Pradeep Sodhi

About Pradeep Sodhi

Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience leading engineering teams across Android, iOS, PWA, and Backend. Proven ability to scale teams, improve delivery velocity, and drive platform stability. Strong in aligning engineering execution with business goals through people-first leadership. Engineering Leadership: Hiring & onboarding, performance management, mentoring Delivery & Execution: OKRs, roadmap planning, agile delivery, release governance Operational Excellence: App stability, performance optimization, incident management Stakeholder Management: Product, Design, QA, Backend, Program Management

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited

   Dec 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Product: ZEE5 (Large-scale OTT platform)• Lead a 20+ member org across Android, iOS, PWA, and Backend supporting a multi-million-install OTT platform across India and international markets.• Own end-to-end mobile delivery for subscription acquisition, retention, and playback journeys; partner with Product and Business on quarterly OKRs and execution plans.• Improved release predictability and team throughput by ~20% by standardizing sprint planning, dependency tracking, and cross-platform release governance.• Reduced time-to-market by ~10% for critical initiatives through backlog hygiene, parallel execution, and CI/CD maturity.• Drove platform stability programs (crash reduction, regression control, staged rollouts), improving app reliability quarter-over-quarter and supporting sustained growth in paid users and watch-time.• Established CI/CD pipelines, release checklists, and rollback processes, reducing production incidents and failed releases, and lowering post-release escalations.• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers through structured 1:1s, quarterly reviews, promotion planning, and continuous feedback; scaled org while maintaining healthy attrition and strong engagement.• Mentored senior engineers and tech leads into broader technical and people leadership roles, increasing team autonomy and decision quality.• Act as the primary engineering interface for Product, Design, QA, Backend, Marketing, and Program stakeholders, aligning execution with business priorities and delivery commitments.

Education

• CCS (Chaudhary Charan Singh)University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry

  2004 — 2007

• Punjab Technical University

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Programming, Specific Applications

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• Test Driven Development
• Apis
• Facebook Api
• Html
• Android
• J2me
• Json
• Css
• Mobile Technology
• Android Development
• Software Development
• Xml
• Java
• Team Management
• Html5
• Sqlite
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Development
• C++
• Javascript
• Mobileapplications
• Visual Basic
• Oop
• C
• Programming
• Mobile Devices
• Corejava
• Jquery
• Android Sdk
• Eclipse
• Web Services
• Blackberry
• Mobile Applications
• Core Java
• Mysql
• Sql