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Founder & Managing Director at Rightlane Solutions | Career Clarity | Career Restart | Business Guidance

About

Accomplished IT Leader, Agile Coach, and Program Manager with 16+ years of software engineering experience, specializing in customer-centric enablement, enterprise-scale solutions, and quality-driven development. Extensive expertise across multiple industries, with a proven ability to lead product development, manage processes, and drive innovation to achieve business objectives. • Experienced Program Manager with a strong background in building technical products, defining roadmaps, managing development, and evaluating product performance. • Manage large-scale software development programs, working closely with architects, engineers, product teams, designers, and business leaders to ensure successful execution. • Deep expertise in software architecture and design principles, enabling effective technical decision-making. • Define goals, stage gates, critical delivery paths, and key deliverables, managing complex dependencies across multiple teams, timelines, and resource constraints. • Foster strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment on roles, responsibilities, and program cadences. • Led program kickoff, risk and dependency management, incident management, and executive updates throughout the program lifecycle to ensure alignment and successful execution. • Leverage problem-solving and decision-making skills to navigate challenges, ensuring smooth project execution. Passionate about driving technical programs to success and delivering value across organizations. • Expertise in providing support, monitoring product performance and acquiring customers’ feedback in order to institute product improvements. • Successfully implemented automation testing, leading to a 25% decrease in manual testing costs, and drove product success by 15% increment through KPI-driven objectives. • Proficient in driving cross-functional collaboration and leading diverse teams to successful product launches, leveraging strong communication and interpersonal skills to foster a collaborative work environment. • Have managed budgets ranging from $10 million to $50 million, successfully deployed resources across multiple projects, and led programs/products in APAC, EMEA, NA, LATM and the ANZ regions.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

gemini

meta

ChatGPT

Figma Make

Gamma

HeyGen

Work experience

Founder and Managing Director at Rightlane Solutions, Jul 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I am the Founder and Managing Director of Rightlane Solutions, a career and business guidance platform created with a clear purpose: to help students, graduates, working professionals, career restart candidates, and aspiring entrepreneurs identify the right path for their future. In today’s fast-changing world, many people feel confused about career choices, course selection, job opportunities, career transitions, and business ideas. Students often struggle to choose the right stream or career direction. Graduates may feel unsure about which job role suits their skills. Professionals may feel stuck in jobs that do not match their interests. Many women and individuals looking to restart their careers may not know where to begin. Aspiring entrepreneurs may have the passion to start something of their own but may feel unclear about which business is suitable for them. Rightlane Solutions was founded to solve this exact problem. At Rightlane Solutions, we focus on providing clarity, confidence, and a practical roadmap. Our services include psychometric career assessments, career counselling, stream and subject selection guidance, college and course selection support, career roadmap planning, resume and profile building, career restart guidance, and business starter guidance. Our approach is simple yet meaningful. We help individuals understand their strengths, interests, personality, aptitude, skills, and future goals. Based on this understanding, we guide them toward suitable career options, education paths, skill-building plans, job-readiness steps, or business directions. I believe that the right guidance at the right time can transform a person’s future. A career decision should not be made only because of pressure, confusion, comparison, or trends. It should be based on self-awareness, proper assessment, expert counselling, and a clear action plan. Helping individuals identify their Rightlane for career and business success.

Senior Technical Program Manager at Skyhigh Security, May 2025 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Technical Program Manager at Zscaler, Sep 2024 - Apr 2025 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Manage day-to-day portfolio activities and establish a working plan for each program/project phase Facilitate program reviews and checkpoint meetings Analyze key performance indicators to produce reports on portfolios Delivered GTM analytics tool integration with Salesforce with business and technical risks: Optimized backend processing, reducing server load by 40%, preventing 15% customer churn, mitigating $10M ARR risk, and ensuring seamless onboarding for 500K+ users. Developed and tracked a program plan, aligning 100+ tasks across 5 teams, reducing delays by 35%, and ensuring 98% milestone adherence. Assessed trade-offs in a GTM AI tool launch, balancing ultra-HD analytics vs. cost-efficient processing, reducing infra costs by 40%, improving speed by 30%, and ensuring 99.9% uptime, enabling Product and Engineering to make data-driven decisions. Managed dependencies and risks for a cloud-based GTM tool, aligning 10+ teams, reducing integration delays improving delivery timelines by 30%, and ensuring 99.9% system by automated testing and deployment.

Technical Program Manager at Visa, Jun 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Conducted a thorough analysis of customer support operations to identify key pain points. Developed the Job Management feature for Client Admin Tool- Unified solution for maintaining client information, including a Mass Config Update function, to streamline MID configuration updates. This enhancement reduced customer support workload by 70%.  Drove product strategy by developing a clear roadmap and fostering collaboration among 5 scrum teams and solution architects. Successfully delivered the entire product vision within 2 quarters.  Significantly improved project turnaround times through agile transformation, resulting in a 20% reduction in time-to-market. Led the ongoing transformation to Visa’s Agility Practices and Agile Management methodology (AM2). Led many scrum teams to adapt agile best practices by observing the anti-patterns and continuous coaching method.  Identified new growth opportunities through market research and developed the Org Look Up feature. This centralized dashboard for customer support, boosted efficiency by enabling a 65% SLA adherence rate.  Strategically introduced automation testing, resulting in a 25% decrease in manual testing expenses and significantly improved product quality through faster time-to-market.  Improved product performance by 15% through the definition and implementation of program key objectives and key results (OKRs) and KPI-driven goals.  Managed product lifecycle, from conception and design to release. Continuously tailored the solution to meet evolving user requirements and market demands. Spearheaded Quarterly Execution (PI) planning and inspect & adapt to ensure business alignment.  Improved product development efficiency by 40% by adopting Jira and Confluence for streamlined project management and collaboration.

Senior Project Manager at Aventior, Jul 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr, India, Planned and managed programs, proactively monitored progress, resolved issues and initiated corrective actions.  Assisted in team development, held teams accountable, removed roadblocks, leveraged resources, and mentored team members to enhance project capacity.  Supported the Product Owner in managing expectations, stakeholder communications, and project governance.  Championed process improvement initiatives to implement Agile Project Management best practices.  Promoted team empowerment, ensured meaningful contributions from all members, and maintained a sustainable pace with high-quality outputs.  Coached teams in agile practices, provided necessary training, and drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and achieve sprint goals.  Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.  Fostered a collaborative environment for open dialogue and productive conflict resolution.  Developed release plans based on Scrum team capacity and velocity.  Ensured adherence to software best practices and established processes, including code reviews and test cases.  Coordinated and facilitated design sprints with product managers, developers, data scientists, test engineers, UX/UI designers, and other stakeholders.  Bridged communication between Scrum team members and dependent teams, recognizing and eliminating obstacles.  Facilitated operational checkpoint activities throughout project lifecycles and reported progress to senior leadership clearly and concisely.

Education

Master's degree, Biotechnology, bangalore university

Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Botonay and Zoology, bangalore university