Rohit Iyer — Senior Program Manager
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Program manager for hardware and software launches at an electric fleet company, seven years running delivery across engineering, firmware and field teams. Landed a 4,200-vehicle telematics rollout in 14 cities three weeks early and 8% under a ₹6.4 crore budget.
Experience
Senior Program Manager, Nirvaan Mobility · January 2023 – present
Owns launch delivery for the telematics platform: hardware, firmware, backend and field installation.
- Delivered a 4,200-vehicle telematics rollout across 14 cities three weeks early and 8% under a ₹6.4 crore budget, coordinating 11 vendors and 60 field technicians.
- Cut the firmware release train from six weeks to 12 days by splitting one monolithic test cycle into staged hardware-in-the-loop gates.
- Introduced a single risk register across four squads, taking scope added mid-quarter from 31% of the plan to 9%.
- Chairs the launch readiness review for every release; the last nine shipped without a rollback, after four rollbacks the year before.
Program Manager, Kestrel Freight Systems · August 2020 – December 2022
- Migrated 1,900 fleet customers onto a new dispatch platform over nine months at 99.4% data accuracy and with no billing disputes raised.
- Mapped dependencies across six teams, which took the average age of a cross-team blocker from 12 days to 3.
- Chaired the review after a two-day outage and drove the seven actions that followed; the same failure has not recurred in three years.
Project Coordinator (contract), Varnika Foods · May 2019 – July 2020
- Coordinated a barcode traceability rollout across nine plants on a 15-month contract, closing all 42 plant sign-offs before the audit window.
- Replaced a weekly status call across nine plants with a shared tracker, saving 20 hours of reporting a month.
Education
- B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering · National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli · July 2015 – April 2019
Skills
- Delivery: Program governance, Risk registers, Dependency mapping, Release trains, Vendor management
- Technical: Telematics hardware, Firmware release cycles, SQL, Jira, Grafana dashboards
- Business: Budget ownership, Field operations, Stakeholder reporting, Post-incident review
Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) — Project Management Institute
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) — Scrum Alliance
