Headline

Engineering and Product Management | Team Excellence & Creativity | AI First Development | Building Agile, Cross-Functional Teams | Delivering Value from 0-​>1 | Immediate Joiner

About

At Kaplan, as a Senior Engineering Manager with over 18 years of diverse industry experience, I help and lead my team in designing cloud architecture and scalable software development to create cutting-edge university platforms. Together, we focus on delivering seamless onboarding systems and robust educational tools that enhance the student experience and streamline university operations. Previously, at Conduent, my contributions centered on analyzing complex business requirements and facilitating large-scale software implementations. By combining technical leadership with a commitment to innovation, my mission remains to empower educational institutions through dynamic, reliable, and impactful software solutions.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

cursor

gemini

github copilot

langchain

langgraph

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Kaplan, Mar 2021 - Jun 2026 · 5 yrs 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Ground-up building and managing the Dev and allied function teams with 10+ members. • Development and Support of HighEd line of Products, managing revenue flows of $300M. • Student Enrolment and Onboarding, Student Campus Applications and Career Portals. • Internal Configuration, Cloud Administration and Observability tools management. • Achieved 98% enrollment rate post opportunity conversion by implementing Student Self Verification.

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Kaplan India, Mar 2021 - Jun 2026 · 5 yrs 4 mos, People & Talent Leadership: End-to-end recruitment, career pathing, performance evaluation, and retention strategies for engineering and allied function teams. Engineering Process & Best Practices: Standardizing coding guidelines, automated code reviews, testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines to scale developer productivity. Distributed Systems & Infrastructure: Designing fault-tolerant, low-latency architectures utilizing distributed caching, load balancers, and scalable cloud storage solutions. Stakeholder & Product Management: Collaborating with cross-functional global stakeholders to drive digitalization, automation, and iterative release cycles.

Lead Engineer, Architect at Conduent, May 2012 - Mar 2021 · 8 yrs 11 mos, Bangalore, Requirement gathering, Analyzing & defining Business and Functional requirements Cloud Architecture and Systems Design Data/Systems Analysis and Intelligence(Global Metrics, Trend Charts & other decision-making tools) Data Flow, Process Mapping & Designing/Re-engineering processes Large Software/Systems Implementations, Database Design & Management Testing/Scripting/Documentation, Technical Writing (Manuals/ Specs) Device Prototyping and tooling simulations.

Lead Engineer at Conduent-Xerox Services, May 2012 - Feb 2021 · 8 yrs 10 mos, Application Development and Team Management, Internal Stakeholder Management and Product Delivery and Management.

Software Engineer at XRCE, Oct 2010 - Apr 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos, Meylan, Technology prototyping and Technology integration. Worked on various in-house data analytics projects for Xerox.

Education

Master of Science, CIMET Master Erasmus Mundus, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU), Kanpur