Suresh Kavili

Director Engineering (AI products and Java Platform)

About Me

  • Having 23 years of balanced experience in management and technical areas with a highly adaptable leadership style, demonstrated the ability to develop resources as a mentor and coach, and a strong believer of teamwork and ethics.
  • Expertise in setting up the processes and contributing technically at all levels across program, project, and product management.
  • Expertise in establishing and leading strong governance practices for custom development and cloud environments (Java, Spring Boot Micro Services, DevOps, CI/CD, SAAS/Cloud Products, Low Code, No Code, Mobile Apps, API Driven, .Net, Python, Generative AI, Langchain, LLM's, Open AI, ChatBots, AI Agents, React JS, Azure Power Apps/Automate, AWS), and business intelligence.

Work Experience

Director Engineering
- Mantra Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • # Built Generative AI product called Kong.ai with chatbot and AI agent features.
  • # Integrated with OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Clude, Google Plam2, Meta Llama2.
  • # Provided technical designs to the team to integrate with LLM models, train the documents specific to the users and departments.
  • # Pinecone based embeddings are created for various data sources like web scraping, different file uploads.
  • # Chatbots are designed and created to respond to the local trained documents and other information provided.
  • # For extensive workflows used agent that works with different pre-defined nodes and REST APIs consumer.
  • # Integrated with tools that can be called dynamically through a prompt.
  • # Implemented review and approval mechanism to facilitate every agent is versioned and revision is maintained before publishing in to the market place.
  • # Calculated the token consumption and optimized the workflows to balance between manual intervention vs cost.
  • # Translated the requirements into technical designs and made the team to understand the requirements.
  • # Participating architecture reviews, designs, code reviews and performance tuning of the application layers.
  • # Recruiting, mentoring and retaining the highly skilled developers, forming a balanced self-organized and sustainable team by providing guidance during the design and development.
  • # Collaborating across the department to identify and utilize niche skills in shared mode along with timely ramp-up and ramp-down of the resources.
  • # Managing client and other stakeholders through timely and effective communication to build trust through quality deliverables which happens only through right understanding of the requirements.
Feb 2024 - May 2024
Technical Director
- Mavensoft Systems Pvt Ltd
  • # Complete ownership of delivering large and multiple small projects using SAFe agile methodology.
  • # Responsible for implementation of good project governance. Providing weekly/monthly dashboards on the projects progress.
  • # Follow all agile principles, collect metrics and continuous retrospect with YY theory.
  • # Optimizing productivity by enforcing strict Jira hygiene that brings transparency at all levels for an early action.
  • # Managed to resolve several impediments on functional and product understanding for the resources by that effective participation during Inspect & Adapt, Planning sessions.
  • # Provides technical leadership on complex topics involving a broad range of expertise including DevOps using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Java, Sql.
  • # Collecting various project metrics like code coverage, defect density, velocity, burn down charts, SOE and SRE's.
  • # Identifying and implementing the CI/CD pipelines for automated build and deployments, following TDD and BDD development approaches.
  • # Participating architecture reviews, designs, code reviews and performance tuning of the application layers.
  • # Recruiting, mentoring and retaining the highly skilled developers, forming a balanced self-organized and sustainable team by providing guidance during the design and development.
  • # Collaborating across the department to identify and utilize niche skills in shared mode along with timely ramp-up and ramp-down of the resources.
  • # Managing client and other stakeholders through timely and effective communication to build trust through quality deliverables which happens only through right understanding of the requirements.
Feb 2016 - Feb 2024
Sr. Technical Project Manager / Delivery Manager
- Incedo Technologies Private Ltd
  • # Complete ownership of Verizon account delivery which has 5 projects in it in ODM model, with a team of 80 members.
  • # Accountable for revenue management and optimization.
  • # Maintain the on time deliverables with required quality and do more with less by cross skilling the resources.
  • # Increase employee productivity and reduce the attrition in the team.
  • # Collaborate with clients and ensure the right requirement and timely help is extended to the dev team.
  • # Provides technical leadership on complex topics involving a broad range of expertise including DevOps using Git, Jenkins, Docker, Java, Sql.
  • # Collecting various project metrics like code coverage, defect density, velocity, burn down charts, SOE and SRE's.
  • # Identifying and implementing the CI/CD pipelines for automated build and deployments, following TDD and BDD development approaches.
  • # Participating architecture reviews, designs, code reviews and performance tuning of the application layers.
  • # Recruiting, mentoring and retaining the highly skilled developers, forming a balanced self-organized and sustainable team by providing guidance during the design and development.
  • # Collaborating across the department to identify and utilize niche skills in shared mode along with timely ramp-up and ramp-down of the resources.
  • # Managing client and other stakeholders through timely and effective communication to build trust through quality deliverables which happens only through right understanding of the requirements.
Nov 2022 - Jun 2023
Deputy General Manager
- Kaarvy Fintech Pvt Ltd
  • # Complete ownership of IT operations across multiple service and product lines serving Mutual funds and Insurance domains for Birla Soft Life Insurance, LIC, Canara Mutual Funds etc.
  • # Responsible for implementation of good project governance. Provides weekly/monthly dashboards on the projects progress.
  • # Ensure tight control over service delivery with high SLA and systems uptime, acceptable application performance. Projects executed well on time and with least defects. Efficient management of resources across both DC and DR sites with regular BCP drills.
  • # Launched several new products and versions with key focus on automation, reducing operational costs and addition of new revenue lines for the company.
  • # Managing leadership and development of IT team, built second line of managers, kept attrition to a manageable level and ensured high motivation and skill level of the team.
May 2018 - Oct 2019
Senior Development Manager
- Napier Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd
  • # Played a role of Sr. Development Manager handling a team of 140 members by keeping project managers and all key resources like Architects, DBA's and Build Team under my direct purview.
  • # Optimizing the productivity of the team by streamlining various functional groups interactions with better collaboration and responsibility.
  • # Changing all Team Leads and Project Leads roles as senior technical member roles to ensure they contribute hands on along with providing technical support to the other team members.
  • # Improved the development environment by minimizing the number of build failures and requirement gaps.
  • # Initiated daily scrum meetings with project managers to track the daily assignments, progress and challenges, also developed technical panels for better interviewing skills and onboarding of resources.
  • # Coaching the team on best practices like design, performance tuning and data sharing models.
  • # Providing bridge between SEPG and Engineering on simplifying, tailoring and implementing of processes.
  • # Baselined the database scripts and streamlined the 16 SVN repositories into 1 while still achieving the modularity.
  • # Created and automated a build process and hand over process to minimize the number of interactions for information exchange also initiated mandatory reviews, walkthroughs, demo's, weekly all stakeholders meetings.
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Delivery Manager
- Amphora Software Pvt. Ltd
  • # Developed and supported the Energy Trading and Risk Management platform including the functionality of Letter of Credits issued by Banks etc.
  • # Liaison between management team, clients and project team.
  • # Accountable for 4 major client's delivery management with proper Agile planning and execution.
  • # Estimating, Prioritization, Assignment and Tracking of tasks towards effective delivery.
  • # Delivery of new features, CR's and broad reporting within organization and customers.
  • # Managing DBA's, BA's, Architects, Testing, release management and build-deployment teams.
  • # Risk Management, Conflict resolution and achieving quality objectives.
  • # Establishing & Capturing audit information and converting into best practices.
  • # Setting team performance objectives and measuring by continuously collecting the metrics.
  • # Managing and motivating remote teams to improve the productivity (collecting and publishing good practices suggested/followed by team and counting under good metrics).
  • # Volunteered to provide on-boarding learning to new members across the organization roles.
  • # Project resource management: requesting, empowerment, coaching, monitoring, releasing.
  • # Participating in defining standards and improving the process by following the agile principles.
  • # Organizing the Sprint Planning, Retrospective Meetings and Release Planning meetings.
Aug 2011 - Feb 2014
Technical Manager / Sr. Manager, Custom Applications
- Exxova Solutions India Pvt Ltd
  • # Built Financial Inclusion product suite deployed for Canara bank, PNB, Andhra bank, Karnataka bank.
  • # Providing Architectures and developing of high performance projects and products using Java, J2ee technology frameworks.
  • # Requirement definition as well as gathering from clients to ensure all required information is captured to deliver accurate system rather than any assumptions.
  • # Setting development process and guidelines along with performance objectives.
  • # Providing performance tips and fine tuning the applications for defined response time.
  • # Database modeling, creation and tuning.
  • # Build and Configuration Tools setup and Administration.
  • # Production server setup and administration.
  • # Building High Level, Low Level Design Documents along with UML Designing.
  • # Review of Architecture, DB Model, Requirements, Test Scripts and Code Sets.
  • # UAT, Testing Support.
  • # Presales, RFP response preparation and providing pre working model.
  • # Contributing to .NET and BI Projects to resolve on demand issues.
  • # Quality Board member to review the status and recommend the best practices.
  • # Organization level Configuration Auditor.
  • # QMS Documentation and Implementation.
Feb 2009 - July 2011
Project Manager
- Prime Technology Group
  • # Started java & BI practices as a single member and successfully setup 80 members team.
  • # Played a key role heading both java and Business Intelligence (Cognos) related projects for Synchronoss client, which is a telecom product based company catering to majority of top wireless providers in US (AT&T, Vonage, Sprint, Cable Vision, Embarq etc).
  • # Products cover registering the users, products, plans, Local number portability, provisioning, billing, customer services etc.
Dec 2005 - Jan 2009
Programmer Analyst
- Summitwork Technologies
  • # Along with client location project work, helped Summitwork's to build a strong team of database engineers at offshore Curian (Folio Order Processing System) subsidiary of Prudential Financial, Inc, investment adviser and money manager asset management market.
  • # FOLIOfn offers FOLIO Advisor, an integrated brokerage, trading and portfolio management system introducing the leading-edge brokerage built to help you attract and manage significant assets for minimal effort and cost.
Apr 2005 - Nov 2005
System Analyst
- Innova India Pvt Ltd
  • # As an Engineering Manager by role, built a 30 members team in 3 months and shifted client interviews to the offshore.
  • # Finaplex Wealth(tm) gives the power to maximize the effectiveness of every step in the wealth Management process, from proposal generation to new client acquisition to execution, reporting and reassessment.
Oct 2004 - Mar 2005
Sr. Software Engineer
- Virtusa India Pvt Ltd
  • # While playing as a Java developer role, the automation of code quality, build and deployment processes helped to serve the entire organization under supervision of Paul-SEPG head Insight, eFinance Products.
Jun 2003 - Oct 2004
Programmer
- Satyam Computers
  • # Played a key role as java developer, database engineer and reports developer serving the entire project team of 120 members.
  • # Citicorp Asset/Liability Model (CALM) is an integrated risk management system designed as per corporate guidelines on risk management for the accrual book.
Apr 2001 - Jun 2003

Education

BSc Computers
1993 - 1996
Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
MCA
1996 - 1999
Osmania University, Hyderabad