Tarun Suneja
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Toptal member since February 7, 2025
Tarun is an accomplished PMP-certified engineering leader with over 15 years of experience crafting customer-centric products. He has demonstrated expertise in assembling high-performing engineering teams from inception, shaping product roadmaps, and delivering highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed software solutions with stringent SLAs. Proficient in leveraging a broad spectrum of technologies and tools, Tarun easily addresses complex business challenges across various industry domains.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Leadership
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Work Experience
Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft
- Formed a new team that consistently delivers exceptional performance.
- Achieved annual savings of $3 million within the initial six-month period.
- Developed algorithmic collections, reducing manual curation with increased acquisitions and an uptick of over 3% in revenue.
- Promoted to a principal role within a year because of the impact I have created delivering high-value projects.
Engineering Manager | Scrum Master
KeyLoop
- Coached and headed three teams of five to seven members, each with various scrum processes as part of the transition to SAFe.
- Maintained a continuous focus on impediments, risks, and dependencies to ensure efficient project delivery.
- Achieved 100% sprint success by implementing effective sprint planning and processes.
- Achieved a 15% reduction in production issues over five months.
Technical Project Manager
TeckEdge Solutions
- Executed numerous projects for clients based in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
- Spearheaded teams located in multiple countries for round-the-clock delivery.
- Oversaw creating and following sprints. Tracked projects closely through daily scrum meetings and Jira for 100% customer satisfaction.
- Learned various technologies like .NET Core, JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, Python, React Native, and AngularJS, and had extensive exposure to AWS and Azure.
- Developed over 50 automatic and semi-automatic monitoring, deployment, and testing systems.
- Automated reporting to Slack, Microsoft Teams, emails, and Telegram channels, saving many people hours.
Test Engineer
Infosys
- Completed six months of extensive training as a 5-pointer.
- Attained 1+ customer risk rating (CRR) during appraisal, the highest in the organization.
- Gained 1 year of onsite exposure in the UK, where I developed software testing frameworks crucial for delivering critical projects within tight deadlines.
- Designated a manual QA and wrote many automation utilities, which aided in speedy and accurate delivery, saving project costs.
Project History
Microsoft Store | Movies and TV
Achieved a $3 million annual saving within six months of joining a new team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Ensured a seamless transition of all responsibilities from other locations to the India team, guaranteeing the successful delivery of critical projects.
• Coached my team consistently to overcome technical difficulties and deliver high-quality results.
• Worked on technical architecture with senior engineers for migrating business-critical services from legacy infra to Azure Service Fabric.
• Collaborated with a business team and other stakeholders to define further roadmap and long-term vision.
• Provided clarity to team members on various projects, enabling them to deliver impactful results promptly.
Information System Migration Project
Collaborated with multiple departments to gather requirements and migrate their existing workflows from different tools and files to Microservices architecture.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Gathered requirements, analyzed existing solutions, designed the project architecture, and accomplished project objectives.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies using Jira as a scrum master.
• Developed projects’ technical architecture and helped the development team work through complex algorithms and business logic implementation.
• Administered infrastructure, including on-premise and AWS Cloud, overseeing network, servers, drives, and device monitoring.
• Gained extensive hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, and S3.
Web Scraping Framework
Developed a web scraping framework to scrape multiple data sources at scale.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Analyzed existing projects, outlined flaws and limitations, brainstormed requirements, and designed project architecture, accomplishing project objectives and producing effective reports and desired alerts.
• Programmed complex modules, including sequencing jobs, issuing critical alerts, and consolidating logs from various programs/utilities into a single platform.
• Integrated existing Python jobs in Node.js architecture with minimal code changes, saving development efforts of 1,500 hours.
• Implemented continuous deployments on multiple Linux nodes, ensuring flawless execution on each system as an autonomous unit.
Certifications
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Skills
Tools
Jira, Visual Studio, Trello, Slack, Atlassian, QTP, HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Paradigms
Agile, Azure DevOps, Software Testing
Platforms
Azure, Azure Service Fabric
Other
Leadership, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Engineering Management, Team Mentoring, Coaching, Scrum, Delivery Management, Project Management Professional (PMP), Microsoft Teams, Design, Jira REST API, Software Design, SAFe 6, Software System Architecture Development, Selenium, Quality Auditing, QA Testing, COBOL, CICS, IBM Db2, Risk Management, Project Management, RESTful Microservices, C#, Web API, AngularJS, Scraping, Data Scraping, Web Scraping, Web Services, Puppeteer, Node.js
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