Anand Joshi

About Anand Joshi

24+ years of experience in Product Engineering and Global Delivery Management for large scale strategic accounts ($25M+ with 400+ FTE) and managing P&L for entire delivery unit • Domain Expertise – Ecommerce, Travel, Gaming, Wellness, Financial Services, Insurance • Proficient in managing various programs related to digital transformation, hostile transitions, greenfield implementations, cloud modernization, product modernization using prompt engineering on various LLM, penalty driven managed SAFe agile programs• Extensive experience in building partner ecosystem and collaborating with GCC, Cloud partners (AWS and GCP) and PE (Private Equity) Channels for growing portfolio by aggressively driving presales and co-sell model• Accountable for developing and executing strategy to meet revenue, gross margin and utilization targets for the delivery unit. Optimize bench utilization through cross skilling and effective deployment.• Managing end to end $24M+ account of high performing product engineering teams of 300+ working on various domains to deliver product development, product modernization, data engineering, GenAI based productivity improvements and professional services• Grown the portfolio from zero to $20M in 2 years • 5 years of rich experience in managing $7M+ portfolio of products with team size of 150+ engineers for a world’s biggest online game development client• Successfully managed complex product implementation for a leading insurance client in 8 countries • Successfully lead a team as product manager to re-engineer 2 products used for Bank and Fund reconciliation from legacy to latest.NET technology stack using Agile, DevOps and Amazon webservices• Experience in setting up new agile teams and transitioning teams from waterfall to agile• Experience in conducting agile readiness assessment for fresh agile teams and agile maturity assessments for teams using agile• Leading pre-sales activities and compiling large sized proposals• Worked as onsite coordinator and transition manager in multi-vendor scenarios and handled many projects simultaneously for 2+ years• Significant experience in simultaneously executing multiple projects with Time & Material and Fixed Price contracts for clientele across geographies like UK, US and South Africa• Rich experience in project management practices of scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, communication, dependencies and risk. • Successfully set up offshore development centers for more than 10+ clients by building large teams from ground up

Experience

1. Associate Vice President - Engineering

   Persistent Systems

   Oct 2025 — Present

Education

• MIT ADT University

  EMBA, Product Leadership

  2019 — 2021

• Nagpur University

  BE, Power Electronics

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Change Management
• Project Governance
• Software Project Management
• Waterfall
• Resource Management
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Customer Escalation Management
• Scrum
• IT Strategy
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Program Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Project Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Conflict Management
• Proposal Writing
• Microsoft Technologies
• Staff Augmentation
• Xp
• Ms Project
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Project Management
• Sharepoint
• Project Portfolio Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Requirements Gathering
• Pre-Sales
• Project Coordination
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Project Planning