About

Sathish Chandrasekaran is a highly accomplished and experienced technology leader with over 23 years of relevant experience in enterprise software development. As the Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft, he has global experience in enabling hi-tech front office business processes such as lead management, opportunity and pipeline management, quoting, e-commerce, order management, fulfillment, provisioning, omni-channel support, knowledge-centered support, and customer success management. Sathish has a decade of technology thought leadership and managerial experience, with a proven ability to think strategically and execute tactically to accomplish business goals. He is a hands-on manager with a track record of success in building and leading large teams through all phases of the software development life cycle. He can crisply define the situation, the turnaround plan, align teams, and deliver success. Sathish is a certified Scrum Master and Safe Program Consultant (SPC4), and he has championed the adoption of Agile methodology and engineering practices across teams. He is a servant leader who knows how to lead by self and others to drive organizational needs, deliver results working with direct and cross-functional teams. Sathish is also a speaker on DevOps and API management solutions at CA World and similar sales events. He showcases CA's products and reference implementation to CA's prospects. He has worked with CA Technologies in the past, where he closely collaborated with the CIO to architecturally direct strategic initiatives impacting IT spend of over $10 million. He led and managed the enterprise architecture function and a team of solution architects supporting three key CEO initiatives. He provided critical architectural oversight and was a trusted advisor to business stakeholders in understanding business goals and objectives, identifying gaps in business capabilities within CA's enterprise, evaluating and selecting vendor solutions, performing competitive research and point of views where necessary, and working closely with delivery teams in implementing the recommended solution. Sathish has a strong educational background, having completed his CSM (Certified Scrum Master) from Agile Alliance, ITIL v3.0 certified, and PMP certified (PMI). His tech stack includes senior software engineer, software engineer, DevOps, research scientist, and frontend.