Headline

Senior Engineering Manager | Building Scalable SaaS Platforms & High-Performance Teams | Fintech · CRM · AI-Augmented Engineering

About

Senior Engineering Manager | SaaS Platforms · Team Scaling · AI-Augmented Engineering I build engineering teams that ship reliably, scale confidently, and grow people along the way. 13+ years across fintech, CRM, and enterprise SaaS — the part I find most interesting is still the intersection of how systems are built and how teams are built. I've led teams through platform modernisation, hyper-growth scaling, and AI-native transformation — strong systems, stronger people. Right now @ Vymo Leading 20+ engineers on a Debt Collections SaaS platform for banks and NBFCs — compliance-heavy, high-stakes, reliability non-negotiable. • Launched across 6 financial institutions, each with unique integration and compliance complexity • Driving monolith → domain-driven microservices migration at product and platform layers — built for agentic and AI-native workloads • Cut client onboarding time by 40% through QA automation and delivery process redesign • Embedding Claude and Codex into daily engineering workflows — code reviews, test analysis, bug triage. A genuine productivity multiplier, not a novelty Capillary Technologies Enterprise customer engagement at global scale. 99.99% uptime. 95% test automation. 8 straight quarters of on-time delivery. Good systems, better processes. Vtiger Systems — 9 years Team Lead → Engineering Manager. Migrated a monolith to microservices (60% faster deployments), shipped 5+ core product modules, scaled 5 → 20+ engineers. Most proud of the junior engineers who became senior leads. On AI & side projects I use Claude and Codex daily — not just for coding, but for raising the quality floor across the team. Currently building and open-sourcing a lightweight tool for EMs and PMs to track team bandwidth and post-sales capacity. → github.com/Akshath0392 What I think about How do you build a team where ownership is the default? How do you modernise without grinding delivery to a halt? How do you keep delivery predictable as complexity grows? These are the problems I keep coming back to. Expertise: Engineering Leadership · Microservices & DDD · SaaS Architecture · Agile & OKRs · Team Scaling · AI-Augmented Engineering Stack: Java · Spring Boot · Node.js · Python · MySQL · MongoDB · AWS · Azure Open to conversations on engineering leadership, platform modernisation, and scaling teams that actually deliver.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

codex

gemini

claudecode

ChatGPT

Granola

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Vymo, Apr 2026 - Present · 6 mos

Engineering Manager at Vymo, Apr 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs, • Leading team of 20+ engineers building a Debt Collections SaaS platform serving financial institutions • Reduced client launch effort by 40% by mentoring QA team to build comprehensive automation test suites • Established design-first development culture, improving code quality and maintainability across all modules • Introduced process frameworks improving team productivity and delivery predictability quarter-over-quarter • Implemented process improvements, enhancing project delivery timelines and team efficiency.

Engineering Manager at Capillary Technologies, Sep 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managed 15+ backend engineers, achieving 100% delivery success across 8 consecutive quarters • Delivered 99.99% uptime for mission-critical customer engagement platforms serving enterprise clients • Reduced production alerts to single digits through proactive monitoring and process improvements • Increased test automation coverage to 95%, stabilizing QA pipeline and reducing regression issues • Minimised design defects to less than 5% through structured technical reviews and governance framework

Development Team Lead at Vtiger CRM, Jul 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Directed team of 15+ engineers developing SaaS and On-Premise CRM solutions for government and enterprise clients • Migrated legacy monolith to microservices architecture, improving deployment speed by 60% and system scalability • Designed and delivered 5+ major product modules including real-time chat systems, analytics dashboards, and CRM-telephony integration • Mentored 10+ interns and junior engineers, building long-term talent pipeline with 80% retention rate • Led technical architecture decisions for government projects requiring high security and compliance standards • Led cross-functional teams to enhance product development and delivery processes.

Senior Software Developer at Vtiger CRM, Jul 2016 - Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I worked as a senior developer in uplifting the product framework and was part of the strategic team who was responsible for overall product innovation.

Software Developer at Vtiger CRM, Jul 2013 - Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I worked as a full stack developer on SaaS version of the product. Worked as lead developer in building telephony integration framework and also built a custom connector in JAVA to integrate Asterisk based phone systems to CRM.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Public links

github: https://github.com/Akshath0392