About

Rakesh Sharma is a Certified CSM® and ITIL® professional with over 14 years of experience in leading teams through all software development phases from requirement gathering and analysis to design, development, testing, implementation, and support. He has tenacious problem-solving capabilities to develop innovative solutions and has incorporated test-driven development, validation, and change management activities in his development achievements. Rakesh has a proven record of delivering technically competitive projects with both agile and waterfall models with large distributed and multifunctional teams across multiple geographical locations. He is skilled in Software Development Life Cycle, Project Planning, Team Leadership, Quality Assurance, System Analyst, Specification Development, Change & Release Management, Development Practices, Resource Management, Problem Resolution, and Communications Internal/External. Currently, Rakesh is an Engineering Manager II at HERE where he builds, leads, mentors, and directs a world-class engineering team and cultivates a culture of innovation & delivery. He defines the technical agenda for the team, works and directs the team on multiple projects of varying scope and complexity, and oversees a team charged with collaborating with other engineering teams, designers, architects, and stakeholders to efficiently support map creation and maintenance at scale. In his previous roles as Associate Director Engineering and Sr Manager Engineering at Vuclip Inc., Rakesh was responsible for end-to-end product development/delivery, monitoring and tracking, handling multiple products spanning across programs and geographically diverse teams. He led and inspired a team of Software Engineers to ensure execution and timely delivery with high quality for international clients for Mobile Web and app. He managed 14 products from 12 countries and drove high standards for quality, stability with high velocity product development. Rakesh holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree and a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) degree from Kurukshetra University. He has experience in Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, test, QA, Backend, product manager, Mobile, and Web. Overall, Rakesh has 15.62 years of relevant experience in the field of software development and product engineering.