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Amitesh Dongre

Senior TPM @ Programming.com | Ex- Miko, Zeta, Google (TVC), HCL, PTW

Bengaluru

11+ years of work experience

Programming.com
Sep 20251 yr 1 moPresent

Bengaluru

• Drive program lifecycle from product definition to execution, including roadmap planning, dependency mapping, stakeholder alignment, risk analysis, & release planning coordination. • Directed end-to-end delivery of App & platform releases, integrating mobile apps, backend, & cloud services ensuring 98% on-time delivery while reducing post release defects by 25%. • Own monthly & quarterly release cycles across 6 cross-functional teams, reducing post-release defects by 25% through CI/CD adoption. • Collaborate with 60+ senior leadership, , QA, Product, Design, sales & customer success teams to deliver 4 major App releases, improving user engagement by 25% & time-to-market by 20%. • Aligne roadmaps & OKRs with product strategy, driving 20% faster time to market & improving user engagement by 25%. • Implement risk management & dependency dashboards (Jira / Confluence), reducing cross team blockers by 30%. • Facilitate daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, & release readiness reviews, ensuring global team alignment.
Miko
May 20223 yrs 4 mosAug 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led cross-functional teams and programs across software, hardware using Agile frameworks and SDLC. • Collaborated with senior leadership, engineering, QA, product management, sales, and customer success teams to align deliver ables with business goals. • Continuously align OKRs with changing priorities to facilitate continuous business evolution. • Led end-to-end program execution using JIRA, Confluence, and other enterprise tools to manage epics, sprints, dependencies, and documentation across teams. • Active participation in hiring and building the team & raising the bar in the hiring process. • Develop and maintain key relationships with internal and external stakeholders locally and around the world. • Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-team syncs, ensuring alignment between geographically distributed teams. • Drove program lifecycle from product definition to execution, including roadmap planning, dependency mapping, stakeholder alignment, risk analysis, and release coordination.
Zeta Suite
May 20193 yrs 1 moMay 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for ensuring the phase wise delivery of the Sodexo Brazil program while working with a team of 10 people and closely collaborating with the Engineering Manager, QA manager and product managers. • Responsible for the end-to-end planning and implementation of complex projects and/or Agile teams. • Planned, organized, and managed all phases of the project life cycle to ensure successful execution. • Tracking of features and tasks planned for release. Resolving dependencies across teams to make execution faster. • Managing the release and production timelines and communicat- ing the quality standard and expectations across the team.
HCL Technologies
Apr 20172 yrs 2 mosMay 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed project team from start to finish consisting of Develop- ers/QA/Data Engineers. • Provided support with release for numerous teams for mobile and web products. • Coordinated estimation and planning for change requests and new features with the development and testing teams around the world. • Expertise in full SDLC/STLC implementation of Waterfall and Agile methodology. • Communicated daily status and work closely with stakeholders around often numerous and sudden change requests. • Responsible for redoing program alignments that showed better results in all areas.
PTW
Apr 20152 yrs 1 moApr 2017

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Understanding Client Requirements and Project Functionalities, Bug reporting/regression and creating re- ports, Executing Fea- ture Test Plans for new features, Involved in Client call. • Ensuring tracking and visibility around Sprint performance of dif- ferent development teams. • Ensure visibility to senior management and business in monthly and quarterly reviews.

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Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Technology

YESHWANTRAO CHAVVAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

20104 yrs2014

HSC (12th), ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE

M P DEO DHAREMPETH SCIENCE COLLEGE

20082 yrs2010

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Senior TPM @ Programming.com | Ex- Miko, Zeta, Google (TVC), HCL, PTW

About

🔹 Working as Senior Technical Program Manager at Programming.com. 🔹 Worked as Program Manager at Miko.(Experience: May 2022 - September 2025) 🔹 Worked as Project Coordinator at Zeta Suite (Directi)(Experience: April 2019 - May 2022) 🔹 Worked as Release Manager at HCL (Experience: May 2017 - April 2019). 🔹 Worked as Test Engineer at Pole To Win India Private Limited (Experience: April 2015 - May 2017) 🔹 Completed Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology from Yeshwantrao chavvan college of engineering(2014). Core Skills: 🔹 Project Management, Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Process Improvement, Roadmapping and Strategic, Team Leadership, Team Building, Resource Staffing, Mentorship and Training, Knowledge Management, Analysis and Project Scoping, Customer Service, Risk Management, Strategic Planning, Change Management, Communication Management & Quality Management. Technical Skills: 🔹 Frameworks SDLC, Scrum, Kanban, Agile, Waterfall, STLC 🔹Tools Jira, Confluence, ClickUp, Zendesk, Android Studio, Kibana 🔹Cloud & DevOps AWS (Cloud Services), Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines 🔹Process Documents Program Plan, Release Strategies, Risk Tracker, Resource Planner, Roadmap, RAID Logs, RACI Mertics, Use Case, BRD, GTM Planner

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

cursor

gemini

notion

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Senior Technical Program Manager at Programming.com, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, • Drive program lifecycle from product definition to execution, including roadmap planning, dependency mapping, stakeholder alignment, risk analysis, & release planning coordination. • Directed end-to-end delivery of App & platform releases, integrating mobile apps, backend, & cloud services ensuring 98% on-time delivery while reducing post release defects by 25%. • Own monthly & quarterly release cycles across 6 cross-functional teams, reducing post-release defects by 25% through CI/CD adoption. • Collaborate with 60+ senior leadership, , QA, Product, Design, sales & customer success teams to deliver 4 major App releases, improving user engagement by 25% & time-to-market by 20%. • Aligne roadmaps & OKRs with product strategy, driving 20% faster time to market & improving user engagement by 25%. • Implement risk management & dependency dashboards (Jira / Confluence), reducing cross team blockers by 30%. • Facilitate daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, & release readiness reviews, ensuring global team alignment.

Program Manager at Miko, May 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led cross-functional teams and programs across software, hardware using Agile frameworks and SDLC. • Collaborated with senior leadership, engineering, QA, product management, sales, and customer success teams to align deliver ables with business goals. • Continuously align OKRs with changing priorities to facilitate continuous business evolution. • Led end-to-end program execution using JIRA, Confluence, and other enterprise tools to manage epics, sprints, dependencies, and documentation across teams. • Active participation in hiring and building the team & raising the bar in the hiring process. • Develop and maintain key relationships with internal and external stakeholders locally and around the world. • Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-team syncs, ensuring alignment between geographically distributed teams. • Drove program lifecycle from product definition to execution, including roadmap planning, dependency mapping, stakeholder alignment, risk analysis, and release coordination.

Project Coordinator - QA at Zeta Suite, May 2019 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Responsible for ensuring the phase wise delivery of the Sodexo Brazil program while working with a team of 10 people and closely collaborating with the Engineering Manager, QA manager and product managers. • Responsible for the end-to-end planning and implementation of complex projects and/or Agile teams. • Planned, organized, and managed all phases of the project life cycle to ensure successful execution. • Tracking of features and tasks planned for release. Resolving dependencies across teams to make execution faster. • Managing the release and production timelines and communicat- ing the quality standard and expectations across the team.

Release Manager at HCL Technologies, Apr 2017 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed project team from start to finish consisting of Develop- ers/QA/Data Engineers. • Provided support with release for numerous teams for mobile and web products. • Coordinated estimation and planning for change requests and new features with the development and testing teams around the world. • Expertise in full SDLC/STLC implementation of Waterfall and Agile methodology. • Communicated daily status and work closely with stakeholders around often numerous and sudden change requests. • Responsible for redoing program alignments that showed better results in all areas.

Test Engineer at PTW, Apr 2015 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Understanding Client Requirements and Project Functionalities, Bug reporting/regression and creating re- ports, Executing Fea- ture Test Plans for new features, Involved in Client call. • Ensuring tracking and visibility around Sprint performance of dif- ferent development teams. • Ensure visibility to senior management and business in monthly and quarterly reviews.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Technology, YESHWANTRAO CHAVVAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

HSC (12th), ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE, M P DEO DHAREMPETH SCIENCE COLLEGE