Neeraj Bholani

Experience

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  John Deere

  Feb 2007 - now

  • Led and managed engineering teams (17-person team) responsible for delivering various technology solutions and features in areas of Perception (Computer Vision), Machine Learning and Virtual Simulation tech stacks for John Deere vehicles. • Helped Leadership evaluate and define roadmaps and strategies on multiple initiatives.• Collaborated with various cross-functional engineering teams, stakeholders and consumers of products in United States (USA) and Germany to help deliver various features and solutions. Show less • Led, managed and set the foundation of product team of software developers (12-person teams) in United States and India locations for developing a data ingestion product capable of ingesting millions (100+ million) of sensor data points for machine and agronomic data from John Deere vehicles and mobile applications in near real time.• Defined product vision and roadmap, managed budget and provided leadership to deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and cost optimised solution with end-to-end GDPR compliance, data security, governance and lifecycle policies in place for the product. The entire stack was built on AWS(Amazon Web Services).• Collaborated with various cross-functional engineering teams, suppliers (AWS Cloud), stakeholders and consumers in United States (USA), Germany and India to help deliver various features and solutions.• I was on long term assignment in United States (USA) for majority part of this time frame. Show less • Led teams and initiatives to migrate applications like AgLogic (Fleet, Logistics and Work Order management) to AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud resulting in 85% of cost reduction, huge scalability and reliability improvements and driving year on year SVA (Shareholder value add) positive growth for the product.• Provided technical leadership for multiple applications and products like Vehicle Maintenance and My John Deere API applications resulting in significant scalability, reliability and 70% to 80% of performance improvements while being deployed on-premises infrastructure.• Collaborated with various cross-functional engineering teams, stakeholders and consumers of products in United States(USA) and Germany to help deliver various features and solutions. Show less • Led multiple 5 to 10 person teams. Provided technical leadership to design and develop various technology solutions for Service ADVISOR (Remote & In-Field Diagnostic and software updates), Remote Machine Services(Remote Diagnostic), ServiceGard (Special tools, E-Commerce), and Enterprise Configuration Engine products.• Proposed, architected, designed and developed solutions for Enterprise Search using Open-source Apache Technologies(Solr, Nutch and Hadoop) for a readings and diagnostic application in 49 languages and for more than 50,000 Users across 111 countries. This resulted in saving of around $3,50,000 for company.• Collaborated with various cross-functional engineering teams, stakeholders and product teams in United States(USA) and India to help deliver various features and solutions. Show less

  • Sr. Engineering Manager, E-commerce

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Engineering Manager - Autonomous Systems, Intelligent Solutions Group

    Dec 2019 - Nov 2021

  • Product Lead - Ingest, Intelligent Solutions Group

    Oct 2016 - Dec 2019

  • Technology Architect, Intelligent Solutions Group

    Mar 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Tech Lead, Intelligent Solutions Group

    Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Tech Lead, Customer & Product Support IT

    Jul 2011 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Software Engineer, Customer & Product Support IT

    Dec 2009 - Jul 2011

  • Software Engineer, Customer & Product Support IT

    Feb 2007 - Dec 2009