Vidyavachaspathi Kabbinale

A highly motivated, energetic, and committed leader who focuses on engineering delivery, successfully managed technical programs with operational excellence, new process development and automation, built customer loyalty, and delivered business outcomes. Proven ability in building high performing teams at start-ups & corporates, managed cross-functional geographically distributed large software development teams of 150 - 300 staff.

• 25+ years of experience in Technical Leadership, Program management and Customer Engineering roles.
• Experience Storage Technologies, Enterprise SSD Firmware Development, Cloud Gateway for AWS, GCP & Azure, Failure Analysis Debug Tools Development, End-To-End workflow / process Automation using associated tools.
• Experience as SWT-COE Product Owner / Business Partner Program Manager. Co-ordinated the end-to-end product deliverables and Gen5 infrastructure planning. Demonstrated expertise in adoption of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Sprint Planning and deliverables
• Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance.
• Expertise in managing key strategic initiatives from prototype to general availability, customer success, and end-of-life processes, working effectively with distributed teams around the globe.
• Successfully mitigated the risks and dependencies by ensuring effective collaboration with all the stakeholders.
• Expertise in managing multiple consecutive product releases for beta and general availability.
• Expertise in managing high performance teams which include product development, product testing, DevOps, business operations, and program management.
• Expertise in managing multiple projects & programs, program budgeting, program resources, and program risk with effective communication and reporting.
• Defined and implemented KPIs to measure productivity and process adherences.
• Expertise in developing reports and dashboards to track & monitor development, QA and release processes using easyBI and JIRA gadgets.
• Site level initiatives: Created IP Focus

• Executive MBA (General Management) – IIM Bangalore, India., 2010
• Master’s degree in Power Systems Engineering – National Institute of Technology (KREC), Surathkal, 1996
• Bachelor's degree in E & E Engineering - NMAM Institute of Technology Nitte, Mangalore University, 1994