Headline

Engineering Leader | Building QCom & AI @RPSG | Speaker | Product Roadmap | Distributed Systems | Scaling High-Traffic Commerce | Ex-GeekyAnts, Dell, Standard Bank, UST

About

As an engineering and product leader, I bring together systems thinking, user-first design, and data-driven decision-making to build scalable, high-impact digital products. Currently I'm leading the end-to-end tech and product roadmap for quick-commerce, retail and AI at RPSG Group, driving platform modernization, decoupled architectures, event-driven systems, and AI-driven development practices. I work closely with engineering, product, design, marketing, and analytics to shape reliable platforms, accelerate delivery, and scale teams through strong engineering culture and technical governance. I’ve scaled the team from 0 -> 10, hiring and mentoring across backend, frontend, QA, DevOps and platform roles, establishing strong technical governance from the ground up. Over the past decade, my work has spanned Digital Banking, Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare and large-scale digital transformation—where I’ve led cross-functional teams, streamlined delivery processes, and executed complex, scalable solutions that accelerate business growth. I’m passionate about solving customer problems, building strong engineering cultures, and driving meaningful product outcomes aligned with business revenue.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

github copilot

claudecode

Work experience

Senior Manager, Engineering at RP Sanjiv Goenka Group, Jan 2024 - Apr 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Leading technology transformation for Spencer's Retail and Nature's Basket e-commerce businesses, managing end-to-end product development lifecycle, engineering practices, AI initiatives & building Q-Commerce capabilities. - Tech Strategy - Product & Tech Roadmap - Scalable Designing of distributed systems - Decoupling application layer, services, orchestration layer, commerce engine, search engines, DBs and analytics layer - Improving user journeys, agile practices and cross functional collaborations - Design Systems and UI Library for modular Frontend - Observability and Instrumentation - Hiring - Managing finance and budget for Tech - Leading and cultivating an AI-driven development culture to achieve more productivity - Developing LLM driven demand forecasting for retail

Engineering Manager at GeekyAnts, Jul 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Defined processes, execution plans, sprints to ensure smooth development and meet the deadlines - Lead the React Community to share the knowledge and help each other across teams - Delivered Tech talks, workshops, meetups etc on regular basis to coach the junior developers and guide them to a better career path - Improved reliability and delivery speed by strengthening service-to-service integration workflows, tightening architecture review loops, and enforcing efficient sprint processes, which resulted in 95% on-time delivery of features. - Lead an initiative to build an open source, mobile-first, accessible component library with 20K+ GitHub stars for building a consistent design system across android, iOS & web.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract) at Dell Technologies, Jun 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Built a production-grade, plug-and-play Email Editor microfrontend and its backend microservice, integrated APIs, and distributed services - which powered multiple Dell business units. • Improved enterprise communication workflows by enhancing the CCD global search, optimized query performance, reliability, and boosted user productivity by 35%. • Led architecture and delivery for Dell’s communication platforms, implemented seamless service-to-service integrations across internal systems and third-party APIs, improved scalability, maintainability, and system reliability.

Co-Founder at Lilacs, Jun 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lilacs was one of the first Indian startups to build a dedicated platform for handmade craft makers, artisans, and cultural preservationists—championing the mission of Empowering Indian Handmade Crafts. In under two years, we onboarded 20+ craftspersons from across the country, scaled to 250+ active monthly orders, and generated ~₹2 lakh in monthly revenue with less than 100 products in the catalog—driven entirely through organic traffic on our own website. We focused on elevating India’s artisan ecosystem by giving creators a digital identity, modern storefronts, and direct access to consumers. Through deep user research and market insights, we learned that the urban B2C market still prefers offline craft purchases and views handicrafts as premium lifestyle products rather than everyday-use items. Instead of pivoting toward a B2B export-focused model—where the problem space was already well addressed—we made a strategic decision to close operations. Lilacs strengthened my understanding of product–market fit, consumer behavior, GTM strategy, and the cultural nuances of building for India’s craft economy, while reinforcing the importance of solving high-urgency problems with scalable demand.

Software Development Engineer II at Moonraft (Acquired by UST), Apr 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India & Johannesburg, South Africa, Worked with global banking clients such as Standard Bank Group and BDO Philippines to drive the digitalization of mobile banking solutions, building scalable and high-performance applications for millions of users. • Developed and launched the Help Centre for Standard Bank Group, enhancing customer support for 4.5M digital users. • Revamped the mobile banking app for BDO Philippines, resulting in an 8% increase in daily active users. • Implemented advanced technologies including fingerprint authentication and chatbots to improve user experience.

Software Development Engineer at Moonraft (Acquired by UST), Jul 2018 - Apr 2019 · 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India & Manila, Philippines, • Developed a mobile application from scratch using Kony Visualizer for a banking client in the Philippines. • Designed project architecture and managed support and bug fixes to ensure application reliability. • Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to deliver exceptional mobile application experiences for clients.

Software Engineer at RAPIDD Technologies, Jul 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 y, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computational Science, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

Public links

github: https://github.com/technoAri