CTO / Head of Tech & Product Engineering
Hatch & Boost Venture Builders + Crescent Enterprises
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 9 أشهر
• Devised & executed futuristic digital strategies for the venture builder to develop early-stage concepts into economically viable and scalable B2B/B2C/D2C/DVNB businesses that generate inclusive social impact.
• Assessed business & tech feasibility of new product concepts & business ideas as part of Leadership & Investment Committee.
• Developed & continuously improved the venture builders’ product engineering & core tech capabilities and help shape the technology vision, ensuring the portfolio companies drive continuous innovation & build exciting digital businesses. And created & implemented a robust network of local/remote engineering & technical squads to support portfolio founders.
• Built frameworks for translating business processes & requirements into technology development needs and guide decisions on new investments and service offerings that create clear differentiators for the company & potentially increase competitive advantage for organization wide businesses
• Devised & managed the product strategy, roadmap & development life cycle for six portfolio companies working closely with co-founders and potential investors to build next-gen digital & cloud native product across varied industries (viz: AgriTech, FemTech, Fintech, Automotive, F&B, Construction, Healthcare, E-commerce, Education, Non-Profit & others). Just to name a few:
- Ion through innovations in green mobility extends economic and environmental sustainable transport solutions and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) apps by integrating multi-modal transport and charging networks for corporates & government fleets.
- World of Farming is a first-of-its-kind hydroponic vertical fodder farming start-up in the region; built & launched an end-to-end vertical farm automation SaaS platform leveraging IoT sensor integrations, process automations & AI/Data Analytics.
- HasanaH.org a global donation platform and charity marketplace that was awarded “Top 10 innovative platforms in the digital giving space” by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the “Reimagine Digital Giving Challenge 2020” (out of 400 concepts submitted worldwide). This is an innovative platform with a strategy to build funds movement transparency by integrating blockchain tech, crypto donations and NFTs to reward donors
- BreakBread.com a digital marketplace, and hub for curated food experiences with a mission to unite people, hosts, and food lovers. Developed & launched the marketplace that seamlessly connects passionate hosts with food lovers on the platform.
• Drove wholistic tech strategy & execution from solution & database architecture, design, build, test, microservices/APIs & cloud deployment by adopting design thinking & agile principles delivering innovative solutions within set budget & timelines.
• Led product design strategy and discovery workshops to create personalized & engaging user experiences & journeys (CX/UX/UI) leveraging the power of data analytics & CDP to derive key insights on consumer behavioural patterns. And formulated new revenue generating models thus accelerating the rate of adoption & drove faster customer acquisitions.
• Headed the Digital Business Transformation consulting practice, ensuring organizations achieve success in their transformation initiatives, in partnership with key business stake holders as a CIO & Board Advisory.
• Leveraging the 360o experience spanning across both Digital & Enterprise tech domains, crafted & implemented strategic transformational programs that captured and created new business value, increased customer acquisition & engagement by means of an integrated digital, IT & data strategy, thus reshaping the business & operating models and creating new growth opportunities for large-scale enterprises.
• Accomplished end-to-end strategic consultancy & led innovative digital product development for a variety of enterprises and start-ups across industries (viz: Media, Automobile, Hospitality, Real Estate, Construction, Healthcare & Education), leveraging technological advancements to address their dynamic business challenges, build enhanced customer experiences, achieve business process efficiencies & increased user productivity, thus delivering true business value.
• Successfully led Business Process Automation & Application Transformation programs leveraging innovative tech like RPA, AI, AR/VR & Big Data Analytics (Data warehouse, Data Lakes & Analytics strategy) by effectively integrating with both internal & external systems (ERP, CRM, Cloud Services, HRMS, 3rd party Digital Planforms, Cognitive Chatbots & IoT devices).
• Specialized in Software Engineering, Program & Project Management of large-scale Digital & E-Commerce products, E-Payments, Business Applications & Mobile Apps (iOS & Android, Cross-Platform applications) from strategy, solution architecture, design, build to delivery on variety of open-source & enterprise technology stacks (React/React-Native, Node, Vue, Next js, Nuxt js, TypeScript, PHP, C#, Python, Java, iOS/Android, Xamarin, Data Analytics, AI/ML, IoT, Microservices Architecture & REST API development Blockchain, Relational/NoSQL Database Systems, AR/VR, AI Chatbots, AWS/Azure/Google Devops, Redis/Elastic Cloud, CDN & others).
• Empowered organizations to tap into data analytics & customer behavioural analytics to build new revenue generating models, engaging customer experiences (CX/UX/UI), thus accelerating the rate of adoption & driving new customer acquisition.
• Led strategy, development & implementation of many large-scale Enterprise transformation & Cloud adoption projects (SaaS, IaaS & PaaS), thus driving innovation by digitizing legacy business apps and revamping the tech landscape in organizations.
• Devised & implemented robust Cybersecurity & IT/Data security strategy & policies to mitigate business risks by protecting critical digital and enterprise technology assets from persistent cyber threats.
• Built Enterprise IT Strategy, ICT & Datacentre Management, Networking (LAN/WAN), Backup, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery solutions & policies attaining higher availability of mission critical applications and security of key infrastructure & data.
• Spearheaded solution architecture design, build, configuration, deployment & support of critical Business & financial applications viz: CRM, ERP, HRMS, LMS, CMS, DAM & more.
• Built & Mentored globally dispersed engineering teams with varied skillsets to build innovative solutions using agile methodology.
• Managing vendors, contract negotiations, outsource & program management ensuring the deliverable are in line with the defined business needs.
• Mentored start-ups from ideation, strategy through to product development & funding stages and coached & helped new start-ups as a Board Advisor to successfully onboard into incubator & accelerator programs.
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