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Senthil Velu

San Francisco Bay Area,CA

Summary

Strategic Technical Manager known for driving innovation, product quality, and operational excellence through data-driven insights and scalable programs. Experienced in delivering GenAI-driven content creation initiatives including automated chatbot responses, dynamic report summarization, and personalized data visualizations powered by large language models. Passionate about transforming customer experience and product reliability using cutting-edge analytics and AI/ML solutions that deliver measurable ROI, cost savings, and business growth.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Technical Manager

NetApp
San Jose, California
10.2014 - 06.2025

• Delivered Generative AI solutions enabling automated content generation, including chatbot responses, natural language data summaries, and personalized insights using LLMs and prompt engineering.
• Led a GenAI-driven initiative by developing natural language analyzers that converted user input into queries, displayed data in tabular format, summarized key insights, and generated charts for data visualization.
• Directed the development and implementation of a hard disk drive failure prediction model, significantly enhancing the part delivery and replacement process.
• Oversaw the design and rollout of a customer sentiment analysis solution to proactively identify and mitigate potential customer escalations.
• Explored Agentic AI capabilities to integrate into internal tool prototypes using LLM agents.
• Strong experience in utilizing data mining techniques to identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.
• Managed technical leads and guided a 15-member team throughout the entire SDLC in US and India.
• Managed cross-regional product quality support with teams in the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
• Developed PRDs, specs, and user stories to guide engineering execution and stakeholder visibility across releases.
• Drove cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality releases.
• Developed business strategies and goals based on customer feedback resulting in 12% YoY improvement in quality.
• Identified the top ten revenue producing customers with quality risks to enable account teams to drive data-backed conversations with their customers, leading to ~5M revenue protection in 12 months.
• Proactively identify risks before they impact customers and address issues before they become serious systemic quality issues that affect customer data.

Quality Assurance Manager

Intuit
Menlo Park, California
04.2014 - 09.2014
  • Led QA team, setting standards, and driving quality improvements.
  • Collaborated with TPMs, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to develop and implement QA processes, manage quality risks, and ensure products or services meet defined standards and regulations.

Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
, US
01.2011 - 03.2014
  • Managed the entire project lifecycle, from initial planning to final delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget and high-quality standards.
  • Defined the project scope, goals, and objectives, creating detailed work plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies.
  • Led scalable data warehouse initiatives with a focus on data quality and security. Drove cross-functional collaboration and optimized ETL processes, reducing data retrieval time by 30% and boosting efficiency.
  • Identified potential risks, developed mitigation plans, and tracked their implementation.
  • Allocated resources effectively, manage team performance, and ensure team members have the necessary skills and support.

Education

M.S. - Computer Applications

Manonmaniam Sundarnar University

B.S. - Electronics

Madras University

Skills

  • Program Management
  • Leadership
  • Strategic Planning & Road mapping
  • Stakeholder & Resource Management
  • Jira
  • MS Project
  • SharePoint
  • Smartsheet
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Feature Engineering
  • ETL Pipelines
  • DataOps
  • Hadoop
  • HiveQL
  • MapReduce
  • PySpark
  • Azure OpenAI
  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • Vector Databases
  • Agentic AI
  • NLP
  • Scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Model Training & Evaluation
  • Deployment
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • Git
  • SaaS Platforms
  • Snowflake
  • Python
  • Oracle SQL
  • NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF)

Certification

  • PM Academy Certification
  • AI Governance Professional training
  • Data Science and AI Training
  • Big data and Hadoop Training
  • Tableau training
  • Project Management- Waterfall & Agile
  • Google Cloud Computing

Personal Information

Title: Technical Program Manager

Work Preference

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Full TimePart TimeContract Work

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RemoteHybridOn-Site

Important To Me

Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsWork from home optionPaid time offTeam Building / Company RetreatsPaid sick leave401k matchStock Options / Equity / Profit Sharing4-day work week

Work Availability

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Timeline

Sr. Technical Manager

NetApp
10.2014 - 06.2025

Quality Assurance Manager

Intuit
04.2014 - 09.2014

Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2011 - 03.2014

M.S. - Computer Applications

Manonmaniam Sundarnar University

B.S. - Electronics

Madras University