Satheesh Babu Vattekkat

Current

Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Sterling Commerce (An AT&T Company)

Past

Manager, Software Development at Accelrys India
Senior Technology Architect at The Nature Conservancy
Sr. Systems Analyst at Rapidigm Inc

Systems Analyst at Infosys Technologies Ltd
IT Engineer at CMC Ltd

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Education

National Institute of Technology Calicut

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Satheesh Babu Vattekkat’s Summary

* Own and build teams from the ground up to deliver software, managing from requirements to release.
* Architect to solve complex business problems connecting various components.
* Automate whatever that can be automated
* Mentor Engineers by conducting talks, trainings and pair programming
* Champion Agile Methodologies like Scrum, TDD and Code Reviews
* Evangelize Open Source software to improve efficiency

Satheesh Babu Vattekkat’s Specialties:

ERP (Yantra DOM/WMS/COM/Store), CMS, CRM and Bioinformatics. Using Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL, Linux, J2EE, Zope, C/C++, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby-on-Rails and Eclipse RCP.

Satheesh Babu Vattekkat’s Experience

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Sterling Commerce (An AT&T Company)

(Public Company; T; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Manage engineers when they need to be managed; otherwise architect Supply Chain Management OnDemand (SaaS) products that heavily support extensibility (both replace and incremental) using SOA architecture. Work with multiple groups to take products from requirements to release. Champion agile development methodologies.
* Reduced product release frequency from yearly to quartely.
* 300% improvement in the quality of development when measured by defects found out by QA.
* Currently managing parallel releases of 4 different products every quarter
Manager, Software Development

Accelrys India

(Public Company; ACCL; Computer Software industry)

February 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Built a new and inexperienced team from the ground up to take over delivery of new version of 3 legacy BioInformatics products from an erstwhile US team, with very little KT. Products were on various Unix systems and were built using C, C++, Perl and Xlib.
* Delivered one release of all the products
* Delivered a monthly DNA/Genome data subscription service with India team
* Managed a team on development of an MFC based product
* As the only person in the team who knew Perl, delivered the next version of a web based product all by self.
* Part of a team of managers that conducted hiring for development group.
Senior Technology Architect

The Nature Conservancy

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

March 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 11 months)

Made usable, reliable and *affordable* IT solutions for a billion dollar charity involved in a cause I totally believe in. Quite a lot of development, architecture and leading web developers to develop solutions on Oracle, Python and Zope. At times, maintain applications in ASP, C and PHP.
Sr. Systems Analyst

Rapidigm Inc

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1998 — March 2001 (3 years 1 month)

Consulting, at the client site The Nature Conservancy, VA. Since I joined Nature Conservancy later, I ended up working from VA, USA from 1998 to 2004.
Systems Analyst

Infosys Technologies Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1995 — February 1998 (2 years 11 months)

For almost 2 years, I was stationed at Annecy, France for various projects for Adidas-Salomon and leading a team remotely, for some time, I was the only person representing the company there.

Projects were on data warehousing and supply chain management, done using Oracle Forms, Oracle Designer/2000, Pro*C and lots of HP-UX scripts.
IT Engineer

CMC Ltd

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

September 1993 — March 1995 (1 year 7 months)