Santosh Nikam

About Santosh Nikam

Certified PMI PMP®, PMI-ACP®, Certified SAFe® 5.1 Agilist. Certified Scrum Master (CSM®)- Engineering experience in high volume & low latency transaction processing systems (authentication of card not present ecommerce transactions)- Comprehensive understanding of Project Management Life Cycle (Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Support, etc)- Knowledge of different Architectural styles - Microservices, Event Driven, MVC, Layered, Monolithic, Service-Oriented- Knowledge of engineering principles for building and running mission critical software solutions (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification)- People leader experience of managing, mentoring, and growing engineers on the team- Technical experience in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Rest APIs.NET, C#, SQL, Oracle, Redis, PCF, Azure, Axon, NiFi, Power BI, Power Automate, Telerik Controls, HTML, Bootstrap, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, XML, etc- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, XL Release, Sonar, Checkmarx) for build, code scanning, test, & deploy- Experience in building platforms with Microservices, Rest APIs, & Event Driven systems (Apache Kafka).Strengths- Well organized- Focused & structured thinking- Detail orientated & thorough in analysis- Communication of thoughts clearly & in unambiguous terms- Disciplined, result oriented, team oriented, & dedicated to the success of projects- Proactive learner, ability to adapt to changes to new technology.

Experience

1. Manager Software Engineering, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions

   Mastercard

   Jul 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

   Collaborating with product management, other engineering teams, other engineering managers, and service leaders to drive department-wide objectives and build-deploy iterative solutions- Program Management: Supervising & coaching scrum teams from conceptualization to implementation of a new product / features, Promoting engineering best practices, PI planning, Release planning, Improving team’s performance, Keeping track of projects & issues and providing visibility to senior leadership- People Management: Setting expectations and goals for individual staff members, Having 1:1s & providing feedback, Hiring diverse talent & team development, Team building, Manage – mentor - grow & retain engineers on the team, Conducting monthly staff meetings, Mid-year & year end performance reviews & appraisals- Process Improvement: Continuously looking for opportunities & taking them to closure, Encouraging team members\' participation- Initiatives: Maintain plans & detailed trackers, Collaborating with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies, Ensuring different touch-base calls & tracking progress, Contributed end to end in successful closure of following initiatives: India Lift & Shift, Global Decom, Full Tomcat Migration, Crypto Vault to Hashicorp migration, Setting up VM based app in Cloud PCF, Doubling capacity, Supporting PCI & RBI audits.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science - MS

  2008 — 2010

• Sainik School Satara - India

  HSC

  1994 — 1995

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  MCS

  1998 — 2000

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BCS

  1995 — 1998

• Sainik School Satara - India

  SSC

  1992 — 1993