Kiran Jayant

Professional Summary

• Results-driven leader with an illustrious 16+ year career in Product Delivery and Management for Financial and Biotech services industry.
• Led 200+ Engineers globally over the span of 5 years thus accomplishing follow the sun model as well as implementing process abiding with Software Engineering principles.
• Effective hands-on leader with outstanding success in managing and delivering strategic initiatives that empowered and drove the overall quality of the products by over 50% in Payments space.
• Relentless focus on customers with proven ability to build long-term relationships.
• Spearheaded the creation of software engineering practices and methodologies that helped 6000+ engineers delivering higher quality products.

Significant achievements

• Spearheaded the efforts in enhancing the quality of The ClearingHouse (first customer of USA) for Vocalink by incubating best practices that helped bring down issues by 80% thus enhancing Mastercard brand.
• Built a highly successful Technology Governance function to ensure approved 3rd party products are being consumed across Mastercard thus being audit compliant as well as optimizing costs.
• Led QE transformation for various verticals by implementing Software Engineering best practices that brought in efficiencies by 60%.
• Led efforts of Journey mapping to understand customer requirements and pain points which helped in improving customer onboarding time by over 40%.
• Co-led the creation of integration test facility that became a common ground to evaluate all applications together that brought down development and testing time from 6 months to 3 months.