Pravin Kulkarni

About Pravin Kulkarni

Currently leading technical program management for Amazon’s Ship with Amazon (SWA) logistics platform development in Amazon Transportation Systems. A seasoned leader with extensive experience with Software Product Development, Services, Digital Transformation, Delivery Management and Technical Program Management. Successful record of setting up delivery capabilities in new domains and practices, growing ODCs, COEs as Site Head, building teams and demonstrated history of delivering to customers in eCommerce Supply Chain, Cybersecurity, Aerospace, Automotive, Airline, Banking and software OEM verticals.Established success in a) translating organizational vision to product roadmaps, BU plans, team objectives, and technical system design, b) cross-functional leadership to drive large, high-risk digital transformational initiatives, defining strategy and c) growing profitable business to meet P&L targets, handling business change and risks. Significant emphasis on customer intimacy, partnership and team building.Executive with technical and management awards. recognized as a metrics driven strategist, expert in technical program, global delivery, a researcher with international publications, strong background in hands-on product lifecycle software development and appreciated as an empathetic leader and mentor.PhD in Engineering with application of ML

Experience

1. Leader Technical Program Management

   Amazon

   Jan 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   o Owning the entire gamut of First Mile (Forecasting, Routing, Promise, Demand and Capacity planning) and Supply chain network optimization, Integration with middle mile, last mile and Backend Charters (Billing & Payment, Shipper Performance, Support, Claims, Concessions) for \"Ship with Amazon\" supply chain enterprise product development for Amazon Transportation.o Defining strategy and Leading product development cycles with dev teams across VP Orgs, Product, Business and Ops to drive the product releases.o Shipper Volume growth by 40% in 1 year and revenue per shipper by 50% for SWA MFN n/w in USo Individually handling critical transformational programs spanning cross-VP orgs such as improving volume, pickup forecasting, reducing claims, AR30, and reduced Forecasting WAPE from 55% to under 40% reducing missed pickups and cost per package since Q3 2024o Leading teams to drive 70% of SWA product charterso Improved shipment Delivery Estimate Accuracy (DEA) from 92% to 97% as a VP level goal driving product, operations, business and tech leaders by identifying areas of inefficiencies, finding solutions and driving the rollouts to meet planned glidepath. o Reduced claim rates, conceded loss rate and claims CPP for US, UK in Q3, Q4 2024o Driving LLM based AI solution to improve shipper support, through virtual assistant, and shipper performance using Amazon Q, Bedrock, AWS Rekognition MLo Driven program to charge shippers for performance and recouped $770K in 9 months (6x increase). o Doubled the revenue per packet RPP from Q3’24 (0.03$) to Q4’24 (0.06$) and met EOY target (0.06$)o GenAI powered transformation of SDLC, customer support, Field Data Analysiso Made 1st ever release of Amazon shipping product to MFN customers in US in Oct 2023o Driven the inventory data migration software platform development and production migration to successful delivery and helped business adopt the new Warehouse Mgmt. System in 10 months with zero critical migration defects.

Education

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  PhD, Engineering combined with ML

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  B.E., Mechanical Engineering

• Somalwar High School, Nagpur

  SSC

• Sri. Shivaji Science College, Nagpur

  HSC

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  Master of Engineering, Machine Design Engineering

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Software Development
• Sdlc
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Aerospace
• Consulting
• Enovia
• Matrixone
• Agile Methodologies
• Key Account Management
• Enterprise Software
• Requirements Analysis
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Composites
• Business Development
• Integration
• C++
• Cae
• Global Delivery
• Java
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Pre-Sales
• Stress Analysis
• Customer Service Management
• Strategy
• Program Management
• Product Life Cycle Management