Subhra Kanti Roy
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced Technical Leader with 21 years in the IT industry, known for strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and a commitment to putting the team first. I embody H&M values in my daily work, leading with integrity, transparency, and trust. I promote a growth mindset within my teams and consistently drive high‑quality delivery by prioritizing timelines and removing obstacles. A natural problem solver, I enjoy tackling technical, operational, and cross‑functional challenges to help teams succeed. Highly dependable and committed—you can count on me to deliver.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager
H&M India
Bengaluru
04.2024 - Current
- Managing a highly complex My Account and Checkout team working on multiple parallel initiatives, ensuring timely delivery by proactively removing blockers and driving execution.
- Leading the critical Online Replatforming initiative by closely partnering with Leads and QAs, supporting requirement clarification, estimation planning, and regular alignment with all stream stakeholders.
- Oversaw Checkout 2.0 delivery by ensuring the right talent allocation, effective planning, and continuous progress tracking for on‑time execution.
- Built and launched the CIAM Frontend team, setting up their sprint processes within a very short timeframe.
- Ensured timely resolution of all Checkout team incidents, including hands‑on debugging during major P1 issues such as the LSL incident that impacted the release pipeline last month
- Closely driving the complex Mach‑X migration for the Checkout team, ensuring readiness to exit the Monorepo within PI‑2.
- Led the Korea migration initiative by coordinating across Dev Team, Payments, and Akamai teams to ensure the BGL milestone was met on schedule.
- Actively supporting and moderating the EM community in H&M
- Introduced structured ownership and Ways of Working (WoW) within the MAC team, defining feature owners, area ownership, and clear team objectives.
- Improved Checkout code quality by guiding Leads on setting up best coding practices and implementing measurable KPIs to reduce defects leaking into production.
- Partnered with QA to drive test automation for complex checkout scenarios, reducing reliance on manual testing and accelerating delivery cycles.
- Defined clear goals for all MAC developers to support alignment and performance tracking.
- Conducted regular 1:1s to mentor, motivate, and prepare team members for their next career steps.
Team Lead
Nexthink
Bengaluru
09.2022 - 04.2024
- Managing the day-to-day activities of the team
- Collecting requirements from Product and designing technical solutions
- Estimation and planning release with stake holders
- Presenting progress of work in management meetings to stake holders
- Delegating tasks to team members also helping them debug issues if they are stuck
- Conducting training of team members to maximize their potential. Motivating the team to achieve organizational goals.
- Empowering team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
- Conducting weekly 1-1 with team members and providing feedback
- Conducting annual performance reviews.
- Contributing to the growth of the company through a successful team.
- Creating a pleasant working environment that inspires the team.
Senior Lead Engineer
Software AG
Bengaluru
07.2017 - 08.2022
- Led feature development for software ag integration cloud product team, enhancing platform capabilities.
- Developed onboarding connectors for web platform to facilitate client integrations.
- Served as escalation lead for critical customer issues, ensuring rapid resolution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline integration processes and improve user experience.
PMTS
Oracle
Bengaluru
12.2015 - 08.2017
- As part of Oracle BI LCM team focusing on development and support of multiple BI applications.
Senior Consultant
IBM ISL
Bengaluru
09.2013 - 09.2015
- contributed to Sterling Commerce team for feature development and customer support
Lead Engineer
Alcatel Lucent
Bengaluru
04.2009 - 08.2013
- Worked as an individual contributor in NMS product
Software Engineer
Ordyn Technologies
Bengaluru
08.2007 - 03.2009
- Working on feature development and supporting Ordyn NMS
Software Engineer
TATA ELXSI
Bengaluru
07.2005 - 08.2007
- Joined as fresher mostly involved in corporate training and bug fixing for existing products
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
NIT Durgapur
01-2005
Science
DAV Model
01-2000
Skills
- Team leadership
- Project management
- Team building
- Active listening
- Contract negotiation
- Talent development
- Process optimization
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Effective mentoring
- Communication strategy
- Performance feedback
- Conflict resolution
- Recruiting
- Resource planning
- Technology integration
- Vendor sourcing
- Stakeholder communication
- Architecture
- Java
- Test automation
- React
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
- Responsive design
- Next JS
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- System Design
- REST
- AWS
- Azure
- AI
- Git
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- NGINX
- SaaS
- Cloud Technologies
- Agile
- Scrum
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Micronaut
- Grpc
- Terraform
- Kafka
- Postman
- Burp Suite
- MySQL workbench
- Docker Desktop
- Cloud applications like Splunk
- Prometheus
- AWS applications
- JMeter
- K9s
- Visual Studio Code
- Agile methodologies
- Technical architecture
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Certification
AI in Business - Fundamentals to Applications - Indian School of Business
Timeline
Engineering Manager
H&M India
04.2024 - Current
Team Lead
Nexthink
09.2022 - 04.2024
Senior Lead Engineer
Software AG
07.2017 - 08.2022
PMTS
Oracle
12.2015 - 08.2017
Senior Consultant
IBM ISL
09.2013 - 09.2015
Lead Engineer
Alcatel Lucent
04.2009 - 08.2013
Software Engineer
Ordyn Technologies
08.2007 - 03.2009
Software Engineer
TATA ELXSI
07.2005 - 08.2007
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
NIT Durgapur
Science
DAV Model