Kakali Basak
Senior Program Manager at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology
Singapore
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SeniorKakali Basak is a Senior Program Manager based in Singapore with 12 years of experience leading complex software and research-driven technology programs across academia and industry. She combines deep technical roots in C++, HPC, databases and full product lifecycles with strong program discipline—translating research prototypes like the open-source SimMobility transport simulator into deployed, globally used products. Experienced in hardware-software integration and vendor management, she has driven cross-functional delivery at companies from Motional to SMART, owning OKR-aligned roadmaps, sprint planning, and KPI reporting. A published researcher who mentors diverse teams, she routinely bridges government, university and commercial stakeholders to operationalize R&D. Notably, she has led large-scale migration and payment system projects as well as multimedia and streaming platforms earlier in her career, giving her a rare mix of embedded, backend and systems expertise. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic prioritization, risk mitigation and coaching junior TPMs while keeping sight of scientific rigor.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (1)
simulator9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
kakalibasak/wiki-images
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:41 pushes in 5 years 4 months
smart-fm/simmobility-prod
Jan 2014 - Dec 2018
SimMobility production repository
Contributions:20 commits, 13 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 11 months
simulatorproductiondriving
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