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Prashant Surana

Prashant Surana

Chief Technology officer
Pune

Summary

Top-notch CTO with proven track record of success leading and growing organizations. Strong background in strategic planning, financial management and team development. Skilled in identifying opportunities and implementing practical business strategies with commitment to staying informed about latest trends, technologies and best practices.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Chief Technology Officer

CollationAi Inc, USA
07.2023 - Current
  • Founder member of the team, built the team of engineers, product managers, customer support, sales engineers and data analyst
  • Build and released revenue making software with in 3 months
  • Built-up an AI-based PDF parser using OpenAI GPT model
  • ETL and integration using Azure data factory , Azure container apps, Azure container jobs, Azure functions etc
  • Microsoft power platform , Power portal, Power apps, power automate, etc
  • PowerBi reporting including PowerBi embeded for reporting with role level access control
  • Established robust cybersecurity protocols, mitigating risks and safeguarding sensitive company information. ISO-2013 and SOC2 compliances


Managing Partner

SprintVelocity LLP
07.2023 - Current

SprintVelocity LLP is pune based IT services company, provides clients with access to top-tier technology professionals on an as-needed basis.

  • Hired and operationalized data engineering team for Innovation refunds within 2 weeks
  • Setup KYC/KYB data analyst team of 6 people within 2 weeks
  • Built up team with expertize on data engineering / ETL processing with DBT , Fivetran, Redshift, AWS CDK
  • Completely taken over clients data engineering and KYC/KYB processing work in 4 weeks


Chief Technology Officer

Canopy Pte Ltd, Singapore
12.2021 - 12.2023
  • Drove innovation and fostered a culture of continuous improvement through strategic planning and execution.
  • Established robust cybersecurity protocols, mitigating risks and safeguarding sensitive company information.
  • ISO-2013:9000 and SCO-2 audits and Compliances
  • Introduced ETL process for bank/custodian data feeds and statement processing
  • Add Canopy to Sage marketplace with 2 way integration with Canopy
  • Micro-frontend architecture
  • Tech/Infra: AWS, Python, React , NodeJS


VP Product & Engineering

Synacor Inc (Zimbra Technology India Pvt Ltd)
09.2015 - 12.2021
  • Hands on Product Engineering leader managing all aspects of Software-AsA Service (SaaS), API and microservice requirements, design, development, delivery and quality assurance
  • Launch of Zimbra Cloud, a cloud agnostic email collaboration suite
  • Targeted revenue growth 30% year on year
  • Designed various backup and storage solution for Zimbra email
  • Designed Hierarchical storage management (HSM), Archiving & eDiscovery
  • Designed Asynchronous backup, in-place restore, disaster recovery
  • Self-service migration from Gmail/Office 365/Exchange to Zimbra
  • Implementation of Microsoft activesync (EAS), Exchange Web services (EWS), Microsoft API (MAPI), M-365 APIs
  • B2B sales through 1000+ channel partners and resellers across the Globe
  • Define product quarterly and yearly roadmap for email Collaboration Suite
  • Achieved 110% product renewals & winning major deals of revenue $5M+
  • Define product/feature scopes and priorities
  • Introduced Product value proposition canvas
  • Keeping scrum teams on track of the sprint goal
  • Managed polyglot development environment including Java, PHP, Golang, NodeJS, ReactJs, JSP, Servlets, AngularJS, Redis, etc
  • Designed and promotes DevOps centric model with GitHub, Docker, CircleCI, Swagger and Kubernetes
  • Handling customer escalations and prioritizations
  • Product security and compliance for government sector
  • Migration of legacy application into high available micro services

Engineering Manager

Zimbra Technology India Pvt Ltd (Telligent)
12.2013 - 09.2015
  • Defined engineering team structure, expanded, Platform Web-UX, release engineering and support teams from 5 - 50 engineers across the globe
  • Technical product ownership of multiple scrum teams
  • Defined process of accepting community contributions
  • Designed zimbra cloud HA framework .with docker container & Kubernetes
  • Transitioned from waterfall to agile methodology resulted into bi-weekly releases with 90% success rate without any roll back
  • Designed Zero downtime upgrade framework
  • Zimbra cloud deployment on Amazon AWS (EKS) / Azure / Oracle OKE
  • Zimbra Packaging and release management
  • Auto scaling of Zimbra mailbox service
  • Test driven development and test automation
  • Troubleshooting the customer issues providing the patches and hotfix
  • Coach team on estimation based on the complexity of the story
  • Real time backup and point restore

Senior MTS

VMWare
02.2010 - 12.2013
  • Designed and implemented Zimbra Milter
  • Implemented active sync protocol version 14.0
  • Implemented Spengo single sign on & Microsoft activeSync

Senior MTS

Yahoo Inc
10.2008 - 02.2010
  • Improved performance of test case execution using selenium grid
  • Developed zimbra server extensions for custom auth
  • Implemented TestNG reporting listeners

Senior MTS

Persistent Systems Ltd
10.2005 - 10.2008
  • Strongmail Mail Transfer Agent
  • Performance/Functional testing
  • Strongmail Business Manager
  • Junit-Selenium UI Automation Framework for functional testing

Education

Post Graduate Diploma In Advance Computing (CDAC) -

C-DAC

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - undefined

University of Pune

Skills

Corporate strategy development

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Product Management Skills

  • Strategic Product Roadmap Planning
  • Multi-tenant SaaS collaboration product
  • Customer and Peer Relationship
  • Product Roadmap & GTM
  • B2B sales, Business & marketing plans
  • Product Packaging and Prizing
  • Competitive Analysis
  • OEM Partnership
  • Transformation/migration licensing to SAAS, Target 30% revenue growth
  • Cloud Agnostic product
  • Product Licensing and opensource strategy
  • Open Source forums & community
  • Technology acquisitions & Integration
  • Product Security and compliance

Engineering Skills

  • Technical Architecture and Design
  • Cybersecurity and Industry Mandate
  • Software Product Engineering and Innovation
  • Cloud Storage / Hybrid storage
  • Hierarchical storage management (HSM)
  • Archiving and eDiscovery
  • Real time Asynchronous backup
  • Data at REST encryption & DRM
  • Team growth and Hiring
  • AWS / Azure / Oracle Cloud
  • Kubernetes docker containers
  • High Availability and Disaster recovery
  • AntiSpam antivirus
  • SMTP/POP3/IMAP/DAV
  • Hands-on Java and Trouble shootings
  • Secure MIME (S/Mime)

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/29/81
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian

Timeline

Chief Technology Officer

CollationAi Inc, USA
07.2023 - Current

Managing Partner

SprintVelocity LLP
07.2023 - Current

Chief Technology Officer

Canopy Pte Ltd, Singapore
12.2021 - 12.2023

VP Product & Engineering

Synacor Inc (Zimbra Technology India Pvt Ltd)
09.2015 - 12.2021

Engineering Manager

Zimbra Technology India Pvt Ltd (Telligent)
12.2013 - 09.2015

Senior MTS

VMWare
02.2010 - 12.2013

Senior MTS

Yahoo Inc
10.2008 - 02.2010

Senior MTS

Persistent Systems Ltd
10.2005 - 10.2008

Post Graduate Diploma In Advance Computing (CDAC) -

C-DAC

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - undefined

University of Pune
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