Rahul Walunj

Handled responsibilities of engineering delivery of Employee Engagement Manager (EEM) product.

Key responsibilities includes:

• Lead team of 15+ engineers in building customer facing features both in-house and through vendors covering technology stack of Java, Dot net, Angular, Python and AWS.
• End to end product delivery management by working with cross-functional teams of Product, R&D, Cloud, Support and Services.
• Responsible for Monthly, Quarterly, Annual plans around product quality and people management.
• Extensive work in SOW and Sub-Contractor management ranging from budgeting, selection, scoping and execution across the vendor portfolio of InfoVision, Xoriant, VinzGlobal, Atmecs
• Strategic contribution towards GTC initiatives of Secure Coding and Sparkathon.

Key achievements:

• Improved product maturity on Security, Performance and Infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Strategic stakeholder management to align cloud and operations department inline with R&D.

Handled responsibilities of product delivery (4 products), product management (2 products) and client integration.

Key responsibilities includes:

• Technical Architecture and Hands on: Architect-ed, and Lead team in building of loyalty based payment solutions, and in-house ESB solution ground up.
• Product management and solution design: handled product management for 2 back office products. Built new features and did re-arch for few existing features.
• 8+ years experience in product delivery management. Responsible for Quarterly, Annual and Monthly plans.
• Practiced Sprint + Kanban development and operations for product. Responsible for achieving service delivery excellence, operational efficiency.
• Strategic contribution towards all client integrations across product portfolio.
• Lead cross function teams: 30+ FTE consisting Technical Leads, Technical Architects, Software Engineers, Business Analysts, UX Designers, UI Developers.
• R&D contribution towards transitioning from monolith to microservice architecture. Directed end to end CICD automation for microservices.
• Resource planning and hiring by interactions with CTO and HR teams.
• People performance management. This includes by-weekly one-to-one and quarterly reviews through tool based approach.
• Define OKRs, Processes
• Stakeholder and Vendor management: built strategic relationships with technology partners

Key achievements:

• Quality: achieved 30% improvement QoQ
• Knowledge score improved by 20% in QoQ

Started as individual contributor and grown on to leading product end to end.

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

• Built Reward Card product (loyalty based payment solution) ground up
• Vendor management - Swiss based Corner bank for issuance of prepaid credit card, Emarsys email service provider for transactional emails, Bulk SMS for messaging service provider
• Build in-house ESB solution - ON Connect - for integrating with any vendor technology along with capability to handle single sign on.

Started career in Mahindra Satyam as Software Engineer. Worked on multiple UPRR company projects as tech SME for Java, Hibernate, Spring, Web services.

Key responsibilities includes:

• Design and development of project modules for management of rail-road employees through - Assignment, Licensing and Decertification software
• Development and deployment of micro-services for tracking train and its locomotive movement across regions of Union Pacific.