Karuna Goel

Senior Program Manager at Workday

Danville, California, United States

About

Extensive experience with leading teams in delivering quality software using agile methodologies (Certified ScrumMaster CSM). Adept at collaborating with global teams with a strong focus on customer requirements. Developed cloud platform solutions for SAP HANA. Seeking a leadership position to deliver robust solutions in the cloud. Project Management Professional PMP.

Experience

  • Workday (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Senior Program Manager
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Program Manager
      May 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Scrum Master / Program Manager at Xcalar, Inc.
    Jul 2019 - Dec 2019 · 6 mos

  • Development Expert, Catalyst at SAP
    Jul 2010 - May 2019 · 8 yrs 11 mos

    Worked in leadership positions on cloud offerings of SAP HANA database. Collaborated with multiple teams while following agile methodologies for the entire software release cycle. Scrum master/Technical lead for SAP HANA, Express Edition • SAP HANA, Express Edition is an enhanced version of SAP HANA intended for laptops and other resource-constrained hosts. Team leader for this product as the scrum master and technical architect which involved providing technical solutions on various platforms such as Virtual Machines, Docker, GCP, AWS, Azure. Employed technologies such as Packer and Vagrant. Conducted demos of the product at TechEd Las Vegas as well as at internal developer conferences. Product is very successful and, to date, has recorded 100,000+ downloads. Quality lead for HANA Cloud Service • SAP Cloud Platform, SAP HANA service is the most advanced in-memory database fully managed across multiple cloud environments. Technical leader of the product’s Quality Team. Developed and establishing Quality KPIs and led the end-to-end team to develop and run automated end-to-end tests. Developed test catalogs and the dashboards to monitor them.

  • Staff Software Engineer at Sybase
    Apr 1994 - Jul 2010 · 16 yrs 4 mos

    Technical lead for various projects for the SAP Replication Server. This product enables real-time transaction-level replication between supported databases. Led the development team as scrum-of-scrums for multiple releases. Led the HADR solution using Replication Server as scrum master for the project. Directed transition of the product development team to agile methodologies and processes. Developed several release-defining features for the product. Successfully completed ISO audits and other internal audits. Successfully completed Common Criteria certification for Replication Server by developing relevant documents.

  • Software Engineer at Computer Associates, Inc
    Sep 1992 - Apr 1994 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Developed and maintained CA-DB (a relational database management system). Provided engineering support to technical support engineers for escalated customer cases. Responsibilities required knowledge of VAX VMS, C, UNIX, DCL, debugger, SQL.