Anshul Chadda

About Anshul Chadda

Interested in leading business development, product management for technology products and servicesSpecialties: design, architecture and development of Cloud software and hardware products

Experience

1. AVP, Cloud Product Management & Engineering

   Manulife

   Aug 2019 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Built and led a global shared-platform organization for Cloud Services (Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Delivery), hiring across North America and Asia; established role clarity, career development, and delivery operating rhythm across teams.• Transformed Cloud Services delivery to build in-house IaC/CaC automation (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps) deployed via DevSecOps CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub); implemented engineering governance and standards to drive compliance to security/risk controls and thousands of hours saved/year as productivity gains for internal developers.• Led full-stack, cloud-native, and platform engineering teams delivering shared developer platforms and integration capabilities (GitHub, Jira, Confluence, API management, Kubernetes GitOps), improving platform commonality, reuse, and reliability for enterprise delivery teams.• Incepted a solution team which identified opportunities to improve productivity among delivery teams (engineers, managers, risk) using GenAI and AgenticAI technologies.• Launched and rolled out Github Copilot, GenAI tool, to all Manulife users which has resulted in developer productivity gains.• Operationalized SAFe/Agile delivery with OKRs, PI/Sprint planning, epic/story elaboration, and business case-based prioritization; established delivery and operational dashboards to baseline performance and drive continuous improvement.• Acted as a coach/mentor to engineering and product leaders; promoted cross-team standards adoption and knowledge sharing across platform, security, operations, and delivery communities.• Delivered Cloud Finops practice which focuses on cloud cost visibility, optimization, budgeting and forecasting. This practice has resulted in significant cost optimization savings and helped absorb cloud growth.• Developed a Cloud software chargeback model where application developers paid based on usage of Cloud Automation tools: Terraform, Chef, New Relic, Grafana.

Education

• Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

  M.B.A, Technology Entrepreneurship

  2006 — 2008

• University of Mumbai

  B.Eng, Chemical Engineering(U.D.C.T.)

  1993 — 1997

• University of New Hampshire

  M.S., Chemical Engineering

  1997 — 1999

• University of New Hampshire

  M.S., Computer Science

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Fibre Channel
• Software Development
• Storage Virtualization
• Agile Methodologies
• Product Management
• Unix
• Valuation
• Distributed Systems
• Storage
• Virtualization
• Software Engineering
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Cloud Computing
• System Architecture
• Perl