Parag Doshi

Strong, transformational leader, risk-taker, pragmatic innovator. Over 20 years of both consulting and product experience. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Build trusting technology teams from scratch and work with clients to earn trust by delivering sustained business and financial benefits. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Recognized expert for cloud transformation, agile software delivery, data engineering, and AI. and full (agile) software continuous delivery lifecycle spanning application, infrastructure, and data engineering.

• Bias for Action: Vision w/o execution is a dream – Think big, start small, work fast
• We must execute quickly
• Outside in: Customer-focused
• True measure of sustainable success is from the perspective of clients we serve
• Power of People: Deliver lasting impact by building & growing trusting teams that transcend organizational silos
• Fortune favors the bold: Take calculated risks to innovate then commercialize
• Create a learning culture driven by curiosity and balanced by aligning on short vs
• Long term profitability
• Technical Excellence: Harness the power of technology and always keep your knowledge sharp on latest advances
• Publish knowledge: You have a voice, use it
• Share ideas collaboratively, speak at conferences, publish and patent
• HIGHLIGHTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS & SKILLS
• Built, sold, and delivered $300MM ARR of products @ Tricentis in 2 years & $300MM+ services @ HP in 5 years
• Well published with over 40 papers in prestigious journals & conferences, 30 patents & disclosures
• Pioneered Anthem’s cloud transformation strategy & journey changing the company forever - established an enterprise-level Cloud COE and migrated/modernized > 100 mission critical apps
• Partnered with CIO & CDO to build a new Pharmacy Benefits Management business in AWS resulting in an operating gain +$800M or ~$2.30/share in 2020 per Forbes & CNBC
• Invited Speaker: AWS ReInvent/Red Hat Summit/Gartner/IDC conferences
• IBM Cloud Customer Advisory Council, StarEast QA conference (2023) – AI presentation, DevOps.com, APEX CIO panels…
• Winner of Georgia Tech’s Sigma Xi Best Ph.D
• Thesis Award, holder of many patents, well published
• Negotiated landmark contracts with AWS, Red Hat, HashiCorp, Google in partnership with legal & procurement
• Startups in large enterprises: Building organization from zero up to > 500 people; including intern programs
• Defining a Cloud Strategy, gaining C-Level buy-in and funding and driving alignment steering committees
• Cloud strategy & migrations – mainframe to cloud; green-field app dev; refactoring apps; replacing with SaaS
• Introducing a culture of innovation, experimentation, and cloud transformation by establishing a Cloud COE
• Driving Agile and DevSecOps discipline to left-shift & improve dev velocity, reduce MTTR, and improve security
• Driving marketing initiatives including monthly program and developer newsletters and multi-city roadshows
• Maintain university relationships, sponsor internship and co-op programs in partnership with colleges in Atlanta and Prague, CZ Republic
• Serve as a judge in computer science competitions and hackathons
• Community leadership: Co-founder & organizer of Atlanta Generative AI Meetup

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Scaled Agile Product Owner/Product Mgr