Neelesh Surana

• Previously worked with adidas Runtastic as Director of Engineering - Product Capabilities • A seasoned, passionate, hands-on, transformational, people-centric leader offering diversified technical expertise in the field of Software Engineering. • An agile practitioner, evangelist and a result-oriented person with strong technical and leadership abilities gained through extensive work experience of over 22 years in software development/automation/testing. • Experienced in building, managing and driving multiple distributed high performing teams up to 40 members. • Mastered the art of working with management, business, internal and external stakeholders/ customers. • An articulate and effective communicator with strong people management skills and ability to seamlessly coordinate between teams at different geographical locations. Possesses high analytical and problem-solving skills. • Coached and contributed as a part of the core group that helped individuals/teams/organizations to start Agile, do Agile and ultimately be Agile. • Experienced in release level planning with SAFe, managing budgets, driving team/product transitions. • Led and executed agile, DevOps and Cloud transformations. • Experienced in driving continuous improvements through Agile Principles (Scrum, SAFe), DevOps and Engineering best practices like CI/ CD. • Exposure to quality processes for software development, metrics collection and SLA management with sound understanding of CMMi guidelines. Was an appraisal team member during the re-certification of CMMi Level 3. • Led and managed hiring, mentoring, career development and performance appraisal of team members. • Won multiple awards for my technical contributions.