About

Madangopal Desai is an experienced technology leader with over 24 years of relevant experience in the software development industry. He is currently serving as the Director of Product Development at Visa, where he manages and leads software development teams working on various initiatives and projects. Madangopal is an expert in product development, release planning, change management, and product strategy. He is a diligent software development lead adept at managing long-term releases using Agile SDLC. He enjoys coaching and mentoring engineers with technical leadership, hiring, and training junior team members. Madangopal is an innovative leader bringing years of success directing new projects and managing existing projects. He empowers teams by setting achievable goals and motivating them to reach stretch goals. He is an expert software developer offering years leading cross-functional teams and completing projects on time, seamlessly managing workload to meet deadlines. In his current role, Madangopal is responsible for ensuring that everyone understands what to do and helps the team in a number of occasions to unblock them so that sprint deliverables are on track. He makes sure to assign tasks to each team member based on their strengths and weaknesses to ensure that not only work is getting done on time but also keeping quality in mind. Madangopal is proficient in program management, Agile methodologies, and Scrum implementation. His technical skills include Java/J2EE, JDK/JDBC, XML/SOAP, Webservice, SOAP, RESTFul, Spring, Grails/Groovy, Jersey, tcServer/Tomcat, Design Patterns, Junit, Sonar, Oracle, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, IntelliJ, Kafka, HTML, JavaScript, React, and Redux. Madangopal holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. He is passionate about organizing and facilitating frequent meetings and code reviews to avoid and/or resolve any conflict within the team members. He works closely with stakeholders and organizes/facilitates demos by allowing each team member to demo individual components, motivating them so that they feel valued and also feel that such experience will help them with their personal and professional growth.