Kanhai Chhugani

Experience

Street Light Software Pvt Ltd - (Mumbai, India)

Managing Director (From: September, 2012 To: Present)

Founder of Street Light Software

Operations

• Defined and built the initial Product EasyHR.
• Setup sales and support channel and processes.
• Scaled bootstrapped company to a profitable venture in 3 years.

Product

• Defined the feature set for initial MSP.
• Created the initial framework for developing and building the product.
• Setup the CI/CD DevOps pipeline for continuous deployment.
• Ported the monolithic app to docker and deployed it on Kubernetes.
• Made it Vendor Independent can be deployed on any PaaS (e.g. AWS/Azure).
• Setup up auto regression testing using selenium and nightwatch.js

Sales

• Setup initial sales channel and did sales calls and demos.
• Negotiated Sales contracts and onboarding of customers.
• Conducted Webinars to increase awareness.

INDx Technologies Pvt Ltd - (Palo Alto, CA)/(Mumbai, India)

Managing Director (From: April 2011 To: September, 2012)

Setup India product development operation for INDx Technologies.

Operations

• Recruited the development team to setup development of product.
• Setup the infrastructure for product development team.
• Setup system for communication with US team and India Team.

Product Development

• Design the Initial Architecture of the Lab Management System
• Created the initial framework for standard for code quality.
• Setup CI/CD continuous deployment framework for speed.
• Conducted Demos and Webinars for to help the sales channel.
• Setup up auto regression testing using selenium.

Phase Forward, Inc, (Waban Software Group) - (Waltham, MA/Mumbai, India)

Director, Research & Development (From: April, 2009 To: September 2010)

• Managed product development for Clinical Data Center (CDC) and product design and development of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
• Managed entire operations for Mumbai site.
• Created and managed departmental budgets.
• Liaised and interfaced with the customers for requirement gathering and identifying project specifications.
• Ensured timely deliveries of product milestones and releases.
• Empowered team and managers to run projects on minimum dependency

Waban Software Pvt. Ltd - Mumbai, India

CEO – India Operations (From: February, 2006 To: April, 2009)

Waban Software, Inc & Waban Software India was acquired by Phase Forward, Inc in April 2009.

Operations

• Setup India operations for Waban Software, Inc.
• Setup the Infrastructure for development team.
• Scaled to add testing team and services team from India.
• Established the support team to manage product support and provided customer support.
• Scaled from 4 employees for 70 employees in a period of 3 years.

Product Development

• Involved in product design & development for Waban LIMS and Waban SCE product suites.
• Liaised and interfaced with the customers for requirement gathering and identifying project specifications.
• Moved Waban LIMS from VB6 to VB.NET and later to a web based product.

Waban Software, Inc - Cambridge (MA, USA) / Mumbai (India)

Consultant / Product Manager (From: March, 2004 To: February, 2006)

Worked as a developer role building modules for Waban LIMS.

Waban LIMS is Laboratory Information Management system

• Helped build module addons for Waban LIMS.
• Wrote Design Documents for the modules
• Wrote Knowledge base / Help articles for designed modules.

Logic Overdrive Pvt. Ltd - (Mumbai, India)

Project Manager (From: October, 2002 To: March, 2004)

• Supervised QA for the software.
• prepared & managed project plans for software development.
• Designed software architecture and database designs in coordination with the Team Leads.
• resolved technical problems.
• client interaction and provided customized programs.

Vark Industries Pvt Ltd - (Mumbai, India)

Software Programmer (From: June 2000 To: May 2001)

Worked as a developer role

• Understood and Designed the backoffice system for Futures and Option for Stock Brokers.
• Build on VB 6.0. and later upgraded it to a web based system.
• Helped with Demos of the designed system.
• Developed COM libraries for back-office module.
• identified the programs where modifications were necessary.
• coded and documented the specifications & changes.

Waaree Infotech - (Mumbai, India)

Project Leader (From: September 1998 To: March 2000)

Lead Developer for CRM Software Built with VB 6.0 and MS SQL Server.

Product

• Designed the CRM Product for initial use in the company later a generic product sold in market.
• Coded the product on VB 6.0 and MS Access and MS SQL Server.
• Created an installation package for deployment and configuration.
• Helped with demos of the product.

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