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Tejas Patil

Tejas Patil

Director of Engineering
Cambridge

Summary

Passionate and motivated Engineering leader with a demonstrated experience in people management, development, quality, sustaining and customer support in computer software industry. Experienced in an agile development process with a strong focus on quality. Exceptional interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with customers and peers.

17+ years of software development experience across cybersecurity IoT and AI domains delivering successful releases of multitude of products has helped me gain the ability to drive efficiency and collaboration in a team environment. This has imbued a desire to learn new/other technologies outside core competencies and communicate well at all levels of the organization both from the technical as well as non-technical standpoint.

Highlights:

Agile evangelist - Pioneered the change from Waterfall to Agile

Engineering Management -

  • Led all product releases, specification reviews, software planning, architecture, budgeting and resource allocation.
  • Led successful execution of both on-premise and cloud based product release.
  • Led Beta and customer/partner engagement efforts to drive business growth with key emphasis on improving Net Promoter score.

Leadership -

  • Recruited, developed, and reviewed the overall development of all direct reports including a manager. Directly led 15+ people.
  • Encouraged clear and crisp communication at all levels with a keen emphasis on listening
  • Drove an open culture of giving and receiving feedback with constructive criticism
  • Drove motivation within the team by understanding what motivators work best for each individual to encourage productivity and passion

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Director of Engineering

AIMS Innovation
Oslo
05.2023 - Current
  • Led proposal development efforts, presenting engineering opportunities to senior leadership for go-no-go decisions.
  • Took ownership of assigned department-wide projects, presenting regular updates to senior leadership on progress and status.
  • Evaluated ongoing development efforts, providing feedback on potential methods of expediting completion and improving final results.
  • Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
  • Cultivated partnerships between engineering, product and UX personnel to create holistically designed final products.
  • Integrated prescribed processes and conventions during project planning to align products with internal guidelines.
  • Led development on 3 simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.

Senior Engineering Manager and Site Leader

Twilio
CAMBRIDGE
04.2022 - Current
  • Provided technical leadership for company to effectively steer strategic plans and future projects.
  • Drove initiatives to collaborate with management teams to plan, develop, align and execute strategies that would meet our vision, mission and purpose.
  • Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
  • Led development on 3 simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths leading to successful delivery of public beta and other releases.
  • Directly interacted with high-level customers to verify satisfaction and integrate feedback on in-process development projects.
  • Interviewed, hired and trained people on team, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback.

Engineering Manager and Site Leader

Twilio
Cambridge, UK
06.2020 - 03.2022
  • Led development on 3 simultaneous products, multi-tasking across several deliverables while being responsible for delivery of these products
  • Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimise resource utilisation and shorten development times.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline our development efforts to drive high throughput via collaboration & alignment
  • Evaluated ongoing development efforts, providing feedback on potential methods of expediting completion and improving our end results.
  • Provided regular feedback to both engineers in team and senior leadership on individual performance metrics and observations.
  • Coordinated with management teams to plan, develop, align and execute strategies that would meet our vision, mission and purpose.

Software Engineering Manager

McAfee Software
Brighton, UK
01.2016 - 03.2020
  • Led design and architecture activities for all roadmap development work on both on- premise and cloud native products.
  • Successfully delivered uplifting of on-premise product to cloud from concept to delivery.
  • Defined and enforced development and release processes.
  • Collaborated with Executive Staff, Product Management, Marketing and Technical Support to define and prioritise product requirements and features for major/minor/update releases.
  • Defined quality, scalability and performance goals for all releases.
  • Coordinated and executed customer calls to promote our software during beta stages.
  • Led sustaining efforts for all encryption products (Windows and Mac) engaging with support and customers on troubleshooting calls.
  • Collaborated closely with Project Managers and Product Managers to keep projects on track and meet anticipated deadlines.
  • Communicated highly technical concepts using easily understood terminology.
  • Collaborated with product and engineering team members to define and develop new product concepts.

QA Lead/Senior Engineer/Scrum Master

McAfee Software
Brighton,UK
01.2013 - 12.2015

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Pioneered the change from waterfall to Scrum fro the Brighton office at McAfee
  • Orchestrated Scrum and Kanban for multiple projects involving team of Developers and SDET's.
  • Planning and 360-degree process improvements adapting Agile methodologies.
  • Strategic management of SDET team spread across geographical locations.
  • Defining test plans and User Acceptance Tests.
  • Enhancing technical skills: Unit tests and Kernel debugging
  • Automated all driver testing by building an automated driver test tool using Python

Senior Software QA Engineer

McAfee Software
Brighton,UK
10.2008 - 01.2013

Roles and Responsibilities:.

  • Automated all functional user acceptance test using python.
  • Created QA Test plan and test strategy for all releases
  • Co-ordination of all the QA tasks
  • Provide technical QA training.
  • Ensured execution status is on track, manage testing and reporting, execution of tests (both functional and system).
  • Support other QA team members with technical information and tests reviews.

Software QA Engineer

McAfee Software
Bangalore, India
09.2005 - 09.2008

Roles and Responsibilities:.

  • Ensure execution status is on track, manage testing and reporting, execution of tests (both functional and system).
  • Support other QA team members with technical information and tests reviews.

Education

Executive Education Course - Organizational Leadership

London School Of Economics And Political Science
London
06.2019 - 06.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication

Visveswarya Institute Of Technology
India
06.2001 - 08.2005

Skills

Software Development

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Accomplishments

  • B.E in Electronics and Telecommunications.
  • V.T.U University (2001-2005), Belgaum, Karnataka, India Aggregate of 72.3%.
  • Achieving Leadership Excellence" - Leadership course.
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
  • Certifications:.
  • Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance (2013).
  • Certified Ethical Hacker - EC-Council (2008).

Additional Information

  • OVERALL ACHIEVEMENTS: · , White paper on Scalability: Pushing the Limits published at PNSQC in 2014 · Have been awarded "Employee of the quarter" honor for 4 times · Have been awarded the prestigious "Club Geek" award for the year 2007-08 · Won the "COTM" award for security defect related to IPC communication exploitation
  • 2021 Superb Owl Award - highest honor received by any Twilion

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Director of Engineering

AIMS Innovation
05.2023 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager and Site Leader

Twilio
04.2022 - Current

Engineering Manager and Site Leader

Twilio
06.2020 - 03.2022

Executive Education Course - Organizational Leadership

London School Of Economics And Political Science
06.2019 - 06.2019

Software Engineering Manager

McAfee Software
01.2016 - 03.2020

Certified Scrum Master

03-2013

QA Lead/Senior Engineer/Scrum Master

McAfee Software
01.2013 - 12.2015

Senior Software QA Engineer

McAfee Software
10.2008 - 01.2013

Certified Ethical Hacker

09-2008

Software QA Engineer

McAfee Software
09.2005 - 09.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunication

Visveswarya Institute Of Technology
06.2001 - 08.2005
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