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Salil Kaul

Technical Program Manager
Pune,MH

Summary

Experienced Technical Program Manager with over 16 years of leadership experience delivering enterprise-class software. Currently working with HSBC as a Technology Program Manager with ownership of delivery of new digital banking products. Proficiency in transforming teams to operate in Agile & DevOps and building & mentoring large technology teams from grounds-up. An effective leader and problem-solver committed to develop design thinking in the team to solve real customer problems.

Overview

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years of post-secondary education
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17
years of professional experience

Work History

Delivery Lead/ Program Manager

HSBC
Pune, Maharashtra
08.2017 - Current
  • Lead the development & delivery of 16 digital Card Servicing products globally, saving over $ 7 million for the bank in 2020
  • Built a global team of over 10 PODs aligned to a SAFe Agile Release train.
  • Achieved reduction of software development expenditure by over 20% by combining strategic insourcing, vendor cost management and improved code quality
  • Reduced time to market by 50% of digital banking products by creation of reusable assets in collaboration with CX design
  • Achieved 20% improvement in code quality and defect leakage by rigorous adoption of latest DevSecOps practices
  • Managed & Coached 7 senior-level technical project managers in the team to achieve best program wide collaboration and adherence of HSBC's regulatory and compliance controls.

Program Manager for Global Analytical Center

CRISIL Limited
Mumbai, Maharashtra
04.2015 - 08.2017
  • For Global Analytics Center of S&P, I managed a portfolio of over 10 systems responsible for extracting, validating, structuring & analyzing financial data for consumption by S&P ratings.
  • Improved team productivity by 25% and reduced team attrition by moving the team from Bi-Modal software development framework to true DevOps.
  • Lead the migration of web applications to AWS Cloud by conversion of legacy apps to microservice based cloud native architecture.
  • Provided key contribution to development of org-wide SRE practice lead by the CTO.

Technical Delivery Manager of GS Portal

British Telecom
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2012 - 04.2015
  • I managed strategic delivery of projects for the, Global Services Portal which acts as a Marketing and Customer Service portal for BT's Corporate Customers.
  • My core responsibilities included providing technical leadership to the in-house/vendor teams and liaising with BT product managers to identify new opportunities for improving system performance and usability of the GS Portal Application.
  • Successfully delivered 1.5 million pound Disaster Resilience Project which provided high availability through dual-site geographical resilience to the GS Portal Website.
  • Successfully in-sourced the delivery of technology refresh project to upgrade Java applications to Spring, Hibernate and JQuery framework.
  • Successfully managed GS Portal operations with over 60 vendor resources & over 1.5 million pounds annual budgets.

Technical Lead

Infosys Ltd.
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2007 - 04.2012
  • Was identified by the client as a key technical SME and was offered a permanent role with the client B.T. to help with upgrade of the software architecture to newer technologies.
  • Technically lead teams of over 20 members for British telecom projects on Spring based REST services
  • Helped the team size to be organically grown from 5 members to 20 members by demonstrated technical capability and migration of projects from other competitive suppliers.
  • Provided technical SME help for development of business proposals for various clients across business functions.

Software Engineer

Ness Technologies Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
04.2004 - 04.2007
  • Developed technical expertize in Java, J2EE and C++ software development
  • Acted as a individual contributor in my projects where I was directly interacting with clients to implement change requests in an agile process.
  • Helped the organization pitch for additional projects and increase the revenue by over 300% over 3 years as the team grew with me as the technical lead.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics &Telecommunications

University Of Mumbai
Mumbai
07.1999 - 06.2003

Skills

Agile Program Management

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Software

AWS Cloud Computing

Microservices Architecture

Enterprize Java

DevSecOps

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Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Quote

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Timeline

Delivery Lead/ Program Manager

HSBC
08.2017 - Current

Program Manager for Global Analytical Center

CRISIL Limited
04.2015 - 08.2017

Technical Delivery Manager of GS Portal

British Telecom
04.2012 - 04.2015

Technical Lead

Infosys Ltd.
04.2007 - 04.2012

Software Engineer

Ness Technologies Ltd
04.2004 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics &Telecommunications

University Of Mumbai
07.1999 - 06.2003
Salil KaulTechnical Program Manager