Subodh Ramugade

About me

Accomplished Senior Engineering Leader with expertise in cultivating and leading high-performing global teams with a laser focus on delivery excellence. Recognized for outstanding collaborative team leadership and unwavering commitment to project execution and management. Excellent communicator, skilled in establishing strong relationships with peers and senior leadership alike, building consensus. Proficient in crafting comprehensive roadmaps and development plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Possesses the ability to cut through the hype and jargon and translate vision into reality.

Expert in System Architecture, Application Development, Design & Delivery, driving innovation through hands-on expertise and insights. Known for crafting tailored, evidence-based solutions across diverse sectors including marketing, retail/e-commerce, and payments. Proficient in financial systems and adept at navigating data/regulatory compliance requirements. A champion of agile software development practices, skilled in mentoring teams to optimize productivity. Proficient in setting a vision, making informed decisions, and iteratively delivering progress.

Extensive experience in assembling and nurturing diverse engineering teams, fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation. Known for creating an environment where individuals thrive and contribute their best. Focuses on mentoring and developing team members, enabling them to reach their full potential and achieve career growth within the organization.

Resume

Experience

Software Development Manager, Advertisement Campaign Management
Amazon, Vancouver Canada. February 2022 to June 2023
Led a team in developing forward-looking products and services poised to drive Amazon's ad solutions' future growth across various mediums on a massive scale. The role included managing the creation of automated touch points, reducing the need for extensive inter-team collaboration, thus boosting productivity and expediting new product launches for our customers.

Provided operational and technical leadership in the development of the next generation of advertising products and services by decreasing the number of touch points and complexity in our existing systems. Oversee the team’s structure, software and strategic decisions by liaising and taking into account the objectives, requirements and priorities of internal customers and stakeholders.

Communicated and collaborated with Program Managers, business stakeholders and Senior Management to roll out features related to campaign management across different systems and services. Facilitated a rapid delivery of concepts and led Software Development Engineers (SDEs) in design reviews that included design, integration, performance and scalability issues.
Software Development Manager, Marketing Tech.
Amazon, India. November 2019 to February 2022
Built and managed multiple mission-critical products and tier-1 tech services for Marketing Tech, Amazon. Managing agile teams of SDEs, TPMs, Product Managers, QAEs and SDMs through role-model leadership, open-door communication, and technical strategy. Owned the aspects of the Software Architecture, Design, Development and Release Management lifecycle of 4 charters - Loyalty, Outbound, Influencer Marketing and Brand Partnership within the Zappos Marketing Technology Org of Amazon.

As a Software Development Manager I responsible for overseeing the team's structure, software, and strategic direction. Led the Marketing Tech team in developing applications and tools to meet marketing requirements and initiatives, including Search Engine Optimization technology, outbound communications such as emails, SMS, and push notifications, the Influencer Program, customer satisfaction surveys and rewards programs such as enrolment and points management.
Software Development Manager, Digital Payment Experience
Amazon, India. November 2017 to November 2019
Managed the Digital Payments Experience team and worked on setting the vision to make it easy for digital businesses at Amazon to innovate on delivering purchase and local payments experience for a variety of users. Led and rolled out products to enable Faster, Simpler and Customizable Payment Experiences to be rolled out across multiple Digital Businesses at Amazon.

Worked with multiple business owners to onboard on adopt products and such as 34 different Amazon business including Audible (multiple market places – US, IN, CA and JP), ComiXology, AppStore and Cloud Drive. Collaborated with business users, product managers and other tech teams to roll out multiple payment instruments including Boletos for BR which covered 23% total transactions in a year for Amazon Brazil.
Tech Lead, Software Engineering.
J P Morgan, Australia May 2017 to November 2017
Build and manage a global team (across 3 geographical regions) and was responsible for defining the product roadmap along with managing execution and delivery of the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model. RAD is a solution that helps bring Fund Manager, Clients and Operations together. This role was responsible for end-to-end program delivery including tracking, requirements, testing, implementation and scaling across institutional clients for all enterprise initiatives.
Vice President, Prime Brokerage Funding & Finance Technology Division.
Morgan Stanley, India September 2017 to May 2017
Managed a team as technical and domain lead for the Morgan Stanley PWM trading ecosystem. As a lead, was responsible for project acceptance, execution and delivery for various assets in trading platform. Responsibilities included (but are not limited to) regular business interaction, requirement gathering, creating & managing BRDs, System and Technical designs including hands on development. Global lead for tier one applications like Fixed income primary / secondary trading platform and Financial Adviser's - Sales Dashboard.

Earlier was a development lead for the Client Suitability & Eligibility 2.0 project that leveraged integration with Client Reference Data to evaluate real time changes as per client's risk profile. Designed and built end to end integration with downstream systems to ensure straight through processing.