Headline

Director, Technical Program Management | Technology Strategy & Transformation | Digital Identity • Fintech | Enterprise Execution & Executive Leadership

About

Director of Technical Program Management with 13+ years of experience driving large-scale delivery, vendor governance, and executive stakeholder alignment across fintech, digital payments, and digital identity domains. Career built across high-growth startups and enterprise environments — consistently turning execution complexity into structured, measurable business outcomes. Aspiring toward broader business leadership, where deep program expertise meets organisational strategy and scale.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Director- Technical Program Management at VIDA Digital Identity, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Bangalore, -Serve as a strategic execution partner to the CTO, translating technology priorities into an aligned portfolio across 6 teams. -Own portfolio planning and prioritization across ~30 concurrent initiatives, including 5–6 strategic programs, aligning resources, dependencies and execution with organizational priorities. -Personally own 1–2 strategic initiatives per quarter, taking accountability from problem definition and prioritization through execution and outcome. -Own and drive Technology OKRs, translating organizational priorities into measurable objectives and ensuring execution remains aligned to expected outcomes. -Partner with the CEO, CTO, CPO, Chief Data Officer and Chief Risk Officer on executive communication, decision-making, prioritization and cross-functional alignment. -Act as the bridge between Technology, Data Science, Operations and Product, resolving conflicts, clarifying priorities and course-correcting execution when delivery realities diverge from strategic objectives. -Lead resource planning and alignment across teams, jointly determining allocation priorities and recommending resource shifts to address critical delivery needs. -Oversee approximately 30 technology vendors and external partners, driving accountability, delivery alignment and cost optimization; delivered approximately $200K in vendor cost savings. -Accelerate delivery by identifying and resolving granular blockers, dependencies and execution constraints across teams. -Challenge business cases and delivery assumptions when economics, timelines and expected outcomes do not align, helping prevent significant expenditure on initiatives that do not support the expected business case.

Principal Technical Program Manager at VIDA Digital Identity, Jan 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore

Senior Technical Program Manager at Jupiter, Mar 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Lead Technical Program Manager at Open Financial Technologies, Jul 2021 - Mar 2022 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical Program Manager at Open Financial Technologies, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Technical Program Manager at TeamLease Services Limited, Dec 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Principal Program Manager at G4S, Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Senior Program Manager at G4S, Dec 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Education

Executive Program in Business Analytics, Analytics, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Postgraduate Diploma in Data Sciences, Data Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore