SHANTANU SINHA
Staff Technical Program Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
Accomplished, committed, and creative Subject Matter Expert for Program delivery with more than 13+ years of success delivering IT projects 'on-time with improved productivity, performance, risk, and cost control. Expertise in Cloud security, cloud Infrastructure, Technical Program management, Process Automation, On-prem/legacy application migration to cloud, cloud security with exposure to Agile.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Technical Program Manager
Warner Bros Discovery
Hyderabad
03.2025 - Current
- Timely delivery of well-designed, well-scoped, high-quality software/features/migration that meets and exceeds stakeholders expectations. Migrate around around 25M+ users and two regions and their auth, profiles and consents.
- Creating milestones, analyse technical designs, manage risks, triage bugs, review metrics and data, secure commitments, spot edge cases, identifies and monitors risks, cross- team dependencies, and scope creeps. Tracking and reporting of delivery status against planned milestones and dates.
- Engagement with internal and external stakeholders, review metrics & data and monitor operations within the migration program. Extensive use of Databricks for analytics.
- Lead planning, execution and delivery of strategic & complex programs across multiple teams around the world.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalations management, anticipate and makes trade-offs.
- Solid understanding of software development methods like CI/CD, Agile scrum, Infrastructure, migration as a service.
- Shipped multiple strategic & complex projects with cross-team dependencies and used data to assess their impact.
Senior Technical Program Manager- Security
Opendoor
Hyderabad
11.2024 - 03.2025
- Build and lead strategic technical programs for the Security team.
- Prioritizing key technical initiatives and features to enforce security and data privacy policies.
- Partnering with Engineering to educate the organization on the security risks of their design and implementation.
- Drawing key insights from data analysis and synthesize summaries in order to make recommendations.
- Managing diverse relationships with Engineering, Product, and Operations stakeholders to execute on operational recommendations.
- Driving cross-team initiatives to bolster Opendoor's overall security posture.
- Leading quarterly and annual planning for the Security Engineering team.
- Vulnerability management and compliance like SOX, SOC2, NIST and CIS benchmarks.
Staff Technical Program Manager
Okta
Bengaluru
08.2024 - 10.2024
- Structure, kick-off, and run security & compliance initiatives within the Engineering organization by clarifying goals, aligning on priorities, enabling and ensuring the execution of deliverables, defining program process flows, and providing continuous transparency.
- Project manage security initiatives within and beyond Engineering, across multiple teams; taking a hands-on and proactive approach to unblock progress.
- Introduce efficiencies, and provide workflow solutions.
- Contribute to the introduction of new processes / workflows in support of our security initiatives, by bringing proposed solutions to the teams and rolling them out in an iterative manner.
- Anticipate and mitigate risks - by having close involvement with teams' goals and challenges, applying past experience, and keeping in mind the big picture.
- Experience collaborating with and influencing the leadership team in situations without authority and with ambiguity.
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
Technical Program Manager
CyberArk
Hyderabad
08.2022 - 08.2024
- Communication: Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks, and change control by using analytical data and PM tool. Scrum ceremonies to eliminate any issues.
- Cross projects: Manage multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity, risks, and scope.
- Security: Successfully rolled out NGINX into production which added security and evenly distribution of events.
- Resiliency: Integrated Grafana and Datadog across Identity for better monitoring and alerts.
- Infrastructure: Moved many services to server less. Worked on improving the infra performance by step-up autoscaling, RDS proxy and Data Center.
- Compliance: Yearly SOC2 audit, DR exercise and third party tool review.
- Cost optimization: Optimized Opensearch logs and added lifecycle which saved yearly around 500k USD.
- Release: Worked on release cycle and created process for flag changes.
- Automation: Automated QA work by creating a Jenkins pipeline which saved the time from 2 hours to 10 mins. Automated DC creation process which saved the time from 5 days to 1 day.
Product Manager
NASDAQ
Bengaluru
05.2018 - 08.2022
- Successfully migrated Nasdaq Cloud Data Products and On-prem web products to Nasdaq Data Link which enables customers to consume data by APIs.
- Identifying gap in Data QA and Alerts, risk analysis, and led build of features across engineering and design, which reduced a lot of manual efforts internally and streamlined the process across team.
- Led the development of a new Autonode/Data Fabric product to enable customers to self-create a product and sell them through our Data Link Platform.
- Agile practices for new product development, product enhancement and migration to the new environment (Cloud).
- Leading the end-to-end sprint/product delivery including sprint planning, implementation, risk assessment, resource allocation, costing and effort estimation.
- Building the Data Flow diagram, troubleshooting, SOP, Specification, FAQ's, Process flow documents, SLA, User stories, use case diagram, Functional Documentation which helps the clients and team during to new product development, product migration and handling client queries.
- Application/Product direct support to the customers/stakeholders in case of functional and technical issues.
- Regular calls with high end customers to understand the issue and suggestions related to product/applications.
Product & Program Lead
Karnataka Bank, Data Centre
Bengaluru
02.2014 - 05.2018
- Developed an Online Loan Portal for Karnataka Bank which increased the Retail Loan leads by 40%.
- Implemented and Lead agile project (2FA) for bank staff which decreased the workaround time and cost by 20%.
- Migration of applications into Cloud Infrastructure which directly increased efficiency.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology - Information Technology
GITAM
Bhubaneshwar, Telangana06.2012
Skills
Cloud security
Cloud Infrastructure
Program management
Process Automation
On-prem/legacy application/platform migration to cloud
Databricks
JIRA
Data Analytics
Incident management
ScrumMaster
Product Design
Kubernetes
Power BI
Identity security
Agile Project Management
Product Backlog to User stories
Sprint Planning/Review/Retrospective/Refinement
Smartsheet
Confluence
LucidChart
Grafana
Kafka
Asana
Figma
MIRO
Splunk
Datadog
Jenkins
SOX
SOC2
Locations
- Hyderabad, Telangana
Timeline
Staff Technical Program Manager
Warner Bros Discovery
03.2025 - Current
Senior Technical Program Manager- Security
Opendoor
11.2024 - 03.2025
Staff Technical Program Manager
Okta
08.2024 - 10.2024
Technical Program Manager
CyberArk
08.2022 - 08.2024
Product Manager
NASDAQ
05.2018 - 08.2022
Product & Program Lead
Karnataka Bank, Data Centre
02.2014 - 05.2018
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology - Information Technology
GITAM