Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Certification
Accomplishments
References
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Vikas Pandey

Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic Customer Success Technical Architect at Instabase, adept at leveraging automation tools to enhance productivity and streamline processes. Proven track record in root cause analysis and stakeholder collaboration, driving significant improvements in system performance and customer satisfaction. Passionate about mentoring teams and delivering efficient solutions to complex problems.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Customer Success Technical Architect

Instabase
Bangalore
09.2021 - Current
  • Leveraged AI to increase productivity of team's day to day work.
  • Utilized CursorAI to build tools and troubleshoot issues that otherwise would have taken 5x more time.
  • Created multiple tools for automation and help team achieve productivity and efficiency. To name a few: Jotify, Notification handler, DB chat app, commit finder etc.
  • Assisted in troubleshooting complex problems related to distributed systems architectures.
  • Assessed existing applications and infrastructure to determine areas for improvement.
  • Provided technical support during the development lifecycle of customer use cases from initial concept through deployment.
  • Monitored SaaS/On-prem Installation performance metrics such as uptime, response time, throughput.
  • Analyzed business processes and identified opportunities for automation or optimization.
  • Provided technical guidance on the design of solution to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Lent technical leadership and mentoring throughout incidents and complex issues.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to resolve customer issues/incidents end to end with follow ups and closure(RCA).
  • Maintained knowledge base of best practices related to complex technical issues and solution designs.
  • Coordinated with teams across multiple departments to ensure success for customers.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business challenges and propose technical solutions.

Principal Product Support Engineer

Atlassian
Bangalore
12.2019 - 09.2021
  • Our profile demanded enabling team to be efficient at work. Provided training sessions to team on efficient way to handle product issues.
  • Jira being the most used tool in its domain, we had highest traffic even with premier customers. Collaborated with Development team to reduce the number of incoming cases falling in their bucket.
  • Global impact was one of the key metrics we were measured on. Formed a virtual team, to handle internal escalation for already triaged cases marked as complex. Successfully derived it and now it is global.
  • Implemented best practices for troubleshooting techniques across the organization.
  • Logged ample number of feature request and defects on the product for its betterment. Most of it is not productized.
  • Created tools and automations to make things easier for team day to day work.
  • During troubleshooting our scope stretched to products or infra Jira could get integrated with or deployed on: Databases, LDAP, Orchestration tools like k8s.
  • SSO / SAML integration.
  • K8s based deployments.

Principal Product Support Engineer

Aurea Software
Mumbai
05.2012 - 12.2019

Supported product queries for below listed product:

Business Process Management: Savvion

Distributed Channel Management(Insurance): DCM

CRM: Aurea. CRM

Solution: IPM

Roles & Responsibility:

  • Managed and mentored team across all perspectives to enhance performance.
  • Created and maintained knowledge base for relevant products.
  • Handled critical cases, including platinum customer inquiries requiring urgent attention.
  • Ensured adherence to workflows and processes for accurate reporting.
  • Conducted timely follow-ups with platinum prospects to address technical queries.
  • Monitored team compliance with established procedures for consistent outcomes.

Senior Product Support Engineer

Progress Software
Mumbai
01.2010 - 04.2012

Roles & Responsibility:

  • Assisted prospects with various reported issues related to product integration and core functionality.
  • Collaborated with prospects to ensure timely resolution of challenges.
  • Designed applications and configured products across multiple platforms for production readiness.
  • Maintained existing systems to enhance reliability and performance.
  • Worked with Engineering to replicate issues and facilitate resolutions.
  • Utilized source code to verify existence of problems and recommend changes to product team when applicable.

Product Support Engineer

Savvion
Mumbai
10.2008 - 12.2009

Roles & Responsibility:

  • Handled numerous cases to acquire comprehensive product knowledge.
  • Installed and integrated critical environments used by platinum prospects for debugging and QA support.
  • Verified complex issues reported, conducting thorough root cause analysis.
  • Collaborated with QA and Engineering departments to assess product performance and provide improvement suggestions.

Education

Masters of Computer Application - Computers

Birla Institute of Technology
Meshra - Ranchi
08-2008

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

St. Xavier's College
Ranchi
04-2005

Matriculation -

Bishop's School
Ranchi
03-1999

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Distributed systems
  • Customer engagement
  • Incident management
  • Process optimization
  • Automation tools
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Root cause analysis
  • SaaS monitoring and alert management
  • Technical support
  • Technical documentation
  • Problem solving
  • Communication skills
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Excellent communication

Languages

French
First Language

Certification

  • OCJP

Accomplishments

Light Bulb Award- 5x Aurea

Best Performer- 5x Progress Software PVT LTD

Night on the town- Progress Software PVT LTD

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Customer Success Technical Architect

Instabase
09.2021 - Current

Principal Product Support Engineer

Atlassian
12.2019 - 09.2021

Principal Product Support Engineer

Aurea Software
05.2012 - 12.2019

Senior Product Support Engineer

Progress Software
01.2010 - 04.2012

Product Support Engineer

Savvion
10.2008 - 12.2009

Masters of Computer Application - Computers

Birla Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

St. Xavier's College

Matriculation -

Bishop's School
Vikas Pandey