Sulthan

Experience

Two decades of shipping.

  1. Sep 2026 — Present

    Hikmah Tech

    Technical Program Manager

    I take each product from idea to launch, working hands-on with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor) as the engineering team.

    • NahPets (nahpet.ae) — a complete operating system for a pet grooming salon, on the web and the salon's own iOS and Android app: booking, live location tracking of mobile groomers, online payments, a lead CRM, a campaign manager, and a Claude-powered chat and voice assistant that books appointments
    • BloomPath — a platform for Al Hayy's children's therapy and education programs that connects the organization, teachers and parents, with drag-to-book scheduling, automatic teacher matching, weighted assessments, and session notes with photo, video and audio, on web, iOS and Android
    • ENN — an accounting app for UAE small merchants that guides them through purchases, sales and expenses so their records stay ready for VAT reporting, without the complexity of a full accounting system
    Claude CodeCursorn8nReactReact NativeFirebase
  2. Sep 2025 — Aug 2026

    Remote

    Bolt

    Implementation Manager

    Managed end-to-end implementation of checkout and payments products for enterprise retail and eCommerce partners, owning scoping, onboarding, testing, go-live and stabilization across concurrent workstreams.

    • Coordinated Sales, Product, Engineering, Account Management and Support teams, governing partner dependencies, risks and integration timelines
    • Served as primary integration owner from sales handoff to launch, managing milestones, escalations and executive stakeholder communication
  3. Aug 2019 — Sep 2025

    San Francisco

    Infosys Equinox

    Technical Program Manager / Scrum Master / Senior Project Manager

    Led multi-workstream eCommerce programs and platform stability for enterprise clients including GAP, YoungLiving and NuSkin.

    • Led incident resolution and platform stability for Infosys Equinox e-commerce, reducing MTTR by 45% over 6 months and ensuring 99.95% uptime across mission-critical services
    • Established a three-tiered application support framework that streamlined issue resolution for enterprise e-commerce operations, boosting L3 ticket resolution from 10% to 60%
    • Drove Agile PI planning and cross-vendor collaboration, ensuring timely, value-driven delivery across multiple Scrum teams and program workstreams
    • Spearheaded technical program management and cloud modernization for GAP, overseeing globally distributed teams and aligning deliverables with governance standards
    • Led process harmonization at NuSkin by integrating ServiceNow and Jira — incident management in ServiceNow, all other workflows streamlined through Jira
  4. Jan 2019 — Aug 2019

    Menlo Park

    E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley

    Scrum Master

    Scrum Master for a cross-functional Agile team, facilitating all Scrum ceremonies and keeping delivery aligned with project goals and timelines.

    • Led the modernization of Partner Integration by migrating RSU data from a legacy system to RESTful services, improving data accessibility and system efficiency
  5. May 2018 — Jan 2019

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Kohl's

    Senior Program Manager / Service Delivery Manager

    Service Delivery Manager for the microservice APIs consumed by Kohl's applications, predominantly the mobile app.

    • Point of contact for every service issue across the mobile platform
    • Ensured the Kohl's mobile apps were released to production every week
    • Coordinated multiple Scrum teams from different vendors
  6. Nov 2013 — 2018

    San Jose

    PayPal

    Program Manager / Scrum Master / Member of Technical Staff

    Managed critical cross-functional programs during the eBay split, supporting 100M+ daily transactions and coordinating 10+ global engineering teams with zero-downtime holiday delivery.

    • Led an Agile transformation coaching 3 newly formed global Scrum teams, improving velocity by 40% and delivery predictability from 72% to 95%
    • Delivered scalable RESTful API solutions for PayPal's notification systems, reaching 80% adoption across engineering teams within one year
    • Coached newly formed groups on the Scrum process, supporting PayPal's platform scalability and engineering excellence goals
  7. Feb 2010 — Sep 2013

    Cupertino

    Apple

    Project Manager (Infosys, onsite at Apple)

    Ran the PMO for emerging technology projects, leading onsite tech leads and offshore delivery teams.

    • Worked with architects on solution design, secured sign-off from senior management, and owned release planning, implementation and cutover
    • Delivered Apple's Work Management System (WMS) with 25 developers across San Jose, Chennai and Mangalore
    • Led the HR Merlin migration from a legacy language to Cocoa with a 25-person team across four locations
    • Led the cross-functional survey opt-out project across 4 Apple systems (ACD, EDW, IDMS and Chatterbox)
    • Ran design reviews with the business and UI teams to sign off on screens
    • Partnered with ADP on payroll data transfer for a new retail rollout
    JavaPL/SQLOracleCocoaJSPRESTJMSXSLTJBossUnix shell
  8. Aug 2004 — Jan 2010

    Bangalore

    Infosys

    Senior Project Manager · Project Manager

    Led distributed delivery and support teams for Cisco, Solectron and Ingram Micro — owning people, quality, risk, budget and schedule management.

    • Senior Project Manager (2008–2010): led a 25-member distributed team maintaining and enhancing Cisco applications across support and enhancement tracks
    • Pre-sales team member for new service delivery engagements — defined customer application integration diagrams and resource models for proposals
    • Project Manager (2004–2007): managed a 30+ member support team for Cisco, Solectron and Ingram Micro, verifying delivery against SLAs
    • Stabilized a Cisco development project during UAT, resolving multiple issues to the customer's satisfaction
    • Partnered with the Six Sigma team to run the Ingram Micro team at a six-sigma level
    • Planned deliverables from the Bangalore offshore development center and submitted monthly operations reports to the client
    JavaEJBPL/SQLJSP.NETSQL ServerBusiness Objects

Skills

Program leadership

Program governanceRisk & dependency managementRoadmap planningExecutive reportingSAFe / PI planningAgile · Scrum · Kanban

AI & build

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorn8nAmazon QReactNode.jsREST APIs

Platforms & tools

JiraConfluenceRallyServiceNowAWSGoogle Cloud RunFirebaseGitHub Actions

Domains

Payments & checkoutRetail & eCommerceFintechPartner integrationsOrder workflows