Shekhar Chikkireddy

About Shekhar Chikkireddy

Global PreSales leadership Professional with over 25 Years of strong Techno-Functional experience in the Software Product Engineering Services Industry with proven expertise in Technology enablement, PreSales, Proposals, Pursuits, Bid Management, Business Development, Digital Technologies including Cloud, Data and AI enabled solutioning, Client Engagement, Professional Training and Mentoring. Currently associated with Simform as Director of PreSales, I focus on advancing strategic PreSales initiatives, proposal development with client-centric product engineering solutions using Digital technologies, contributing to Simform’s accelerated growth. Previously served as Global Head of PreSales at Encora (now acquired by Coforge), spearheading large strategic deals and pursuits across all Business Units and Geographies in 20 countries that Encora operated globally. Earlier served as Vice President at Altudo, a Bespoke Customer Experience, Digital and Marketing Technology Company, spearheading PreSales and Digital Solutions Engineering. Tenured with iGate & Capgemini as Director of PreSales for Digital Customer Experience CoE, anchoring Proposals, RFX, Bids and Client acquisitions across a plethora of Digital Technologies, Industry Verticals and Geographical regions. Co-founded and setup two technology Start-up companies including a Product Development Firm that built an end-to-end Platform for Real Estate Appraisals to fuel the US Mortgage industry and a BPM Pega boutique Consulting partner later acquired by NIIT Technologies and rebranded as Coforge. Professional spell in the US as a Systems Analyst and Software Developer with large companies such as Accenture, Fujitsu Consulting, Bell South and Verizon on enterprise wide application development projects. Formative Career stint as a Professional Trainer on Software Engineering using Microsoft Technology Stack, Unix Internals and Data Engineering Tools with Microland and NIIT Technologies.My Specialties include: PreSales Thought Leadership, Proposals & RFX response Development, Bid Management, Large Deals, Technical Solutioning, Consulting, Content and Collateral Development, Technical Writing, Blogging, Market Intelligence, Client Services, Account Management, Project Management, Product Engineering, Software Testing, Integration, People Management, Team Building, Operations, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Partnerships, Human Capital Development, Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Professional Training, Mentoring and Coaching.

Experience

1. Director of Presales

   Simform

   Oct 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

  Executive Leadership Program, Advanced Corporate Strategic Management ( ACSM )

• Osmania University

  Bachelor of Science - BS

• Indian Academy of Training & Development

  Master’s Diploma

• Indian Institute of Management, Indore

  Certificate, Digital Transformation with AI for Leaders

• ICFAI Business School

  MBA, Executive Program

• Rashtriya Military School - Bengaluru

  10th Grade

Skills

• Training
• Rfp Review
• Agile Methodologies
• IT Operations
• Sdlc
• Social Media
• Strategy
• Software Project Management
• Blogging
• Case Study Development
• Project Management
• Account Management
• Technical Recruiting
• Bid Management
• Project Estimation
• Software Development
• Business Development
• Content Management
• Outsourcing
• Recruiting
• Pre-Sales
• Mobile Applications
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Microsoft Sql Server
• .net
• Resource Management
• Team Management
• Human Resource Development