Arun Kumar

Program Director, Connectors and Performance at IBM

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

Over 19+ years of relevant IT Industry experience in Software Development. Proven leadership in - Development of both SaaS and on-Prem Enterprise Products for Integration Domain - Release management for Cloud - Agile Delivery Model - Dev Ops - Customer Support (Level 3) - Quality Assurance - On Site Coordination - Vendor management - Championing L3 support activities - Operations - People Management Deep Proven Leadership Skills * Excellent communications * Excellent cross geography teaming * Team builder with a passion for problem solving * Strong people management skills, leading by empowerment and engagement * Ability to hire, retain top talents, motivate team. * Strong Passion to deliver high quality products, with complete sense of ownership for delivery of the product, willingness to go an extra mile whenever necessary and collaborate with teams across geography. *Closely interlocking with Global Offering management teams, Architecture teams, Project office and Legal teams to align Engineering deliveries in line with Business Plans * Always willing to work on stretch assignments, tangential to current work area, to keep continuing the learning process

Experience

  • IBM (Full-time · 23 yrs 9 mos)
    • Program Director , Connectors and Performance
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Release Manager, App Connect iPaaS
      Jan 2020 - Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos

      As Release Manager for App Connect iPaaS (on IBM Cloud), am responsible for Planning and execution of Production pushes, besides ensuring strict adherence to the iPaaS SLOs. Also, am responsible for identifying and implementing optimisations in this cloud offering.

    • Senior Software Development Manager
      Jan 2018 - Feb 2025 · 7 yrs 2 mos

      Passionate technology adopter Currently Lead and Drive the Development of back end platform and connectors for Hybrid Integration offering App Connect (https://www.appconnect.ibmcloud.com) developed using Agile Delivery Model and Dev Ops • Closely work with external Vendor(s) for the delivery of Connectors • Strategic initiatives to offer key differentiations over existing competitors • Closely interlocking with Global Offering management teams, Architecture teams, Project office and Legal teams to align Engineering deliveries in line with Business Plans • Handling the Operations role for our local executive with respect to Resource Management and Finance.

  • Member of Technical Staff at Sarayu Softech
    Feb 2002 - Oct 2002 · 9 mos

    Sarayu Softech is a product development company, developing software applications and products both in application and system domain. It also has a hardware product development group. My role was in Design, development and testing of Java/J2ee applications

  • Member of Technical Staff at Mantra Broadband Pvt Ltd
    May 2000 - Feb 2002 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Mantra Broadband Private Ltd was involved in development of intelligent bandwidth management software. The main product, which controls the network is the IRX and has a controller the configuration panel, the Coupler. My role was  Design, development, Integration and testing of the features developed/enhanced in Coupler.  Portal Infranet (Billing Software) installation and configuration  Also, was involved in developing Online library for Mantra broadband Pvt ltd named ‘Maliba’ Achievements:  Awarded “Star performer” for performance for the year 2001  Awarded “Star performer” for project ‘Maliba’ (for the year 2000)