Jagadeesh Kona

kona.jagadeesh@gmail.com
☎: (+91)8971270424
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Professional Summary

Result-oriented technology leader having 19+ years of experience with exceptional leadership skills,
experienced in managing large scale retail projects.

 Driving the team’s delivery strategy, set project goals, and take initiatives from initiation through to
delivery; by operating Agile methodologies.

 Maintained the architectural quality attributes like scalability, extensibility, performance, and ensured
high availability, reliability of distributed components.

 Skilled in developing high-volume and low-latency applications in cloud environments; exposure to

continuous integration, continuous deployment, test driven development, and micro services.

Work Experience
 Working as Senior Engineering Manager in Shiprocket Omuni Limited, from Mar 2023 to till date,
Bengaluru.

 Worked as Technical Program Manager in Ninjacart, from Sep 2022 to Feb 2023, Bengaluru.

 Worked as Engineering Manager in Target Corporation India, from Sep 2006 to till Sep 2022,
Bengaluru.

 Worked as Software Engineer in IBM India Pvt Ltd, from May 2004 to Aug 2006, Bangalore.

Key Strengths and Competencies Include

 Product Development

 Technical Leadership

 Agile Methodologies

 Talent Management

Technical Proficiency

 Technology: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Microservices, Spring JPA, Restful service, React Js, Kafka,
Camel, Spock, AWS

 Databases: Postgres, DB2

 DevOps tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Drone, Git, Vela

 Monitoring tools: Kibana, Graphana

 Agile tools: Jira, Confluence

Education Qualification

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  Masters in computer science with Distinction from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, A.P, in
2002.

Work Experience Details

Shiprocket Omuni Limited, Bengaluru, Mar 2023 – till date
Senior Engineering Manager

 End-to-End ownership in product delivery of Cloud & .One Pods; Ensuring the planning & on-time
execution of the quarterly roadmap items, by aligning with Release process.

 Tracking the Pod metrics (Strike Rate & Live Rate (> 90%), QA recycles (<= 1) ) and ensuring the
product delivery with high quality.

 Prioritize application maintenance activities with Sprint cycle; To bring in more efficiencies &
improving the performance of the existing systems.

 Managing the engineering team (14 Dev/QA engineers); efficient staffing, team member individual
development and performance management.

Ninjacart, Bengaluru, Sep 2022 - Feb 2023

Technical Program Manager

 End-to-End program execution for Agri products (Retailer, Agrinet, Domestic Commerce, User
Growth); Setting up the processes to bring in streamlined engineering practices & release
management activities.

Target Corporation India, Bengaluru, Sep 2006 – Sep 2022

Engineering Manager

 Working with the Engineering teams and Product Management organizations to set up the product
roadmap and communicate the plan/progress with Sr. leadership.

 Designed and developed partner profile API using spring REST Controller and implemented
authentication with Spring OAuth2; to cater partner metadata for EDI Next inbound/outbound
publishers.

 Have performed database migrations from DB2 to Postgres. Re-designed the envelop processes from
legacy & developed Java Spring boot micro service to cater the enveloping process functionality for
edi distributed applications.

 Developed CI/CD build pipelines (drone, docker, kubernetes) to bring in seamless deployment
experience for EDI/Stores applications. As well, developed functional test cases of the applications
and integrated part of automated build pipelines, using Spock framework.

 Experienced in driving a Scrum team to manage through stories, backlogs and configuring
package/building the product within specifications or requirements, while adhering to quality
architectural and security standards.

 Implemented the Enterprise Release management practice with complete product ownership for
introducing Test environment management of large and complex systems spanning multiple Retail
Portfolios.

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  Developed and supported critical modules for Retail (Finance & Merchandising) applications in
Mainframe technologies; responsible for monitoring batch-cycles, resolve batch-failures and ensured
critical-path are completed within SLA.

IBM India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, May 2004 - Aug 2006

Software Engineer

 Played a key role in developing & supporting health care applications, took part in end-to-end testing,
Job scheduling & monitoring, production implementations.

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