SIDDESH KUMAR B S
Bengaluru
Summary
Over 20 years of working experience in product development, service-based industries, and GCCs in India, the USA, the UK, and the Middle East regions. Accomplished leader with expertise in product development and team leadership at Epicor. Spearheaded AI-led initiatives, enhancing productivity by 50%. Proficient in trending technologies like Python, AI/ML, automation, as well as data analysis, driving strategic goals, and customer engagement. Adept at transforming vision into actionable results, fostering innovation and growth.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Manager Product – Retail and Payment Systems
Epicor
Bangalore
11.2007 - Current
- Successfully managed the product development team, with a focus on cost, schedule, quality, automation, release, and deployment, with a 98% success rate and 100% certainty.
- Hiring, development, and training of a global team, and retention of the best talent from the industry skilled in retail engineering and associated POS, payments, item management, customer and loyalty management, purchasing, accounting, space planning, signs and labels, replenishment, data integration, and analytics.
- Spearheaded a new data platform end-to-end to cover data collection, ingestion, storage, transformation, and make processed data available for end users and applications through dashboards, reports, APIs, or data feeds. BI –OBIEE, Power BI , Tableau, ML, NLP, Python.
- Adopted the AI-led development practices, which helped us improve productivity by up to 50%.
- Facilitated the business with timely insights and data products that inform and optimize decisions across functional areas, including Product Management, UX, Technology, and Marketing.
- Rolled out the in-house payment application across the product portfolio, currently handling more than $1 billion in transactions across these products.
- Orchestrated technical delivery service for the Propello platform, implementing automated content solutions and localization across the USA and Canada, boosting content accuracy by 35%.
- Developed with Product Engineering, Cross Product Managers, User Experience, Content Experience, Marketing, and the Architect community, and supported to influence, create, and execute the product roadmap.
- Managed the team size of 54+ distributed across India, the USA, and Mexico, with a primary focus on the management of resources, team assignments, and fostering career growth.
- Support compliance with best practices related to data availability and security procedures.
Technical Architect
Verndale
Bangalore
10.2016 - 11.2017
- Designed and architected content management applications using Sitecore.
- Designed and developed an integration layer for SAP HANA with the health care portal.
- Participated in the design and code reviews across the projects
Sr. Engineering Manager
Target
Bangalore
06.2007 - 09.2016
- Led engineering team of size 40+ to develop innovative solutions for the stores portfolio operations.
- Was instrumental in driving the first agile-executed program and the first enterprise mobile application($40 million both hardware and software cost) development for the store portfolio, which was completed in a record time of 5 months for MVP and deployment.
- Implemented best practices in engineering standards for MPD applications design and development.
- Managed cross-functional projects to enhance system efficiencies across multiple departments.
- Collaborated with product teams to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
- Streamlined processes to improve workflow and reduce operational bottlenecks.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering professional development and skills enhancement.
Programmer Analyst
Infosys
Bangalore
09.2006 - 06.2007
- Developed software solutions to improve client operational efficiency for the oil and gas domain.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement applications.
- Mentored junior programmers in best practices and coding techniques.
Lead Programmer
Caritor
Bangalore
11.2002 - 08.2006
- Worked with customers related to the USA, UK, and Dubai at on-site locations.
- Played a customer-facing role, coordinated the requirements, design, and coding-related activities across onsite and offshore.
- Mentored junior programmers to improve coding skills and foster professional growth.
Skills
- Program management, technology life cycle management
- Product Management
- Programming using Python, Java, or C#
- Project management – PMP
- Customer engagement
- Agile methodologies – PMI-ACP
- Communication
- Data Science
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
Academics And Certifications
- Professional Certificate in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
- PMP certified
- PMI-ACP certified
- Bachelor of Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davanagere, Karnataka
Timeline
Technical Architect
Verndale
10.2016 - 11.2017
Sr. Manager Product – Retail and Payment Systems
Epicor
11.2007 - Current
Sr. Engineering Manager
Target
06.2007 - 09.2016
Programmer Analyst
Infosys
09.2006 - 06.2007
Lead Programmer
Caritor
11.2002 - 08.2006