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Design Operations

Content Design

Platform Product Management

Back-end

AI/ML Engineering

Development Operations

Architectural Engineering

Data Engineering

Creative writing

Technical writing

Content Creation

Business Transformation

AI Design

Generative AI

AI Product Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bharathiyar University

Govindh Varadharajan

CTO / Distinguished Architect Leader 

Instagram

NextGen Leaders

Newsletter writing

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

AI/ML

Blog writing

Brand strategy

Conversational AI

Design systems

Information architecture

Docker

Java

JavaScript

Jira

Confluence

Amplitude

Apache Spark

REST API

HTML

JOIN

Python

Mural

Angular

Time management

Team player

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Project management

Analytical skills

Content editing

Content creation

Deal strategy

Mathematics

Video editing

Sales plan and process

Relationship management

Partnership

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

• Responsible for deploying AI-infused automation solutions for enterprise customers across Retail, Finance, and Healthcare industries.
• Led the end-to-end implementation of scalable automation frameworks, driving operational efficiency and innovation.
• Partnered with stakeholders to design and deliver solutions that integrated AI-driven technologies with existing enterprise systems, optimizing processes and enhancing business outcomes.
•  Played a pivotal role in accelerating digital transformation and enabling cost-effective, future-ready operations for diverse organizations.

Strategic Technology Leadership | Digital Transformation | Innovation
•	Partnered with C-suite executives to address complex business challenges and define enterprise-level strategies.
•	Conducted comprehensive business framing and technical discovery workshops to align technology initiatives with organizational goals.
•	Delivered tailored strategies to over 20 enterprise customers across Retail, Finance, and Healthcare industries.
•	Strategized and implemented generative AI and hybrid cloud solutions, achieving:
o	30% cost savings through process optimization and technology adoption.
o	Significant TCO reduction via innovative automation and operational efficiency.
•	Increased revenue streams with a 60% cross-sell success rate and 50% upsell success, aligning solutions to evolving customer needs.
•	Directed the implementation of 20+ large-scale deployments, including hybrid cloud and AI technologies.
•	Led complex, high-impact business initiatives to successful delivery within tight timelines and budgets.
•	Spearheaded cross-functional workshops, fostering stakeholder alignment and actionable outcomes.
•	Championed digital transformation by leveraging cutting-edge technologies, creating innovation roadmaps, and driving long-term partnerships.
•	Demonstrated visionary leadership, aligning emerging technology trends with strategic business goals to drive sustainable growth.

• Architected Hybrid Red Hat OpenShift Solutions with Cloud Pak for Data, Security, Business Automation, and Integration for US National Vertical at IBM.
• Transformed customer cloud journey to Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud with Red Hat OpenShift platform.
• Drove business value and technology outcomes with C&CS Growth Offerings, guiding customer IT executives through unlocking full value of hybrid cloud.

•	Working for one of the most sensitive and high volume customer facing applications for one of the Top 5 banks in the world.
•	Architected, Designed and delivered customer facing financial applications. Managed a team of developers both onshore and offshore to deliver the same. 
•	Working as performance engineering liaison between application development team and performance testing team. Involving in analyzing the requirement, design, code and operations implementation of application in terms of performance impact. Risk analyzing on application stack. 
•	Review and analyze the Cloud deployment strategies of micro service applications running pivotal cloud environment running in different regions and pools. 
•	Configuring and running applications in containerized platforms like Kubernetes(K8S) and Docker container.

•  Designed and established an internal tool for AT&T leadership to measure performance of an enterprise application that pulls around 20K transaction info for 5 layers within 10 milliseconds. 
•  Streamlined and implemented Audit logging framework for E-Strategy enterprise application that has UI, Spring, OSGI, Service Layer and 5 External System modules.
•  Customized and implemented CXF-Interceptor for logging request and response XMLs of E-Strategy application that connects with more than 5 external systems over web service layer using JAX-WS and JAX-RS.

•  Suggested and implemented an alternate approach while implementing U-Verse Business Voice project that saved 10K hours to AT&T business.
•  Created and established a new flexible ATG e-commerce pattern while redesigning a B2B application.
•  Architected and led the implementation of redesigning 30+ wire-line flows covering 75 pages to seamlessly integrate the Business Layer developed in ATG with the CMS layer of the application, using ATG RESTFUL services.
•  Managed and delivered End-To-End ATG commerce projects worth 145K hours of work and managing anywhere between 10-27 resources at a given point in time with an average of 25% junior resources.
•  Upgraded the B2B application's ATG version from ATG-10.0.3 to ATG-10.2
•  Streamlined Daily Content Push process which helped team to close nearly 50 tickets in 3 months.
•  As an ATG E-commerce SME, involved in more than 5 RFPs.

•  Upgraded an e-commerce application from ATG9.1 to ATG9.4 and weblogic10.0.1 to weblogic10.3.2.
•  Created mock webservices for nearly 20 APIs to support the application during webservice downtime. 
•  Created and established Software Quality Assurance process that streamlined all project deliverable.

•  Worked on retiring around 40 Solaris-420 servers and upgraded the SOA applications to AIX servers. 
•  Integrated Java client with shell script to test the MQ Queue configurations.

•  Created webservices to connect with Equifax for validating customers’ credit score for AT&T.
•  Integrated telecom inventory management tool, CRAMER along with the STURTS framework.

•  Studied the manual systems followed in the concerns.
•  Conducted the requirement study.
•  Designed and developed the Custom Business Applications.
•  Prepared the flow chart and Entity Relationship diagram.
•  Designed and developed the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) for HRMS (Human Resource Management System) and HMS (Hospital Management System).
•  Created the application for automating mechanical industry.
•  Worked for various clients like, Hospitals and Mechanical industries.

Karthikeyan J

Senior Consultant 

Manimaran Sarangan

Moatasem Elshawadfy

Full Stack Web Developer

Sankalp Mehra

Enterprise Architecture

Yaswanth Kotipalli

New Grad

Nicholas Onafuye

Software Developer

Mentorship Session

In this engaging mentorship session, you will develop the skills and confidence necessary to navigate the complexities of job interviews with ease. Our focus will be on mastering challenging questions while showcasing your unique expertise in Engineering, Product, and Design. Through interactive mock interviews, you will have the opportunity to practice your responses in a supportive environment. Constructive and personalized feedback will empower you to refine your approach and enhance your communication style. We will also explore effective interview techniques that resonate with today’s hiring landscape, ensuring you stand out as a top candidate. Join us to transform your interview experience and take a significant step toward securing your dream position.

Conquering Job Interviews

Embark on a transformative journey through this mentorship series designed to help you construct a comprehensive career roadmap that resonates with your personal goals and aspirations. We will delve into essential discussions that focus on identifying your unique skill gaps and uncovering potential career paths in Engineering, Product, and Design. By leveraging the mentor's strengths and expertise, you will gain valuable insights that empower you to make informed decisions. Our collaborative approach aims to support your long-term success and equip you with the necessary tools to navigate your career effectively. Together, we will lay a solid foundation for a fulfilling career journey that aligns with your vision and maximizes your potential. Join us to turn your aspirations into actionable steps and discover the possibilities that await you in your professional life.

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