Prasanna Chandrahasan
Chennai
Summary
Results-driven technology executive with 24+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale engineering and global delivery operations. Expert in managing diverse delivery models, ensuring predictable outcomes and operational efficiency. Skilled in enterprise program governance, cloud optimization, and workforce planning. Proven ability to enhance customer satisfaction and drive business growth through strategic partnerships and scalable solutions.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Head - Enterprise Engineering & Global Delivery
10 Decoders Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai
04.2025 - Current
- Strategic technology leader with extensive experience in enterprise engineering, global delivery management, and operational governance.
- Established and drove end-to-end delivery processes, ensuring process adherence, compliance, and production rollout excellence across global programs.
- Accountable for project governance, scheduling, quality control, and customer success throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Facilitated executive sponsorship for strategic accounts to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Actively involved in presales pursuits, solutioning, and client presentations, collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to define scalable, value-driven solutions.
- Built high-performing global teams, institutionalized engineering best practices, and delivered outcomes aligned with organizational strategy and customer expectations.
- Established delivery frameworks improving project predictability by 35%.
- Optimized resources, managed profitability, forecasted revenue, and controlled expenses, fostering financial discipline and supporting business growth.
- Built a scalable resourcing model reducing bench cost by 30% and improving utilization.
Director – Data Analytics
Dexian Technologies Pvt Ltd.
06.2024 - 04.2025
- Lead the development and execution of the data and analytics practice strategy aligned with organizational goals.
- Drive data-driven decision-making across the organization by establishing data governance, data management frameworks, and advanced analytics capabilities.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to set vision, goals, and KPIs for data and analytics initiatives.
- Oversaw budgeting, resource allocation, and prioritization of data and analytics projects to align with strategic objectives.
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of data and analytics projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
- Built, mentored, and led high-performance teams of business analysts, data scientists, data analysts, engineers, quality assurance professionals, and business intelligence professionals to drive successful project outcomes.
- Implemented Agile project management methodologies to streamline processes and improve project delivery.
- Technologies handled: MS Fabric, PowerBI, WhereScapeRED, SSIS/SSRS, Tableau, Azure platform, RDBMS sources, Machine learning etc.
Senior Program Manager
Cignex Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2023 - 06.2024
- Led Data and Analytics engagements and projects, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Oversaw Data Lake development, migration, and integration projects, including BI tools migrations and support.
- Created roadmaps, assessed analytics maturity, governed data stewardship, and facilitated new client onboarding.
- Managed client accounts for Guardian, Reedgroup, and Alight, ensuring effective communication and support.
- Ensures all the projects follow proper agile methodology and review the metrics and compliance.
- Utilized technologies such as Informatica Power Center, IICS, and AWS Glue to support data integration and analytics projects.
Program Manager
Kyyba India Pvt Ltd
12.2018 - 05.2023
- Managed all accounts from the delivery and process standpoint.
- Managed accounts for Department of Transitional Assistance, State of Massachusetts, MedHok, and Blue Print Athletes.
- Conducted project management reviews to assess the overall health status of all projects.
- Identified engagement gaps and implemented corrective actions.
- Interacted with customers to address pain points and gather requirements for service improvement.
- Managed proposals and presales activities, providing guidance and review to enhance team effectiveness.
- Utilized technologies including Tableau, Java, J2EE, Springboot, ReactJS, AWS Redshift, MongoDB, and machine learning for project development.
Delivery Head
BigTapp Analytics Pte Ltd
04.2015 - 12.2018
- Implemented client and stakeholder-focused products and solutions to address specific needs.
- Estimated cloud infrastructure and finalized solution architecture.
- Generated use cases to tackle diverse problem statements across multiple domains.
- Managed product development and client accounts for Singapore Press Holdings, UOB, Air Asia, and Dine Equity in BigTapp Analytics.
- Technologies handled: Tableau, PowerBI, Talend, AWS Redshift, MongoDB, Hadoop Stack (HDFS, Spark, Flume, Hive etc), MS Azure HDInsights, NLP, Machine learning etc.
Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2009 - 11.2013
- Ensured quality delivery across all projects while creating additional billable positions by identifying new opportunities.
- Cultivated positive relationships with managed verticals, enhancing customer confidence through timely deliveries and ongoing value additions.
- Technologies handled: Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, SSRS/SSIS/SSAS (Nike), SAS, Ab initio, PL SQL, Informatica, Oracle, Teradata.
Senior Software Engineer
NuWare Systems Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 11.2009
- Managed reporting for Alliance Bernstein in the US.
- Designed scalable software solutions for complex business requirements.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance product features and usability.
- Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on coding standards and best practices.
Senior Software Engineer
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
05.2007 - 01.2009
- Led a team and authored Cognos reports for Citi, Unilever, and SunCorp.
- Designed and implemented scalable software solutions for various client projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define project scope.
- Led code reviews to ensure high coding standards and best practices.
Software Engineer
Esoft Factory Pte Ltd.
12.2003 - 05.2007
- Developed Cognos reports for retail and pharmaceuticals projects.
- Developed software solutions using modern programming languages and frameworks.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and specifications.
- Conducted code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to best practices.
Software developer
Ladder Systems Pvt Ltd.
Chennai
10.2002 - 11.2003
- Coordinated with stakeholders to gather and analyze project requirements as business analyst.
- Contributed to hospital management system development through effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Defined project specifications in partnership with diverse teams to ensure alignment.
- Implemented coding best practices to improve software quality and maintainability.
Education
M.Sc - Biochemistry with Statistics
Bharathidasan university
Trichy04.1999
Skills
- Data analytics platforms: OneLake, Databricks, Snowflake, MS Data Fabric, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, MongoDB, Neo4J, HDFS, RDS, Oracle 10g, Postgres DB, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000, Teradata, Sybase
- Business intelligence tools: Tableau, Power BI, AWS QuickSight, Qlik, Cognos BI
- ETL tools: Talend, DataStage, IICS/IDMC, Ab Initio, AWS Glue
- Data processing frameworks: Apache HOP and WhereScape Red
- Project management and delivery
- Data governance strategies
- Customer relations management
- Problem-solving techniques
- Conflict resolution skills
- Public speaking abilities
Visa
US B1 Visa, 06/29
Accounts Handled
Merchantrade Asia, Qodex, UFG, 180Medical, ADNOC, ADIC, Walgreens, RadioShack, Collective Brands Inc, Nike, BassPro, Bjs, Singapore Press Holdings, UOB, Air Asia, Dine equity, Guardian, Reedgroup, Alight, Department of Transitional Assistance, State of Massachusetts, MedHok, Blue Print Athletes
Engagement Profile
Strategic technology leader with extensive experience in enterprise engineering, global delivery management, and operational governance. Proven expertise in establishing and driving end-to-end delivery processes, ensuring strict process adherence, compliance, and production rollout excellence across diverse global programs. Accountable for project governance, scheduling, quality control, and customer success throughout the delivery lifecycle. Skilled in resource optimization, profitability management, revenue forecasting, and expense control, ensuring strong financial discipline and sustained business growth. Actively involved in presales pursuits, solutioning, and client presentations, collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to define scalable, value-driven solutions. Recognized for building high-performing global teams, institutionalizing engineering best practices, and delivering consistent outcomes aligned with organizational strategy and customer expectations. Established delivery frameworks improving project predictability by 35%. Built a scalable resourcing model reducing bench cost by 30% and improving utilization. Executive sponsor across strategic accounts; improved CSAT to 4.8/5., Lead the development and execution of the data and analytics practice strategy aligned with organizational goals. Drive data-driven decision-making across the organization by establishing data governance, data management frameworks, and advanced analytics capabilities. Collaborate with executive leadership to set vision, goals, and KPIs for data and analytics initiatives. Build, mentor, and lead high-performance teams of business analysts, data scientists, data analysts and engineers, quality assurance professionals and business intelligence professionals. Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the analytics team. Oversee the budgeting, resource allocation, and prioritization of data and analytics projects/initiatives. Oversee end-to-end delivery of data and analytics projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. Develop project timelines, resource plans, and risk mitigation strategies for large-scale data initiatives. Implement Agile or other project management methodologies to enhance team productivity and project efficiency. Build relationships with external partners, vendors, and industry experts to stay ahead of emerging trends and technologies., Responsible for all the Data and Analytics engagements and projects. Roadmap creation, data stewardship, analytics maturity assessment and new client onboarding are the various other key tasks to be managed. Ensures all the projects follow proper agile methodology and reviewing the metrics and compliance. Managing all Data Lake development, migration and integration projects along with other BI tools migrations, development and support., Responsible for managing all the accounts from the delivery and process standpoint. Identifying the gaps in the engagements and taking corrective actions to it. Responsible for the proposals and presales activities and provide guidance and review to the team. Closely interacting with the customers and addressing their pain points and responsible for business users meeting and eliciting new requirements and have the team finalize the BRD and technical design documents. Project management review would be the primary responsibility to ensure the overall health status of all the projects., Responsible for end to product and solutions implementation to clients and internal as well. Responsible for the cloud infrastructure estimation, finalizing the solution architecture & Effort estimation, periodic review of the projects execution and providing the right directives for making the engagements successful. Responsible for generating various use cases based on the different problem statements and domains.
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Tamil
Native
Native
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1
French
Elementary (A2)
A2
Timeline
Head - Enterprise Engineering & Global Delivery
10 Decoders Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
04.2025 - Current
Director – Data Analytics
Dexian Technologies Pvt Ltd.
06.2024 - 04.2025
Senior Program Manager
Cignex Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2023 - 06.2024
Program Manager
Kyyba India Pvt Ltd
12.2018 - 05.2023
Delivery Head
BigTapp Analytics Pte Ltd
04.2015 - 12.2018
Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2009 - 11.2013
Senior Software Engineer
NuWare Systems Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 11.2009
Senior Software Engineer
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
05.2007 - 01.2009
Software Engineer
Esoft Factory Pte Ltd.
12.2003 - 05.2007
Software developer
Ladder Systems Pvt Ltd.
10.2002 - 11.2003
M.Sc - Biochemistry with Statistics
Bharathidasan university