Amit Matta
NEW DELHI,DELHI
Summary
Motivated professional with extensive experience managing complex projects and developing innovative technologies. Accomplished in leading cross-functional teams to exceed project goals and foster customer satisfaction. Proven track record of successfully delivering projects in line with time, budget, and quality standards.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal RD Engineer
Ansys Software Pvt.Ltd.
02.2023 - Current
- Established strong working relationships with clients through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
- Wrote, reviewed and edited technical document in accordance with template requirements.
- Planned and coordinated multiple software releases, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives.
- Developed release plans that outlined key milestones, dependencies, and timelines, coordinating across development, testing, and operations teams.
- Identified the manual process and implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
- Work towards establishing best practice and deploy same across products.
- Spearheading continuous improvement initiatives resulting in increased operational efficiency across multiple projects.
- Increased efficiency in release management by establishing clear guidelines for change requests, approvals and deployment schedules.
- Collaborate with IT to reuse or commission additional hardware (computing, storage) to support multiple releases.
- Support RD/AEs to establish pipelines and troubleshoot deployment issues.
Software Configuration Manager
Thales Australia Center
10.2022 - 02.2023
- Understand and streamline existing build and release process.
- Defining branching strategy to support new Taxonomy.
- Contributed to PI planning. Provided examples on how to breakdown to features/stories which can be delivered in day.
- Identify pain areas and gaps to improve process to reduce overall turnaround time and deliver at cadence to customers.
- Streamlined release processes by implementing automated tools and standardizing procedures, reducing delays and errors.
- Coordinated scheduled releases and updates.
Senior Engineering Manager
Cadence Design Systems
09.2006 - 09.2022
- Oversaw 8 strong team of engineering personnel.
- Established performance metrics for monitoring team progress towards key objectives, driving accountability and transparency among team members.
- Management of storage, hardware and server farm.
- Participated in development meetings for high-value customers and business operations updates.
- Led successful completion of multiple high-profile projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget.
- Boosted customer satisfaction by swiftly addressing and resolving configuration- related concerns.
- Providing build/release, automation and DevOps support to 3 Business Units (ICD, SSV and FED).
- Integration of 3rd party tools and assist RD team in establishing interface between various products.
- Continually work towards making improvements in existing process by defining process, branching models, establish baselines and document process/steps.
- Key contributor in planning of requirements for development, test and integration with BUs.
- Synergize with CM groups of other BUs to implement and deploy common infrastructure across different products.
- Channelizing Process improvements and TAT reductions in CM processes.
- Ensure CCB (change control broad) to be followed for base and hotfix releases.
- Configuration and maintenance of apache webserver for intranet applications.
- Provide quality metrics data to Senior Management and BUs to track development progress.
- Ensuring quality guidelines and document templates are followed throughout product release cycle.
- Design test engine and sign-off for product validation team to centralize results.
- Troubleshot escalations by Customers in Installation and Configuration.
- Conduct cross functional team (CFT) meetings with various teams to track issues and progress on Projects.
- Experience with makefiles and porting tools to new OS/Compilers.
- Designing and development of numerous web-based applications as per requirement from CFT.
- Project specific resource allocation within team/s for optimum skill mapping.
- Effective internal and external communications with key customers and Global Team.
- Mentored junior engineers to develop their skills, providing guidance on best practices and industry standards.
Senior R&D Engineer
Agilent Technologies
06.2006 - 09.2006
Member of Technical Staff
Cadence Design Systems
05.2003 - 06.2006
Software Engineer
Hughes Software Systems
09.1999 - 05.2003
Education
MBA - Information Technology
Symbiosis Distance Learning
05.2013
Master of Science - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
07.2003
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
KITS
07.1998
Skills
- Leadership skills
- Project Management
- Team/People Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Training, Mentoring & Delegating tasks
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Release Management
- Build process automation
Technical Expertise
- Scripting languages: Python, Perl, PHP, Bash, Ksh.
- Good understanding of JSON, XML and YAML data-interchange language.
- Source Code Tools: Perforce, CVS, ClearCase, GIT, SVN
- CI/CD: Build Harness (internal), Jenkins, Electric Commander, Gitlab.
- Quality Tools: Google sanitizer tools (address, thread, leak), Coverity, Parasoft, Bullseye, LCOV, GCOVR, VALGRIND
Timeline
Principal RD Engineer
Ansys Software Pvt.Ltd.
02.2023 - Current
Software Configuration Manager
Thales Australia Center
10.2022 - 02.2023
Senior Engineering Manager
Cadence Design Systems
09.2006 - 09.2022
Senior R&D Engineer
Agilent Technologies
06.2006 - 09.2006
Member of Technical Staff
Cadence Design Systems
05.2003 - 06.2006
Software Engineer
Hughes Software Systems
09.1999 - 05.2003
MBA - Information Technology
Symbiosis Distance Learning
Master of Science - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
KITS
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