Madangopal Desai

Madangopal Desai is an experienced technology leader with a strong background in managing and leading software development teams across various projects and initiatives. He excels in coaching team members on agile principles and best development practices to ensure successful project delivery.

Desai is known for empowering teams by setting achievable goals and motivating them to reach stretch goals. He is a diligent software development lead proficient in managing long-term releases using Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). His expertise lies in product development, release planning, change management, and product strategy.

As an innovative leader, Desai has a track record of directing new projects and managing existing ones effectively. He has years of experience leading cross-functional teams and completing projects on time by seamlessly managing workloads to meet deadlines. He enjoys coaching and mentoring engineers, providing technical leadership, and hiring and training junior team members.

Desai's project management skills are exemplified by his ability to lead multiple projects concurrently while ensuring clarity in tasks and unblocking team members to keep sprint deliverables on track. He strategically assigns tasks based on team members' strengths and weaknesses to maintain both timeliness and quality. He fosters a positive team environment by offering constructive feedback and organizing frequent meetings and code reviews to resolve conflicts and enhance collaboration.

His specialties include program management, Agile methodologies, and successful implementation of Scrum practices. Desai is proficient in Java/J2EE, JDK/JDBC, XML/SOAP, Webservices, RESTful APIs, Spring, Grails/Groovy, Jersey, tcServer/Tomcat, Design Patterns, Junit, Sonar, Oracle, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, IntelliJ, Kafka, HTML, JavaScript, React, and Redux.

Desai holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Sardar Patel University. He has held senior positions at Visa, formerly serving as a Software Development Manager and Senior Software Development Manager. Previously, he was a Staff Software Engineer at CyberSource Corporation (VISA Inc.), a Senior Java Developer at CyberSource Corporation, a Senior Software Engineer at Epocrates, a Senior Systems Analyst at Roche Pharmaceuticals, a Programmer / Analyst at IBM, VT, and a programmer at DDE ORG.