Vipul Patel

About Vipul Patel

With over two decades of management leadership in multinational software engineering teams across diverse sectors—Renewable Energy, Gaming, Defence, Telecom, and Supply Chain—I have played a pivotal role in organizational development, change management, and strategic thought leadership. My experience encompasses building organizations from the ground up, fostering operational excellence, innovation, and talent development. Key Accomplishments: Organizational Leadership: Spearheaded the establishment and growth of organizations, focusing on operational excellence, innovation, and talent development. Strategic Planning and Execution: Successfully led strategic planning and team-building efforts, delivering complex software projects globally, including product development, custom applications, and implementation with geographically distributed teams. Agile Transformation: Led Agile Transformations in multiple organizations, aligning company goals with effective delivery and enhancing team velocity. Education and Certification: Holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and is a Certified Scrum Master, blending technical expertise with managerial acumen. Digital Transformation and SDLC Expertise: Proficient in Digital Transformation and Data Analytics, with expertise spanning the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Strategic Direction and Governance: Sets direction and strategy for the Software department, overseeing the refinement and development of governance structures. Project Management Excellence: Forward-focused Project Manager skilled in Multithreading Project Management activities, including project scoping, planning, estimation, risk management, and quality management. Performance Monitoring and Tracking: Proficient in Performance Monitoring & Tracking using JIRA, coupled with skills in budgeting and report generation. Client Relationship Management: Skilled in managing client relationships, collaborating for strategic objectives, implementing management controls, and facilitating necessary process changes. End-to-End Development Expertise: Successfully manages end-to-end development of products/projects with cross-cultural teams, from inception to closure. Innovation and People Development: A quick thinker and innovative professional with a natural ability to deliver under constraints. Goes beyond direct responsibilities, championing people development and training initiatives. Seasoned leader with a holistic skill set, blending technical prowess, strategic vision, and effective people management to drive organizational success.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Electrum

   Jul 2020 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Scope of Work- Aligning key process across engineering teams, encouraging ownership through Continuous Improvement- Introducing DORA and other key development metrics to engineering teams, driving data driven conversations within teams- Engineering Management across core development teams, entailing people management and career progression as well as delivery and stakeholder management- Management processes: Recruitment of Engineering Leadership, Developers and QAs; performance management; compensation- Enabling stable delivery through oversight of our release processes in pursuit of continuous delivery- Critical Path analysis for major feature work across multiple engineering teams- Delivery and capacity management for major payments project;Achievements- Championed Quality within the engineering teams, enabling faster feedback for more predictable delivery of software- Delivered EV charging project, B2B product to the production- Turned around engineering team to 50% improvement, through a combination of people management, process improvement and focus- Reworked internal tooling to provide efficient and transparent work management and reporting- Doubled Electrum\'s core engineering team before dividing into separate squads- Established an engineering culture built on empowerment, giving space to engineers to own their process, and own their work;

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, Computer Science & Information Technology

  1999 — 2003

• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

  Business Administration and Management, General

  2017 — 2018