SUMESH MANI

• Manage and lead SaaS initiatives for Caterpillar’s Digital Platform initiatives
• Design build scalable applications, deploy to AWS (Lambda, EC2, Spring apps on Kubernetes, DynamoDB, Redis, SNS, S3, SQS)
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align project goals and deliverables.
• Mentored junior engineers to enhance their technical skills and professional growth.
• Implemented best practices for coding standards and software quality assurance.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring deadlines were met within budget constraints.
• Developed and implemented software engineering processes to ensure quality assurance standards.
• Responsible for 20 engineers – goal setting, appraisal, mentoring
• Prepare product roadmap, quarterly planning, hiring and training
• Manage stakeholders across the globe which include dev-teams, PMO and senior management
• Evaluated new technologies to enhance engineering processes and product offerings.

• Manage SaaS initiatives for Intuit’s Contact Center platform
• Lead the team in areas of engineering and people management
• Owner for all deliverables from Contact Center
• Design and code review, process review, evaluate and improve product performance
• Hands on design and coding, where needed

• Technical leader with ownership of Electronic Program Guide
• Performance optimization of set-top-box Program Guide component to improve user experience
• My contribution was appreciated by customer and other stake holders, leading to adoption of this design for other modules

· Headed MPEG-2 prototyping, where I defined goals and project direction, managed stakeholders

· My prototypes helped shape home-networking product team’s roadmap

· Went beyond project ask and expanded prototyping work to JavaScript on Android

· Single handedly ramped up on SIP and UPnP specs, ported them on to OSGI framework

· Implemented UPnP-SIP bridge and UPnP controller as an OSGi bundles

· Integrated Cisco SIP phone as media consumer