Veerendra Jangala

About Veerendra Jangala

Senior Technical Program Manager with a 15-year history of translating strategic business goals into successful, large-scale technical outcomes. Consistently achieved project goals on time and within budget, notably by owning and driving a 3-year strategic roadmap for Google Enterprise Product services that successfully managed a budget exceeding $10 million. Led critical process transformation, increasing deployment frequency by 2.5x and reducing post-release incidents by 40% through the institution of a standardized release management process and improved CI/CD pipelines. Expert in risk mitigation and operational efficiency, proven by a successful, ahead-of-schedule migration of applications to automation, resulting in a 40% improvement in application stability. Demonstrated success in maximizing ROI and resource utilization, resulting in a documented reduction of over $5 million in company costsSpecialties: Program governance, Project Methodologies, Software size/cost estimation, Negotiation and Communication, Vendor Management, Release Management, Program Management Office, Handling cross functional teams and leadership.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Program Manager (End Client Google)

   Tech Mahindra

   Mar 2019 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Managed the development and launch of a new real-time intelligentdashboards for regular monitoring and for management insights.• Owned and drove the 2-year strategic roadmap for Google Enterprise Product services, Google Photos managing a total budget exceeding $10million and coordinating efforts across 6 geographically distributed Engineering/Testing/UX/Product Management teams.• Led the full-scale migration of critical applications from Manual to Automation 4 months ahead of schedule and improving overall application stability by 40%.• Instituted a standardized release management process for the entire Platform organization, increasing deployment frequency by 2.5x while simultaneously reducing post-release incidents by 40% throughimproved CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.• Created and presented monthly executive-level program reviews to Director and C-suite stakeholders, providing transparency on program health, risk mitigation strategies, and critical trade-off decisions.• Architected and implemented custom Copycat testing framework (automation tool) that reduced overall testing time by 50% and achieved a 25% increase in test coverage and a significant reduction in regressions for Localization, UI.• Setup Configuration for Test Automation on Android, iOS for Google+, GMail, Chat, Google Groups projects.• Reduction of cost to company: Played a major role in identifying the key drivers for cost and worked with the management teams to align the teams properly with proper alignments and setup of the prioritiesand utilizing resources effectively thereby reducing the cost of more than 5 million dollars over the span of 3 years.• Developed comprehensive plans to manage changes in scope or requirements over the course of a project.

Education

• Andhra University

  BSc, Maths, Electronics, Computers

  1999 — 2002

• Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

  MBA, Information Technology

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Sql
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Testing
• Soa
• Javascript
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Java
• Unix
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Services
• Xml
• Software Project Management