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Sr. Director, Software Engineering & India Site Lead

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Engineering Leader with 24 years of experience building and scaling global engineering organizations, influencing product strategy, delivering enterprise SaaS platforms, and leading large-scale technology and operating model transformations. India site leader with experience of establishing and scaling site operations to position the center as a trusted site for innovation and excellence. Leadership & Business Impact Highlights • Leader for a global enterprise SaaS organization, overseeing 200+ employees and contractors across functions. • Partnering closely with global executives and product leadership on roadmap prioritization, investment decisions, and execution governance. • Scaled the India center into a strategic delivery and innovation hub with ownership of core platform components and enterprise releases. • Drove platform and operating model modernization initiatives, improving delivery predictability, engineering quality, and customer outcomes. • Built a strong leadership bench through targeted hiring, succession planning, and manager development, strengthening organizational depth and continuity.

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Sr Director, Software Engineering & India Site Lead at Archer Integrated Risk Management, Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading a 150+ member India engineering organization across product development, quality engineering, and DevOps, driving delivery and quality for cloud-based SaaS platforms. • Leading India site operations, established core support functions including HR, Finance, and IT to support operational scale, while providing oversight for Product Management, User Experience, and Professional Services. • Partnering with executive leadership to define and execute product and platform modernization roadmap for Archer’s enterprise risk management platform. • Established governance, delivery metrics, and operating cadence improving release predictability and engineering quality across distributed teams. • Drove talent acquisition, retention, and leadership development initiatives, strengthening leadership bench and reducing attrition. • Championed culture and innovation programs including hackathons and continuous learning initiatives to improve engagement and technical excellence. • Driving AI adoption across engineering teams by identifying and piloting opportunities within the SDLC to enhance productivity, in addition to contributing to the development of AI-powered product capabilities.

Director Software Engineering at Archer Integrated Risk Management, Aug 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Owned end-to-end engineering delivery for Archer’s cloud-based enterprise risk management platform serving global customers. • Led technical architecture, quarterly release planning, and execution across multiple Agile teams. • Managed and developed 40+ engineers, managers, and tech leads, implementing KPI driven performance and growth frameworks. • Collaborated with product management, UX, and customer success leaders to align engineering execution with business priorities.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Archer Integrated Risk Management, Apr 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Responsible for driving technical architecture, scope definition in close collaboration with Product Management and release execution activities to deliver quarterly releases of Cloud application portal and Risk Management Platform of the Archer product using Agile Methodology. • Functional leadership of the Archer engineering team of 40 engineers including Engineering Managers. This includes Goal setting, performance management, career growth and driving initiatives for employee engagement and organization culture. • Also responsible for hiring the right talent, resource capacity allocation towards different product roadmap items based on organizational strategy and engage with vendor partners to staff additional engineering capacity based on organization needs. • Collaborate with different stakeholders including Product Management, Program Management, Architecture, User experience and Customer service/support to meet organization objectives.

Sr. Software Manager at GE Healthcare, Nov 2013 - Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Progressed through multiple leadership roles delivering healthcare imaging platforms and cloud solutions in a highly regulated environment. • Led design and delivery of healthcare cloud gateway and platform components supporting connected medical devices and analytics. • Built and scaled Agile engineering teams, driving CI/CD adoption and improving delivery consistency and quality. • Defined component roadmaps, release strategies, and vendor partnerships aligned to long-term platform vision. • Mentored senior engineers, architects, and managers, building strong technical leadership and succession pipelines.

Software Manager at GE Healthcare, Aug 2010 - Oct 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Experience leading a team of 20-25 engineers to drive the planning, definition, design, development, integration and testing of solutions for the Software Platform organization. • Responsible for developing technology roadmaps, component evolution plans and program release strategy for the organization. Experience in defining and optimizing software development processes which meet customer needs, cost goals and schedule constraints. • Responsible for driving engineering practices including Test driven development, Static/Dynamic analysis and Continuous integration and deployment to ensure quality release is delivered at all times. • Support sustaining and released product customer issues across different generations of Platform as needed. • Develop skills, identify training plans and improve effectiveness of the engineers on the team. • Manage performance appraisals, salary administration, hiring, employee coaching and performance management.

Project Lead at GE Healthcare, Feb 2006 - Sep 2010 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Joined the team as an Individual Contributor and was involved in the design and implementation of features in the Medical Image Management (Data Management) modules using C++ on Linux platform. - Moved into the role of a Project leader, leading a team of 8 to 10 engineers and was responsible for the planning, resource allocation and execution of all work products delivered by the team. Led the team to deliver the Data management platform and application suite towards multiple programs of the CT, MR, PET and X-Ray business. - As a technical leader, was responsible for providing design and implementation solutions for the program deliverables. Provided guidance to members of the team on technical issues. - Responsible for prioritizing the tasks for the team based on the business needs, project management and execution control.

Systems Engineer at Honeywell Technology Solutions lab, Jul 2002 - Jan 2006 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Defined customer requirements for the Avionics display system through rapid prototyping. - Defined System and Software requirements including Interface specifications for Graphical Flight planning and Airport Surface Map display applications. - Designed and developed Algorithms for these applications using C++ and openGL. - Acted as a Quality representative for the project to ensure compliance with the required regulations.

Software Engineer at Mahindra British Telecom, Mar 2000 - Jul 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, - Responsible for the design and Implementation of software modules in C++ which acted as a middleware between GUI based clients and Legacy mainframe systems. - Contributed towards the development of test plans and execution of Unit and Integration level tests.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics, Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology

B.E, Electronics, University of Mumbai