Kiran Kale
IT Head | Digital Transformation | Software Development Leader
Virar
Summary
Results-driven IT Head and Software Development Leader with 7+ years of experience in IT strategy, enterprise software development, and digital transformation. Expertise in building scalable insurance and financial platforms, optimizing IT infrastructure costs, and ensuring regulatory compliance (IRDAI). Successfully led the development of a retail insurance platform and a custom Affinity Insurance solution with seamless integration across multiple insurers. Strong background in team leadership, vendor management, and cloud optimization, driving business growth through technology.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages
Work History
Head of Information Technology
Nivotime Private Limited
03.2024 - Current
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define business requirements for new technology implementations.
- Overseeing IT operations and software development to ensure seamless execution of projects, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Managed vendor relationships, negotiating contracts for optimal pricing and service levels.
- Driving strategic IT initiatives, aligning technology with business goals to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.
- Retail E-Commerce Solution for Insurance
- Led a team of 10 developers in building a custom online insurance marketplace from scratch, catering to health, motor, life, and personal accident insurance.
- Designed and implemented real-time integration with multiple insurance providers, enabling users to compare quotes instantly, leading to a 30% faster decision-making process for customers.
- Ensured robust API architecture, optimizing response times and reducing latency by 40% through direct integrations with insurers.
- Leveraged deep insurance industry expertise to proactively address regulatory and functional challenges, ensuring seamless user experience.
- Ensured regulatory compliance, with the retail insurance portal certified under IRDAI’s ISNP regulations.
- Affinity Insurance platform for EDME Insurance Broker
- Designed and developed a scalable Affinity Insurance platform tailored to EDME Insurance Broker’s business model, enabling seamless policy purchases and claims processing.
- Integrated multiple insurance providers and client systems, ensuring real-time policy issuance and automated data synchronization.
- Implemented a robust API architecture, reducing policy processing time by 30% and enhancing user experience.
- Developed a dynamic product configuration module, allowing insurers to create and modify products based on customer needs without additional development effort.
- Ensured high security and compliance, implementing encryption, audit logs, and role-based access control (RBAC) to safeguard sensitive insurance data.
- Optimized system performance, reducing response time by 40% through efficient database structuring and caching strategies.
- Enabled seamless onboarding of multiple clients, making it easy for new partners to integrate with the platform.
- Automated policy generation and document management, reducing manual workload and improving operational efficiency.
Team Leader - Project Management
Prosares Solutions Private Limited
06.2023 - 03.2024
- HRMS Portal for Welspun Group
- Led a team of 6 developers in designing, developing, and deploying a comprehensive HRMS portal, ensuring seamless integration between new and legacy HRMS systems.
- Defined Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and project timelines, optimizing execution and reducing delivery time by 20%.
- Spearheaded solution creation and brainstorming sessions with stakeholders and clients, improving requirement clarity and enhancing stakeholder satisfaction by 30%.
- Managed resource allocation and project planning, ensuring 85% adherence to deadlines while maintaining high-quality deliverables.
- Developed and optimized APIs in .NET Core with MS SQL Server as the backend, reducing API response time by 40% through query optimization and caching strategies.
- Led the integration of new HRMS with old HRMS, successfully migrating and synchronizing organizations employee records without data loss.
- Ensured system scalability and security, implementing best practices that improved system uptime.
- Document Tracking System for Tata Capital
- Led a team of 5 developers in designing and implementing a Document Tracking System to manage loan and borrowing documents, tracking their location, availability, and status.
- Collaborated closely with business analysts to gather and refine crucial requirements, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Designed wireframes and UI prototypes, improving stakeholder understanding and securing early-stage approvals.
- Developed a secure and scalable document management architecture, enabling real-time tracking of thousands of loan-related documents.
- Ensured compliance with regulatory standards by implementing robust security and audit features.
Team Leader - Software Development
Login Advertising PVT LTD
01.2021 - 06.2023
- Owned the project schedule, and met 75% of feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks
- Mentored junior team members, fostering professional growth and increasing overall team efficiency.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Worked closely with team to build an interactive coding environment amongst team to improve engagement and to achieve productivity by over 40%
- Worked within an agile team, and helped prioritize and scope feature requests to ensure that the biggest impact features were worked on first
- End-to-end knowledge of corporate insurance products and workflow, operations and after sales services, TPA
- Worked closely with stakeholders to understand the requirement and mapped them with the business logic
- Identified risk levels in new projects
- Led brainstorming meetings for new initiatives
- Developed comprehensive project documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility for all team members.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Assessed VAPT Document
Sr.Software Engineer
Login Advertising PVT LTD
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Collaborated with 3 developers to implement API's that enabled integration with TPA to increase fruitful user experience by 24%
- Worked on cross-functional domains to deliver the best of my knowledge in manufacturing and retail industries
- Worked with the team to develop web portal and mobile application for insurance brokers
- Strong understanding of web API's, web applications, MVC, desktop application, etc
- Maintained the end-to-end documentation of all projects timeline, development strategy and planning
- Strong understating API documentation, project workflow, project wireframe, data structures
- Worked on insurance solutions like Portal, Mobile application, flex, Wellness kiosk, flipbook, etc
- Strong understanding frameworks like Asp.net, Flutter, iOS, Android, Bootstrap, React, JavaScript, HTML, XML
- Worked on SSO technologies like SMAL2.0, JWT
- Created a dynamic module of a SSO to remove a code redundancy in project
- Understanding of SAML with and without token encryption
- Prepared project progress reports
- Created PowerPoint presentations for project meetings
- Created project roadmaps to meet the deadlines
- Coordinated employees' schedules and assigned them respective tasks
- Created monthly progress reports and communicated results to appropriate staff and managers
- Organized meetings for employees and congratulated them on their successes
- Coordinated with clients to factor in their expectations and needs
- Kept project's clients informed, solicited their feedback, and managed changing expectations
- Created network diagrams that show the deliverables of a project and the order of completion
- Kept employees on track with assigned responsibilities
- Set clear expectations and directions for team members
Software Engineer
SMB Solutions
06.2017 - 12.2018
- Working the requirement given by the stakeholders and implementing them in the project
- Developing the web API's, web application
- Delivering the assigned task and responsibilities in give timeline
- Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.
- Implemented effective debugging strategies, resulting in fewer software defects and increased reliability.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
University Of Mumbai
Viva College 04.2001 -
Skills
Word
Power point
Excel
Data Structure and Algorithms
MS SQL Server
PostgreSQL
PL/SQL
MySQL(MariaDB)
Data Visualization
HTML Reports
Excel Reports
Gantt Chart
ASP NET
C#
VB
MVC
Web API's
WCF
Windows Application
Version Control
TFS
Git
undefinedCertification
Business Strategy and Leadership, PG Program IMT Ghaziabad
Operating Systems
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Linux
- Android
- IOS
Timeline
Head of Information Technology
Nivotime Private Limited
03.2024 - Current
Team Leader - Project Management
Prosares Solutions Private Limited
06.2023 - 03.2024
Team Leader - Software Development
Login Advertising PVT LTD
01.2021 - 06.2023
Sr.Software Engineer
Login Advertising PVT LTD
01.2019 - 01.2021
Software Engineer
SMB Solutions
06.2017 - 12.2018
Master of Science - Information Technology
University Of Mumbai
04.2001 -
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