MANOJ SRIVASTAVA
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-focused, strategic technology leader with over 25 years of experience leading software engineering teams. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver critical and complex projects on time and within budget. Strong planning and management skills with the ability to drive and execute simultaneous initiatives across the teams. Solid background in software architecture, development methodologies, and team management. Proven experience in building and leading high-performing global engineering teams. Passionate about fostering innovation and achieving outstanding outcomes in dynamic engineering environments.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Director Engineering
Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Spearheading the team developing a platform to deliver cloud-based services to our end customers
- Crafting the long-term strategy and vision, including budgeting and allocation responsibilities
- Overseeing capacity planning, resource projection, team performance, and appraisal management
- Facilitating coordination among business, operations (cloud and DevOps), and technology teams throughout the project lifecycle to address conflicting priorities and interdependencies
- Providing strategic guidance to a high-impact product development team
- Guiding the development of a vendor-agnostic platform for a forthcoming product, offering diverse cloud-based services to end users
- The platform is designed to seamlessly operate across AWS, Azure, and GCP, aiming to deliver efficient, secure, and highly available services at a minimal cost, catering to the MSME market segment
- It is anticipated to scale to over 200 million customers globally, incorporating cutting-edge, in-house developed technologies
- Steering the design and architecture development of a highly scalable, available, and cost-optimized cloud platform, overseeing system design for managing cloud deployments, addressing availability issues, and handling split-brain scenarios (network partitions).
Director Engineering
Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2016
- Created and led a product development team in India for Rail Distribution and Rail IT
- Designing long-term strategy and vision for the team, performing program budgeting and allocation, etc
- Responsible for capacity planning/resource projection, team performance, and appraisal management
- Worked with Product Management to create a Go-To market strategy for Rail Distribution & IT Products in ASPAC
- Expanded global team capacity by 50% and contributed significantly to Rail R&D programs
- Successfully delivered global programs for key customers - like Benelux Rail, Swedish Rail, French Rail (SNCF), Trenitalia, and NSWT
- Led Rail IT product ownership transition from Sydney to India.
Engineering Manager
Alstom Transportation India Ltd.
08.2007 - 06.2016
- Led the merger acquisition activities as the Technology team leader on the John F Welch Technology Centre site, leading all the GE Signaling product development teams at Alstom Transportation team in India
- Heading cross-functional product development team for all Rail Signaling Products, including Rail Operation Control Centre (SCADA based), On-board ATP, and Wayside Interlocking products (safety critical software meeting CENLAC standards)
- Delivering products/programs for both global and in-country customers
- Designing long-term strategy and vision for the team, performing program budgeting and allocation, etc
- Fostered innovation ideas, resulting in new product development and patents
- Responsible for capacity planning/resource projection, team performance, and appraisal management
- Developed and mentored a strong technical team of system, software, and validation engineers
- Carrying out process improvement practices via Six Sigma & Lean, adopting Agile software development methodology
- Supporting Pre-sales engineering support to the commercial team through product demonstrations, quick prototyping, and addressing queries
- Owned end-to-end product software development and program execution and exhibited execution excellence by delivering on schedule and in effort, impacting >$250 M USD of business revenues
- Led product localization and delivered flawlessly for an in-country $4 M program (Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant) and improved the contributing margin by >10%
- Developed an outsourcing strategy and partners and saved $2 M USD through variable cost productivity
- Saved $1 M USD by driving productivity and automation ideas.
Education
Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management -
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering -
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics Engineering -
Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi
Skills
- C
- C
- Python
- Java
- VC
- C#
- Java Script
- Oracle
- MySQL
- Versant ODBMS
- NoSQL (Mongo DB)
- Product Development
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Team Building & Leadership
- Training & Mentoring
- Strategic Planning
- Planning & Coordination
- Staff Hiring
- Conflict Resolution
- Excellent Communication
- Self-Motivated
- Software Development
- Agile Framework
- Continuous Improvement and Innovation
- Project Lifecycle Management
- System Design
- Technology Strategy and Direction
- Stakeholder Management
- Global Role Exposure
- Customer Engagement
- Outsourcing Partner Development
- Budget Administration
- OOAD
- Design Patterns
- Agile Methodology
- Scrum Framework
- C (11, 14, 17, 20)
- Python (37, 36, 27)
- Core Java
- J2EE
- EVC
- XML
- UNIX (Ubuntu, Cent OS, Solaris, HP - UNIX)
- Windows (XP/ NT)
- VxWorks 54
- RTE (Qualcomm)
- Win CE 30
- Win CE 42
- Windows Mobile 5
- Oracle 815
- MS SQL
- Versant ODBMS 522
- STL (Object Space 21)
- ILOG Views 31
- DOORS
- Requisite Pro
- Clearcase
- Star Team
- Visual Source Safe
- CVS
- SVN
- GIT
- UML
- SysML
- Rational Rose 2000
- Describe 58
- Enterprise Architect 9x
- Star UML
- Togather J
- Sun Workshop
- Green Hills Multi 2000
- DBX
- GDB
- CENLAC 50128
- MISRA C
- CMMI
- Waterfall
- V
- AGILE (Scrum, XP)
- SPSS
- MiniTab
- Kafka
- Spark
- Kibana
- ADO
- Jira Portfolio
- Confluence
- MS Project
- Word
- Visio
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Process and Productivity Improvement
- Team Development and Leadership
- Product and Project Management
- Customer, Team, and Outsourcing Partner Relations
- Budget Allocation and Containment
- Agile & Lean
- Resource Management / Development
- Customer Satisfaction
- Project Scheduling
- Project Planning Oversight
- Project Management
- System Architecture
- Employee Development
- Software Design
- Prototyping
- Recruiting
- Planning and coordination
- Training and mentoring
- Project Coordination
- Design review
- Developing software products across various domains, including embedded, enterprise, web, and mobile development
- Designing and building highly scalable, available, cost-optimized, cloud-native distributed applications
- Expert in establishing offshore product development teams from scratch, driving long-term strategies of owning the product locally
- Adept in establishing and nurturing outsourcing partnerships, driving successful cost-productivity outcomes
Additional Information
Contributed to a chapter, New Product Strategy/Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities in Emerging Market in the book 'Strategic Marketing Issues in Emerging Markets', edited by Prof. Atanu Adhikari, IIM, Kozhikode
Career Note
Additional tenure as Software Designer V at Hewlett Packard GDIC, Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services, Engineer at Indotech Switchgear & Controls, and Graduate Trainee – Sr at Crompton Greaves. Details available on request
Domain Expertise
- Railway Related
- Signaling Safety-Critical Systems (CENLAC standards)
- Onboard Automatic Train Protection (ATP) Systems
- Wayside Interlocking
- Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) Systems
- Rail Network Planning, Analytics & Scheduling
- Rail Journey Planning and Ticketing - Distribution and IT
- Accounting and Inventory Management
- Logistics - Courier Operations
- Digital Content Management
- Telecom - Wireless Technologies
Professional Highlights
- Supervised team of 120+ staff members. (Team included System Engineers, Software Developers, Verification Engineers, Engineering Program Leaders, and Engineering Managers)
- Recognized for people leadership as a “GEOS Gold Medalist GE Leader” by the GE Opinion Survey (GEOS) leadership team. Received appreciation mail from GE Transportation CEO.
- Owned and delivered flawlessly $4 M USD product localization for a in country for country program and improved the contributing margin by >10%
- Developed an outsourcing strategy, identified local partners, and saved $2 M USD per year in variable cost productivity.
- Establishing and scaling an offshore product development team for Rail IT in a short period and transitioning the entire product line to India
Timeline
Director Engineering
Amadeus Software Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2016
Engineering Manager
Alstom Transportation India Ltd.
08.2007 - 06.2016
Director Engineering
Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd
Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management -
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering -
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics Engineering -
Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi
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