Prasanth Parayil Somasekhara Kaimal
Technical Product Manager (CSPO)
Bengaluru
Summary
A certified Product Manager with 19+ years of experience in the IT industry, 10+ years of experience performing the role of Technical Product Manager/Product Owner and played other critical impactful roles as DevOps lead, Project delivery lead, Solution Architect, Agile Expert, Software Architect, Database architect & UI/Service developer. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to IoT and web solutions. Skilled in distributed web application development and Cloud solutions.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Sr Principal Engineer (Systems)
Baxter Innovations and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd
05.2024 - Current
- Implemented best practices for documentation management, ensuring efficient knowledge transfer across teams and departments.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering professional growth and contributing to a highly skilled engineering team.
- Presented technical findings to executive stakeholders, influencing decisions on resource allocation and project prioritization.
- Led a team of engineers to develop cutting-edge products, resulting in increased market share and customer satisfaction.
- Reduced product development time through the use of agile methodologies and cross-functional collaboration.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of components and systems for optimal performance.
- Reviewed plans, documents, and related materials to assess projected actions and advise on changes.
Staff Technical Product Manager
GE Healthcare
04.2022 - Current
- Overall product quality governance covering artifact management & backward compatibility.
- Prioritize product backlog aligned with modality goals and platform stability.
- Globally distributed teams and effective management of teams through disciplined scaled agile framework.
- Translate business requirements into technical requirements and innovative solutions for the product.
- Performing VOCs with end customers, Weekly customer support connects and competitor analysis to bring breakthrough features in the product.
- Identify MVOs and MVPs , prioritize features based on revenue/convenience/Cyber security/business impact (ROI).
- Close interactions with Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Cyber Security , User Experience and QA teams to groom the backlogs and bring to ready to develop state.
- Prioritize product backlog in alignment with the sales roadmap, market evaluation and customer preference.
- Work closely with User Experience (UX) team to provide innovative user interaction workflows and UI experience to the customers.
- Ownership of Epics with detailed Verification/Acceptance Criteria, confirm DoR with HUE wireframes & Cyber Security compliance.
- Achieving BIQ by enforcing stringent DoD process implementations in alignment with the standard DevOps expectations.
- Well experienced in writing feature files using gherkin language.
- Leading daily bug review calls and CCB to help Scrum teams & QA in prioritizing defects.
- Communicate design requirements and provide technical guidance to stakeholders as needed.
- Develop the Risk Management Plan and execute the Risk Management/mitigation activities defined by the plan using FMEA process.
- Document traceability from requirements to verification activities, and from requirements to design entities using ALM and confluence.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Being Technical Product Manager, owning end to end delivery including requirements writing, monitoring development, cross functional dependencies, Multi language implementation and QA/Perf deployments.
DevOps Lead
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
04.2020 - 04.2022
- Lead DevOps best practices and culture for 13 projects.
- As a DevOps lead, established stable DevOps channel across GBE & SBUs.
- Collaborate with other GBEs within Honeywell for leveraging tools and practices to address legacy projects bottlenecks.
- Effective utilization of operational tools for telemetry to identify new NPI opportunities, architectural & infrastructure improvements and cost saving.
- Define KPIs and assess continuous improvement and progress against each KPI across all projects.
- Presented baseline and monthly improvements to CTO to take inputs and demonstrate quality improvements.
- Identified relevant tool for automation and integration of the same in CI/CD.
- Co-ordinated with and advised respective project focal for continuous improvements by having regular weekly connects.
- Interact with key stakeholders to prepare Test Plan Automation.
- Continuously explored on DevOps best practices and implemented the same across projects.
Technical Product Owner
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
04.2016 - 04.2022
- Performing roles of Technical Product owner for a critical IoT platform.
- Built expertise in building security domain, an IoT platform solution integrated with access control, intrusion and video devices.
- Globally distributed teams and effective management of teams through disciplined scaled agile framework.
- Translate business requirements into technical requirements and innovative solutions for the product.
- Performing VOCs with end customers, Weekly customer support connects and competitor analysis to bring breakthrough features in the product.
- Identify MVOs and MVPs , prioritize features based on revenue/convenience/Cyber security/business impact (ROI).
- Close interactions with Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Cyber Security , User Experience and QA teams to groom the backlogs and bring to ready to develop state.
- Prioritize product backlog in alignment with the sales roadmap, market evaluation and customer preference.
- Work closely with User Experience team to provide innovative user interaction workflows and UI experience to the customers.
- Effective utilization of PI planning sessions along with sales, Offering, UX/HUE, Engineering, Architects, Cyber Security, V&V and other Cross functional teams.
- Ownership of Epics with detailed Verification/Acceptance Criteria, confirm DoR with HUE wireframes & Cyber Security compliance.
- Achieving BIQ by enforcing stringent DoD process implementations in alignment with the standard DevOps expectations.
- Well experienced in writing feature files using gherkin language.
- Managing backlog readiness through daily epic grooming calls with key stakeholders.
- Develop the Risk Management Plan and execute the Risk management/mitigation activities defined by the plan using FMEA process.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
- Leading daily bug review calls and CCB to help Scrum teams & QA in prioritizing defects.
- Being Technical Product Owner, owning end to end delivery including requirements writing, monitoring development, cross functional dependencies, Multi language implementation and QA/Perf deployments.
Project Delivery/ Database/Solution Architect
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
04.2016 - 06.2018
- Managed project releases by scheduling feature deliveries to QA/Perf/Staging/Prod environments.
- Managed cross functional dependencies for teams by identifying HUE/NFR/Cyber/Language Translation requirements.
- Facilitated scrum meetings and feature demos.
- Managed resource allocation based on vertical estimations.
- Define UI/Service/Database architecture based on feature use cases and NFR requirements.
- Managed optimal workflows for feature implementations and have architectural diagrams and specifications at designated repository.
- Led database solutions for NFR compliant IoT requirements.
- Define standards for database objects and development.
- Prioritize tech debts for the PI and bring value add for the product.
- Managed highly available and scalable IoT cloud platform with latest cutting-edge technology stack.
- Carry out POCs and tech spikes as applicable.
Technical Lead
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
06.2013 - 04.2016
- Performed accountability and ownership for end-to-end project deliverables.
- Established direct customer and stakeholder connect.
- Preparation of Prototype/SRS/UML diagrams, Effort Estimation and schedule, analysis and design as per client requirements.
- Design and development of UI/Service/Database
- Unit/Integration testing, deployment.
- Established culture of agile process.
Senior Engineer
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
03.2010 - 06.2013
- Established weekly connect with customer for support project requirements and production issues
- Performed prioritization of work based on customer feedback.
- Prepare effort estimate with schedule to customers.
- Prepare prototypes and POCs as applicable.
- Prepare weekly/monthly report for management for project reviews.
- Create project artifacts and manage configuration management structure for auditing.
- Development of UI/Service/Database.
- Prepare UT and integration test cases.
- Achieved 20% deduction in field defects and 100% delivery commitments.
Application Developer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
03.2007 - 02.2010
- Performed technical Design Document preparation
- Design and coding for UI/service/Database.
- Unit Testing and Integration Testing
- All Bug Fixing stages
- Deployment into QA/stage/Prod environments.
- T-SQL statements for creating Stored Procedure, Triggers, Views
- Creation of various DTS packages and SQL server Replications as per business need
- Performed activities of Database Jobs and windows jobs setup.
- Interact with Business Users and Customers in Asia-Pac, Europe and America regions on daily basis
- Performed as delegate of team lead.
- Performed effort estimation and schedule.
- Achieved 100% record in customer issue fixes.
Software Engineer
Mopat Business Solutions Pvt Ltd.
02.2006 - 03.2007
- Performed documentation of Functional Specification, HLD and LLD.
- Performed development of web,PDA applications.
Software Engineer
Dhithi Infoserve Pvt. Ltd
06.2005 - 02.2006
- Performed development of UI/service/Database components
- Performed unit Testing and Integration Testing
- Involved in all bug fixing stages
- Direct Client Interaction
- Deployment assistance.
Education
MCA (Master of Computer Applications) - Information Technology
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Belgaum, Karnataka 06.2001 - 12 2004
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam, Kerala 06.1998 - 4 2001
Skills
- Requirement Management
- Customer stakeholder management
- Collaborative Leadership
- Risk assessment
- Design FMEA
- Risk Mitigation planning
- Database architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Design History Files management
- Web Application Design
- DevSecOps
- Project Delivery and Release Management
- Azure Cloud
- Inter Personal Communication
- Systems Development Lifecycle Management
- Cybersecurity Best Practice Implementation
- Agile (Scrum) development framework
Certification
CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner)
Experience
Baxter Innovations and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. : May-2024 - Present
GE Healthcare : April-2022 - May-2024
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt Ltd : March-2010 - April-2022
IBM India Pvt Ltd : March-2007 - Feb-2010
Mopat Business Solutions Pvt Ltd: Feb-2006 - Mar-2007
Dhithi Infoserve Pvt Ltd: June-2005 - Jan-2006
Accomplishments
● Bravo Quarterly Award (Honeywell): Awarded for exhibiting a collaborative and
boundary less approach creating extraordinary energy & passion and demonstrating
Honeywell behaviors at a role model level in achieving outstanding results.
● Appreciation Note from President, Honeywell: Appreciation & Thanks note from
Honeywell Technology Solutions Global President for the yearly contributions.
● Best Collaborative Practices Award (Honeywell): Awarded for extraordinary effort in
cross collaboration.
● Individual Excellence Award (Honeywell): Awarded for exemplary performance in
sense of ownership and intelligent decision making
● Certificate of Merit (Honeywell): For demonstrating seamless collaboration across
cross functional teams in meeting the critical milestones for the project.
● Thanks Award (multiple) from shell (IBM): For the extraordinary assistance provided in
the support.
Timeline
Sr Principal Engineer (Systems)
Baxter Innovations and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd
05.2024 - Current
Staff Technical Product Manager
GE Healthcare
04.2022 - Current
DevOps Lead
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
04.2020 - 04.2022
Technical Product Owner
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
04.2016 - 04.2022
Project Delivery/ Database/Solution Architect
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
04.2016 - 06.2018
Technical Lead
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
06.2013 - 04.2016
Senior Engineer
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab
03.2010 - 06.2013
Application Developer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
03.2007 - 02.2010
Software Engineer
Mopat Business Solutions Pvt Ltd.
02.2006 - 03.2007
Software Engineer
Dhithi Infoserve Pvt. Ltd
06.2005 - 02.2006
MCA (Master of Computer Applications) - Information Technology
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
06.2001 - 12 2004
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Mahatma Gandhi University
06.1998 - 4 2001
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