Magesh Gangadharan

About Magesh Gangadharan

Building systems where Robotics, Automation, distributed systems, connected experiences, player engagement and user experiences interact to create interactive products that have significant impact to people’s lives. Enthusiastic about building motivated product teams and leading them on ambitious projects to create successful products.Shipping Products: Have been extensively involved in designing, building and shipping Microservices, Automation Systems, high volume transaction processing systems, large-scale distributed systems, Embedded Communication systems, Robotic systems, Satellite systems, Gaming platforms, Games and Network systems / applications.Cost Savings & Quality: Saved millions of dollars by introducing innovative simple processes for software development and testing thus maximizing the overall quality and minimizing the overall product development time domestically and globally. Introduced a novel test initiative among development teams called “peer testing” which resulted in huge cost savings and improved software quality.Building Teams & Scaling Organizations: Heavily involved in building high performance teams and played an instrumental role in setting up and ramping organizations.Turnaround Management: Ability to foresee problems / failures / change and applies a proactive approach all throughout. Have been injected multiple times to figure out what\'s wrong within an organization and revive it back to full potential.Accomplishments-• WMS Gaming Innovator of the Year award - 2012• Extensive experience in setting up and running offshore development center\'s• Revamped India Game Development studios

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Aug 2014 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Within Amazon Robotics I manage software teams that are in charge of software development of Performance Engineering platform, Robotic Automation and validation of Amazon Last mile technology services.

Education

• Project Management Institute

  PMP, Project Management

  2005 — 2005

• Aptech - Salem , India

  Diploma in, Computer Science

  1992 — 1995

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Business Administration and Management, General

  2010 — 2010

• University of Madras

  Master of Computer applications, Computer Science

  1996 — 1999

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

  1992 — 1995

• National Computing Center , UK

  Diploma, Structured System Analysis and Design

  1994 — 1995

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Test Planning
• Rtos
• Software Estimation
• Transaction Processing
• Object Oriented Design
• Pmp
• QA Automation
• Leadership
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Technology Management
• Distributed Systems
• Testing
• Continuous Improvement
• Offshore Software Development
• Software Design
• Strategic Planning
• Test Management
• Integration
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Strategy
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• Process Improvement
• Unix
• Turnaround Experience
• Product Road Mapping
• Cloud Computing
• High Performance Teams
• Sdlc
• Game Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Engineering
• Program Management
• System Architecture