Open to TPM roles · Immediate joiner · Valid USA Visa
Technical Program Manager · Certified Scrum Master

SATEESH
KUMAR DARA

I drive end-to-end delivery across mobile, chatbot, and Azure cloud — for globally distributed teams.

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01 — About

Delivery, end to end.

From Engineering (Development/Test Automation) to Program leadership — fluent with both the engineers building it and the business funding it.

Profile

I'm a Technical Program Manager with a strong foundation in software product development and test automation — over 8 years in engineering and 7 in program and project leadership.

I drive end-to-end delivery as a Program Owner, Release Manager, Customer Issue Manager, and Scrum Master across globally distributed teams. I can speak fluently with both technical and business teams because I understand the architecture underneath.

0Years in tech (eng + leadership)
0On-time delivery across release trains
0Drop in customer service calls (Project VA)
0Automation scripts built in one month
Currently

Technical Program Manager (SM & PL)

At UEI — Smart Home Technology. Leading a program spanning MyNevo (Android/iOS), the VA Chatbot, and the Nevo.ai Azure OTA platform.

02 — Capabilities

What I bring to a program.

Program leadership grounded in real engineering — the technical literacy to earn an engineer's trust and the structure to keep delivery on the rails.

Program Management
Strategic RoadmappingCross-functional LeadershipRisk & Issue ManagementRelease ManagementChange ManagementStakeholder EngagementKPIs & MetricsNegotiationConflict Management
Scrum Leadership
ScrumKanbanSAFeSprint PlanningBacklog ManagementPI / Quarterly PlanningRetrospectivesContinuous ImprovementWaterfall
Technical Delivery
SDLCMicroservicesSystem DesignCI/CDKubernetesSaaSAPIJavaNode.jsReactSQLSeleniumPostman
Tools & Tech
JIRA (JQL + AI)ConfluenceAzure DevOpsPowerBIJenkinsGitBitbucket
Environments
CloudMobileWebUnix / LinuxWindowsChatbots
03 — Selected work

Programs I've shipped.

Mobile, conversational, and cloud — across smart-home and compliance domains.

01

MyNevo

Smart-home mobile app for Android & iOS at UEI. Owned the release trains end to end, hitting a 90% on-time delivery rate across platforms.

AndroidiOSAzureRelease Mgmt
02

VA Chatbot

Web-based conversational virtual assistant. Drove cross-functional delivery that cut customer service call volume by 50% and lifted client satisfaction.

Node.jsReactConversational AI
03

Nevo.ai

Azure cloud platform for Over-the-Air (OTA) firmware updates. Managed release and incident processes that improved MTTR by 30%.

C#Azure CloudOTA
04

Service Desk

Real-user issue triage and support ticketing. Owned escalation and incident management for production issues across distributed teams.

Incident MgmtEscalationsSLA
05

Digital Safe

Archiving and storage platform at SMARSH. Led release planning balancing stakeholder priorities with 100% roadmap alignment.

LinuxArchivingCompliance
06

Supervisor

Compliance management web application. Prioritized 50+ features with WSJF & RICE and reduced program risks and delays by 50%.

Web AppWSJF / RICECompliance
04 — Career

Fifteen years, one trajectory.

Basic Engineer to SDET and to Technical Program Manager — retained through four acquisitions and counting.

10/2023 — Present
Technical Program Manager — SM & Program Lead
UEI · Smart Home Technology — Bangalore
  • Defined program goals, OKRs, and strategic priorities — aligning delivery with key stakeholder needs.
  • Ran end-to-end program for Android, iOS, Chatbot, and Azure cloud apps — 90% on-time delivery across all release trains.
  • Owned escalation and incident management for real-user production issues, improving MTTR by 30%.
10/2018 — 08/2023
Technical Program Manager — Program Lead
SMARSH · Archiving & Compliance — Bangalore
  • Translated business needs into technical solutions with WSJF & RICE, prioritizing 50+ features to maximize ROI.
  • Reduced program risks and delays by 50% through proactive dependency management.
  • Directed Agile delivery for a 25-member global team across 3 time zones.
11/2010 — 09/2018
Lead Software QA Engineer — SDET
SMARSH (via Iron Mountain → Autonomy → HPE → Micro Focus) — Bangalore
  • Engineered automation frameworks with Selenium, Java, Maven & Rest Assured, increasing test coverage by 40%.
  • Automated 85% of critical web modules, reducing regression testing time by 50%.
  • Configured Jenkins CI for nightly builds, cutting deployment failure rate by 20%.
08/2005 — 10/2010
Early Career — Family Retail Business
Family retail venture — with early operations & customer-support exposure
  • Part of a family retail business venture — early hands-on grounding in running a business and serving customers directly, before moving into software engineering.
05 — Credentials

Education & certifications.

Education

B.Tech — Electronics & Communications Engineering
JNTU, MITS · 2001 – 2005

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance · Cert ID 001462163
Project Management Certificate
PMCertificate
Generative AI Fundamentals
Google Cloud Skills Boost
06 — Let's talk

Let's build something
that actually ships.

Open to Technical Program Manager roles where engineering depth and delivery discipline both matter. Available to join immediately — based in Bangalore, valid USA visa.