Amar Michael Sequeira
Academic Operations & Digital Transformation Leader
12+ years building and running the technology behind higher education: a college's digital foundation, an online-education vertical built from scratch at MAHE, and today a three-university product portfolio serving 50,000+ students.
Product Manager, UNext Learning · Bengaluru
I started as a lecturer who fixed the college's systems. Now I design the systems that run universities.
For seven years at Bhandarkars' Arts & Science College I taught while building the institution's digital foundation: automated admissions, exams, attendance and certificates, plus ten live-teaching studios during the pandemic.
At MAHE's Directorate of Online Education I built the online-education technology vertical from scratch, managing a 10-member team, 10+ vendors and a ₹20+ crore infrastructure programme.
At UNext Learning I own product work across the whole student journey: CRM, finance integrations, digital lending, AI voice, telephony and regulatory workflows for three universities.
CRM, finance, lending, telephony and regulatory systems connected through APIs with clear source-of-truth ownership.
Admissions, scholarships, examinations, LMS and UGC-DEB compliance, learned from inside the institutions.
150+ SOPs, 100+ UAT cycles and 100+ releases. Launches are followed through to stabilisation.
University leadership, finance teams, counsellors, faculty and external implementation partners aligned on one plan.
Every project hinges on one product decision. These show the context, what I owned, the hardest trade-off and how I proved it worked.
Finance and communication products, academic programmes, governance and institution-wide rollouts. Each card names the decision behind it.
The same delivery loop runs underneath every project here, whether the system is a lender API or an exam workflow.
Sit with admissions, finance and counsellors to find where the work really breaks.
Make the product call: what to standardise, what stays university-specific, who owns the data.
Field mappings, triggers, payloads, journeys and exception paths, written down before build.
Joint UAT with partners: payload, mapping, downstream record and reconciliation, then retest.
Batch or phased go-live with SOPs, so operations teams can run it without me.
Watch exceptions, close defects and redesign the workflows that keep failing.
Smaller wins that add up. Open any row for the problem, what I did and the result, or filter by where the work happened.
Extension support for a college and a school, syllabus pages for five MAHE online programmes, and two client websites. Each link opens the live site.
External technology support: website, domain and hosting, Google Workspace for Education, online-class support and organised evidence links for institutional processes.
Built the school's online admission web app, alongside website, Microsoft 365 and live-learning support, without high platform costs.
Semester-by-semester syllabus pages for MAHE's online postgraduate programmes. Pick a programme and semester to open the live page.
A mobile-friendly site for Shilpa Leathers, which has made leather hand protection for industrial drivers, welders and engineers since 1996, with its product range and company story.
The public site for VMatch, an Indian matrimonial matchmaking service, introducing the company and linking members through to its matchmaking portal.
Classroom IT, then an online university, then a three-university product portfolio.
UNext Learning · for UGC-DEB workflows across MAHE, MUJ and SMU
UNext Learning · Manipal Education & Medical Group
Manipal University Jaipur
MAHE, Manipal · Directorate of Online Education · until Mar 2023
IOP Conference Series · Scopus-indexed · co-author
International conference at St Aloysius College, Mangalore · for the ERepository paper (sole author), published in IJIRCCE
Bhandarkars' Arts & Science College · until Dec 2021
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Mangalore University
Hands-on enough to read a payload or write the Python, senior enough to run the vendor call.
Spot Award
UNext Learning, 2025, for contributions to UGC-DEB workflows across MAHE, MUJ and SMU.
Best Paper Award
SACAIM 2015 international conference, for the ERepository paper (e-governance track).
2 publications and 8 conference papers, one Scopus-indexed
215 certificates since 2019, from Microsoft, Google, IBM, AWS, Deakin University, King's College London and more. The credentials that matter most come first. The library below lists the rest, each linked to its certificate. Years show when each was earned, and expired certifications are marked.
Two peer-reviewed publications, eight conference papers and a Best Paper Award, spanning library systems, e-governance, data security and health informatics.
Sequeira, A. M. · International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer & Communication Engineering, Vol. 3, Special Issue 7
Ramananda et al., including Sequeira, A. M. · IOP Conference Series: Materials Science & Engineering
International Conference on Startup Ventures: Technology Developments and Future Strategies (SV-TDFS 2018)
International Conference on Advance IT, Engineering and Management (SACAIM 2015), St Aloysius College, Mangalore · e-governance track
1st National Conference on Health Informatics (HINCON 2015), MAHE, Manipal
International Conference on Advance IT, Engineering and Management (SACAIM 2014), St Aloysius College, Mangalore
National Conference on Cyber Law and Cyber Forensics (NCCLF'13), Sree Sankara Vidyapeetom College, MG University, Kerala
2nd National Conference on Computer Science and Informatics (NCCSI'13), Anna University, Tamil Nadu
National Conference on Academic Libraries: Challenges in the Electronic Era, SVS College, Bantwal
1st National Conference on Current Trends in Advance Computing and IT Applications, Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Kolar
I'm glad to talk about product, digital transformation and EdTech leadership, or about the integration that keeps breaking on your team.