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# Nishita Punjabi on Tal

## Headline

Lead Technical Program Manager at Mastercard

## About

Technical Program Manager and Agile leader with 10\+ years of experience delivering large\-scale programs across payment networks and performance engineering domains\. Led cross\-functional global teams driving Agile delivery, PI planning, release management, and infrastructure transformation while managing vendors and team performance at scale\. Delivered high\-impact programs in regulated environments at Mastercard, including leading deployment of 25\+ applications as a Release Train Engineer, improving delivery velocity, scalability, and system reliability through data\-driven execution\.

## Location

Pune District

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Lead Technical Program Manager at Mastercard, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, On\-site

Manager\- Software Engineering at Mastercard, Aug 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 11 mos, Remote

Engineering Manager at MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGY PVT\. LTD\., Jul 2023 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Led a Mainframe\-based application team within Mastercard’s legacy Payment Network, playing the dual role of Engineering Manager and Scrum Master to drive optimisation and strengthen delivery outcomes\. Managed performance and career development of 4 team members reporting to me, conducting targeted feedback sessions and goal setting to align growth objectives with business priorities\. Owned end\-to\-end vendor management, collaborating with multiple partner organizations to hire and onboard 6 contractors, ensuring seamless integration into Mastercard systems and expanding delivery capacity\. Promoted team versatility by strategically assigning work to encourage cross\-training and skill diversification, building resilience and stronger ownership within the team\.

Senior Technical Program Manager at Mastercard, Sep 2020 \- Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Deputy Manager at State Street Syntel Services Pvt\. Ltd\., Jun 2017 \- May 2019 · 2 yrs, I was a Lean project manager/ Scrum Master in the business excellence team\. I was responsible for identifying process improvement and automation opportunities to reduce risk and manual efforts as well as supporting and conducting various scrum events such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective among key stakeholders\.

Management Associate at State Street Syntel Services Pvt\. Ltd\., May 2016 \- May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, I was a team lead in external reconciliations vertical responsible for handling a team of 15 people\. Monitoring the overall functioning of the process, identifying improvement areas, and implementing adequate measures to maximize client satisfaction level\.

Software Engineer at Cybage, Jul 2011 \- Jun 2013 · 2 yrs, Groovy and Grail developer in Travel and Hospitality domain working for the client TravelClick and web developer in E\-commerce domain working for the client Digital River

## Education

Master of Business Administration \(M\.B\.A\.\), Marketing, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology

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