Dilwar Laskar

About Dilwar Laskar

Engineering leader with 16 years of experience driving software development, platform engineering, DevOps, and program management. Proven track record of leading CI/CD transformations, automation, and platform quality improvements, delivering productivity gains of ₹200M+. Skilled at building and mentoring high-performing global teams (US, China, India, Netherlands), driving innovation, and enabling scalable, cloud-ready solutions that align technology strategy with business outcomes.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Philips

   Nov 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading the CoreServices Software development team and the DevOps team for the MR (Magnetic Resonance) business.• Driving talent development through mentorship, performance feedback, and strategic career planning.• Collaborating with product teams to design, develop, and enhance platform software solutions.• Managing end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.CoreServices SW Platform:• Platformized common services (IPC, Logging, License Management, Bootstrap, Config Mgmt etc.) across MR, CT, and X-Ray SW Platforms.• Set up Lightweight Stack / Cloud Hosting team, enabling cloud-ready solutions.• Scaled team to self-sustained execution with consistent on-time delivery.• Significantly improved platform quality, enabling near-zero customer defects in new releases through practices such as RCA, 5-Why analysis, and Left Shift.• Designed a structured new-joiner ramp-up plan, enabling engineers to become productive within 2 weeks with minimal dependency on existing members.DevOps:• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitLab (6 Active release pipelines, 8-10 Feature Pipelines, along with additional pipelines for performance, reliability, code quality, component tests etc.)• Managed Artifactory, enabled automated testing/ operations, and supported AWS-based deployment readiness.• Significantly improved the release stability, turnaround & release cadence, enabling multiple parallel Projects.Productivity & Automation• Delivered productivity savings worth ₹200M+ through automation, license management, and efficiency initiatives.• Achieved 90%+ test automation within CoreServices and 50%+ within DevOps.• Strategically integrated AI tools to further accelerate development speed and team productivity.

Education

• Tezpur University

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science

  2006 — 2009

• Cotton College

  Honors in Mathematics

  2003 — 2006