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Phani Kumar Prativadi Bhayankaram

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Director, Program Management (Engineering Leadership) at Virtusa
📍 Greater Hyderabad Area, India

Phani is an engineering leader with over 22 years of experience scaling FinTech SaaS platforms for companies like NCR Atleos. He specializes in cloud-native modernization using Azure and Kubernetes. An alumnus of IIM Visakhapatnam, colleagues describe him as dedicated, approachable, and calm under pressure.

He demonstrates a strong commitment to continuous learning and professional development. He actively attends virtual conferences on emerging technologies like Agentic AI and completes advanced courses on executive leadership, strategy, and management to sharpen his skills.

His platforms have served over 300 financial institutions across 30 countries while sustaining 99.9% uptime.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Director, Program Management (Engineering Leadership)
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Hyderabad Area, India
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FinTech at Scale
He has over two decades of experience leading engineering for SaaS platforms serving hundreds of enterprise financial institutions across the globe.
Cloud Modernization
He leads the adoption of cloud-native technologies like Azure, Kubernetes, and microservices to improve platform performance and reliability.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Director, Program Management (Engineering Leadership)
Virtusa
7-2024 - 12-2024
Career transition
Career Break
10-2023 - 6-2024
SW Engineering Manager II
NCR Atleos
10-2020 - 10-2023
SW Engineering Manager
NCR Corporation
8-2017 - 9-2020
Agile Project Manager II
NCR Corporation
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Education
9-2024 - 8-2025
Executive Senior Management Program
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
1998 - 2000
Master of Science - MS
Andhra University
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