Hrishikesh Jayathirtha

• Currently Leading a team of Software Engineers for SCS Clinician and Patient applications on new Android operating systems
• Provided regulatory support to active submissions in the SCS products portfolio.
• Streamlined team workflows with Agile methodologies, resulting in accelerated project completion times.
• Mentored junior engineers to strengthen their technical skills and improve overall team efficiency.
• Spearheaded the adoption of best practices for coding standards, documentation, and design principles within the engineering team.
• Expedited product delivery timelines by efficiently prioritizing tasks and managing resources according to business needs.

During this tenure led several Spinal Cord Stimulation Therapy releases including the Next Generation Clinician Programmer (Inceptiv). In this role:

• Worked directly with key stakeholders to understand requirements and address business and system issues.
• Converted business requirements into actionable technical use cases and user stories.
• Oversaw and managed the operational aspects of projects, serving as a liaison between business, project team, and functional management.
• Led engineering teams across geographies using a SAFe agile development process.
• Resolved conflicts in a timely manner to ensure projects stayed on track.
• Produced accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
• Assessed value, developed cases, and prioritized stories to ensure work focused on those with maximum value aligned with product strategy.
• Ensured compliance of projects to quality systems, functional, and project deliverables.
• Led the development and management of backlog, prioritization of work, iteration planning, and elaboration of user stories along with SW Design and Test Leads.
• Developed and managed product release plans, setting expectations for the delivery of new functionalities.
• Assessed project issues and developed resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Provided regulatory support along with Product Engineer, SW Design, and Test Leads.
• Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
• Maintained comprehensive documentation of development work, facilitating knowledge sharing among team members.
• Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.

My role as a Software Engineer involved designing and developing the SCS (Spinal Cord Stimulation) therapy Android application, automating testing procedures using Groovy scripts, collaborating with cross-functional teams to analyze patient risks and safety measures, addressing critical application bugs, and leading a team of eight testers in Design Verification Testing, successfully completing two rounds of regression testing for FDA submission.

During this tenure my team embarked on developing a new therapy application for legacy Medtronic devices, slated to replace the current Therapy Programmer, with FDA submission anticipated by March 2019 and worldwide release by July 2019, catering to over 6000 patients using legacy Medtronic devices with a Windows programmer. This release aimed to modernize clinicians' usage of therapy applications within a newer operating system framework

Additionally, I supported Systems Testing, provided maintenance for previous therapy application updates, and leveraged comprehensive knowledge of various Neuromodulation therapies offered by Medtronic over the past four years to tailor applications to user needs and ensure high-quality software delivery.

I was responsible for developing and testing Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) therapy Android software applications, crucial tools used by clinicians to manage implanted device stimulation in patients. These applications prioritized patient safety, high quality, and user-friendly interfaces. My duties included crafting the UI interface in Java, enhancing usability, creating and executing software test designs, identifying critical bugs, and contributing to verification testing processes for FDA submission. Additionally, I collaborated with the Cloud Integration and Systems Testing teams, aiding in testing mobile software applications integrated with cloud services. Moreover, I supported multiple software releases, providing assistance to the testing team for minor updates and improvements.

I worked for Telstra, a telecommunications client based in Australia, where I managed a vast dataset comprising over a million raw records. My primary responsibility was to analyze this data and utilize ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) tools to convert it into a coherent format suitable for reporting purposes. Additionally, I developed and tested Datawarehouse jobs tailored to the client's finance, network, and billing data within an Enterprise Data Warehouse framework. This involved deciphering system requirements, designing ETL processes, and scrutinizing transformed data using reporting tools like Cognos BI. Throughout these tasks, I operated within an agile environment, ensuring adaptability and efficiency in meeting project objectives.