Reliable highly scalable Microservices Architecture using Kafka
Pravin Wadekar
CTO
PUNE
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level CTO position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
CTO
Excellon Software Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
10.2019 - Current
- Own Company Product roadmap.
- Own Product Technology Stack
- Own new product development.
- Created multiple revenue channels & product pipeline.
- Ensured all the technical resources meet the companies needs
- Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
- Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
- Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
Co-Founded
Smartalyse Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2014 - 10.2018
- Release 2 versions of the platform.
- Raised Capital of 1 M+.
- Acquired 150+ Customers.
- Built a network of 10+ Partners across 3 cities.
- Established foundational processes for business operations.
- Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
- Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
Developer Tools Evangelist
Microsoft India
Pune
08.2010 - 01.2014
- Worked with Multiple Customers across.
- Worked with the Customer Technical Teams to adopt the right development tools and process.
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Designed, developed, and implemented software applications for website based on analyzed requirements and understanding of industry technical standards.
- Tested programs and databases to identify issues and make necessary modifications.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
- Pioneered new methods of code review to incorporate wider range of voices.
Customer Unit Head
Persistent Systems Ltd
Pune
06.2004 - 01.2014
- Built a strong team of 130+ people working with Microsoft Teams like like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Research, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Bing (commercial search), Microsoft AdCenter, Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft TAG, etc.
- Grew Microsoft account annual revenue to 6Millions+
- Ensured Utilization ratios are more than 80%
- Mentored freshers and lateral hires to meet team & customer expectations. To ensure sustained growth over the areas, work with Microsoft product teams to identify new areas and build use case projects and gain Microsoft team confidence and eventually grow business with new Team or new tool. Ensured Senior team members spent time with freshers to build inclusive motivated culture and sense of belong is inculcated in the new team members.
- Frequently traveled to USA, to build Customer relations, understand requirements, build proposals and ensure smooth communication channel between onsite, offshore and customers is established.
- Managed team across geographies both onsite and offshore.
- Farmed Microsoft Account by building deeper customer relations with Microsoft product & Research teams starting with just one engagement to more than 20 engagements working on the core Microsoft products.
- Launched staff engagement, gender diversity and cultural programs in addition to robust reporting tool that increased operational quality.
- Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
- Cultivated and strengthened lasting client relationships using strong issue resolution and dynamic communication skills.
- Handled problematic customers and clients to assist lower-level employees and maintain excellent customer service.
- IP Lead Revenue Worked with Microsoft Product teams to identify gaps in the market and built IP’s for Persistent like Clear Case migration tool and SQL to Oracle Data Connector. The IP was sold to multiple customers including Shell, Siemens, etc.
- Along side Microsoft account built other ISV business across geographies viz. India SME’s: Built team of about 100+ engineers and acquired multiple projects for each vertical.
- Lead other Microsoft platform Customer teams like Open Table, Shinsei Bank Japan, Kruggle, SPSS Dimensions, etc.
Technical Architect
Merrill Lynch, New York
New York
03.1998 - 05.2004
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.
- Engineered architecture and infrastructure for trading platform.
- Improved business productivity for clients by re-engineering and designing infrastructures.
- Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Technology
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Pune University, Pune 06.1989 - 06.1993
Skills
Problem-Solving
Software
Data Lakehouse using Minio, Hive, Trinio
Observability
Architect a scalable Connector Factory leveraging NiFi, Flink
Envisioned a built & Architected a Node Code Platform
Architected and Built a Scalable Private Cloud Platform
Architected a No code platform to build AI & ML Data pipeline
Timeline
CTO
Excellon Software Pvt. Ltd.
10.2019 - Current
Co-Founded
Smartalyse Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
01.2014 - 10.2018
Developer Tools Evangelist
Microsoft India
08.2010 - 01.2014
Customer Unit Head
Persistent Systems Ltd
06.2004 - 01.2014
Technical Architect
Merrill Lynch, New York
03.1998 - 05.2004
Bachelor of Science - Computer Technology
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
06.1989 - 06.1993
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