Hari Manchana
Engineering Leader | Gen AI, Cloud (AWS) & Enterprise APIs | Global Team Building & Delivery
- Role
- Senior Software Engineering Manager at Caterpillar Inc.
- Location
- Sanford, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hari Manchana
Engineering leader with management and hands-on development experience across multiple industries, driving digital transformation through Gen AI, Cloud, and enterprise web/API initiatives. Proven ability to lead leaders, high-performing global teams of 40+, manage $8M+ budgets, and deliver secure, scalable, low-latency systems and services. People-first leader recognized for a customer-focused approach rooted in Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) thinking, continuous learning, and consistent business impact — including Caterpillar’s Chairman Award for engineering excellence and C-suite recognition at Cboe.
Experience
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Jan 2020 — Present · US
Senior Engineering Manager (Since 2022)<- Engineering Manager (2020 to 2022) Spearheaded a four-year initiative to modernize and consolidate multiple legacy Salesforce applications into a unified global Cloud platform. The new solution, powered by AWS, React front-end, 30+ Java/Python APIs and dynamic Grafana dashboards, significantly scaled capabilities, improved customer experience and enabled rapid iteration.Delivered Caterpillar’s first Gen AI solution for 150+ global Dealer organizations using RAG on proprietary data sources. Provided dynamic translations in 32 languages with CAT pre-trained models. Achieved 15% SDLC productivity gain with GitHub Copilot. Built 2 on-site teams and led 40+ global team, including managers, SOW and offshore teams in 3 countries; Promoted 7 staff and earned 3 CEO Awards.Managed a $8M annual budget, including vendor relationships and AWS/infrastructure costs, ensuring strategic allocation and operational efficiency.Led strategically important PoCs, guided external audits, advised on startup acquisition and operationalized Branching, DevOps, Security and Release Management processes. Oversaw Quality, DevOps, Releases, Tech-Debt management, and 24x7 Tier-3 support.
Education
Andhra University
B. Tech, Computers Science & Engineering
Harvard Business School Online
Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen
2017
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Masters, Computer Science & Engineering
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