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Sudhir Dharan

Sudhir Dharan

Vice President - Engineering
Noida

Summary

As a seasoned Engineering Leader with over 17 years of experience, I specialize in driving product strategy, technical roadmaps, and continuous improvement. My career journey has equipped me with a robust skill set in gathering product requirements, developing technical strategies, and managing the entire product lifecycle. I have a proven track record of delivering business transformation and engineering programs across diverse domains, ensuring optimal outcomes through technology enhancements.
I thrive on building and leading high-performing teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. My expertise in Agile coaching, stakeholder management, and cross-functional coordination has consistently driven efficiency and reduced operational costs. Currently, as the Vice President of Product Engineering at Symphony Talent, I lead a global engineering team, focusing on scalable, reliable product development and implementation of industry-leading practices.
Let’s connect and explore how we can drive technological advancements together.

Work History

Vice President - Product Engineering (Head of Engineering - Global)

Symphony Talent
2 2022 - Current
  • Technical Strategy & Roadmapping: Orchestrated comprehensive technical strategies and roadmaps that seamlessly aligned with business goals, resulting in a 20% increase in product adoption and enhanced customer satisfaction.
  • Engineering Metrics: Established key engineering metrics, including DORA and Developer Experience, reducing lead and cycle time by over 50% and improving overall team efficiency.
  • Innovative Solutions: Spearheaded the adoption of emerging technologies. This led to a 30% improvement in system performance and scalability.
  • Team Optimization: Streamlined work processes across cross-functional global teams, establishing processes, that enhanced collaboration and productivity by 25%.
  • Cost Management: Implemented effective cost-saving measures, optimizing resources, and improving engineering & Infrastructure ROI by 25%.
  • Culture of Innovation: Fostered an environment of innovation through activities such as hackathons and innovation days, encouraging creative problem-solving and new ideas that drove product and process improvements.
  • Talent Acquisition: Collaborated with HR to recruit top talent, improving talent density and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
  • Data Infrastructure and Analytics Transformation: Leading a big engineering initiative to establish a comprehensive data lake infrastructure and elevate the analytics platform capabilities across the organization.

Senior Director - Engineering

Symphony Talent
03.2020 - 02.2022
  • P&L Responsibility: Managed the engineering team’s P&L, ensuring optimal execution concerning cost and revenue, achieving a 20% increase in profitability through strategic resource allocation and cost-saving measures.
  • Team Development: Built a high-performing team by enhancing talent density through strategic hiring and professional development programs, resulting in a 15% improvement in team performance.
  • Platform Stability: Enhanced platform stability through continuous upgrades and innovation, reducing system downtime by 40% and significantly improving user experience and customer satisfaction.
  • Agile Transformation: Led the transition to Agile methodologies, implementing best practices that improved time-to-market for new features by 35% and increased overall team efficiency.
  • Cross-functional Coordination: Established excellent coordination with HR and other departmental leads to recruit top talent, resulting in a 30% increase in hiring efficiency and a reduction in turnover rates.
  • Process Innovation: Enhanced processes by establishing a team focused on platform stability and continuous upgrades, enabling the organization to "change the engine in-flight" and maintain high standards during rapid growth.
  • Cost Optimization: Implemented effective cost-saving measures, optimized resources, and improved engineering ROI by 15% by providing insights and actionable analytics to the C-level suite.
  • Strategic Collaboration: Collaborated effectively with various teams within the organization, creating processes and best practices that enhanced overall collaboration, communication, and productivity at all levels.
  • Metrics and Monitoring: Introduced key performance metrics and monitoring systems to measure and improve product engineering efficiency and effectiveness, resulting in a 25% increase in productivity.

Director - Engineering

Symphony Talent
07.2016 - 03.2020
  • Global Team Building: Established and scaled the India engineering office to 150+ employees, driving cross-geographical collaboration and significantly enhancing global operational efficiency.
  • Process Improvement: Implemented CI/CD models and quality best practices, resulting in a 50% reduction in defects and accelerating delivery times by 40%.
  • Cross-functional Squads: Restructured teams into cross-functional squads, improving reliability and reducing dependencies, leading to a 30% increase in overall team efficiency.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Coordinated effectively with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment on product vision and technical strategy, leading to successful and timely product launches.
  • Talent Development: Mentored and developed engineering leaders, resulting in higher team engagement and a 20% increase in employee retention rates.
  • Innovation Initiatives: Launched innovation programs, such as hackathons and internal tech challenges, which spurred creative solutions and led to the implementation of several high-impact projects.
  • Customer Focus: Enhanced customer satisfaction by implementing rigorous testing processes and quality assurance standards, leading to a 25% reduction in customer-reported issues.
  • Technical Excellence: Set up an Architectural Review Board to establish best practices and reduce technical debt, ensuring high standards for performance and scalability.

Manager Technology

Sapient
09.2006 - 06.2016
  • Enterprise Architecture: Provided architectural solutions across application, analytics, and data layers, enhancing system integration and performance.
  • eCommerce Expertise: Led the development of a B2C platform on the Hybris platform for a leading Canadian retail client, boosting online sales by 25%.
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Leadership: Spearheaded SRE initiatives for a high-traffic eCommerce & betting sites, optimizing performance testing and tuning, which resulted in a 50% reduction in page load times and significantly improved site stability during peak traffic periods.
  • Innovative Implementations: Pioneered one of the first Hybris implementations for grocery products, setting industry benchmarks.
  • Project Management: Managed key projects, ensuring on-time delivery and exceeding client expectations.
  • Technology Leadership: Provided technical leadership in various projects, enhancing system capabilities and client satisfaction.
  • Process Optimization: Streamlined processes, reducing project completion times by 20%.
  • Technical Solutions: Developed and implemented technical solutions for diverse client needs, improving system functionality and user experience.
  • Team Collaboration: Worked closely with cross-functional teams, contributing to successful project outcomes and client satisfaction.

Education

MCA - Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelors - Information Systems (Hons), Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Skills

Technical Leadership

Accomplishments

  • Successfully identified process & communication impediments and guided the teams to increase efficiency by 70% and decrease the overall operational cost by more than 50%
  • Setup cross functional squads from scratch inspired from the SPOTIFY team topology improving efficiency & reducing dependencies
  • Successfully set up a metric driven culture within the organization and held responsible for establishing around key Engineering Metrics (such as DORA, Developer Experience) within the organization
  • Showcased excellence in optimizing Product Engineering efficiency by working on the Key metrics - reduce Cycle time, reduce lead time & improved developer efficiency (PR merge/dev/day)
  • Provided strategic direction by establishing architectural best practices & Architectural Review Board that reduced technical debts & set up performance/scalability standards
  • Played a key role in steering engineering efforts to scale the product, enabling the company to handle the increase in traffic while maintaining performance and availability
  • Successfully reduced product defects through the implementation of rigorous testing processes and quality assurance standards

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 07/25/1982

Software

Design/Architecture

Java/J2ee

Python

NodeJS

SQL/NoSQL

DataBricks

Mulesoft

Interests

Reading

Writing

Timeline

Senior Director - Engineering

Symphony Talent
03.2020 - 02.2022

Director - Engineering

Symphony Talent
07.2016 - 03.2020

Manager Technology

Sapient
09.2006 - 06.2016

Vice President - Product Engineering (Head of Engineering - Global)

Symphony Talent
2 2022 - Current

MCA - Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelors - Information Systems (Hons), Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

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