Prasad Kamthekar
Dublin,CA
Summary
Multifaceted technical career with 20+ years' track record of innovation and success. Accomplished, enthusiastic and driven Leader and software engineer with a solid history of effective engineering client/server/enterprise software/ SOA development. Well recognized for strong leadership and project management capabilities while leading cross-functional teams in fact paced competitive environments. Accomplished to setting up new systems and work order with a solid history of achievement in engineering goals.
Innovation driven and adoption towards AI/LLMs, driving Developer as well as Customer productivity using AI applications/tools.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
Zoom Video Communications Inc.
08.2021 - Current
- Built and successfully delivered AI Chat bot (complete life-cycle) for major enterprise customers, > 150 customers deployed with the Chat Bots supported by Generative AI and Federated Model approach
- Build Engineering team to deliver new Zoom Product (Workforce Engagement Management) https://news.zoom.us/workforce-engagement-management/ from scratch. Manage a team >50 engineers in multiple timezones (India, China, US)
- Led cross-functional teams to complete high-priority projects on time and within budget constraints.
- Optimized resource allocation for maximum productivity, effectively managing engineering personnel and budgets.
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of professional development and continuous learning within the team.
- Introduced advanced AI and capabilities to enhance the Contact Center suite of products for end users.
Director of Engineering
Pearson Inc.
03.2019 - 07.2022
- Providing technical guidance to engineering teams and top management
- Implementing best practice engineering methods
- Establish staff performance expectations and provide regular feedback from both informal and scheduled reviews
- Develop and manage multi-year product line roadmap and strategy in collaborative, multi-function, team environment
- Engagement with senior leadership to design, drive agenda for key business initiatives/missions
- Supporting established organizational objectives by developing goals and strategies
- Finding and implementing ways to improve cost-efficiency
- Managing teams across multiple technical spectrums, API development, Mobile Development and UI teams
- Experience and Strength in hiring, leading and growing talent within teams, and build vision that facilitates organizational growth.
- Work with multiple vendors in a Staff-Aug or T&M models, managing upwards of 500 employees across timezones.
Manager, Software Development
Pearson Inc.
08.2017 - 03.2019
- Primary responsibilities include, but not limited to, technical direction on building highly customer focused and large-scale software components, overseeing agile software development process, working with various stakeholders (PM, TPM, UX, Business Leads, Support) on requirement, design, integration of software components
- Experience and Strength in hiring, leading and growing talent within teams, and build vision that facilitates organizational growth
- Actively involved and lead product, technical architecture and strategic decisions for the group
- Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection and growth.
Principal Engineer
Pearson Inc.
10.2014 - 07.2017
- Technical management of multiple learning applications teams in US and SriLanka (Employee count > 200)
- Develop lean, single functional, high availability micro services-based solutions using Spring boot
- Define and implement coding standards, quality gates, common approaches for development
- Explore multiple UI frameworks and define approach/framework team should use, design POCs using ReactJS, AngularJS
- Vendor Management, work with multiple vendors at multiple levels
- Manage development vendors, third-party providers, mobile dev vendors
- Handle onboarding, design, implementation of vendor solutions as well as manage transition of services from third-party to in-house
- Coordinating with product management, testing and support teams for release and product support.
Senior Staff Engineer / Engineering Manager
ABB Inc.
05.2012 - 10.2014
- Involved in training, mentoring, guiding team members and help them achieve the release targets
- Designed and architected various new web based and mobile applications to support the new market areas of the company
- Designed and executed the migration plan to move from hosted solution to AWS
- Performed key management and leadership role in MongoDB database design, integration, and implementation.
Senior Software Engineer
Pearson Inc.
03.2006 - 05.2012
- Extensive work in creating DB procedures, triggers and functions and oracle jobs
- Writing Junit test cases for unit testing and using Selenium for automated tests
- Handling the build process by facilitating the creation of build documents, artifacts, version controls (SVN)
- Working with the Systems team in the configuration of Linux servers and application deployments
- Debugging and performance tuning of the application based on the Oracle ADDM reports and Splunk logs.
Education
Business Management - Business Administration And Management
ICFAI, India
India01.2005
Advance Computing - Diploma in Software Development
Center For Development For Advanced Computing
Pune, India01.2001
Bachelor of Engineering - Engineering Bachelor
Mahatma Gandhi Mission College
India01.2000
Skills
- Dev ops/Infrastructure
- AWS Managed/Web Services
- AI/ML Engineering - Product Development/ Model Evaluation
- Hire, Train and Mentor new team members
- Build career pathways and framework for team members
- Establish engineering best practices for development and operational efficiency
- Plan, execute, deliver software products with high quality
- Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
- Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
- Prepare and manage the engineering department's budget
- Design strategies for future development projects based on the company's overall objectives and resources
- Define and implement release management processes
- Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
- Participate in technology town halls, monthly executive updates, roadmap conversations
Timeline
Director of Engineering
Zoom Video Communications Inc.
08.2021 - Current
Director of Engineering
Pearson Inc.
03.2019 - 07.2022
Manager, Software Development
Pearson Inc.
08.2017 - 03.2019
Principal Engineer
Pearson Inc.
10.2014 - 07.2017
Senior Staff Engineer / Engineering Manager
ABB Inc.
05.2012 - 10.2014
Senior Software Engineer
Pearson Inc.
03.2006 - 05.2012
Business Management - Business Administration And Management
ICFAI, India
Advance Computing - Diploma in Software Development
Center For Development For Advanced Computing
Bachelor of Engineering - Engineering Bachelor
Mahatma Gandhi Mission College
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