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About me

I come from a very small town and got educated in public school. Throughout my life I have continuously pursued learning along with job and family. This helped me to understand and contribute to the roles that I took and scale up the corporate ladder. I always try and understand the fundamental 'why' and set my foundation strong. I have inspired and helped a lot of people to take up risks. I am in the last leg of my PhD in Computer applications. I have helped various organizations in the software industry to achieve new heights with strategy, technology, product, process and people. I also give sessions to college students on Industry insights.

C-Suite full stack executive with 17+ years of experience in leading diverse teams across geography by redefining new levels of customer-centric engagements in a variety of highly competitive, cutting-edge markets and fast, action paced environments. Presently setting up India Operations for Nimbly Tecnologies Pte, as Senior Director Engineering at Bangalore

Education

Pursuing PhD at Karunya University, (Thesis submission stage)
Executive General Management Program, IIM-B, Bangalore
MBA, Human Resources, IGNOU
MPhil, Computer Science (Distinction), Bharathidasan University, Trichy.
MCA (Distinction, Gold Medalist), Sacred Heart College, University of Madras, Tirupattur
BSc, Mathematics, Auxilium College, University of Madras, Vellore

Certifications

• IICA – Independent Director
  
• CMST
  
• CSTE

Patent Disclosures & Publications

• Reine De S Reanzi and Ranjith Jeba P Thangiah. Derivation of Impacted Areas and Generation of Test User Stories for Agile Context. International Journal of Computer Applications 174(32):31-37, April 2021 [Google Scholar Indexed]
• Reanzi, S. and Thangiah, P., 2021. Natural Query Based Retrieval of Executable Testcases To Understand Currency In Live Software Environments. International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Control, 13(2). [Scopus Indexed]
• Reanzi, S. and Thangiah, P., 2021. A Survey on Software Test Automation ROI, in Organizations Predominantly from Bengaluru, India. International of Journal of Engineering and Business Management (Accepted) [Scopus, Web of Science Indexed]
• S. R. De Reanzi, V. Rajiah and P. R. J. Thangiah, "Dynamic Prioritization and Execution of API Tests Based on Customer Usage Pattern for SaaS Applications," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM), 2018, pp. 105-109, doi: 10.1109/CCEM.2018.00026. [Scopus Indexed]
• Reine Reanzi, August 2015, Challenges in Practical Implementation of Model Based Testing Approaches 11th Annual International Software Testing Conference, August 2015, Bengaluru
•  AI Test Fabric for Microservices - test retrieval, selection, sequencing and execution, Issuing authority IP.com, Issued date: Dec 2019, Expiration: No Expiration Date, Credential ID IPCOM000260762D, URL: https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000260762
• Automation Adoption by Everyone – Fluid Virtual Test Lab, Issuing authority IP.com, Issued date: Nov 2018, Expiration: No Expiration Date, Credential ID IPCOM000256341D, URL: https://priorart.ip.com/IPCOM/000256341

Professional Awards

• IBM Manager Champion Award
  
• IBM Equity Award
  
• Best Team award, IBM
  
• Various multiple awards at Fiberlink like Consistent Performer, quality performer, Continuous Improvement Champion award, Fiberlink Brand Ambassador, Crunch Time Player award
  
• Oracle Quality Engineering Outstanding Contributor award

Achievements

Growing through Efficiency

• Running $15m solution implementations for customers across different industry verticals, geography, & sizes with razor sharp efficiency & a lean team (cross cultural collaboration)
• Strategic partner relationships, enablement & brand engagements, taking calculated risks
• Reduced 25% long term costs – Measure, Optimize & Metrics via Dashboards
• Increased 35% operational efficiency by restructuring processes, transformed solution experience
• Removed 60% manual effort through automation and reduced the average time a ticket lying in ready for QA from 11 to 2 days and reporter review tickets from 16 to 5 days to ensure technical wealth

Providing Value Beyond Expectation

• Turned a cost center into a value & a revenue center to a profitable one via innovation & process optimization. Implementing SOC 2 Compliance in 2 companies.
• Groomed key roles such as solution architects, project & program management
• Expert in running a lean, efficient SaaS/onPrem; solution/engineering delivery
• During retrenchment, acted as one person army by owning customer support, ITOPS, Devops, Product delivery along with solution delivery
• Architected, designed, delivered quality solutions (Agile) for SaaS, Salesforce platform, Startups (built teams, process from scratch), customer data migrations etc.
• Optimized regression, reduced the validation duration by three hours on elevation day by test prioritization and operations readiness, which improved team’s work-life balance

Strengths

• Be the fulcrum between the engineering, product, customers, partners, tech support, pre-sales teams and vendors
• Innovation - Reduced (400 hours per project) the time to delivery & increase the pace of delivery, by making a case with numbers for enhancements on product/platform to engineering & product teams
• Operations (Productive Efficiency) - Ability to run large-scale Ops through structure and methods
• Solutioning (Value to Cost Ratio) - Perceptive about customer need and ability to provide solutions efficiently, managing change requests & customer expectations

Professional Engagement

• Nimbly Technologies – Senior Director Engineering
• Zinier technologies – Senior Director Solution Development
• IBM India Software Labs – Senior Engineering Manager
• ServiceMax Technologies – QA Architect
• Fiberlink Technologies – Product Lead – QA
• Oracle India – Software Quality Engineer II
• Covansys – PeopleSoft IDC – Quality Engineer
• Sacred Hear College, Tirupattur - Project Initiator, Lecturer

Skill Sets