Datta Vellal

2024

As Software Excellence Competency Lead managing nine competency experts, turned an indifferent business relationship with Ultrasound into trust and led the proof of concept that first ran its test suites on virtual machines. Led the team that organized Developer Days India for 250+ engineers, held 104 connects with 389 colleagues and brought static analysis and code-health tooling into product pipelines.

  • ~3min test run on a VM
  • 250+at Developer Days
  • 104connects with 389 colleagues

8.6/10 SOLID talk.

What mattered most

  1. 01

    2024 review: turned an indifferent business into a partner

    My manager rated three goals Exceeds and called my Ultrasound partnership the home run of the year, a relationship built in the face of indifference and turned into trust.

  2. 02

    Led Developer Days India for 250+ engineers

    I led the team that organized the three-day India edition of the company's worldwide developer event, with industry partners and 250+ participants.

  3. 03

    Designed and taught a SOLID principles series

    I designed and taught a talk series on SOLID design principles to build developers' design skills; one talk was rated 8.6 out of 10 from 37 responses.

  4. 04

    Led a proof of concept to run ultrasound tests on virtual machines

    I led a phase 1 proof of concept in which Software Excellence and the Ultrasound team moved a simulator test suite from physical hardware to virtual machines.

“Many thanks to each of the teammates who helped think through the 'art of possibility'.”

Engineering leadership team memberPhilips, June 2024Read the capsule

By month

Also in 2024

  1. 11 December 2024Recognized by a former manager for coaching a colleague during her strong yearRecognition
  2. 28 October 2024Published the LinkedIn article 'Influence without Authority: Lessons from Game Theory'Writing
  3. 21 October 2024Built a repository scanner for protected health information, listed in the R&D cloud-migration playbookProject
  4. 9 October 2024Presented the ultrasound simulator virtualization journey and next steps at the Innovation ForumTalk
  5. 27 September 2024Supported a product project that passed its program-increment gate with management's go-aheadProject
  6. 12 June 2024Guided an apps team, with a member of his team, to add static analysis to its CI as a reusable workflowProject
  7. 29 February 2024Ran a code-health analysis session that led an Ultrasound engineering director to explore adoptionProject
  8. 28 February ~2024Advised an identity platform team to use managed Kubernetes for its node upgradeProject
  9. 9 February ~2024Gave a product team concrete actions to raise pull-request quality in a CI/CD working sessionTalk
  10. 7 February 2024Co-authored the State of Software Craftsmanship 2023 report, praised publicly by senior leadersRecognition