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Rajesh U

Principal Software Engineering Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

A seasoned leader in software engineering with 19 years of Software Product development experience, I'm spearheading a team at Microsoft, enhancing Data Protection solutions and have an excellent track record of delivering customer centric features. With expertise in Cloud Native Distributed Systems and team management, my strategic vision and agile development prowess have consistently driven project success and innovation.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft
06.2021 - Current
  • Manage and lead a Full Stack development team of 13+ people to deliver outstanding Data Protection & Compliance solutions to Microsoft Customers under the Microsoft Purview Portfolio.
  • Responsible for Engineering leadership, People Management, Stakeholder Management and Project Management
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define clear project objectives, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
  • Led cross-functional teams for successful product launches and system integrations, resulting in increased efficiency and customer satisfaction.
  • Implemented rigorous quality control measures, significantly reducing defect rates and improving overall product reliability.
  • Presented progress updates to executive leadership regularly, facilitating informed decision-making on strategic initiatives.
  • As COGS champion, I ensure cost of running services are optimal and execute platform modernization efforts to streamline costs.
  • Responsible for recruitment, negotiating contracts with vendors and suppliers to keep people costs within set budgets.

Vice President

Morgan Stanley
10.2018 - 05.2021
  • Senior Software Development Manager for state of art Analytics Engine powering Morgan Stanley Access Investing (Robo Adviser) and Financial Planning platforms.
  • Managed a Full Stack team that works on Wealth Strategies Analysis product used by Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Advisors. The product simulates Blue Sky Optimization, Constraint based Optimization and also models Private Equity return projections thus optimizing when capital is called using State of the art Algorithms.
  • Designed and enhanced industry leading Wealth management platform which uses Monte Carlo simulations based Analytics Engine that is capable of performing 10,000 portfolio simulations involving about 64 million calculations in sub seconds.
  • Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.

Senior System Specialist

GE Healthcare
02.2016 - 07.2018

• Designed and developed the User Interface and major software components of MAC VU360™, an Electro Cardiogram (ECG) machine, This product was designed as a platform from ground up to power the next generation Resting ECG Portfolio device family for GE Healthcare.
• The state of art user interface was built using latest web technologies to ensure a scalable, adaptive and accessible user interface powering ECG devices that caters to multiple segments and form factors.
• The architecture choices ensured 80% software reuse and contributed to significant cost reduction.
MAC VU360™ is the highest grossing ECG device for GE Healthcare in 2019 and 2020.

Senior Manager

Morgan Stanley
11.2014 - 01.2016

• Responsible for two key projects - Next generation Internet Platform (NGIP) and Enterprise Stack adoption (ESA)
• Technical lead and key developer for Morgan Stanley Online Internal Simulation module.
• Technical owner and lead developer of Morgan Stanley Online - Shell - Application hosting module for passenger apps.

Associate Technical Delivery Manager

Accolite
11.2013 - 10.2014
  • Worked for British Telecom (BT) on the Order Management and Tracking software.
  • Designed and developed the next generation Order management Timeline based User Interface.

Senior Software Development Engineer

McAfee Inc.
10.2010 - 10.2013

• Lead developer for Single Page checkout project for McAfee consumer Digital Platform. This project lead to 40% reduction in consumer purchase drop rates.
• Designed and developed McAfee Online Home Screen, Dashboard and Notification experience for multi device products
• Designed and developed features such as Lock, Locate and data wipe capabilities for all McAfee Mobile Antivirus products

Engineering Analyst

Dell
03.2009 - 09.2010

• Developed critical application features such as device bandwidth management, Anti virus and Software Inventory management for Distributed Device Manager (DDM) - a integrated, hosted client-systems management solution that enables IT administrators to track dispersed assets, distribute software, manage patches and enforce IT policies from a central location
• Key developer and technical lead of the DDM Software development team.

Senior Development Engineer

Aditi Technologies
08.2007 - 02.2009

• Lead developer for InfoSpace Portal Platform - a widget based portal that can customize the look and feel and design for Internet Service providers in US and Canada. Major clients - Telus, Verizon and Windstream.
• Built custom dynamic HTML based light weight widgets that can be added or removed from the portal home dashboard.

Software Engineer

Tesco
07.2005 - 07.2007

• Developed KPI (Key Performance Indicators) app which was widely used in about 1000 Tesco stores in UK.
• Key team member of Tesco’s Automatic One In Front initiative program which aims to reduce customer wait time at the Stores.
• Developed the next generation Human resources and Attendance Management Platform that was widely used in all Tesco Super Stores.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

The National Institute Of Engineering
Mysore, Karnataka
09.2001 - 06.2005

Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science And Machine Learning

International Institute Of Information Technology
Bangalore, Karnataka
03.2017 - 03.2018

Advanced Certification in Software Engineering - Software Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chennai, India
08.2022 - 09.2023

Skills

Software Architecture

Cloud Native Web application development

Distributed Systems

NET, C#

JavaScript, Nodejs

Angular, React, Vue

HTML5, CSS3

Agile Software development

Team management

Career guidance and Coaching

Stakeholder Management

Machine learning

Docker, Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms - Azure, AWS

LLMs - GPT, Claude

Scala, Spark

NoSQL DBs - Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB

Relational DBs - SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Interests

Reading, Value Investing, Startups, Soccer, Cycling and Badminton

Timeline

Advanced Certification in Software Engineering - Software Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
08.2022 - 09.2023

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft
06.2021 - Current

Vice President

Morgan Stanley
10.2018 - 05.2021

Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science And Machine Learning

International Institute Of Information Technology
03.2017 - 03.2018

Senior System Specialist

GE Healthcare
02.2016 - 07.2018

Senior Manager

Morgan Stanley
11.2014 - 01.2016

Associate Technical Delivery Manager

Accolite
11.2013 - 10.2014

Senior Software Development Engineer

McAfee Inc.
10.2010 - 10.2013

Engineering Analyst

Dell
03.2009 - 09.2010

Senior Development Engineer

Aditi Technologies
08.2007 - 02.2009

Software Engineer

Tesco
07.2005 - 07.2007

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

The National Institute Of Engineering
09.2001 - 06.2005
Rajesh UPrincipal Software Engineering Manager