Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Software And Tools
Certification
Additional Information
Timeline
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Sudarshan Reddy

IT Delivery Lead, PMO, Quality Engineering, SRE
Bengaluru

Summary

Results driven software engineering professional with over 25 years of experience in delivering broad range of products and services spanning across consumer-based to enterprise. A strong technical background, decisive leadership, excellent organizational skills, effective communication skills and a customer centric focus. Experience in handling mergers, splits, and divestitures, worked on special projects / assignments.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Director Software Engineering

Lumen IT India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2006 - Current
  • Led teams in Global Security Operations, Sales Enablement, Quality Engineering, and PMO.
  • Reduced quoting cycle time from 5 business days to under 1 hour through automation in Sales Enablement, achieving a CSAT score of 4.9/5.
  • Utilized Black Lotus Lab to successfully defend 100% of DDoS attacks for managed customers.
  • Eliminated manual testing through skill transformation and developed an Automation First mindset, achieving and maintaining a >95% automation index and certifying builds in 6 hours.
  • Reduced deployment time by 300% through the adoption of a DevOps pipeline.
  • Established System Reliability Engineering practices to enhance service availability, implement failover mechanisms, and incorporate self-healing AIOps.

Senior Associate, Software Engineering

Cognizant Technologies
12.1999 - 11.2006

Consultant

Infosys Technologies (Internet Systems)
02.1998 - 11.1999

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

PDA College of Engineering
Gulbarga

Skills

Scalability strategies

Accomplishments

  • Led a team of over 350 engineers in India, overseeing portfolios such as Global Security Operations, Sales Enablement, Customer Experience, Quality Engineering, and PMO functions.
  • Managed numerous multi-year, multi-million dollar programs, including digital transformation, cloud migrations, legacy system decommissioning, and re-architecture and re-engineering projects.
  • Collaborated closely with SAP and other partners to establish HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) offerings at BLR and Manesar data centers.
  • Led pre-sales and solutioning teams, partnering with Airtel sales teams to provide Colocation and ADM services.
    - Participated in System Reliability Engineering (SRE) to stabilize production systems, reducing incidents by 13% through quality assurance initiatives.
  • Built teams based on trust and transparency, promoted innovation through hackathons, and adopted an Automation First mindset with a 95% automation index.
  • Served as Employee Experience Lead, achieving an EEI score of 93% and a Glassdoor/Ambition Box rating of 4.2.
  • Coordinated with various Indian functions (HR, TA, Finance, Procurement, Facilities, Legal, Security, and Business) to ensure lean, efficient, and employee-friendly policies and processes supporting business growth.
  • Managed budget, demand, and headcount (~$40M budget planning and monthly tracking, hired 350 new employees in a year).
  • Organized yearly hackathons locally and globally to address real business problems.
    - Designed and implemented a hybrid work model.
  • Led the India IMT team for Covid-19 management, collaborating with global teams to roll out policies and reporting.
  • Enhanced employee onboarding experience by launching UpLink and Hypercare, reducing churn by 7%.
  • Managed PAN India vendor onboarding, de-boarding, and quarterly reviews (QMR).
  • Implemented SuccessFactors and skill transformation initiatives.
  • Oversaw facility management, optimizing usage, colocation, workspace design, and transportation, realizing significant cost benefits.
  • Managed finance and procurement, optimizing capital and operational expenses, simplifying processes, and designing policies, resulting in $0.35M in benefits and improved employee allocation.
  • Formed Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), rolled out charters, event calendars, and conducted reviews.

Software And Tools

  • AIOps tool - BigPanda, AppDynamics, Zabbix, Splunk
  • Automation Tools: Accelq, Selenium, SOA Test, Python Robo
  • Software - ServiceNow, Salesforce, Commerce Cloud, Vlocity, Java Fullstack, Kafka, MongoDB, GraphSQL

Certification

Dare to Lead, Brene Brown

Additional Information

  • Social worker dedicated to improving education and addressing malnutrition.
  • Established a pre-university college in an underprivileged district of Karnataka, achieving nearly 400% growth in five years. Improved the state district class 12 rank by 6 positions.
  • Honorable board member of a consulting firm, contributing to a revenue increase of up to 900,000 Euros.
  • Honorable member and treasurer of a large housing society, managing an annual budget of $4.6 million and overseeing special projects worth $3.1 million. Developed a strategy and roadmap for adopting new technologies and software for Facilities Management Systems (FMS).

Timeline

Dare to Lead, Brene Brown

03-2024
IIM-B, Leadership Development Program
09-2022
Leading SAFe & SAFe for Teams
08-2019
SCRUM Master from Scrum Alliance
05-2018
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Franklin Covey institute
05-2009

Director Software Engineering

Lumen IT India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2006 - Current
PMP
04-2005

Senior Associate, Software Engineering

Cognizant Technologies
12.1999 - 11.2006

Consultant

Infosys Technologies (Internet Systems)
02.1998 - 11.1999

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

PDA College of Engineering
Sudarshan ReddyIT Delivery Lead, PMO, Quality Engineering, SRE