Brandon Lee Praamraj

Strategy & Business Alignment

• Strategic Roadmapping: Formulated and executed IT strategies across .NET ecosystems, aligning a R350M portfolio with corporate objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnered with C-suite executives and department heads to sync multi-million-rand IT initiatives with business goals.
• Data-Driven Governance: Established executive-level KPIs and automated tracking dashboards to drive rapid, data-backed course corrections.
• Tech Innovation: Evaluated emerging technologies to modernise legacy architectures and capture distinct competitive advantages.
• Process Optimisation: Audited cross-functional organisational workflows, delivering systemic changes that turned around underperforming engineering areas.

Delivery & Project Management

• End-to-End Delivery: Directed complex digital transformation programs and enterprise product launches from initial concept to market.
• Fiscal Accountability: Managed and optimized a R350M annual budget, consistently delivering high-scale projects on time.
• Resource Allocation: Supervised engineering capacity and resource distribution across multiple parallel project streams to maximize utility.
• Risk Mitigation: Instituted rigorous risk-assessment frameworks, eliminating technical and operational roadblocks before they impacted delivery.
• Scoped Requirements: Defined enterprise project scopes, architectural roadmaps, and technical specifications for high-impact corporate initiatives.

Agile Leadership & Product Ownership

• Agile Scale: Led 15 direct reports across cross-functional Agile squads, scaling continuous value delivery and team velocity.
• Sprint Architecture: Managed sprint planning and task distribution while systematically resolving complex technical blockers for engineering teams.
• Backlog Grooming: Prioritised high-volume product backlogs based on strict business value, technical dependencies, and ROI projections.
• Technical Advisory: Served as principal technical advisor to product owners, guiding critical architectural decisions for .NET systems.
• Technical Debt Management: Balanced commercial feature delivery with technical debt mitigation to ensure long-term system stability.

Web Operations & Performance

• High Availability: Oversaw enterprise web operations to guarantee maximum site uptime, reliability, and seamless user experiences.
• Performance Analytics: Analyzed traffic, system telemetry, and conversion metrics to optimize web application performance.
• Technical SEO & Standards: Enforced strict web standards and modern SEO practices to drive organic user acquisition.
• Incident Management: Spearheaded root-cause analysis for critical system errors, drastically reducing time to resolution for production faults.