CHAITANYA SAABOO PANDULA

Male, 26

EDUCATION
Year Degree Institute %
2018 - 2020 PGDM IIM Lucknow -
2009 - 2013 B.E in Computer Science Engineering Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad 66.02
2009 Board of Intermediate Education AP Sri Chaitanya College, Vijayawada 95.20
2007 Andhra Pradesh Board Ravindra Bharathi Public School, Vijayawada 89.83
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Received Scholarship during B.E for 4 consecutive years 2009-2013
Scholarship  Recipient of Central sector scheme of scholarship for being in top 0.002% in Class XII 2009
 Conferred with Best Outgoing Student Award out of 120 students in CSE department 2013
 Best outgoing student in a batch of 630 students for excelling in academics cum
Awards extracurricular 2007
 30 out of 480 are selected to ‘Cognizant Certified Student’ program, I was one among 2012
them
WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Cognizant, Hyderabad Aug '13 – Jun '17
Earned back to back promotions within 13 months against the firm average of 24 months
 Team Leader for a team of 12 members
- Handled creation of inquiry, quotation, sales and billing documents
- Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, development
process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance
- - Reviewed design and code of various new features contributing to quality of the task assigned
- - Ensured 100% SLAs for tasks by maintaining logs and daily status checks
Roles &
- - Resolved cross functional issues with application, testing and server teams
Responsibilities
- - Ensured that the business flow is complete and correct, provided training to end users
 Lead Developer supporting a Fortune 100 client
- Created Marketing Resource Management dashboard for Walt Disney that lead to savings of
US $8000
- Participated in product testing by writing automated test scripts for the features developed
- Experienced in unit testing, system integration testing and user acceptance testing
 Conceptualised & Organized Domain Knowledge(DoKnow) sessions for 2000+ employees for
Initiatives better understanding of domain
 Mentored the new hires and helped them acclimatize to their responsibilities
 Among the top 2% of our vertical among ManLog level 0, 1 & 2 certifications
Certifications
 Among the top 8% of Cognizant to complete IME level 0, 1 & 2 certifications
 Appreciated for developing Smart Locator mobile application that led to savings of US $13000
 Awarded Above and Beyond award for showing exemplary individual achievement for 3 consecutive
Awards & quarters among 1000 employees in IME domain
Recognition  Won first place out of 400 in Hackathon conducted by ManLog vertical in Q2 2015
 Awarded Diamond in the Rough award for commendable contribution to MLEU practice during Q3
2014
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
 Lead the organizing committee of our team
POC, Cultural,
 Launched Monthly magazine “IR – Dairies” which has monthly revenues, person of the month and
Cognizant
monthly activities
Core Member,  Conceptualized and organized Summer sports camp with 30 employees in Government High
Cognizant School, Manikonda, Hyderabad
Outreach  Increased volunteer hours by 35% from 30hrs to 40.5hrs a week
 Trained 100+ developers on .Net, Angular JS, JQuery, MVVC framework, developed more than 200
POC’s resulting in 100% bug-free code
Training Lead,
 Onboarded 50 developers and supervised 12 developers staffed on project midway and delivered in
Cognizant,
timelines
2014-15
 Documented 48 knowledge repositories with SOP and conducted knowledge transfer sessions
effectively
Organiser,  Organised Industrial Tour for 15 days with a budget of 4.96 lakhs
Industrial Tour,
 SPOC for coordination with Vendor Partner, College Administration and students
Vasavi, 2012
 Managed 40 boys + 20 girls + 2 faculty to travel across Northern India
Core Member,  Collected Sponsorships from organizations and colleges in Andhra Pradesh
Euphoria,  Marketed the event in several colleges which resulted in higher audience participation
Vasavi,2012  Supervised and handled registrations of technical and cultural events combined
 EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
 Sports Co-ordinator for Computer Science department in Vasavi 2012
Sports  Won gold medal consistently for 4 years in school 2003-07
 Captain of the Vasavi College of Engineering, cricket team 2012
 Bike Tourer
Hobbies
 Playing Sports
Email: placecom@iiml.ac.in Ph: +91 522 273 4013 PCOM No: 249