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Engineering Manager/ Staff Software Engineer

About

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, backend platforms, and cloud infrastructure, along with 3 years of engineering management experience leading teams and delivering large technical initiatives. I’ve spent most of my career working at startups, joining at relatively early stages and seeing them scale to hundreds of engineers. This has given me experience not just in building systems from scratch, but also in evolving architecture, infrastructure, engineering practices, and teams as companies grow. I enjoy working on complex engineering problems around distributed systems, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and cloud efficiency. I’ve built systems from scratch, scaled platforms processing tens of millions of events per day, led engineering teams, and driven architecture and technical decisions across teams.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

claude

Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Arcana, Nov 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Remote, At Arcana, I work across backend, distributed systems, and infrastructure, with a focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. I designed and built Soniq, our distributed task execution system, for low-latency and high-throughput workloads. I’ve also driven cloud cost optimization and capacity planning, Kubernetes/GKE autoscaling, observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana, and performance optimization across Python/Django workloads.

Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer at Joveo, Mar 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Oversaw the evolution from a monolithic architecture to microservices and set up the Data Platform team to build a centralized data platform on Snowflake and Kafka, consolidating data from services across the organization.

Staff Software Engineer at Joveo, Mar 2020 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, ETL/batch-processing platform using Akka and Akka Streams event tracking platform leveraging AWS serverless and DynamoDB, processing 30M+ daily clicks, applications, and other engagement events from job ad links

Senior Software Development Engineer at Joveo, Feb 2017 - Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Software Engineer at Xenovus, Inc., Jun 2014 - Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

All Saints High School