Sagar Kulkarni
About Sagar Kulkarni
Sagar Kulkarni is a Senior Program Manager at Bosch Global Software Technologies, where he has worked since 2021, leading customer programs in the EU and APAC regions. He has a strong background in software tooling solutions, automotive standards, and engineering transformation, with previous roles at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd.
Work at Bosch Global Software Technologies
Sagar Kulkarni has been serving as a Senior Program Manager at Bosch Global Software Technologies since 2021. In this role, he leads customer programs in the EU region, working closely with sales, delivery, and OEM teams. His responsibilities include managing customer-front-end programs in the APAC region, focusing on software tooling solutions tailored for customer teams and OEMs. Kulkarni utilizes cloud-native solutions and services, implementing strategies such as docs-as-code, infra-as-code, an API-first approach, and DevOps practices.
Education and Expertise
Sagar Kulkarni holds an Executive General Management Programme (EGMP) from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, which he pursued from 2023 to 2024. His academic background also includes a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum, completed from 2001 to 2005. Kulkarni possesses expertise in managing tools landscape for ECU and VCU development environments and has knowledge of automotive standards such as ASPICE, ISO 26262, and AUTOSAR.
Background
Before his current role, Sagar Kulkarni worked at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd. in various capacities. He served as a Senior Project Manager & Technical Sales for seven months in 2016 and as Project Manager from 2012 to 2014. He also held the position of Program Manager at Bosch from 2017 to 2021, where he worked in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Earlier in his career, he was a software engineer at Wipro Technologies Limited from October 2005 to September 2008.
Achievements
Sagar Kulkarni has significant experience in digitalization through engineering transformation. He has led initiatives that enhance application lifecycle management solutions, including IBM CLM and Codebeamer. His work has contributed to the development of software tooling solutions that support customer teams and OEMs, showcasing his ability to integrate advanced engineering practices within the automotive sector.