Vijayakanth Parimanam
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Senior Manager in Delivery Software Engineering with a proven track record of leading diverse teams and managing up to 30 resources at Optym, Bengaluru. Expertise in cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, combined with a strong command of Agile and Scrum methodologies, facilitates the design and delivery of innovative technology solutions that address core business challenges and drive profitability. Extensive experience in end-to-end product lifecycle management, from gathering customer requirements to developing strategic roadmaps, ensures alignment with organizational goals while fostering growth through new product initiatives. Committed to enhancing productivity and code quality by adopting modern software development practices and AI-driven tools, while maintaining effective communication across all levels of stakeholders to achieve seamless project execution.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager & Delivery Software Engineering
Optym
03.2022 - Current
- Product: Truckload, Omojo and RailMax [B2B SaaS Product]
- Description: Automated driver-to-load assignment using artificial intelligence for medium to large fleet and automate the planning, booking & engine.
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring boot, C#, .Net, Azure, Aws,Spark,Kafka,ELK,Microservice,Python,MongoDB,Redis,Kubernetes PostgreSQL, NodeJS, ReactJS & AI&ML.
- Key Result Areas:
- Managing a team of 28 (Product Owner, Architect, Developers, Testers, and DevOps engineers) and spearheading the SDLC & Agentic AI Methodology right from designing solutions to architecture, requirement analysis, documentation and complete life cycle.
- Built a SaaS platform for managing client subscriptions, invoices, and renewals.
- Implemented usage-based billing engine, customer dashboards, and automated notifications.
- Reduced manual operations by 60% through automation and API integration.
- Designed a centralized analytics platform for tracking user behaviour and feature adoption.
- Integrated custom KPIs for business intelligence.
- Developed an AI agent assistant for customer query handling and ticket classification.
- Reduced average resolution time by 45%.
- Led implementation of an Agentic AI lifecycle for enterprise automation (LangGraph)
- Defined project governance aligning AI autonomy with organizational objectives
- Managed multi-disciplinary team (AI engineers, data scientists, product owners).
- Oversaw development of multi-agent systems using AutoGen & Crew AI reducing manual coordination by 60%.
- Integrated RAG systems for dynamic knowledge retrieval and contextual reasoning.
- Managed end-to-end ML pipelines (data ingestion → training → deployment).
- Manage product development process from product management point of view Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision Develop and maintain an understanding of the product, market, and competition
- Develop product positioning and go to market strategy; collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements, features, and products
- Identify areas for growth and create strategic product line roadmaps to help drive adoption of the product and differentiating features
- Analyze potential partner relationships for the product and lead the effort to integrate our applications with other leading industry systems
- Work with QA engineers to create test plans
- Serve as an in-house expert for our products and become the go-to person for all functional issues Keep abreast of the goings-on in the industry
- Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision
- Manage all lifecycle stages for a product from ideation through sunset, with responsibility for ensuring that deliverables are understood, and releases are delivered on time
- Building Cloud Based Pipelines for Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Data Processing, and applying Data Models on Data flowing from several sources
- Integrated AI-based recommendation system to improve user engagement and retention
- Achievements:
- Cost Saving Of $100M
- Through efficient project management and teamwork, my team saved the division at BHP.com and GBRX over $100 Million in the engine assembly department. The new assembly process is being rolled out to other departments to realize further savings
- Business Generation
- Discovered new clients, negotiated over $5 Million of partnership and product deals with key customers based on insights gathered in product development phase
- Reduced AI deployment cycle time by 35% via automated agent workflows.
- Designed AI Governance dashboards ensuring explainability and compliance.
Senior Manager
Capgemini
09.2020 - 03.2022
- Product: CISCO [B2B SaaS Product]
- Description: Facilitated CISCO fleet owners in tracking vehicles real-time and monitored vehicle parameters like vehicle speed, fuel level, AdBlue content, vehicle health and so on
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring boot, C#, .Net, Azure, Aws,Spark,Kafka,ELK,Microservice,Python,MongoDB,Redis,Kubernetes PostgreSQL, NodeJS, ReactJS , AI&ML
- Key Result Areas:
- Supported the delivery of Proof of Concept (PoC) and Product Demos for micro frontend and serverless architecture
- Led a team of 24 (Product Owner, Frontend, Backend, UI, Mobile App developers, QA, and DevOps engineers)
- Responsibilities for assigned product lines' product lifecycles
- Be accountable for the product vision, planning, design, usability, and release quality.
- Collaborate closely with the product team to define the product strategy.
- Convert roadmaps to product backlogs.
- Maintain a prioritized backlog of epics, features, stories, and flaws.
- Learn about users and customers, identify, and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas to improve user experience and drive growth.
- Collaborate with outside consultants to collect competitive data for product enhancement.
- Collaborated with development support teams to setup a continuous delivery environment with Docker and Kubernetes
- Delivered software solutions consistent with the product roadmap, release plan milestones, and key performance indicators
- Managed project life cycle entailing project estimation, gap analysis, & business solutions
- Achievements:
- Optimized cisco network app by doing A/B testing to increase usability and user experience
- Led cross-functional team of designers, engineers, and marketers to bring new B2B SaaS product to market in 1 years, resulting in $M in annual recurring revenue within the first year.
- Revenue for Cisco automated products increased by 33% thanks to the AI engine and manpower reallocated to other programs.
- Exceeded throughput target by 75%
- Cutting loading time & fixing key security issues cisco network product by moving key remote workers successfully online at scale. Managed workflow to continuously create content for remote learning.
Product Lead
Fidelity Investments
07.2015 - 09.2020
- Product: Fidelity Retirement Funds & Infrastructure [Fintech & Finance]
- Description: Find out how prepared you are for retirement, how much retirement income you may have, and how long your money may last. Get an in-depth analysis of your portfolio and explore different approaches to help align with your goals
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring boot, C#, .Net, Azure, Aws,Spark,Kafka,ELK,Microservice,Python,MongoDB,Redis,Kubernetes PostgreSQL
- Key Result Areas:
- Collaborated with Engineering, Application Development, and Release teams to provide architecture support with recommendations & solutions; also, for automation build and release management activities
- Led a team of 24 (Frontend, Backend, UI, developers, QA, and DevOps engineers)
- Manage product development process from product management point of view Researched user behavior and led strategic product roadmap discussions across multi-functional teams
- Accelerated outbound sales cycle by 330% by designing and implementing customer acquisition platform for training and managing technical sales personnel
- Led the end-to-end design and development of digital payment and finance platforms for B2B.
- Developed real-time transaction monitoring and fraud detection systems using ML-based anomaly detection.
- Integrated APIs for KYC/AML compliance.
- Built microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes for scalable transaction handling.
- Worked closely with finance, legal, and compliance teams to align systems with Govt guidelines.
- Implemented multi-level approval systems for banking workflows (loan, deposit, disbursement).
- Automated reporting pipelines for financial statements and audit logs.
- Collaborated with UI teams to build intuitive dashboards for finance operations.
- Conducted user research and testing to inform product design and user experience, resulting in a 30% improvement in user satisfaction.
- Managed product launch and go-to-market strategy, resulting in a 50% increase in downloads and engagement.
- Collaborated with sales and customer success teams to gather customer feedback and incorporate it into the product roadmap, resulting in a 50% reduction in customer churn.
- Developed and managed product backlog, ensuring alignment with company goals and objectives.
- Implemented DevOps concepts, tools, and continuous delivery pipelines – Jenkins, Maven, Jira and so on
- Contributed to the architecture and implementation of SAAS-based microservices CI/CD, management infrastructure, tools, cloud-based monitoring, alerting, and reporting
- Achievements:
- Integrated Tableau reporting system into BI sales workflow, which led to 33% increase in post-meeting inquiries for technical sales department
- Collaborated with engineering and design teams to develop and implement an agile development process, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.
- Discovered new clients, negotiated over Millions of partnership and product deals with key customers based on insights gathered in product development phase
Project Lead
Tech Mahindra
03.2011 - 07.2015
- Project: Fluke Networks Device & Fluke Networks [E-Commerce] Web App
- Description: An automotive digital ecosystem that enabled connectivity, device management, analytics, and managed services
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring boot, C#, .Net.
- Key Result Areas:
- Developed a full-stack e-commerce platform supporting user authentication, shopping cart, and payment integration
- Built Product Catalog, Order Tracking, Inventory Management, Order Management, Checkout & Payment for real-time sales insights
- Provided 24x7 advanced support & Management to global Operations teams
- As a Tech Lead partner closely with the product architect, stakeholders, business analyst to align product architecture with business needs.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Implementation teams and build a commercially successful product
- Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics. Oversee the development, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, documentation and support of high quality, reliable applications to meet the business needs.
- Drives innovation and integration of new technologies and quality initiatives into projects and activities
- Used agile practices and Test-Driven Development techniques to provide reliable, working software early and often
- Analyzed and designed a scalable system based on Object Oriented Concepts, OOAD and the various J2EE design patterns.
- Developed java scripts for all client-side validation and developed User Interface (GUI) using JSP, CSS, JSTL, and XSL. Used JSTL tags for communicating between controller and JSP.
- Involved in raising questions for business, getting answers from them, bug fixing, and tracking is done by JIRA
Senior Software Engineer
Fomax
02.2010 - 02.2011
- Product/Project: Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning System [ERP]
- Description: Manage finance, HR, inventory & others
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring boot, C#, .Net.
- Key Result Areas:
- Designed and developed a modular ERP system integrating HR, inventory, sales, and finance management.
- Built integrated dashboards for KPIs and financial analytics.
- Implemented role-based access control for Admin, Manager, and Employee roles.
- Automated inventory restocking and invoice generation workflows.
Senior Software Engineer
Esika
08.2008 - 04.2009
- Product/Project: FABINDIA[ERP]
- Description: A CRM application used by agents to help business customers to create/maintain their accounts and add products to accounts
- Key Result Areas:
- Built core modules for Inventory, Purchase, and Production Planning.
- Developed ledger, invoice, and reconciliation modules.
- Designed and developed custom ERP modules for finance, supply chain, and HR management.
- Integrated third-party applications (CRM, eCommerce, Accounting) using REST APIs.
- Enhanced database performance by 30% through query optimization and indexing.
- Facilitated processes and tools are best suited to project. Adapted agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics, created detailed project roadmaps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures
- Drove excellence in service delivery execution, resolved project issues, took ownership, and continually improved delivery methodologies for cost reduction
Senior Software Engineer
Trigent
03.2006 - 08.2008
- Project: Health Care
- Tech Stack: Java, Spring boot, C#, .Net.
- Description: A health care services company specializes in the distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical products, serving more than 100,00 locations and provides medical products to over 45 percent of hospitals in the United States
- Key Result Areas:
- Collaborated directly with the global management of the company, provided input regarding the evolution of technological platforms, and contributed to the definition and evolution of appropriate technology strategies and roadmaps
- Facilitated strategy, vision, and leadership while supporting corporate business objectives and software deployment leads
Education
Diploma - computer technology
Karur Polytechnic
12th - undefined
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
10th - undefined
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
B.Tech. - CSE
RVS College of Engineering Technology
01.2005
Skills
- B2B SaaS product management
- Project / Program Management
- People & Engineering Management
- Quality & Risk Management
- Delivery Management
- Agile Management
- UI/UX Documentation
- Agile / Agentic AI Methodology
- Azure/AWS
- Java Spring boot ReactJS NodeJS
- LangChain & Langgraph
- AutoGen
- Crew AI
- Big Data, Kafka & MongoDB
- Microservices
- Requirement Specifications
- Prototype Development
- High Level Design
- Detailed Level Design
- Product Development
- Alpha Testing, Beta Testing
- User acceptance Testing
- Product Release
- Product
- Planner
- Leadership
- Communicator
- Critical Thinker
- Programming Languages: Core java, Java(j2se/j2ee), Net
- Framework: Spring 5x, Spring Boot, Nodejs/ReactJS
- API: Microservices
- Agentic AI expertise
- Methodologies: Agile & waterfall
- Middleware: IBM WebSphere MQ
- Platforms: Kafka, Kafka Stream Processor, ELK
- Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure/AWS
- Web Technologies: JavaScript/jQuery
- Web Server: Nginx
- Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres, Azure Data Explorer (ADX)
- API Gateway: Apigee Management, Azure API Management (APIM), Custom APIGW as microservice
- DevOps Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins
- Proficient in JIRA and Azure DevOps
- Repositories: SVN/GitHub
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
- Caching System: Redis / Memcached
Accomplishments
- Received several Client Appreciations
- Produced and monetized 125+ APIs in Fidelity Investments and 100 microservice deployment in Capgemini
- Awarded for facilitating Python, Microservice, ReactJS and AWS trainings – Fidelity Investments
- Awarded for automate the CI/CD pipelines – Fidelity Investments
- Awarded for putting best practices for Product catalog and documentation with self-healing - Fidelity Investments
- Awarded for introducing new technology and increasing production – Fidelity Investments
- Awarded as “Extra Mile” Manager – Capgemini
- Awarded for Production issue handled in efficient manner & effective deliverables – TechMahindra
Certification
- Certified Product Management in Capgemini
- Certified Web Component Developer
Career Timeline
- Trigent Bengaluru as Software Engineer 2006-08
- Fomax Bengaluru as Senior Software Engineer 2009
- Tech Mahindra Bengaluru as Tech Lead 2011-15
- Capgemini Bengaluru as Senior Manager 2015-20
- Fidelity Investments Bengaluru as Product Lead 2020-22
- Optym Bengaluru as Product Manager & Delivery Since 2022
Hobbies
Explore Blockchain, Crypto, Stocks and Shares, Explore new technology and innovation, Playing Cricket, Tennis and Squash, Explore SaaS Products, Explore in Archaeology and Historical events
Timeline
Senior Manager & Delivery Software Engineering
Optym
03.2022 - Current
Senior Manager
Capgemini
09.2020 - 03.2022
Product Lead
Fidelity Investments
07.2015 - 09.2020
Project Lead
Tech Mahindra
03.2011 - 07.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Fomax
02.2010 - 02.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Esika
08.2008 - 04.2009
Senior Software Engineer
Trigent
03.2006 - 08.2008
12th - undefined
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
10th - undefined
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
B.Tech. - CSE
RVS College of Engineering Technology
Diploma - computer technology
Karur Polytechnic