Fayaz Gujal
Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolFayaz Gujal is a Senior Manager in Strategic Sourcing with over 15 years of procurement and supply chain experience across global technology and financial firms including Meta, J.P. Morgan, VMware, IBM, and Freshworks. He combines category and strategic sourcing expertise—especially in SaaS, cybersecurity, hardware, and telecom—to deliver multimillion-dollar savings and operational improvements, such as a $1.7M telecom contract win at Meta and a 30% supplier consolidation at VMware. Known for designing end-to-end Source-to-Pay operating models, SOPs, and continuous improvement initiatives, he balances strategic program leadership with hands-on contract negotiation and supplier due diligence. Fayaz has managed complex, region-spanning sourcing programs across APAC, EMEA and the US, aligning procurement with business and legal requirements to accelerate Time-to-Value. He also contributes to open-source projects as a back-end developer on Kodi plugins, showing a practical technical curiosity beyond sourcing. Based in Bengaluru, he is a collaborative leader who drives transformation while mentoring teams to scale procurement capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Com, Commerce, B.Com, Commerce at University of MysoreKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanSandur Residencial high school, Business/Commerce, General, Sandur Residencial high school, Business/Commerce, General at Central Board of Secondary EducationMaster of Business Administration (MBA), HR/Marktg, Master of Business Administration (MBA), HR/Marktg at Manipal University
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English
Github Skills (3)
kodi10
python10
http10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc-adult/xbmc-adult
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
main xbmc-adult Kodi repo for Frodo, Gotham, Helix, Isengar, Krypton, Leia and Matrix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 147 PRs, 160 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fayaz primarily contributed to the `plugin.video.videodevil` Kodi addon, which is a video plugin for various Kodi versions. Their commits focus on bug fixes, including download issues and compatibility problems. They also made improvements to the plugin's functionality by adding features like HTTPS support and enhancing the catcher methods. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and extending the addon's capabilities within the context of its core video streaming purpose.
kryptonkodi-addonpythongothamxbmc
jsergio123/script.module.resolveurl.xxx
May 2018 - Feb 2022
Additional plugins for XXX related hosts
Contributions:4 PRs, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
hostsadditionalpluginxxx
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