venkata siva kumar pabolu

Led a 96-engineer global organization owning software engineering, production operations, SRE, security operations, and technical product ownership for a mortgage servicing platform on Azure. Drove AI-native SDLC transformation and agentic workflows, cutting closing-process turnaround from 2 days to 8 minutes.

One of the earliest members of Smart Glass labs' team, acted as both an advisor and leader in following areas :

- Technology Strategy and Roadmap : tooling and tech choices, IoT and cloud strategy Roadmaps

- Product Development : Market & Customer Research, Product Features, Product Roadmap

- Business Strategy : Thought leadership for business models, overall plans and more

Led a 355+ FTE global engineering organization with a $92M annual budget, owning B2B and B2C eCommerce platforms handling $110B revenue. Spearheaded modernization to a cloud-based MACH architecture and stabilized the legacy platform from weekly outages to over a quarter of zero downtime.

• Spearheaded technology-driven business transformation for Michaels' Retail Tech, with responsibility for product management (including technology strategy, design innovation, cloud architecture, and solutions delivery)

• Delivered strategic direction and technical leadership for enterprise projects focusing on modernizing in-store retail systems (such as self-service kiosks) and driving omnicha

• Played critical leadership role supporting CIO of the North America Fuels business unit, driving technology strategy, product innovation, and solutions architecture and delivery for digital/cloud transformation and modernization initiatives.

• Managed planning and execution of digital transformation projects covering core payments platform (including billing, audit, and reconciliation functions

• Directed technology strategy, product portfolio management, product lifecycle optimization, and technology delivery for 2 business units while managing the tech delivery budget and serving as the technical point of contact for both units’ General Managers.

• Provided strategic direction and leadership across entire product lifecycle, from business case development to solutions design, vendor se

• Progressed through multiple roles spanning enterprise/systems architecture, delivery management, solutions design, and thought leadership while serving as a critical bridge between product, operations, and technology teams across multiple divisions.

• Defined and established comprehensive product roadmaps (including epics, features, and functional/non-functional requirements) covering multiple

Led a team of Analysts and Consultants to develop and administer sales force effectiveness strategies, for a Pharmaceuitcal Product marketing team at a US top 5 Pharmaceutical client, by enhancing ZS’ proprietary, SAS based, Sales attribution analytics engine.

Senior Technical Architect at AT&T Mobility.

Senior IT Analyst at Cingular Wireless.

Pursued an MBA with a focus on Strategy and Finance.

Activities and societies: Active member of Alaap, a Light Music Group composed of students from NCSU.

Focused on Computer Aided Engineering, with coursework in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Parallel Programming, Distributed Computing, Operations Research, Engineering Dynamics, and Numerical Methods. Active member of Alaap, a Light Music Group.

Earned a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering.