Prasad Tendulkar
Chief Technology Officer, SVP at Deckers Brands
San Mateo, California, United States
About Prasad Tendulkar
Prasad Tendulkar is Chief Technology Officer, SVP at Deckers Brands. Location: San Mateo, California, United States.
As an accomplished, transformational, and hands-on technology leader, I bring a fresh approach in building game-changing products/applications at scale with a business focus. Throughout my career, in various technology leadership roles, I have built many elegant solutions leading large cross-functional teams (Engineering, operations, QA, and support), with a key focus on the customer, using technology to address complex problems and drive business growth. During my six-plus years at Sephora, I helped fuel its growth with many innovative consumer product offerings. I have been recognized for delivering predictable and consistent outcomes that not only exceeded business expectations but also created long-term value and established a culture of innovation. I enjoy building teams and coaching them to be a part of the Center of Excellence. As a leader, I have organized global teams by a combination of hiring rock stars and by grooming in-house talent with a focus on diversity and inclusion (DEI) before it was recognized. I have brought engineering best practices by studying others’ successes and turned individual talents into “seal-team” units, which have delivered breakthrough wins, often exceeding goals/expectations. At Openfit, to increase the scale and double the team throughput, I set up a strategy to re-structure teams into smaller pods, breaking the monolithic back-end and embarking on a journey of more nimble delivery and deployments for further scaling. When rapid move by consumers to online and their preferences to improved shopping experience during the pandemic, I led mobile eCommerce, retail technology, and digital experiences teams (100+), helping to scale Sephora exponentially, delivering a transformed business, ahead of its competitors. Among some of the more technology-driven advances at Sephora, promoting innovations to improve upon already rich consumer experiences to deliver personalized skin- tone-matching technology using ML algorithms, well ahead of the competition. As an influential leader, I have guided teams and organizations through rapid growth as well as through digital transformation at critical times. Partnering with key leaders in organizations to set the technology strategy, I’ve established a product roadmap and budget and executed on it. My focus on customer experience and pushing for market-leading innovation have resulted in rich experiences for end-users, rapidly driving sales, conversion, and loyalty, which is rare in the fickle consumer business.
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Additional experience
Vice President Of Engineering
Under Armour
April 2022 – June 2025
Education
- BE, Savitribai Phule Pune University