Prasanna Kothari
Principal Technical Program Manager
Benguluru
Summary
Bringing 20+ years of experience and expertise in Technical program management and software development.
Results driven and a versatile Technical Program manager versed in
- assessing challenges, resolving problems and implementing plans to mitigate risk and technical obstacles
- successfully uniting internal and external forces to achieve peak efficiency.
- careful overseer of disparate departments with widely varying levels of technical knowledge.
- proven record of success in support, technical, people management, program management & release management
Technologies worked on
- Programming languages: C, C++, Perl, Python & Shell Programming.
- Databases: Oracle Database, MySQL, NoSQL database
- Big Data Technologies : Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Yarn, Ambari, Kafka
- Open Source tools/technologies : Jenkins, Artifactory, Chef, Make, Ant, Gradle, Influx DB
- Docker containers & Kubernetes.
- Scrum based Agile Methodology. ALM tools: JIRA, Confluence.
- Enterprise Incident Tracking tools : MyHelp, OSvC, PagerDuty(for escalations), BugDB
- Version Control Tools : ADE, GIT
- Micro-services based architecture & Rest APIs.
- Windows and Unix Internals
- Knowledge of Java, PHP, Java scripts, and Web services.
- Data structure and Algorithms.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages
Work History
Principal Technical Program Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - Current
- Responsible for execution of technical delivery of Data Flow Interactive and Big Data Services with geographically distributed teams in OCI
- Delivered 3 versions of BDS-ODH release in same calendar year and therefore increasing surface area resulting in faster customer adoption of BDS.
- One ODH version has around 20+ Open source components which are delivered on OCI infra. Various features like "Auto scaling", "Edge Node Support", "Custom boot strap script", "Profles", "SSL Enablement" were implemented across ODH versions.
- Since Dec 22, BDS has seen remarkable growth of approximately around 125%.
- Instituted Support process for Data Flow Interactive team and Big Data Service teams there by reducing turn-around-time of SR's to 2 hours.
- Ensuring business needs are met by evaluating effectiveness of current plans, programs and initiatives by consulting senior leadership and key stakeholders
- Work closely with product management and dev/QA teams to co-ordinate Service launches.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to drive solutions/transparency.
- Facilitate regular communication between stakeholders regarding project status and updates.
- Scrum master for several feature based scrum teams.
- Identify organizational needs, establish priorities, work separately, drive results through informal authority, serve as trusted consultant to key business partners and represent users and customers in every thought and interaction
- Build and maintain scalable reports/reporting tools to drive actionable insights for operational teams.
Role as Program Manager in Database Devops Org
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 12.2020
- Technical Program Manager for Dev2OCI program to transition development and QA teams in the database org from on-prem to OCI.
- "Dev2OCI" program decommissioned 3 data centers which resulted in huge revenue saving for Oracle without disrupting any scheduled releases.
- As part of Dev2OCI program, transitioned on-prem applications to Docker Containers which were deployed in "Farm" which is high integrated throughput software testing infrastructure developed in-house. With this Farm infra was able to scale atleast 2x times and able to deliver faster test results.
- Technical review and release of all ESE components to be deployed in OCI
- Ensure adherence to product compliances and required statutory legislations
- Manage intra & interdependencies among various scrum teams
- Driving release across organization located in different geographies
- End-to-End coordination from product release inception to production
- Work with Product/Dev Managers and execs for clear definition of release content
- Release process improvements and technical initiatives across organization.
Senior Software Development Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
11.2011 - 12.2015
- Built out support centre operations in Oracle India, Bangalore from ground up to 15 full time support specialists in support of ESE team's tools and services
- Increase in first-call resolution by establishing internal trainings and tools to improve technical competence and efficiency of engineers
- Staffing and scheduling 24X6X365 operation duties
- Liaison between various teams in organization to identify and correct customer issues and hence provide better customer experience
- Review/ensure that SR's are resolved within agreed SLA and check for any SLA breaches and handle escalations
- Review all technical deliverables and provide feedback
- Single point of contact for all product related activities and issues reported across suite of ESE products/tools
- Provide training sessions to new recruits, about ESE products used in development cycle
- Developed docker image for ADE to be used by developers/QA engineers across Oracle
- Implemented ReST API's to be used by ESE support teams to review, update and resolve SRs reported by users.
Software Development Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
09.2005 - 11.2011
- Lead a team responsible for securing Oracle database using Kerberos
- Development & Support of ESE tools and services on the various platforms
- Support and optimize Sustaining Engineering process to ensure quality deliverables
- Developed a PoC to demonstrate bottlenecks faced by developers in IDC
- Transitioned ESE support team's tools and processes from MyHelp to OSvC
Senior Member Technical Staff
Oracle IDC
03.2003 - 09.2005
- Primarily responsible for fixing bugs and implementing ER's in ADE, version control tool used across Product Development Organization
- Worked with dev team to move code base to Oracle ADE/Repos from ClearCase
- Implemented issue reporting command line interface, that reduced turn-around-time of resolving issues by 50%.
Consultant Engineer
Intel Dialogic NJ USA
09.1999 - 03.2003
- Managed a computer telephony software component that allocates time slots to Dialogic boards
- Completed transition of this product from Windows to platform agnostic version
- Single handily designed and implemented parallel downloader downloaded the firmware in parallel on Dialogic boards which reduced time for boards to be functional by 90%.
Education
Executive General Management Program -
IIM Bangalore
Bangalore 08.2008 - 09.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Karnatak University Dharwad
Dharwad 11.1993 - 08.1997
Skills
Agile Methodologies
Software integration
Team building
Project Planning
Program implementation
Analytics
Team Collaboration
Excellent Communication
Change Management
Process Automation
Building technical teams
Software Development Lifecycle
Agile Methodologies
Requirements Analysis
Software Development
Self Motivation
Awards
- 2014 - Selected for attending a course curated only for managers who can groomed into leaders. Name of the course is "ZEAL-> Zeroing On Aspiring Leaders
- 2012 - "Best Innovative Idea" in Innovation workshop conducted at Oracle India, Bangalore
- 2011 - "PLS Excellence Award", awarded by Vice President of Product Life Sciences group, Oracle Corporation
- 2009 - Team was awarded as Topper at IIMB in the Capstone Business simulation game
- 2002 - "Super Achiever", awarded by Vice President, Technology, Kshema Technologies
Certification
Oracle Certified Cloud Infra Foundations 2020 OCA
Hobbies/Interests
Hobbies: Participating in marathons[5K, 10K, 21K], Listening to music, swimming, reading
Timeline
Oracle Certified Cloud Infra Foundations 2020 OCA
05-2021
Principal Technical Program Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - Current
Role as Program Manager in Database Devops Org
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 12.2020
Senior Software Development Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
11.2011 - 12.2015
Executive General Management Program -
IIM Bangalore
08.2008 - 09.2009
Software Development Manager
Oracle India Pvt Ltd
09.2005 - 11.2011
Senior Member Technical Staff
Oracle IDC
03.2003 - 09.2005
Consultant Engineer
Intel Dialogic NJ USA
09.1999 - 03.2003
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Karnatak University Dharwad
11.1993 - 08.1997