Krunal Pala

About Krunal Pala

Krunal Pala is working with Google India located in Bengaluru, India since December 2022. He is a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager with 17+ years of experience in driving multiple initiatives across the business units spread across geographies, managing the delivery of enterprise applications, and driving multi-cloud architectures & solutions. Recognized for driving first-time-right solutions with the highest business impact, operational excellence & happy teams.Recently played a pivotal role with 40+ members team in saving 40M$ of licencing cost and building an inhouse contracting lifecycle platform for Google Cloud. Nearly 80% of overall Deals passes through this platform. Additionally, managing overall quoting experience and orchestration. Business Skills:Business Consulting, Business Acumen, Defining & measuring Success metrics, OKRs for Cross Functional Distributed Team,Negotiating MVP Features, Architecture & Solutions,Vendor & Resources ManagementNew Tools Evaluations for Enterprises, Crisis & Risk ManagementDefining, Improving the Business & Engineering ProcessesBudget, Forecasting & PlanningCreating Vision & Strategy for short, medium & long termResource planningOperational & Engineering Excellence - Speed, Quality, Performance & Monitoring.Team skills: Coaching, Mentoring, Influencing Leaders & Peers, Hiring, Building teams from scratch,Talent development & retention, and creating high-performing happy teams.Technical Skills:AIAgentic AI, AI Apps, AI workflowsLLMs, AI Process Design and ArchitectureSalesforce Platform: Architecture and Integrations DevOps Architecture,Enterprise Orchestration, Architecture Unlocked Packages Architecture & Release StrategiesAppExchange Product Development Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Heroku Salesforce CPQ, Apttus (Conga) CPQGearset, AutoRABIT, Jitterbit, Informatica, AWS GlueAWS Cloud:CloudFormation, EC2, S3, Codebuild, CodePipeline, LambdaStep Functions & Architecture, EKS, Kinesis,Atlassian Platform: Architecture of JSM / Jira,Confluence, BitBucketSlack:Bot Architecture, Slack APIs, Workflows, Apps, Workato:No-Code,Low Code Architecture, Event-Driven Architectures with Kafka, Java 8, Python (3.8), Spring, RESTFul ServicesUI/UX: Miro, Figma, Lucidchart, React, AngularSCM & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub, Git, Bitbucket, GitLab,Release & Environment strategyDelivery Methods: Kanban, Agile - Scrum, WaterfallProduct Management:Product Owner, Strategy, Planning, & RoadmapEnd User workshops, Interviews, Metrics & Adoption

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Google

   Dec 2022 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

   Impact - Created Team & Organization OKRs for the short, medium & long term- Working with Leaders to visualise forecasts, Resource planning and Strategy for the year- Led 40+ member cross functional team in Google India for building from scratch in-house application for the contracting replacing Third party system, which saved 40M$ licensing costs for over 5 Years. This initiative also won Google Cloud Technical Impact award for 2023 across the globe- Enabled team to work in the LLM based models for Google Cloud Sales initiatives- Creating teams and architectures which can enable and scale for 40B to 100B$Responsibilities- Handled cross functional FTEs which Includes 1P (Open source technologies), 3P CRM Technologies like SFDC - Developers, Testers, Analysts- Provide the vision to the internal and external teams for the Quarterly and Yearly planning- Evaluating the Performance on a regular basis for the team as well as annual appraisals, Evaluation of Promotion readiness for cross functional teams- Hiring New FTE team members, forecasting, budgeting and Working with Vendors for Staff augmentation and fixed price based models for various initiatives- Drive Transformation with 1st Party and 3rd Party services- Working with Vendor management teams for establishing relationships, monthly, quarterly business reviews along with regular governance- Capacity planning and Deliver the key OKRs of the organization. Influencing product and business stakeholders to plan right business OKRs on a technical standpoint with future ready architectures- Process improvement for Engineering and Org practices, Removal of impediments, conflict resolution for cross functional teams, handling escalations for delivery as well as Running the business initiatives- Retention and Poor performance management. Rewarding the top performers as well as recognition for spotlight accomplishments- Drive solutions and architectures for enterprise business platforms.

Education

• Shri L G Haria School

  High School , Science Stream

  1996 — 2004

• Dharmsinh Desai University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Skills

• Java
• Client Relations Skills
• Xml
• Database Design
• Rest
• Force.com
• Visual Force
• Apache Ivy
• Mysql
• Salesforce.com
• System Architecture
• Apex Programming
• J2ee
• Integration
• Ajax
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Flex
• Enterprise Architecture
• Unix
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Jsp
• Splunk
• Tomcat
• Pl/Sql
• Groovy
• Jenkins
• Agile Methodologies
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Weblogic
• Eclipse
• Javascript
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Databases
• Core Java
• Testing
• Guidewire
• Sdlc
• Maven