Manoj Gundawar

About Manoj Gundawar

I am a software engineering leader with over 12 years of product/software delivery mgmt. experience using Java/J2EE, Cloud, and Big Data technologies as well as.Net (well versed) and Angular framework (well versed). Successfully shepherded team/s of 7-30 engineers (DevSecOPs teams) and built secure, high quality, on prem, hybrid and cloud hosted enterprise grade distributed, SaaS, SOA and Micro services based software solutions in record time. I am highly motivated, result driven, proactive, analytical with passion for technology, people, process improvement and problem solving. Key Expertise:• People Management: Manage/build (scrum) teams, hire new talents, mentor developers, manage performance reviews, and resolve conflicts. • Product/Services Development: Prepare product delivery plan, provide technical and design oversight, manage day to day progress and help resolve technical issues, plan product releases and post production/release support. • Operational Support: Operationalize products/services, prepare operational metrics for executive leadership, continuously improve product to improve performance, availability, reduce defects and support calls.• Technical leadership: Encourage and champion new technology and innovation. Provide high level technical solution to business opportunities. Help developers on day to day technical and design problems. Establish and enforce best SDLC practices (design, coding, test case reviews etc.)• Project management: Build project schedule, review estimates, monitor and track projects, manage project risks and dependencies.• DevSecOps advocate: I am a strong proponent of Cloud native, DevSecOps operational model. I motivated and supported my teams to own CICD pipeline, to build and own IaaC (Terraform/Ansible scripts) and adhere to GitOps and security best practices from the get-go (usage of security hardened images, encryption in transit and at rest, RBAC, etc.). • Lean Agile advocate: Continuously improve Scrum process, mentor scrum masters, empower and drive teams to create self-organized, self-managed teams. My overall experience includes different roles performed at various stages, such as programmer, technical lead, and delivery manager.

Experience

1. Director of Software Engineering

   Wowza

   Jan 2024 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

Education

• UC San Diego

  Hadoop Platform and Application Framework, Big Data

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Skills

• Software Development
• Scrum
• Software Project Management
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Design Patterns
• Software Engineering
• Business Process Improvement
• Weblogic
• Xml
• Sql
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Testing
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Saas
• Requirements Analysis
• Java
• Agile Project Management
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Jboss Application Server
• Integration