RAHUL CHEREKAR Engineering Manager
Phone: +1 (732) 306 5979 | E-mail: [email protected]
• Proficient analytical skills, focused on identifying inefficiencies and creative approach to problem solving.
• Proactive, diligent, and efficient in managing cross-functional projects, handling power dynamics in multi-
stakeholder processes, ability to inspire colleagues to work towards a shared vision, negotiating and
resolving conflicts.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, leverage technical and business acumen to effectively articulate goals.
Summary
• Accomplished hands-on engineering and program manager with 10+ years of managing large scale global projects,
inception through launch, with proven track record of on time, on budget and exceeding expectations delivery.
• 15+ years of experience in designing and developing high performance and scalable applications.
Core Competencies:
Project Management Waterfall, SCRUM & Kanban
Planning & Risk Management Requirements Gathering Communication & Presentation Skills
Professional Experience
Value-Added Leadership Team Building & Mentoring
Strategy Planning
Relationship Building & Negotiation Delivery & Vendor Management
Technical System Design
Java, Python, COBOL, Shell DB2, Sybase, MySQL, Hive Azure, AWS, Kotlin
product managers, and coordinating various cross-organization initiatives teams
• Managed initiative to convert monolith on-premise Pricing application to microservices and on AWS
cloud. The platform renders real time price updates to chewy website by ingesting data from 65+
competitors and by auto approving over 95% price changes every day.
• Working with product and business stakeholders to define yearly/quarterly roadmap and taking care of
weekly business review (WBR) and monthly business review (MBR)
• Working closely with Product Managers in defining and clarifying business requirements
• Coordinating efforts with engineering team, various cross-functional teams, gathering requirements,
delivery timelines & obtaining UAT sign-offs
Assistant Vice President, State Street Aug 2021 to Jun 2022
• Partnered with business to drive roadmap, gathered requirements, translated them into technical specifications for engineering teams while fluently switching context from technical to non-technical and vice versa.
• Lead program to onboard an internal client on GTM product
• Formed Technology Steering committee for data governance, improving data quality and consistency. Lead
efforts to improve data quality of reference/market data from 50% to 95%.
• Helped document Scope, Business Solution Document, Operational Service Documents for smooth
transition to operations and support
• Coordinated efforts in obtaining approvals & signoffs from the leadership and various stakeholders
Director, Synechron INC Sep 2017 to Aug 2021
Software Development Manager, Chewy
• Managing backend and frontend engineering team for Product Catalog System
• Driving technical decisions, managing priorities, making individual contributors more effective, working with
Jun 2022 to Present

• Led several projects across global cross-functional teams end to end including planning, budget forecasting, timelines, risk management, scoping, feature cost benefit analysis and handling escalations.
• Acted as a spokesperson for engineering team, hosted project kick-offs; communicated status, risks to stakeholders, established key relationships with leadership at all levels: entry to C-suite, and collaborated with tech leads, project managers, on/off-shore engineers and QA to implement projects.
• Worked closely with engineers through full software development lifecycle: plan, design, build, test and release. Actively participated and involved in system design and architecture decisions.
• Worked cross-functionally with Legal, Compliance, Business stakeholders, vendors, and various Technology partners on defining the scope and obtaining approvals and sign-offs.
• Implemented Global Regulatory Programs across North Americas, Europe, and APAC region.
• Implemented a centralized reporting solution for all reporting via DTCC.
• Helped implement reporting tools – pre-trade quotes with 1 minute and post-trade activities with 5 minutes
publication SLA.
• Successfully delivered 8 large projects under tight regulatory deadline.
• Spearheaded the initiative to adopt Agile Scrum Methodology as pilot team to increase transparency and
obtain great business value with short turnarounds.
• Facilitated monthly release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups and
retrospectives.
Project Manager/Lead Consultant, Infosys Limited Oct 2013 to Sep 2017
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• Managed a cross functional team to build critical back reporting utilities on back of Compliance directive.
• Helped automate the half yearly and annual CCAR reporting using proprietary tools. •
• Managed Sybase 12 to 15 upgrade to improve the performance by 5X and avoided rewriting efforts
• Automated processes to bring down RW requests to less than 10%.
• Experience in incident & problem management, event management – market events, recurring/seasonal
events, change control, release process ownership, SOX compliance certifications and audit participation.
• Played a key role in pre-sales process to build POCs and provide demos to prospects in sales pipeline.
Technology Lead/Software Engineer, Infosys Jun 2005 to Sep 2013
• Lead mainframe re-engineering project in re-writing mainframe applications to strategic distributed platforms.
• Blended technical expertise, business, and management skills to deliver dynamic enterprise-wide solutions.
• Worked on capacity enhancement projects to handle high volumes which included real time processing
functionalities as well as batch processing and scaling system by 4X.
• Involved in IDMS and Tablebase tables to DB2 conversion, Merva to MQ conversion, DB2 upgrades and
performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot issues, fix, or raise defect reports and escalation management for clients.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining over 10 applications.
Education & Certification
• Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering) – IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, India
• Post Graduate Program in Management (Executive MBA) – Sunstone Business School
• Sun Certified Java Programmer, Coursera – Managing Data Analysis, Udemy – Python 3, Microservices Software Architecture, AWS Cloud Certification
Technology Toolbox
• Object Oriented Design, Domain Driven Design, Java, Kotlin, Python, R, REST APIs, Shell, COBOL, CICS, XML, JSON, HTML, FpML, SLANG, SWIFT, FIX, MQ, Kafka, Tableau, regression modelling
• Oracle, DB2, Sybase, HIVE, MS SQL Server, MySQL, SecDB, Azure DB, Snowflake, DocumentDB
• JIRA, Confluence, RTC, Sharepoint, putty, autosys, postman, Eclipse, IntelliJ, github & MS Office
suite
Demonstrated abilities as a team leader, supervised teams to create an atmosphere of trust; created a
positive environment by monitoring workloads of the team.
Assisted with technical efforts that involve the development, design, implementation, and support of
business processes.