Vikash Agarwal
Director Of Software Engineering
Pune,India
Summary
Hands-on technology leader with 13+ years of experience in product development and leading major digital transformation projects in telecommunication space.
Possess unique experience of setting up new Digital Microservices & Cloud division working as start-up to 600+ team size today.
Track record of building momentum through entire application development lifecycle, from technical ideation to delivery. Dynamic Pace-Setter who commands complex, multiparty projects and leads cross-functional development teams in diverse technological environments.
Overview
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years of post-secondary education
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years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Software Engineering
Amdocs
Pune, India
09.2020 - Current
- Build Digital Microservices & Cloud unit of 600+ top notch engineers.
- Define and Implement vision-mission of Digital Microservices & Cloud competency.
- Define strategy around development, automation and agile practices for effective product development and delivery.
- Manage huge transformation project of global tier-1 telecommunication customers with size more than 2000MM.
- Responsible for leading Development managers and engineering teams towards meeting product development and delivery goals.
- Team Size : 100-125 members.
- Technology Used - Microservices, Cloud(AWS), Java SPRING-Boot, REST, Kafka, NoSQL(Couchbase), Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift, JIRA.
Senior Software Development Manager
Amdocs
Pune, India
01.2019 - 09.2020
- Leading major Digital transformation for Orange, Spain with full Amdocs suite of Digital products on AWS platform.
- Responsible for E2E product development and delivery from Solution refinement till production deployment.
- Build highly motivated team, strong knowledge, healthy work culture, manage attrition and recruitment.
- Ensure on time deliveries with utmost quality meeting all agreed KPIs
- Responsibility to manage Product Owners, Team Lead, Technical Specialist, Automation Specialist and entire engineering team.
- Working closing with senior management in building team new microservices unit and defining its technical discipline & knowledge.
- Business Head of recruitment for roles like Software Architect, Engineering Manager, Team Lead, Technical Specialist, Business Analyst, Product Owners, Software Developers, Automation Engineers.
- Technology Used - Microservices, Cloud(AWS), Java SPRING-Boot, REST, Kafka, NoSQL(Couchbase), Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift, JIRA
Software Development Manager
Amdocs
Pune, India
11.2017 - 01.2019
- Responsible to manage Optus, Australia digital transformation to Amdocs CES suite of products.
- Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependency and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
- Responsible for ordering management service (OMS) product development and delivery.
- Ensure on time deliveries with utmost quality KPIs.
- Technology Used - Java8, SPRING, SOAP WS, SWING, SQL, Eclipse, Rally
Software Development Team Lead
Amdocs
Pune, India
05.2014 - 11.2017
- Responsible as Technical lead for Engineers in scrum team.
- Implement quality practices like Design & Code review.
- Achieved 10% additional efficiency in committed vs delivered.
- Ensure on time delivery with utmost quality.
- Build high performing and motivated team
- Technology Used - Core Java, SPRING, SOAP WS, SWING, SQL, Maven, Eclipse, Rally
Software Developer
Amdocs/TCS
Pune/Mumbai, India
06.2008 - 05.2014
- Responsible for Amdocs product development in Billing and Ordering area.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Create HLDs and Technical designs.
- Technical Used - Java, Web services, Oracle, PL/I, COBOL, REXX, DB2, IMS, JCL, PL/SQL, Informatica.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Bhubaneswar 06.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Building new Unit/Competency
undefinedAccomplishments
- Best Leader by Amdocs Global Delivery Division President in Sep-20
- Amdocs High Potential employee (top 2%) in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020.
- Achieved 2 Version delivery with ZERO escaping defect.
- Certificate of Excellence award for outstanding Professionalism and Customer Satisfaction in Sep-17.
- First prize in Global Amdocs yearly LEAN Kaizen championship for “Out of box innovative thinking”.
- Supervised team of 100+ staff members.
- Amdocs Value Award for Employee Care in Sep-2013.
Work Availability
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Hobbies
Playing Cricket & TT
Cooking
Meditation and Yoga
Spending time with family and kids
Timeline
Director of Software Engineering
Amdocs
09.2020 - Current
Senior Software Development Manager
Amdocs
01.2019 - 09.2020
Software Development Manager
Amdocs
11.2017 - 01.2019
Software Development Team Lead
Amdocs
05.2014 - 11.2017
Software Developer
Amdocs/TCS
06.2008 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
06.2004 - 05.2008
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