Headline

I am the person who gets handed ambiguity and returns with a working system, and the material changes, Workforce Ops, HR function, Food Business, AI product, and Marketing, but the operating pattern doesn’t

About

I have never inherited a working system. Not once. Drop me into something ambiguous, no playbook, no owner, no existing process, and I'll build the system that makes it work. That's been true for a decade. Only the material keeps changing. At IBM Consulting, it meant workforce planning across four programs and three geographies: deploying 5,500 campus engineers a year, fulfilling contractor demand for 70+ accounts, coordinating cross-border mobility between Germany and Switzerland, and eventually owning cost recovery and billed-hours leakage across a $60M+ org. 600+ people, no two programs alike, same instinct every time: take fragmented demand and turn it into something that holds. At Teqfocus, there was nothing to inherit, so I built it: resource planning, compensation bands, HR policy, an employee evaluation dashboard, an HRIS rollout, all from scratch for a distributed team across Canada and India with no existing framework and no prior template. At STIR Education, I walked into an organizational transition and helped rebuild People & Culture practices that held up without heavy process overhead, coaching the team through the change as we went. Most recently at WWT, I built the instruments a 27-engineer practice didn't have: a weekly status report, a rapid staffing framework, career and promotion tracking, and the reporting that gave leadership early visibility into risk before it became a problem. Utilization went from 50% to 75% because there was a system behind it, not luck. The same instinct now runs as growwithabhi, where I coach people through the exact career transitions I've made myself, and it's the same loop behind FinSakhi, an AI financial advisor for underbanked gig workers and homemakers that I built as my BITSoM capstone: 12 user interviews, a PRD, a working MVP demo. Outside of that, I built a D2C cloud kitchen to 1,500+ orders and a content practice from zero. Certified by Aon in Performance and Talent Management (SHRM/ATD/HRCI recognized). If you've got a people or ops problem with no existing system and need someone who'll build one instead of asking for one, let's talk. hello@abhilashmohan.com

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

openai

Work experience

What I've built in boardrooms, I now teach in coaching sessions at topmate.io, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Remote, Coaching managers and professionals on performance conversations, career transitions, and talent management — 1:1 sessions grounded in practitioner experience across IBM and WWT. Focus: performance reviews · career roadmapping · 9-box prep · talent management

Resource Manager (Engineering Delivery) — titled Manager, Engineering Services at World Wide Technology, Jul 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos, India, Resource Manager for engineering delivery teams across Infrastructure & Software in APAC and India — staffing, utilization, capacity planning, and performance management, where delivery outcomes and client revenue are directly connected. Delivery & Workforce Impact 1. Scaled team from 16 to 27 engineers across 40+ engagements; maintained 100% SLA compliance 2. Grew utilization from 50% to 75% through disciplined bench-to-billable transitions and redeployment planning 3. Reduced escalations by 95% and delivery delays by 90% through early risk visibility and structured PM partnerships 4. Enabled 8-figure UBS engagement through pre-sales bench deployment What I managed: 1. End-to-end capacity planning across the engineering pipeline from GTM entry to engagement close 2. Staffing across FTEs, contractors, and partner teams across APAC 3. Continuous performance system — quarterly reviews, bi-weekly check-ins, bi-annual 9-box assessments 4. Engineer career plans, promotion evidence, and Career Framework accountability 5. Onboarding (kits, swag, system access, induction), offboarding, timesheet and expense approvals, payroll data management, and corporate credit card approvals 6. Hardware and software inventory management for the team 7. Health insurance and salary slip queries; team member data maintained in Vantage 8. R&R programs — Team Excellence Award India 2026 (first ever); Copilot Premium used for personalized recognition 9. People events — virtual send-offs, goodies, watch parties, capstone events, and local team off-sites 10. AI-augmented operations using Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, and Claude APIs Recognition 1 Team Player Award | 3 Customer Delight Awards | T-Mobile India — Team Excellence Award

Co-Founder & Operator – Cloud Kitchen at Bengaluru Breads and Chops, Feb 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Launched and operated Bengaluru Breads & Chops independently — 1,500+ orders, 4.2 Zomato rating. Managed end-to-end operations: vendor management, staffing, platform onboarding, quality control, and digital marketing. Also coaching first-time food entrepreneurs on cloud kitchen setup and operations at topmate.io/growwithabhi — based on direct experience running Bengaluru Breads & Chops.

Associate Head – People & Culture at STIR Education, Nov 2023 - Mar 2024 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Supported People & Culture leadership during organizational transition — focusing on leadership enablement, operating clarity, and people systems that worked without heavy process overhead. 1. Partnered with leadership to strengthen P&C operating norms 2. Provided coaching support to P&C team members during change 3. Translated cultural intent into lightweight, practical people practices

Workforce Management Consultant at Independent Consultant, Aug 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Advised startups and growing teams on resource planning, workforce structure, and operational efficiency — translating delivery bottlenecks into simple, actionable systems. Focus areas: resource planning · capacity management · delivery operations · performance systems

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Business, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS)

Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Marketing, Christ University, Bangalore

Public links

abhilashmohan.com: https://www.abhilashmohan.com/