Profile
a. 25+ years of Product Engineering Experience where I have Built and Grew Engineering Teams to Successfully Launch & Land Software Products while having > 80% Employee Trust NPS scores.
b. Helping SAP Enterprise Customers seamlessly onboard and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
c. Blockchain Thought leader at SAP and Walmart.
d. Built Products and Innovations at SAP for Logistics Collaboration, Logistics Resources Optimization, IoT, Business Intelligence and Blockchain augmented Cross Border paperless trade & Food Supply Chain Transparency.
e. Learnt as an Intrapreneur crowd sourcing talent/skills to build IoT & Cloud-based innovations for Airport Passenger Experience, trying to maximize non-aero retail revenue for Airports.
f. Public Speaker and Panelist at various Events on Blockchain and Supply Chain.
My Network is My Net-Worth
Skills
Leadership
Team Building, People Leadership, Coaching, Product Management, Project Management, Product Engineering, Agile Practices
Domain, Technical
Blockchain - Hyperledger Fabric, Multichain, Cloud - Google Cloud Platform(GCP), SAP, Supply Chain Logistics, IoT, BI, EPM, C++, Oracle, Java
Work Experience
October 2021 - Present
Engineering Manager II @ Google
a. Engineering Lead - responsible for developing Services for SAP to run efficiently on Google Cloud Platform. Our offerings earn a revenue of ~$1 B.
1. Developing Foundation Services (Agents, Tools) for better Landscape Management.
2. Reliability, Availability and Serviceability - Live Migration, Workloads, SLOs,
3. Developing Extension Services - Adapters/Connectors for SAP Customers to use Google Services like Workspace, BigQuery, Translate, Pub/Sub.
August 2020 - September 2021
Senior Engineering Manager II @ Walmart Global Tech India
a. Envisaged and Built V1.0 of the Blockchain Platform for Walmart (WBP) based on Technologies like Hyperledger Fabric, Microsoft Azure Blockchain Services, Kubernetes, Blockchain Automation Framework (BAF - now Hyperledger Bevel).
b. Responsible for helping Food Safety and Compliance Teams by building a solution - Food Safety and Provenance Tracking(FSPT) using Blockchain (IBM Food Trust).
Key features - Supplier Compliance, Recall Management, Private Brands Track and Trace, Assisting quicker turnarounds for FDA/CDC Product Investigations.
Benefits:
1. Enhance Supplier Compliance to 75%
2. Ensure Traceability/Genealogy in ~3 seconds
3. Reduce Investigation Time from ~3 Weeks to ~2 Days
May 2004 - August 2020
Senior Development Manager @ SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
2017 - 2020:
a. Led a multi-disciplinary team of 30+ Engineers on Product Development for SAP Logistics Business Network (LBN) to foster Logistics collaboration. Year 2020 Annual Contract Value (ACV) ~0.5M Euro.
b. Designed and Built a Product for Food Supply Chain Track and Trace - SAP Material Traceability augmented by Blockchain. Year 2020 ACV ~1M Euro.
c. Designed and Built a Customer usable PoC for Cross Border Paperless Trade augmented by Blockchain. Customers used this platform to track cross-border trade and opined that it provides more visibility and document control.
d. Consistently achieved Quality Metrics of Code Coverage > 85% and Test Automation > 70%.
e. Was part of the founding team for an SAP Internal Startup called - SAP GreenToken for Commodity Track and Trace and Mass Balancing.
2014 - 2016:
a. Built a Software product - SAP Transportation Resource Planning (SAP TRP) to Optimize Transportation Logistics Resources like Containers and Rail Cars to avoid Empty Street Turns.
b. Was a 2 time SAP Intrapreneurship Finalist with IoT-based Ideas for Airport Passenger Flow Optimization and Worker Safety.
2004 - 2013:
a. Handled several releases for SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) BI Products like DeskI, WebI and EPM.
b. Built a product to do Supplier Data Enrichment and Classification called SAP DEC.
November 2000 - May 2004
Technical Lead @ Wipro Technologies
Built Webserver and Application Server Plugins for Authentication and Authorization using LDAP protocols with C++ on Windows and Unix as the platform.
November 1997 - November 2000
Technical Lead @ Arisglobal
Built Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Trial software on Windows with C++ and Oracle.
Education
1994 - 1995
Learnsoft School of Information Technology
Diploma in Computer Science
1991 - 1994
Bangalore University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) - Computer Science
Patent
Multivariate Transaction Classification
Classifying Spend Transactions across different Classification methods like Standard UNSPSC, Knowledge Base, User Preference and across LoBs, Cost Center etc for better Spend visibility.
