Headline

Head of Product | Programs Lead | Location Services | Transformation & Change | Platform Engineering | Team Leadership

About

Senior product and technology leader with 12+ years experience in product management, building digital and AI solutions that put end users first. Built and operated B2B SaaS products in Location Services, Automotive and Logistics industries. Established foundational platforms transforming digital product development. Led €10m+ programs, and 50+ person teams including vendors. Introduced GenAI tooling in product operations and promoted Platform Engineering capabilities. Responsible for investments, service ownership and vendor contracts. Shaped product direction for secure multi-tenant platforms, meeting ISO 27001 and GDPR requirements through access controls and system monitoring. Background in Software Engineering and Project Management at HERE Technologies, Nokia and Wipro Technologies. Bachelor’s degree holder in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Mysore.

Location

Germany

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Head of Engineering Solutions - Product and Program leadership at The Adecco Group, Oct 2021 - Feb 2026 · 4 yrs 5 mos, Berlin, Germany, Established the internal developer platform product transforming product operations and scaled to 200+ developers across 15 markets. - Defined the platform strategy and wrote the business case, got investment from C-level leadership and owned the operational budget for platform development and running the transformation program. - Introduced GenAI tools for product operations in testing and incident triage, reducing manual effort by 35%. - Led a team of engineering managers and product leads, and an off-shore vendor team in Europe and India. - Supported market share growth for digital products, with improved customer satisfaction with KPIs for speed and quality measured with DORA metrics. Brought CFR down from 75% to 25% and reduced MTTR by 60%. - Led restructuring of vendor operations to outcome-based contracts, reduced operational overhead by 70% and achieved 25% cost savings. - Wrote RfPs, Authored SOWs, defined KPIs, and brought financial discipline with usage forecasts, replacing ad-hoc requests with a service catalog model. - Implemented ISO 27001 audit remediation for product development and delivery, with Secure SDLC policy and introduction of SAST/DAST in CI/CD pipelines. Set up regular security policy checks in team processes. - Release management and gating with API contract tests following PACT, and End-2-End testing covering delivery and production health checks.

Lead Product Owner at HERE Technologies, Apr 2015 - Sep 2021 · 6 yrs 6 mos, On-site, Owned the B2B Routing API products from strategy to delivery and led product operations with 3B+ monthly transactions. - Drove product innovation in EV navigation by developing EV Routing around drivers’ range and charging needs. Built MVP with OEM customers and launched to general availability. - Led a multi-year program integrating Routing with Automotive IVI SDK and Navigation/ADAS functions, supporting multiple car model launches. - Managed the OEM and Tier-1 relationship through requirements alignment, escalation handling and focused workshops. Achieved 100% customer milestone acceptance, with implementations following ASPICE standards. - Partnered with engineering teams to define solution architecture and API design, and managed cross-team dependencies for Routing API and SDK delivery. - Introduced multi-tenant solutions on the HERE platform with IAM and entitlements to support customer-proprietary data with Routing APIs. - Owned routing quality KPIs including golden-route validation, service performance metrics and release acceptance criteria. Used API telemetry data to monitor performance and drive product quality improvements. - Partnered with go-to-market teams on launch readiness, clarifying licensing models, developing demo materials and documentation, taking Matrix Routing to market with truck fleet and logistics customers. - Supported customers through Routing API migration to new versions, defining the deprecation timeline and maintaining temporary endpoints protecting business continuity. - Utilised user behaviour data, telemetry, and controlled rollouts to improve route quality, feature discoverability, and user trust in navigation experiences.

Manager, Continuous Integration at HERE Technologies, Sep 2013 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos, Berlin, Germany, Promoted to lead the team. Led Release engineering and Continuous Integration for the Nokia Maps application stack, covering mobile applications (Maps, Drive) and the supporting backend and middleware services. - CI/CD capability: Build, test, and deployment pipelines enabling end to end delivery across the application stack, evolving into an early DevOps operating model. - Infrastructure & environments: CI/CD infrastructure operated on local datacenters and later extended to cloud to orchestrate scalable build and test environments. - Device testing: Evaluated vendors to create an automated device test lab combining locally managed device farms, vendor-supported tooling, and external device farms, integrated into CI/CD pipelines. - Scale & Scope: Expanded from 4 application teams to the full Maps stack, enabling aligned releases across applications and dependent services; promoted to manage the CI/DevOps team.

Senior Software Engineer at HERE Technologies, Nov 2011 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos, Berlin, Germany, - Develop, Deploy and Operate Continuous Integration service for development teams in Nokia L&C - Manage infrastructure of virtual machines, test devices and tools across multiple development environments for the Continuous Integration service.

Project Manager, Software Integration. at Nokia, Jan 2009 - Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Led phone software integration projects at Nokia India as project manager. Delivered production software with localisation, for Symbian smartphones.

Senior Build Engineer at Nokia, Dec 2006 - Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, - Set up the India team to take over Phone Software operations, growing from 5 to 30 people. - SCM, build and release tooling for Symbian smartphones.

External Consultant at Nokia, Jan 2003 - Sep 2006 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Tampere, Developed phone-software for Nokia, working in Finland as a contractor. Built automation for SCM and integration for Series 60 and Series 90 smartphones.

Software Engineer at WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Sep 2000 - Nov 2006 · 6 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore / Hyderabad, India, Software engineering for telecom and mobile phone software.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Sjce, mysore