Abhinav Mishra, Project Manager in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Abhinav Mishra

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Bio

Abhinav is a project manager with extensive experience in software and technology industries, building fast-paced, sustained Agile teams across functions. He has worked at Microsoft for seven years in addition to working with startups and Fortune 500 companies. Abhinav considers OKRs to be governing mechanisms and loves building organizations and cultures that produce excellent products.

Project Highlights

Outlook Mobile
Helped build the Outlook mobile app for iOS and Android and grew the product from having a few thousand to hundreds of millions of users.
Business Intelligence and User Analytics
Built and managed systems that could handle a billion users in a complex multi-application environment.

Expertise

  • Agile Delivery
  • Agile Software Development
  • Agile Sprints
  • Azure DevOps
  • Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
  • Product Management
  • Software Development
  • Team Building

Work Experience

Head of Engineering

2021 - 2022
Renegade Insurance
  • Handled technology strategy, planning, and execution. Pushed for engineering best practices and a data-driven approach.
  • Established OKRs for success measurement and Agile processes for day-to-day execution and delivery.
  • Set up the engineering organization, hierarchy, and role definitions. Managed hiring for technical and project management roles and ran performance review cycles.

Principal Engineering Manager

2014 - 2021
Microsoft
  • Set up and expanded multiple product teams during my seven years at Microsoft, focusing on product intelligence and business analytics domains.
  • Built products that enabled data-driven decisions for leadership, project managers, and developers. Helped products grow their user base from thousands to hundreds of millions of users.
  • Created the MVP version of the product for the next generation of digital assistants.

Project History

Outlook Mobile

Helped build the Outlook mobile app for iOS and Android and grew the product from having a few thousand to hundreds of millions of users.

Contributed to the mobile app development of email, calendar, and files features. Built a team of engineers to work on data and analytics for Outlook. The user, performance, and business analytics included A/B testing, new user experience flows, and virality.

Automation at Symantec Data Loss Prevention

Helped make product testing five times more effective. Served as the team's founding member and helped build Symantec data loss prevention for macOS.

Built quality assurance protocols and a framework that enabled 60 manual testers to write automated test cases in English. The tests ran end to end and covered API services, desktop-native applications, and web assets.

Business Intelligence and User Analytics

Built and managed systems that could handle a billion users in a complex multi-application environment.

Managed a team of over 20 engineers, data analysts, and project managers to deliver a business intelligence and user analytics product for OfficeSuite. The final product helped leadership, project managers, and developers complete tasks more effectively.

Renegade Insurance

Led the company through Series B funding. Achieved a significant improvement in organizational efficiencies and best-practices adoption.

Served as head of technology, establishing organizational best practices for a team that grew rapidly from around 10 to approximately 70.

TASKS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• OKRs and their mapping across the teams, as well as company-wide OKR coaching.
• Organizational structure, job levels, and responsibilities
• Streamlined from skill-based organization to product-function-based organization
• Established development methodology
• Steered through monolith to a microservices architecture

Education

2003 - 2007

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) - Lucknow, India

Certifications

APRIL 2015 - PRESENT

Data Science Certification

Johns Hopkins University | via Coursera

Skills

Tools

Jira, Slack

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Azure DevOps, Agile, Agile Delivery, Scrum

Platforms

iOS

Other

Microsoft Office, Agile Sprints, Team Building, Agile Practices, Data Science, Product Management, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Team Management, Agile DevOps, Stakeholder Management, Scrum Coaching, Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Startups, Startup Consulting, Software Development, Software Architecture, Agile Software Testing, Microsoft Teams, Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Fintech

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