About

Karthikeyan Ladappan is an experienced Engineering Manager with over 17 years of experience in IT, having played diverse roles across the organizational hierarchy. He has spent 10 years in technical roles and 7 years in generalist/managerial roles. Karthikeyan has hands-on experience in design, coding, reviews, deployment, and post-production support in J2EE Technologies. He has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software on-time with Agile teams and has 4+ years of experience in Agile Transformation and coaching teams. Karthikeyan is skilled in project planning, estimation, cost & schedule management, risk management, tracking, reporting, and leading multidisciplinary teams across locations. He has hands-on experience in Agile, Waterfall, Support, and hybrid project management methodologies. He is ITIL certified and has implemented various support processes. Karthikeyan has experience in people management, goal setting, and performance appraisal. Karthikeyan's specialties include Scaled Agile RTE, Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Portfolio Management, Project Management, ITIL practices, IT Service Delivery Management, Onsite/offshore team management, and Vendor Management. He has domain exposure in BFS Cards & Payments, MES, Supply Chain, Identity & Access Management, SCADA, and Life Science. Karthikeyan's education and certifications include PGP in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning from Great Lakes Institute, Executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management – Kozhikode, PG-Diploma in Advanced Computing from C-DAC ACTS, Amrita Institute of Advanced Computing, Certified SAFe Agilist, ITIL Foundation, Design Thinking, and Cloud Native Application Factors. Karthikeyan has worked with companies like Cognizant as a Senior Manager - Digital Engineering and Technical Program Manager. He has worked with clients like ANZ Bank and American Express and has experience in Product Development, SAFe AGILE, Technical Program Management, and Large Scale projects with distributed teams, multi-vendor & shared members scenarios. Karthikeyan's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, ML, SRE, DevOps, Software Engineer, Microservices, and Infra. Overall, Karthikeyan has 16.53 years of relevant experience.