About

Catherine Thundyil is an accomplished IT management professional with over 16 years of experience in executing projects in multiple technology disciplines. She is currently serving as a Staff Technical Program Manager at Walmart Global Tech India. Catherine's expertise lies in program definition, budget allocation, resource planning, project execution, risk management, stakeholder management, and managing release schedules. Catherine has led globally dispersed teams and executed projects in various technology disciplines, making her an intrapreneur in the making. She has a strong inclination towards new product innovation and can see opportunities for organizations to build innovative solutions for customers. Her technology background coupled with management expertise has helped her conceptualize and develop a personal finance product, and she is well-versed with the entire software product lifecycle. Catherine's career highlights include serving as the Engineering Manager of a Market data referential application in the Fixed Income perimeter, leading a highly engaged team of Sr. Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Senior Developers. As part of program management, she handled the end-to-end ownership of projects and programs worth 500K Euro from initiation to launch in a fast-paced agile environment. Prior to joining Walmart, Catherine worked as a Program Manager at General Electric, where she managed the Pet-MRI product. She also served as a Senior Project Manager at Société Générale, where she collaborated with key stakeholders to define a clear product roadmap, budget, and requirement prioritization. Catherine spearheaded the Agile @scale transformation in the business unit and coached the team in sustaining continuous delivery practices while establishing core scrum ceremonies. She was also a core team member of the Machine learning guild and chapter, where she created business proposals on problems that can be solved with ML. Catherine holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the Institute of Product Leadership, which she completed in 2017. She also has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications from the University of Kerala, which she completed in 2001. Catherine's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer and ML, and her relevant experience amounts to 18.36 years.