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Product Engineering | Master’s in Computer Applications, Life Sciences

About

Results-driven Senior Engineering Leader & Manager with over 20 years of experience leading high-performing, cross-functional engineering organizations to deliver innovative, scalable, and enterprise-grade products and platforms. Proven ability to translate business strategy into technology execution, drive complex engineering programs from concept to delivery, and build engineering organizations that consistently achieve operational excellence. Recognized for fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement while accelerating product delivery, enabling business growth, and developing high-performing teams across globally distributed environments.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

github copilot

openai

opencode

perplexity

Work experience

Engineering Leader and Principal Architect - Product Development at SunTec Business Solutions, Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, As a key member of the Product Engineering leadership team, I contribute to SunTec's ambitious initiatives for architecting, adopting a continuously evolving product platform, advocating for a simplified architecture, flexible and low-maintenance codebase capable of adapting to industry-specific needs and customizable layers. As an Engineering Leader, my key contributions are 1. Adopting the Agentic AI paradigm, building Automation agents for day-to-day deliveries, and speeding up the agile cycle from requirement gathering to delivery. 2. Collaborations with client teams to adapt and deliver customized components via low-code/configurable Product Framework with Agentic AI tools 3. Leading Product & Solution (client custom flows) Performance benchmarking and optimization 4. Leading Product development for Industry-specific components of Telecom and Banking 5. Building high-performing teams and mentoring teams for mission-critical tasks 6. Incorporating processes for first-time-right delivery and continuous improvements 7. Integration of streaming technology into the product platform architecture for real-time data processing and data pipelines, utilizing Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Streams, to enhance data processing efficiency. In-house frameworks for software and data integrations with internal and external/3rd party software/data stores, Data mediation, Data migration, and Data reporting frameworks.

Senior Technical Manager - Data Science, Data & Integration Engineering at DATA TEMPLATE, Jul 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Toronto and Bangalore, As a Senior Technical Manager I led research & development initiatives on Consumer - AI and founded a ML/AI team for Data Template Key contributions during my tenure: • Mobile application for commodity auctioning (EZmandi) using GraphQL, Django, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Platform • REST API integrations - client's AI-based recruitment tool (mya.com) with multiple third-party recruitment platforms with secure communication and data exchange. • REST API Framework plugin for Retail application, deployable on SSIS jobs - Hadoop and Airflow Directed Acyclic Graph on PySpark cluster for optimal performance and scalability across different deployment scenarios. • Business analytics and statistical analysis on pharmaceutical data using Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts and data distribution charts using Nelson rules, Python for data analysis, Plotly for visualization, Jupyter Notebook for interactive analysis, and PostgreSQL for data storage • Led several MVPs and solutions for various clients - Analyzing video call quality, facial expression recognition using Python, CNN - Predict responses to chronic illness treatment using ML regression models, Python - recommendation system for a cooking application (Apple store) using Python, Flask, RESTful APIs, web scraping, ML

Senior Technical Lead -Product Engineering, Integration Engineering and Data Science at IBM, Sep 2003 - Apr 2019 · 15 yrs 8 mos, India, USA, As a Senior Technical Lead at IBM, I led a multitude of projects, each contributing to the advancement of technology and innovation. I've represented IBM products at prominent external conferences like CeBIT, GraceHopper, and IEEE, as well as delivered guest lectures as part of the IBM University relationship program. I hold a patent (Selective Print US-20130063735-A1 - method for plural selection template & single print job). Additionally, I have a few publications on priorart/ip.com, IEEE, and developer.IBM, contributing to the technical community Here's a brief overview of my experience and achievements: 1. Squad Lead, Senior Technical Lead - IBM Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning-Accelerator on Cloud, IBM India: -I led a development team focusing on integrating many open-source packages to enhance the functionality of Watson IDE used by ML practitioners, using Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Zeppelin, K8S, and Spark/Livy. 2. India Lead and Release Manager for hotfixes - IBM Power Virtualization Centre (PowerVC), IBM India: - I led the development team focusing on integration using Python, OpenStack Cinder, and storage systems - DS8K and Hitachi. - I ensured smooth release cycles and efficient product management for a few product hotfixes. 3. Release Architect, Scrum Master, Development Lead for IBM PureData Operations Analytics, IBM India: - I led a cross-functional team. I ensured smooth release cycles and efficient product management for all releases from Team India. 4. Development Lead, Scrum Master - IBM Virtual Client Solutions, IBM India. 5. Technical Lead for User & data migration and enhanced data representation with IBM SPoRT, IBM USA. 6. Developer on Users & Data migration from legacy tools to IBM Rational tools, IBM USA. 7. Developer and Tester for IBM Developer Works (Fix Central), IBM India. My experience and contributions have been recognized with internal ranks at IBM throughout my tenure.

Senior Developer at Bandari Industries Pvt. Ltd., Jul 2001 - Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Senior Developer - In-house web based utility tools development at Bilcare Limited, May 2001 - Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Pune Area, India, Led the development of in-house tools using JSP, MS SQL, Java Script, and WAS. Significant projects were: (1) Performance Management system aligning with company policies (2) Data aggregation and Visualization reports on data (mainly manufacturing line, Logistics) retrieved from the underlying ERP System.

Education

Masters of Science, Life Sciences/Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Masters in Computer Applications, Computer Science, Indira Gandhi National Open University

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@joshi.monica

github: https://github.com/MonicaJoshi