Headline

Product and Engineering Leader | Scaling High-Performing Teams | Product & Customer-Focused | Mercedes-Benz

About

Building scalable, reliable platforms and engineering organisations for complex, mission-critical systems. I am a senior engineering leader operating at the intersection of platform architecture, system reliability, and organisational scale. My experience spans large, distributed systems running on hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including close collaboration with OEM partners on next-generation ECUs and connected-car platforms. I influence both technical direction and execution, working across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to shape architecture, modernise legacy systems into cloud-native platforms, and drive engineering standards around CI/CD automation, shared infrastructure, observability, and secure system design. My focus is on enabling teams to move fast without compromising reliability, cost efficiency, or governance. I partner closely with senior leadership on technology and product roadmaps using Hoshin Kanri, and help define and drive quarterly and annual OKRs, ensuring engineering decisions align with long-term business outcomes and measurable impact. I’m excited about building resilient platforms, scaling engineering organisations, and applying principled systems thinking to the next generation of cloud-native and data-driven products.

Location

Karnataka

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Set enterprise reliability and platform strategy using Hoshin Kanri, aligning infrastructure, product, and business objectives at scale. Influenced and led 65+ engineers across multiple teams, elevating operational maturity and driving a 20% improvement in predictable, on-time product delivery. Designed and governed high-scale cloud platforms on Mercedes Intelligent Cloud (MIC), sustaining 1B+ daily requests with resilience, availability, and cost efficiency. Established organization-wide reliability governance (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, chaos engineering), materially reducing incident friction and improving decision-making under failure. Drove automation-first engineering across ECU workflows and CI/CD platforms, achieving 70% test automation and cutting deployment lead time by 50%. Built enterprise observability standards (metrics, logs, traces), reducing MTTR by 40% and enabling data-driven incident and capacity management. Championed blameless culture and executive-level incident reviews, strengthening accountability, learning, and long-term system resilience. Partnered with product, security, and compliance leadership to embed reliability-by-design into the SDLC without compromising delivery velocity.

Engineering Manager at Mercedes-Benz, Jun 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

Product Manager at Mercedes-Benz AG, Jul 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Senior Technical Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Jun 2016 - Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Technology Lead | Apple Online Store at Infosys | Apple Inc., Jun 2010 - May 2016 · 6 yrs, London Area, United Kingdom, Developed Java/Spring Boot microservices aligned with enterprise standards for scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability. Drove 30% performance improvement through structured performance analysis and controlled frontend/backend optimizations. Led legacy platform modernization, coordinating deployments to minimize downtime and ensure integration stability. Contributed to confidential, compliance-sensitive programs, adhering to enterprise security, governance, and release controls.

Education

Bachelors Of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ggsipu