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Priyanksha Khanna

Priyanksha Khanna

Technical Program Manager
Gurgaon

Summary

Meticulously organized and influential Technical Program Manager with 12+ years of diverse and comprehensive experience in architecting and development of cloud-based applications using microservices and serverless architecture. Careful overseer of disparate departments with widely varying levels of technical knowledge.
An Experienced and Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practitioner with deep know how in development of software framework supporting large scale analytics applications.
Published 2 research paper titled “Metric Selection to increase Testability” and Testability of Object-Oriented Systems: AHP Based Approach for prioritization of Metrics” presented in World Conference in Information Systems and Technology, Portugal and International Conference of Computing and Informatics, Mysore (Published in the IEEE digital library) respectively.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Program Manager

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Gurugram
04.2022 - Current
  • Work on creating comprehensive project plan by capturing the
    complete task details with expected duration, resource allocation,
    technical dependencies and project milestones.
  • Active participation into architectural & design discussions, technical estimations, requirement interviews and analyzing the feasibility of implementation and business impact.
  • Implementing Agile and SAFe practices for onshore and offshore
    teams, handling a team of 35+ people across 6 projects
  • Addressing client technical roadblocks and proposing solutions for futuristic opportunities & managing its POC.
  • Demonstrating analytical and problem-solving skills. Identification
    of improvements, risks, recommendations for technical and process compliance, contingency & mitigation plans implemented by team.
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.

Software Development Manager

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Gurugram
04.2020 - 03.2022
  • Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependencies and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
  • Mapping client’s requirements & providing them best solutions involving analysis, evaluation, and definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements
  • Handling end-to-end development of software products / projects from inception, requirement specs, planning, designing, implementation, configuration, documentation, and closure with cross-cultural teams
  • Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule / budgets, and ensuring timely completion and delivery of project to the client, extending production support for applications
  • Analyzing user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
  • Conducting system study and coordinating with team members for product documentation, system design & integration, coding, application maintenance
  • Identifying concerns raised by internal team and customers, providing them solution to increase operational efficiency in required timeline with cost effectiveness
  • Researched and implemented new technological tools to optimize business process workflows.

Technical Lead Engineer

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Gurugram
04.2017 - 03.2021
  • Development of prototype to check the feasibility of the feature
  • Setting up CI/CD pipeline
  • Developing the analytics for clod-based application
  • Creating reusable graphical components (Micro-Apps)
  • Code review and optimization; Bug fixing; Junit.
  • Ensuring quality deliverables
  • Following test driven development (TDD)
  • Drives the Product and Solution Security (PSS) initiative in department, where given training to Leads on security vulnerabilities and their fixes and rolled-out “Secure Coding Guidelines” for web-based applications

Associate Consultant

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Gurugram
07.2010 - 03.2017
  • Preparing functional & design specification documents for new features
  • Developing installers for various components of the product in both cloud and non-cloud environment
  • Developed the graphical API for various trends (visual representation using line charts and polar chart) for real-time and archive-based monitoring system of machines and processes.
  • Handling development of various faceplates using ILOG Tool for the product which acts as a control system for power plants
  • Identifying & analyzing defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, and content

Software Engineer

Headstrong
Noida
02.2009 - 12.2009
  • Served as a member of workflow management team and sent alerts and notifications during the progress of the deployed application
  • Designed VISA request module using the MVC architecture

Education

M.Phil (8.2 CGPA) - Computer Science

Dayalbagh Educational Institute
Agra
01.2009 - 06.2010

Master of Science - Physics And Computer Science

Dayalbagh Educational Institute
Agra
07.2007 - 12.2008

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Dayalbagh Educational Institute
Agra
07.2004 - 06.2007

Skills

    Building technical teams

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Accomplishments

  • Received Champion Award for implementing end-to-end DevOps and fully automating cloud-based analytics
  • Implemented DevOps in the project which was in line with Siemens Development System (SDS) and Siemens Global Quality North Star initiative for quality goals of future; only project selected from Siemens in India to be globally recognized for the best practices being followed in-line with Siemens QNS perspective, bringing recognition to STS on global stage.
  • Research Paper entitled “Metric Selection to increase Testability” presented in World Conference in Information Systems and Technology to be held in Azores, Portugal. The paper is published in a book titled “New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies” of Springer Link
  • Research paper entitled “Testability of Object-Oriented Systems: AHP Based Approach for prioritization of Metrics” presented at International Conference of Computing and Informatics, Mysore and published in the IEEE digital library
  • Won 3rd prize in “Showcase your Agility Story - Product Stalls” in EDGE 2019 at organization level where showcased how implementation of Siemens Development System (SDS) principles in the project has made it lean by shredding all the wastes and resulted in flexible software which can adapt to changing customer and business requirements
  • Selected and trained in the first edition of the “AdvanceHER” leadership program at organization level
  • Got selected in top 6 teams across INDIA in Technical Agility Excellence Team Award Competition organized by Technical Agility Institute at all India level
  • Developed cloud based LearnToGrow App for sub segment to plan and track individual's learnings
  • Imparted 2 days training on AWS Technologies and trained 20 colleagues on AWS
  • Given Technotalk on “DevOps” and “Cybersecurity”
  • Successfully designed new tool which helped in updating/upgrading the product automatically and significantly reduced man effort
  • Designed a concept on automation of system integration for improving testability and quality of delivered software
  • Received several recognitions/appreciations from clients for successful execution of projects
  • Part of Community of Technology Experts in Edge and Cloud at organization level
  • Nominated for Excellence Awards in the “Expert” and “Impactful” category at organization level
  • Personality of the Millennium Award in 2000 by Gurukul Society

Software

Java

AngulaJS

AWS

DevOps

Cyber Security

Restful Webservices

Certification

Safe Agilist

Timeline

Technical Program Manager

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
04.2022 - Current

Safe Agilist

11-2021

Software Development Manager

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
04.2020 - 03.2022

Technical Lead Engineer

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
04.2017 - 03.2021

Associate Consultant

Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
07.2010 - 03.2017

Software Engineer

Headstrong
02.2009 - 12.2009

M.Phil (8.2 CGPA) - Computer Science

Dayalbagh Educational Institute
01.2009 - 06.2010

Master of Science - Physics And Computer Science

Dayalbagh Educational Institute
07.2007 - 12.2008

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Dayalbagh Educational Institute
07.2004 - 06.2007
Priyanksha KhannaTechnical Program Manager