
Pune, India
Summary
Worked with a SaaS/B2B product-based start-up from beginning & helped them to achieve successful name around the world. It is DeskAway.com, Brightpod.com, sumHR.com, MarTechAdvisor.com, HRTechnologist.com, ToolBox.com etc.
Currently working as Director - Technology & leading engineering department which includes development team, QA team, Design Team for SpiceWorksZiffDavis B2B division. Takes ownership of company-wide technology performance metrics. Eager to collaborate with junior staff and external stakeholders to advance business goals and maintain streamlined operations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director of Technology
SpiceWorksZiffDavis
04.2016 - Current
- Responsible for smooth functioning of engineering department for company and make sure that 99% SLA of online products & deliver the requirements on time without business impact.
- Cross Functional Teams: Dealing with the all functional team and help them to achieve targets & save time using automations.
- People: Hiring, Retention, Performance Appraisal, Team Structuring, Team Motivation, Vendor Evaluation etc.
- Compliance: SOX Audits, VAPT, Security Audits, GDPR, ADA, CCPA etc.
- Code: Best practices, Code Review, Merge Conflicts, Version control (Git)
- Managing various teams: Developers, QA, Design, DevOps.
- Product Roadmap, QoQ & YoY goals.
- Quick Adopt, Learn, Guide & Implement
- Technology Handled: PHP, JAVA, .Net, Angular
- Ability to work under pressure & deadlines.
Technology Lead
Sutra Service Pvt. Ltd
04.2014 - 03.2016
- Product : sumHR.com (Online SaaS based HRMS tool)
- Team size : 10+
- Technologies : Yii, MongoDB, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, Jquery, Node, Bootstrap etc.
Lead Developer (Chief Code Chef)
Synage Software Pvt. Ltd
07.2005 - 03.2014
- Online Product : http://www.brightpod.com (Online project collaboration tool for digital marketing agencies) | DeskAway.com (Cloud based Project management software).
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
Nagpur University
03.2001 - 12.2004
Skills
PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache, Nginx, Git
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, XML, JSON, Node
AWS, Rackspace, Azure (Basic)
CodeIgniter, YII, Bootstrap, Skeleton
Zapier, Dropbox, Rackspace Cloud, Google Apps, Box, AWS, Intercom
Mailgun, Postmarkapp, SendGrid, Amazon SES, Mailchimp, GDPR, CCPA, VAPT, Data Encryption, DevOps, Private Cloud
EC2, RDS, S3, SES, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudWatch, IAM, Route53 etc
Accomplishments
- Received the Certificate of Excellence for being remarkable contributor and best performer of the team for year 2020.
- Received the “ Employee of the Quarter Award for Q3 17-18”
- Gold Award Winner – Engineering Team for FY 17-18
- Supervised team of 20+ staff members.
- Achieved overall productivity by introducing custom build lead gen for manual tasks.
Timeline
Director of Technology
SpiceWorksZiffDavis
04.2016 - Current
Technology Lead
Sutra Service Pvt. Ltd
04.2014 - 03.2016
Lead Developer (Chief Code Chef)
Synage Software Pvt. Ltd
07.2005 - 03.2014
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
Nagpur University
03.2001 - 12.2004