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KRISHNA MOHAN NAKKA

Bangalore

Summary

Customer-centric Customer Success Leader & Technical Account Manager with 10+ years of experience launching and scaling cloud-native, AI-driven SaaS for 1,000+ institutions and 1.5M users. Proven at driving adoption, retention and revenue growth—halving time-to-value, boosting NRR to 56%, and unlocking ₹8 Cr ARR through proactive health-score modeling, Executive & Quarterly Business Reviews, and strategic renewals & upsells. Expert in architecting integrations (REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks), defining SLAs/OLAs and managing incident escalations to improve CSAT. Skilled in workflow automation with Mixpanel, BigQuery, Gainsight and Salesforce. Combines JTBD-based roadmaps, data-driven OKRs and GTM ownership (pricing, packaging, sales enablement) to deliver MVP-to-GA product features that align customer success outcomes with business strategy

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Customer Success | Technical Account Mgmt

Edumerge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore, Bengaluru
09.2019 - Current
  • Owned ₹4 Cr ARR across 150 enterprise & 1.2 K SMB accounts; achieved 115 % NRR via MEDDIC-driven upsell, cross-sell & 97 % renewals.
  • Developed & executed territory business plans and Oracle University Cloud training strategies, expanding pipeline by ₹5 Cr and hitting 120 % of revenue targets in Salesforce CRM.
  • Managed rolling ₹5 Cr pipeline in Salesforce CRM; improved forecast accuracy +15 % and accelerated deal velocity +30 %.
  • Ran quarterly EBRs/QBRs & white-space analyses to uncover upsell/cross-sell opportunities, driving +25 % expansion revenue.
  • Led exec-level PoC workshops and Oracle University promotions & events, converting 20 % of attendees into qualified opportunities.
  • Built customer-health dashboards (Gainsight, Salesforce); rescued ₹1.2 Cr at-risk ARR and maintained 95 % CSAT.
  • Provided 24×7 TAM support (6 PM–3 AM IST); resolved P1 incidents within 30 min SLA, sustaining 97 % renewal rate.
  • Orchestrated cross-functional API/SSO integrations and authored SLA/incident playbooks, reducing MTTR 48 h → 12 h and ensuring 99.9 % uptime.
  • Managed end-to-end case & escalation workflows using ITIL processes, reducing MTTR from 48 h to 12 h and achieving 97 % SLA compliance.
  • Led root-cause analysis & special projects for high-severity support issues, collaborating with Engineering to eliminate systemic defects and prevent recurrence.
  • Produced and delivered monthly instance-health reports (uptime, performance, error rates) to executive stakeholders, driving data-driven optimizations and capacity planning.
  • Created detailed upgrade planning & execution roadmaps and assisted with platform version rollouts—achieved zero-downtime upgrades across 100+ customer instances.
  • Designed and executed customer onboarding & proactive engagement playbooks, cutting time-to-value 50 % and boosting feature adoption +40 %.
  • Built performance monitoring & dashboards in Looker/Salesforce (FCR, CSAT, MTTR), flagged at-risk accounts, and triggered automated playbooks that reduced churn by 20 %.
  • Developed and executed structured onboarding plans, reducing time-to-value by 40 % and accelerating customer ramp.
  • Conducted regular business reviews (QBRs/MBRs), presenting health-score dashboards and usage metrics to stakeholders to drive adoption and value realization.
  • Built and maintained customer-health dashboards in your CRM/BI tool, flagging at-risk accounts and triggering proactive playbooks that cut churn by 20 %.
  • Served as the primary liaison for a portfolio of 50+ accounts—managing escalations, coordinating cross-functional issue resolution, and achieving 95 %+ SLA compliance.
  • Partnered with Sales on contract renewals and upsell/cross-sell motions, lifting Net Revenue Retention by 15 % year-over-year.
  • Collaborated with Product, Engineering, and Support to feed customer feedback into the roadmap, resulting in three prioritized feature enhancements.
  • Delivered tailored training workshops and adoption guides, boosting feature usage by 30 % and driving stronger customer advocacy.
  • Managed a rolling pipeline in Salesforce (or your CRM), improving forecast accuracy by 10 % through disciplined opportunity tracking.
  • Acted as the voice of the customer, collaborating with Product and Engineering to drive 4 prioritized feature enhancements, boosting adoption by 20 %.
  • Conducted 50+ technical enablement workshops and solution-architecture sessions, increasing integration success rate by 30 %.
  • Authored 30+ technical guides and knowledge-base articles, empowering clients to self-serve and reducing support-ticket volume by 25 %.
  • Established standardized customer-success playbooks and processes, ensuring consistent onboarding and ongoing support across 150+ accounts.
  • Served as single point of technical contact for 200+ escalations, coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve 95 % resolution-SLA compliance.
  • Monitored deployment health metrics and usage trends, delivering quarterly optimization recommendations that improved performance by 15 %.
  • Implemented automated customer-feedback loops, capturing satisfaction insights and informing strategic roadmap decisions.
  • Collaborated with global Engineering and Product teams as the voice of the customer, prioritizing three cost-management features now in general release.
  • Broke complex optimization projects into tracked subtasks; maintained live status boards and hit 100 % of milestone dates
  • Led quarterly Operational & Cost Reviews with customer and executive sponsors; presented rate-optimization insights and next-step savings initiatives.

Full Stack Web Developer

Edumerge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore, Bengaluru
09.2014 - 09.2019
  • Migrated legacy Flash codebase to JS/React Native, improving mobile performance and enabling first‑in‑industry hybrid ERP app.
  • Automated CI/CD on AWS; cut release cycle from fortnightly to daily, sustaining 99.95 % uptime.
  • Started Bitbucket‑based source control & peer‑review culture now used by 30+ developers.
  • Designed REST APIs used today by >100 customer integrations—foundation for later iPaaS product.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Engineering (2013) - Computer Science And Engineering

JUNTK, MIC College of Technology
Vijayawada
03-2013

Skills

  • Customer Success & Growth: Onboarding automation; Self-service knowledge-base optimization; CSAT/NPS measurement; Health-score & churn-prediction modeling
  • Revenue & Retention: Renewal & upsell playbooks; Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) & Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs); ARR/NRR ownership; Renewal forecasting
  • Process & Operations: SLA/OLA definition & reporting; Incident management & escalations; OKR execution
  • Tools & Platforms: Gainsight; Totango; Salesforce; HubSpot; Freshdesk
  • Analytics & Insights: SQL; Mixpanel; BigQuery; Looker Studio; A/B & multivariate testing
  • Technical Integration: REST/SOAP API design; Webhooks; CI/CD AWS; Observability dashboards

Lead Customer Success | Technical Account Manager

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Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Lead Customer Success | Technical Account Mgmt

Edumerge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
09.2019 - Current

Full Stack Web Developer

Edumerge Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
09.2014 - 09.2019

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Engineering (2013) - Computer Science And Engineering

JUNTK, MIC College of Technology
KRISHNA MOHAN NAKKA