Alumni in the News - June 15
Sunil Bopardikar appointed VP of Engineering at Coupons.com. He will oversee Coupons.com's product development functions, including engineering, quality assurance, databases and infrastructure. | Satish Jamdar, Managing Director, Blue Star Ltd., India's largest central airconditioning company interviewed on Leader Speak
Coupons.com Incorporated, the recognized leader in digital coupons, today announced that Sunil Bopardikar has joined the company as vice president of engineering. He will oversee Coupons.com's product development functions, including engineering, quality assurance, databases and infrastructure and will report to CTO Steve Horowitz. Mr. Bopardikar brings more than 20 years of engineering and product development experience and, over the course of his career, has held a range of positions at high profile Silicon Valley technology companies, including Yahoo! Inc., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Most recently, Mr. Bopardikar was senior director of engineering at Yahoo!. With a focus on scalability, performance and high availability, he was responsible for the technology platform behind many of the company's products. He also oversaw the development of internal Platform Services and Tools used in new product testing, advertising performance and quality measurement, abuse prevention, and other key functions monitored by Yahoo! to ensure continuous measurement and improvement.
Mr. Bopardikar holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
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Satish Jamdar says, "The business model for us is of being an engineering-led manufacturer, a contractor, and an after-sales provider."
You’ve just acquired DS Gupta Construction. What is the rationale behind the same?
This acquisition was to strengthen our Electro Mechanical Projects business.
Brief us on how the past few years have been for the company?
More recently, we started noticing the impact of the economic slowdown roughly in the second half of 2008. While we had orders in the pipeline and were ready to execute the same, we started witnessing a mixed reaction from our customers. Some clients found it prudent to complete the work that had commenced, while many others, due to liquidity issues preferred delaying their projects. The funnels gradually got smaller and decisions were slow to come by.
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