Suraj Subhash Vernekar

Lead Technical Product Manager & Lead Architect

Lead Technical Product Manager · SAFe® 6 Certified · 14+ Yrs

About Me

Hi, I'm Suraj Subhash Vernekar — a Lead Technical Product Manager, Lead Architect, and SAFe® 6 Certified PO/PM based in Bengaluru, India.

With 14+ years of experience, I specialise in delivering scalable cloud-IoT, DevOps, and cybersecurity solutions across the automotive, energy, and fintech domains. I bridge the gap between strategic business goals and technical execution — owning product vision, roadmaps, and end-to-end delivery from architecture through deployment.

I have a strong track record in European client engagement (Continental AG Germany, Siemens India) — aligning stakeholder needs across Germany, Austria, and 16 EU countries. I am passionate about Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI, and am currently training 3B-parameter LLMs and building domain-specific GenAI solutions including website-builder and code-builder assistants.

I hold a patent (Application 2833/CHE/2012) for a computer-implemented presence-verification system, and have been recognised multiple times including six consecutive years as a key contributor at Continental.

Languages: English · Konkani · Marathi · Kannada · Hindi

Roles

Projects

📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Skills & Expertise

Technologies and tools I work with

AI & Data

LLM Engineering (3B scale) 80%

RAG Pipelines & Vector DBs 75%

Generative AI Tools 80%

Machine Learning Operations 70%

Data Science 70%

Cloud & Architecture

AWS 85%

Azure 85%

GCP 75%

Microservice Architecture 85%

Cloud-Native / IoT Platforms 85%

DevOps / CI/CD 85%

Docker / Kubernetes 75%

Product & Delivery

SaaS Product Management 95%

Product Roadmapping 95%

Backlog Prioritization 95%

User Story Definition 90%

Agile / Scrum / SAFe 95%

Stakeholder Management 90%

Requirements Analysis 90%

Cross-Functional Leadership 90%

Programming

Java 80%

Python 75%

JavaScript / Node.js / Angular 75%

PowerShell 85%

Groovy 70%

C# 70%

PHP 70%

Project Execution

End-to-End Lifecycle Ownership 90%

Risk Identification & Mitigation 85%

Delivery Governance 85%

Program Management 85%

Tools & Ecosystem

Jenkins / ELK Stack 85%

JIRA / Confluence 90%

Git / GitHub / Gerrit 85%

SAP / Billwerk+ 70%

MongoDB / MySQL 75%

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Featured Projects

Things I've built

VDO Fleet — B2B SaaS And Self-Onboarding

AWS Azure Java Angular Microservices SAP/ERP REST APIs Agile/SAFe IoT

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VDO Link Telematics & Monetization Platform

AWS GCP Azure Java Angular Microservices IoT Billwerk+ SAP REST APIs

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Siemens Industrial Cloud — MindSphere IIoT Platform

AWS Azure Java Angular Microservices IoT MindSphere Docker Kubernetes CI/CD

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Continental Continuous Integration Platform

Java Python Groovy Jenkins AWS Docker Kubernetes ELK Stack Eclipse Plugin CI/CD Linux SAFe

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Personal Portfolio Website

PHP 8 MySQL Tailwind CSS Alpine.js Claude AI API PHPMailer XAMPP

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Stories & Journey

Lessons, reflections, and milestones

career product-management

From QA Automation to Lead Product Manager — 14 Years of Building Things That Matter

How I went from writing PowerShell test scripts at Symantec to leading product delivery for Continental's global VDO Fleet platform across 16 European countries — and what I learned along the way.

Mar 15, 2026

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