Highly innovative, results driven and a progressively demonstrated ability to be an effective technology leader in growing and driving a strong engineering culture of excellence and collaboration.
Specialties:
*Leadership in Big Data driven Analytics engineering product team using Machine Learning techniques.
*Building up and leading world-class mobile development teams.
*Extensive experience in leading highly scalable and high traffic web applications.
*Architecture driven experience leading software engineers in development of a $4 billion dollar revenue generating search engine.
*Developing technical strategy and technology road-maps in supporting strategic business objectives.
*Successful change leader in the adoption and development of Lean Agile software development processes /practices by leading software development teams across globally distributed teams.
*Provided technical leadership in the adoption of TDD, BDD, CI/CD software development practices.
*Enterprise Java-based SOA Services implementation and distributed systems development.
Director of Engineering @ Leading the Data Analytics product Engineering team. From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Greater Boston AreaSenior Engineering Manager, Mobile @ Led a strategic expansion and growth of edX mobile presence globally. From 2014 to September 2015 (1 year) Cambridge, MASenior Engineering Manager, eCommerce & Mobile @ Leading a strategic expansion and development of a $6 billion+ B2B Ecommerce Mobile and search experience platform team in the world's second largest e-tailer.This entails bringing in innovative lean development and continuous delivery practices to key strategic initiatives in enterprise search, UI and mobile user experience by not only working with key executive level strategic partners but also driving a global and highly scalable enterprise architecture. From 2011 to 2014 (3 years) Framingham, MAManager, Software Development Engineering, Search Architecture @ Strong leadership in driving and leading the search development organization in providing an highly impactful search user experience. From 2007 to 2011 (4 years) Maynard, MATeam Tech Lead / Software Development Manager @ Led an engineering team comprising of Development and QA software engineers. From 2004 to 2007 (3 years) Software Consultant Engineer (Contract role) @ Completed work on enhancements, maintenance and development of Energy trading web application product integrating with all major utility provider back-end applications. From 2003 to 2004 (1 year) Software Developer @ Conceptualized, designed and developed a company-wide innovative Contact Management web application (a partial CRM system) with integration into back-office financial and application database systems. Additional integration with Salesforce.com and API service layer implementation. From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Software Applications Engineer IV @ Speech Recognition Testing Application: Successfully developed an integrated Call-Flow Application with the Speech Portal Divisions inflection simulator for Natural Language processing used in a speech-activated voice portal for personalized subscriber communications with web access service using Nuance speech recognizer. From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) Senior Software Engineer @ From 1997 to 1999 (2 years)
Executive Certificate in Strategy & Innovation @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management From 2013 to 2014 Executive Certificate in Management & Leadership @ MIT Sloan School of Management From 2012 to 2013 Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General @ Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst From 2006 to 2008 Master's degree, Computer Science @ Bridgewater State University From 1995 to 1997 Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical and Electronics Engineering @ Bangalore University From 1988 to 1992 Kishore A. is skilled in: Lean Agile Software..., XP Software Development..., Cloud Computing:..., Software Project..., Distributed Development, Distributed..., Web Services, Search Architecture, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Release Management, NoSQL: Cassandra and..., Production Support, Programming in C#, Java..., Database Administration..., Microsoft SQL Server, Agile Methodologies, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, E-commerce, SaaS, Scrum, User Experience, SOA, Business Intelligence, Web Applications, Testing, Software Development, Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Applications