Karthik Sainathan

Experience

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  Oracle

  Sept 2020 - now

  Technical Program Manager

  - Managed several large projects across multiple cross-functional teams by developing project plans and estimates, tracking the project progress, scheduling change and release management, and risk planning and monitoring. - Established Stakeholder communication plan and proactively communicated project status, issues, and surface risks across Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Support, and other key stakeholders, thereby increasing project intake and engagement.- Spearheaded the implementation of Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban across teams, including Roadmap planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning and retrospectives, which led to increase in Sprint velocity.- Managed OCI feature and service releases by creating, prioritizing, communicating, maintaining, and executing product roadmaps by collaborating with central OCI teams including Compliance, Security, Operations, UI/UX, Technical Content, Marketing and Support teams.- Setup and scaled the On-call structure and process across the org of 100+ engineers across multiple geographical locations, leading to reduced operational toil and increased service support and health.- Developed reporting tools, dashboards and frameworks to track project statuses, prioritize tasks, and surface risks to leadership and stakeholders, thereby improving project delivery time and reducing operational load.- Defined KPIs to identify and resolve operational gaps including eliminating coding bugs, tuning alarms, improving service availability and security and compliance, and updating runbooks.- Collaborated as a service SME with the other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform and shared services teams to ensure seamless integration including Identity, Authentication, Databases, Block and Object Storage, Metering, Telemetry and Logging. Show less