About

Krunal Pala is a seasoned Technical Leader, Senior Engineering Manager, and Product Owner with over 15 years of experience in driving multiple initiatives across business units spread across geographies. He is currently working with Google India located in Bengaluru, India, since December 2022. Krunal is recognized for driving first-time-right solutions with the highest business impact, operational excellence, and happy teams. Krunal has recently played a pivotal role in building teams from the ground up for the Ukraine crisis. He onboarded six resources within 45 days and ramped up their knowledge to deliver with higher velocity within three months by 20% compared to the pre-crisis period. Krunal has expertise in defining and measuring success metrics, OKRs, cross-functional distributed team management, designing MVP features, architecture, and solutions, vendor and resources management, evaluation for new application vendors for enterprise systems, crisis and risk management, defining and improving business and engineering processes, budget, forecasting, and planning, creating vision and strategy for short, medium, and long term, resource planning, operational and engineering excellence, speed, quality, performance, and monitoring. Krunal has excellent team skills, including coaching, mentoring, influencing leaders and peers, hiring, building teams from scratch, talent development and retention, and creating high-performing happy teams. He is proficient in Salesforce, AWS, Atlassian, Slack, Workato, Java, Python, Spring, RESTful services, UI/UX, SCM & CI/CD, and delivery methods such as Kanban, Agile - Scrum, and Waterfall. Krunal has also demonstrated expertise in product management, including product owner, strategy, planning, and roadmap, end-user workshops, interviews, metrics, and adoption. Krunal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Dharmsinh Desai University and completed his High School education in Science Stream from Shri L G Haria School. Krunal's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce, designer, AWS, Spring, Java, Javascript, Jenkins, product manager, Spring Boot, DevOps, UI, Python, Web, CI/CD, SQL, Integration, test, MySQL, iOS, and Mobile. With 0.86 years of relevant experience, Krunal is an exceptional leader with a passion for driving transformation and growth.