Rajesh K. Kadam

As a Engineering Manager at Vistra International, my role is pivotal in ensuring the successful development and delivery of enterprise-grade digital solutions. I am responsible for overseeing Agile teams, managing cross-functional collaboration, and driving engineering excellence across the product lifecycle.

Additionally, I am leading as the Application Support Manager for the Digital Platform Application, where I manage end-to-end support operations, ensuring system stability, timely issue resolution, and continuous service improvements across our critical business applications.

Technology Stack - Azure .Net Core , Kafka, Kubernetes

My key responsibilities include:

• Proficient in working with globally distributed teams, managing stakeholder expectations, and maintaining effective client communication to drive project success
• Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
• Reviewed and revised technical design direction for OnePayroll projects, prioritizing senior leadership's business goals.
• Offered technical guidance for OnePayroll projects during development meetings.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to ensure alignment with project goals and priorities.
• Promote culture of continuous improvement by encouraging feedback, retrospectives, and the implementation of process enhancements.
• Facilitated effective communication between stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable tasks for the development team.
• Mentored junior developers, providing guidance and support to enhance their technical skills and career growth.
• Leading the Application Support team to maintain high availability and performance of business-critical systems through proactive monitoring and issue resolution.
• Driving engineering excellence in support operations by integrating PagerDuty for incident alerting and Datadog for observability, enabling real-time diagnostics and performance insights.
• Collaborating with development and DevOps teams to implement automation and root-cause analysis processes that reduce downtime and enhance service reliability.

• Technology Stack - Azure .Net Core , SAP - IC
• Domain - HR,Telecom
  
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly
  sprint releases.
• Design and lead development of solutions and working with offshore teams.
  Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming
  impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Ensure the ongoing operations and support of existing integrations
  Drive standardization and best practices during implementation of solutions
  Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily
  scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  

Project Description:

• GTS: Handles the Letter of Credit business and Collection processing, developed in .NETCore , Azure, WEBAPI, WinForms , DB2
• Trade Internet Query Reporting Website: Trade Internet Query i.e
• TIQ website is an application that provides the various banks with reporting of various transactions & payment that happens in the LC Business
• It provides them a very handy tool to analyze various transactions and take corrective steps wherever required
• Role :
• App manager and SME for GTS Application and IGT Application.
• Developed custom functionality in our application.
• Create Low Level Design Document.
• Reviewed solution architecture proposals to provide technical direction to associated personnel.
• Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.
• Monitored progress on tasks and status of deliverables
• Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
• Provided team with coaching and direction.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

• Voyager- European Travel Network
• Project Description: ETN is recognized as one of the fastest growing inbound travel wholesalers in Europe for both organized Group Travel and FIT travelers
• ETN provides Tour operators, wholesalers and travel agencies worldwide with tour-handling services in line with the needs of their market demands
• CKDMS provides a platform for quick Group and FIT B2B, B2B2B, B2B2C bookings and tracking them
• New Development and Bug Fixing

Chanakya: Online Gaming Portal for AIMA

• Project Description: Developed an online gaming portal for AIMA management institute on Windows Azure. The portal includes roles for Super Admin, Game Admin, and Team Leaders, enabling game creation, team assignments, and solution uploads.
• Role:Application design and initial client discussions
  Development of SRS documentation
  Integration with SQL Azure Services
  Technologies: Windows Azure, MVC 3, Razor, Entity Framework 2
  

SynOpRisk – Syntel Operation Risk Management System (BNFS)

• Project Description: Migrated SynOpRisk, a .NET operational risk management application, to a cloud-enabled solution on Windows Azure. Implemented Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA) for capital charge calculation based on business line mapping.
• Role:Migration planning and execution
  Conversion of WCF services for cloud deployment
  Technologies: Windows Azure, WCF Services
  

Horace Mann – Auto and Property Insurance

• Project Description: Developed modules for a USA-based insurance application covering auto and property insurance.
• Role:Designed Low-Level Design (LLD) and mapping documents for mainframe integration
  Requirements analysis and implementation using VS2008
  Ownership of state-specific modules, including production support
  Technologies: Rule-based architecture, PDF generation with third-party components
  

• Developed Product ‘Elements’ and its versions
• Project Description :
• An element is Dashboard application for the airline industry & main focus is on passenger side
• It gives overall view of the business done by airline
• The targeted audiences of this application are CEO level and also the people who are doing business

• Workforce Recruiter project (WFR)’ for Emmay HR Ltd
• The details of the project and my job responsibilities are as follows
• Project Description:
• Objective is to design ‘Workforce Recruiter’ system as tool for human resource management and recruitment functions
• Role:
• To develop business logic using Microsoft Data Access Block
• We have used third party controls to give high end and latest business solutions, which was crucial at client end
• I have also worked on User Interface (UI) part of applications.