Headline

Director Of Engineering | AI & GenAI Transformation | Scalable Digital Platforms | Technology & Product Transformation | Building High-Performing Engineering Organizations | Ex Amazon | IIT KGP

About

As a Director of Engineering, I focus on building high-performing engineering organizations where technology, execution, and business outcomes come together. My passion lies in transforming software engineering through AI—not as a buzzword, but as a measurable capability that improves developer productivity, software quality, and delivery speed across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). I am leading the adoption of AI-powered engineering by embedding intelligence into every stage of software delivery—from requirements analysis and architecture to development, code reviews, testing, security, deployment, and production operations. My focus is on creating engineering systems where AI augments developers, accelerates decision-making, and enables teams to spend more time solving business problems instead of repetitive engineering tasks. Recently, I have been driving initiatives around Agentic AI, exploring how autonomous AI agents can collaborate with engineering teams to automate complex workflows, improve engineering governance, enhance code quality, optimize incident response, and provide contextual assistance across the developer lifecycle. I believe the next generation of engineering organizations will be powered by AI agents working alongside engineers rather than simply providing code suggestions. Beyond AI, I enjoy building engineering cultures that value technical excellence, operational rigor, and continuous learning. My experience spans scaling global engineering teams, establishing engineering standards, modernizing development practices, driving platform and cloud transformations, improving engineering metrics, and building strong partnerships across product, architecture, and business leadership. Areas of focus include: • AI-enabled Software Development Lifecycle (AI SDLC) • Agentic AI Strategy and Engineering Adoption • Developer Experience (DevEx) and Engineering Productivity • Engineering Intelligence and AI-driven Metrics • Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms • Software Architecture and Cloud-Native Systems • Engineering Leadership and Organizational Scaling • DevSecOps, CI/CD, Quality Engineering, and Reliability • Engineering Governance and Technology Transformation I believe AI will fundamentally redefine software engineering. Organizations that successfully integrate AI into their engineering operating model will build better software, deliver faster, and unlock a sustainable competitive advantage. My mission is to help engineering teams make that transition with measurable business impact.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Looking out for options at Actively Searching for New Employment, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, "Actively interviewing, available to join in 15–20 days. Using this window with intent — building AI agentic workflows hands-on across real use cases, and deepening my thinking on how engineering leaders should drive domain-specific AI initiatives. Coming in with practical, hands-on AI fluency to translate business needs into effective, fast-moving AI-driven delivery."

Director of Engineering at Hy-Vee, Inc., Sep 2025 - Jul 2026 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1. Lead Hy-Vee's India-GCC Digital Engineering org of 50+ engineers, including 4 Engineering Managers and 4 Principal Engineers, owning end-to-end delivery for the digital product organization. 2. Define and execute engineering strategy across five pillars — code quality, on-time delivery, DORA metrics improvement, observability maturity, and ownership culture. 3. Drive capacity-based sprint planning with a >90% committed-item delivery target, RICE/T-shirt sizing, and weekly delivery health dashboards across all squads. 5. Built an observability maturity program spanning SLO definitions, structured runbooks, and quarterly Game Day / chaos drills. 6. Building high-trust team culture through blameless postmortems, monthly engineer spotlights, structured peer feedback, and growth-focused 1:1s. 7. Partner closely with US-based Digital Product leadership and business stakeholders to co-define the India team's technology roadmap; serve as a key voice in quarterly strategy reviews, positioning the India team as a proactive, high-trust partner to the broader organization. 8. Drove org-wide AI strategy: Hired and embedded Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) one per squad, seeding AI-native thinking across every squad without hollowing out core delivery capacity. 9. Rolled out Claude Enterprise licenses across the full 50+ engineer org, establishing a token-utilization review process and ROI framework to govern AI adoption and spend. 10. Conceived and drove adoption of the Agentic Testing Intelligence Framework (ATIF), an 11-component Agentic AI system — Orchestrator, Agent Fleet, MCP Layer, Test Planner/Generators, Shadow Suite Manager, Correlation Engine, and Application Intelligence Graph — that autonomously generates, executes, and validates test coverage.

Engineering Manager at Property Finder, Nov 2024 - Sep 2025 · 11 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Led cross-functional engineering teams as tech owner for Mortgage & Primary+ business verticals, driving an architecture revamp for the Mortgage application — migrating from legacy PHP/Symfony to React/GoLang in a single quarter. Managed engineering budget, resources, and staffing for both verticals, and implemented best practices for code reviews, testing, agile methodologies, and scalable technical architecture. Collaborated with C-suite and business unit heads to shape the multi-year product and technology strategy for the Mortgage vertical, translating market opportunities into a prioritized engineering roadmap, and facilitated regular business-engineering alignment forums across Product, Finance, and Operations to keep technology decisions aligned with growth targets and competitive differentiation.

Head of Engineering- Aggregator Platform, Digital Payment & Customer loyalty at Americana Restaurants, Apr 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Leading a super talented team of Engineers, technical project managers to deliver breakthrough growth & distribution through multiple aggregator connections for KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee’s through a suite of Mobile Apps /Aggregator platform. Was fortunate to be entrusted with the opportunity to define the Vision, Roadmap and Operating Framework for Digital Transformation using open source technologies and build payment platform which support all online transactions across Americana ecosystem. Build high scale multi-tenant aggregator platform and have more than 100 aggregator connections which produce more than 200K orders in a day. 1. Helping Americana on their digitization Journey. Team already built native apps and backend service, I am responsible for re-architecting (unifying) most of them to achieve next level of scale to support in-house digital assets and food aggregators (aggregator onboarding require at-least 30X scale). 2. Responsible for Payment platform. Ensuring that digital payments in the Americana are safe, efficient, interoperable, accessible, and up to international standards. My responsibilities to improve payment success rate for digital payments from 90% to 97~98%. Currently I am working with multiple payment service provider to have more integrations and better control on payment flow. Also working on build payment as platform (reactive microservice). 3. Built team of 20+ high qualified engineers and delivered multi-tenant Aggregator platform which support 7 countries, 30+ aggregator and 5 Americana brands. I conceptualise this, proposed this and built this in 4 months time ( budget approval, hiring team, frequent review engineering processes and optimize continuously, executing and delivering high scale platform and business requirements ). 4. Responsible to understand finance team pain points on reconciliation side and working on to budget approvals for next year for building new reconciliation platform from scratch.

Software Development Manager at Amazon, Aug 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked with India physical stores tech teams to scale and launch business and tech initiatives. Scaled and ramped up high performing team. Managing 2 teams (15 SDEs and 2 SDMs) from Store associate experience side of supply chain team for Physical store. Associate Device Platform and Associate Platform Shared Services, Shared Services like generic Dashboard, Andriod Application, Auth services etc. Learn more about physical stores here : https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011

Education

MTech, Mechanical Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical Engineering, GEC REWA