About

Sandeep Shamkuwar is a highly experienced Director of Software Development at Oracle with over 15 years of experience in product strategy, management, planning, designing, and development. He has a diverse skill set that includes improving customer experience, stakeholder management, corporate strategy, total cost of ownership in the cloud, product release and roadmap, business intelligence, geo-diverse team leadership, product lifecycle management, go-to-market launch plans, competitive market place, and market share, managing cross-functional teams, building and sustaining competitive advantage, and business socio-economic factors. Sandeep has a strong technical background, having worked on large-scale enterprise cloud R&D projects, including platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and data as a service (DaaS). He is also proficient in database management, data warehousing, and data analytics, as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence, software on silicon, multi-tier distributed applications, advanced data structures and algorithms, big data, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, C, C++, Python, Java, and J2EE Platform, and Oracle and all enterprise databases. He is well-versed in agile and lean development methodologies. At Oracle, Sandeep is responsible for strategizing and developing enterprise applications valued over multi-billion dollars, including Oracle Database In Memory platform and Oracle Cloud – PaaS, DaaS, IaaS, and SaaS. He also designs and architects core functionalities for Oracle Database and Oracle Cloud products from inception to release. Sandeep is passionate about improving customer experience (CX) and reducing total cost of ownership for customers through innovation and continuous customer engagement. He develops project proposals for enterprise mission-critical products to convert a business vision into an operational and high-yield product. Sandeep holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, with a focus on corporate strategy, finance, and entrepreneurship. He also has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal. Sandeep is a software engineer with relevant experience of 16.96 years and has previously worked as a senior engineer at Reliance.