Bhanu Prakash Kavuturu

Technical Program Manager, Amazon Development Centre

Address Hyderabad, TS, 500050

Phone 988-529-6204
E-mail prakash204@gmail.com

~12 yrs of industry experience with hands-on experience on program management in a fast-paced environment
taking the product through its complete life cycle.
Proven track record in delivering scalable and robust systems across large cross-functional projects.
Delivery owner of critical business initiatives and managing all aspects of the project such as project planning,
requirements definition, risk management, communication, and implementation planning.
Proven record in working cross-functionally with engineering, product, operations, legal, and design teams to
build, release, and promote new features
Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature
requests, recommending the alternative technical and business approaches
Leading the engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with developers, business owners, and senior business leaders.
Experience with agile project management tools like SIM and JIRA.
Proven record in building the roadmap with priorities, software design changes, and operational excellence
improvements.

Work History
2021-01 - Current Technical Program Manager, Amazon
Payment Products
Leading the Installment Lending charter in EU Payments org.
Delivering multi-year initiatives in Payments organizations in Europe
Programs typically spanned ~10 internal to Amazon & 3+ external to Amazon,
geographically distributed teams across technology, business, legal, compliance,
Finance, Accounting and operations.
Launched discount and zero interest offers in FR and other EU geographies.
Working with product leadership to define product strategy, success metrics for project
launch, and detailed requirements analysis.
Led cross-functional development teams through design, delivery, post launch
monitoring and support of large programs.
Responsible for driving the priorities and quarterly and yearly roadmaps for the
engineering team and partners teams.
Owning the continues status updates to higher management up to directors and VPs
Providing the architectural guidance and direction throughout the project life cycle.

2017-09 - 2021-01 Technical Program Manager, Amazon

Tax identity Management System
 Delivery owner for worldwide tax compliant identity management programs.
Leading the effort for externalizing the tax product outside of Amazon.
Onboarded of 30+ internal amazon businesses to tax platform.
Expanded tax product to 30 geographies in 2 quarters within Amazon.
Led the team to timely delivery by identifying the risks, implementing mitigations and
unblocking the cross functional team blockers.
Delivered multiple tools to ease the process of onboarding
Introduced agile way of working and operationalised quarterly backlog grooming and
prioritisation processes

2013-09 - 2017-08 Support Engineer, Amazon

Data Warehouse
Led the team of 4 support engineers.
Owned the system that delivers 1420+ ETL jobs and reports every day.
Developed 50+ extract, transform and load jobs to deliver T1C reports
Experienced in troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.
Well rounded experience with monitoring systems, dashboards
Strong understanding of support processes – SLA, handling tickets, monitoring,
processes and metrics
Developed tools to aid operations and maintenance
Provided support for incoming tickets, including extensive troubleshooting tasks, with
responsibilities covering multiple products, features and services

2009-09 - 2013-09 Support Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services

integrated Reconciliation System
Leading the project Development activities.
Mentor the team on technology concepts.
Code Review to ensure defect-free solution.
Database and architecture design for new developments.
Design & Development of a highly configurable and user-friendly reporting and
reconciliation tool using Java, Servlets, iReport tool and based on MVC architecture
Preparing System test cases, System Testing and UAT Support

Skills
Program Management
Stakeholder Management
Cross functional teams Management
Risks identification and Mitigation
Strategic roadmap planning
Shell Scripting
Python
SQL
Education
2003-06 - 2007-04 B.Tech: Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Vidyajyothi Institute of Technology
GPA: 7.0

2007-01 - 2009-05 M.S: Information Technology with e-Commerce

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - GDPA
GPA: 7.2