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Rakesh Edamula

Director, Engineering
Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Strategic-thinking individual with extensive cross-cultural experience skilled in navigation of modern technology. Accustomed to driving efficiency and effectiveness by developing, delivering and supporting strategic plans. Excels at building and leading high performing engineering teams that deliver quality products on time. Passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where employees feel empowered to do their best work.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director, Engineering

Accruent
Bangalore
08.2019 - Current
  • Mobilized and directed high performing global multi-disciplinary engineering team with substantial presence in India. Scaled Accruent's India Org from 0 to 73.
  • Cultivated customer experience-focused culture across all teams through data-analysis and measurement, leading to increasing products supported to 5 and 2 horizontal service. IDC owns one of products related to Telecom and has retained ARR of $10.2M.
  • Increased employee engagement to 78% and retention through proactive leadership, problem resolution, and effective communication.
  • Established opportunities for improving operational efficiencies through management processes and increasing team productivity by 40%.
  • Collaborated with senior cross-functional leadership to create strong digital roadmap boosting organizational growth potential by 30%.

Engineering Manager

Tektronix India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
05.2011 - 08.2019
  • Established leadership to lead and grow Sources (Part of Wide band Solutions Business Unit) Software business. Led to launch of new products in RF space.
  • Succeeded in planning, directing, executing definition, development and launch of new products and first to market compliance solutions like Thunderbolt, SAS3 which drove improvement in business results & customer loyalty.
  • Execute competitive assessments and Voice of Customer/market research to gain market insights. First to market compliance solutions for Thunderbolt, SAS3 solutions which led to increased sales.
  • Accelerated collaborations across organizational boundaries to ensure smooth execution of cross-functional plans within Tektronix.

Senior Project Manager

AOL Online India Private Limited
Bangalore
04.2006 - 04.2011
  • Directed AOL Mail product line road map and initiatives for AOL's Desktop Mail and AOL's Affinity Mail with user base of 150 Million users (mailboxes).
  • Launching of AOL Mail's gadget for Google's, Facebook, Net Vibes, affinity mail products to external partner.
  • Established agile practices and coordinated efforts of 20+ software development scrum teams.
  • Fostered agile procedures for transparent project management technique across 4+ teams through various stages of product release.

Project Manager

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2002 - 04.2006

Senior Software Engineer

Planet Asia Ltd.
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.1999 - 01.2002

Software Engineering Intern

Byzan Systems Pvt Ltd.
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.1998 - 12.1999

Education

MBA - Business Administration

NMIMS
Pune
06.2017 - 06.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Kuvempu University
Karnataka
07.1993 - 07.1997

Skills

    Strategic Planning & Organizational Leadership

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Software

Azure Cloud, IoT Hub and Data Analytics

Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes

DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins

Microservices, REST API

Security & Compliance, Vault

Python, Core Java, C#

Robo Framework, Cucumber, K6

Data Science & Visualization

Timeline

Director, Engineering

Accruent
08.2019 - Current

MBA -

NMIMS
06.2017 - 06.2019

Engineering Manager

Tektronix India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2011 - 08.2019

Senior Project Manager

AOL Online India Private Limited
04.2006 - 04.2011

Project Manager

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2002 - 04.2006

Senior Software Engineer

Planet Asia Ltd.
12.1999 - 01.2002

Software Engineering Intern

Byzan Systems Pvt Ltd.
01.1998 - 12.1999

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Kuvempu University
07.1993 - 07.1997

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