Binu T G

Planning and execution on technology roadmap to implement the product strategy. The systems include content management system (CMS), enterprise content management (ECM) and Master data management (MDM). Digital Transformation. Direct the necessary technology capabilities that impacts product strategy. Decision on digitalization, technology, platform, infrastructure, cloud operations, configurations, security, deployment and monitoring. Organizational design for teams to scale. Adopt or transform to agile, DevOps and automation culture to accomplish speed to market of high quality product releases. Scale SAAS systems, platforms and services as demanded by increase in users or consumers. Scale the engineering teams in line with scaling the product, process, technical roadmap and delivery. Provide high availability, resilient and secure services via continuous integration and deployment. Sustain high performing engineering culture. Align product, engineering and operations teams. Manage a multi-discipline team of architects and engineers and provide day-to-day direction to ensure the teams are fully functional.
Work with engineers and product managers to maintain efective team processes, prioritize backlog and create short-term and long-term goals. Lead the team in planning and managing upcoming work items. Develop and establish software engineering processes and procedures aligning with software industry best practices, to ensure continuous quality and security improvement. Skill development and career growth of staf. Motivate mentor and coach people. Communication with stakeholders to ensure that priorities are well aligned Accountable for the OKRs in the engineering department to enable the teams delivery. Understand the stafing needs of the team and participate in hiring process. Improve the recruiting process along with the C-level and HR. Conduct regular 1on1s with direct reports to share performance and to understand challenges. Identify gaps in process, people and tools and fix them. Risk management and mitigation. Giving back to society/ local community/ nonprofit entities by utilizing my skills and experience.

Report to VP Software Delivery, Product Management and Support.
Ownership and accountability for SDLC, software delivery and release.
Manage product engineering teams for the companys flagship B2B product in PIM domain.
Go live of MS Dynamics to manage sales leads, automate marketing campaigns, track customer interactions,
manage finances and operations.
Establish and drive improvement in process and product quality, planning, project management and resource
management across teams. Balance time to market with operational excellence.
Work with technical leads to architect and develop the best technical design, architecture and implementation.
Ensure software meets design requirements. Set benchmarks, standards and practices to establish, measure and
optimize functional and non-functional requirements.
Develop engineering roadmap, solution and technology strategy for the whole engineering team.
Set KRAs and KPIs for the teams, projects and products. Report on status and progress of development, quality and
operations.
Drive agile transformation. Lead DevOps adoption, Test Automation and implementing delivery CI/CD pipeline.
Adopt DevSecOps practice to automate the integration of security and security practices in each phase of the
SDLC.
Work with Product Management and Leadership to develop product roadmap.
Perform as Product Owner for R&D developments and also lead root cause solutions.
Lead technology upgrade, containerization and cloud development.
Manage functionality, usability, reliability, performance and supportability enhancements for the product.
Direct scalability, security, stability, consistency and high availability improvements for the software.
Used HPC for data cleansing and standardization, attribute enrichment, faster product information updates with
complex product catalogs, product recommendation through ML algorithms, price optimization, and data analytics
and reporting.
Work with UI/UX designers to create user-centered designs for the digital product.
Lead customer bug fixes and manage escalation.
Build, mentor, empower, retain and scale the team, competency development and performance management of
team members Capacity planning and stakeholder liaison. Maintain and optimize technology and teams expenses
to meet financial objectives of the organisation. Contribute to organization redesign and process change.
Drive company programs that lead to notable revenue and operational improvement. Establish OKRs and delivery
objectives.

Major Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities:
Managed team of Architects, Developers, QA and Business Analysts through SDLC.
Restructured sub-optimal and under-motivated development and QA members with a focus to behave as one professional team.
Developed coding standards, test plans and review processes.
Reorganized the team, established and implemented efficient SDLC processes.
Practiced iterative agile development process namely Scrum.
Introduced processes yielding more predictable results. Included reviews with BAs, developers and QA.
Prepared training plans required for the staff based on capabilities needed by the business.
Worked on skill development and performance management of the staff.

Significant Highlights:
Transformed team to scrum development methodology.
Drove significant stability and performance improvements including fixing some tricky issues.
Arranged staff training, resource/role shuffling in line with team aspirations.
Managed team through heavy defect reduction efforts to meet a zero defect goal.
Delivered a major release - from requirements to production - and a few patches meeting deadlines.
Delivered the training and KT sessions as planned.
Defined and captured skill level assessment matrix for each role and position.

Major Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities:
Lead the software team to plan, develop and deliver projects on schedule, on budget as per agreed quality.
Release Planning and Delivery Management.
Stakeholder liaison, resource management, goal setting and measurement.
Remove barriers for the team.
Assign and monitor tasks of the team and appraisal of direct reports.
Manage development process and version control for project artefacts.
Competency development of team members.
Project performance measurement and stakeholder communication.
Recruit, motivate, and retain talented Team.
Coordinate and collaborate with Quality Assurance, Documentation groups.
People management including conflict resolution.

Significant Highlights:
Successfully delivered - from conception to go live - the Allocation system development for Fashion and Footwear brands.
Rolled out successfully the development and integration project for Food brands.
Identified and Implemented the System Integration performance improvement program.
Structured and streamlined the SDLC process by implementing version control, document management, requirement and issue tracking systems.
Established the release planning for development and maintenance projects.
Recruited and built the team for custom development.
Formalized the induction and training process for new joiners.

Kindly refer the resume for details on the experience of 20+ years. Have grown through the ranks as software programmer, system analyst, team leader, development manager.