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Engineering Manager | I build teams and the operating systems around them | Habuild, ex-Gojek

About

I lead engineering for Habuild's member-facing product: the iOS, Android and TV apps, and the chat and notification systems behind them. When I started there were two engineers and a WebView wrapper. It's now a multi-pod team covering mobile, TV and backend, with leads running each pod, and we haven't lost anyone. The product went from under 10,000 downloads to 600,000, and from a few hundred daily actives to a peak of 150,000, at 99.9%+ crash-free sessions and No. 1 in Health and Fitness on the App Store. Growth and quality usually trade against each other. Holding both is the part I'm actually proud of. Most of the job isn't that, though. It's how pods get shaped, who we hire and what the bar is, what we build versus what we buy, and what cadence the team runs at. I co-authored the competency framework the company now rates and promotes against. At Gojek I led a mobile org of 12, then a mixed mobile and backend team owning user communications for products serving 10M+ users, where replacing CleverTap with something we built took $6M a year out of the cost base. In between, I co-founded and ran a small software and ML consultancy. Happy to talk to anyone thinking about how engineering organisations get built.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Engineering Manager at Habuild, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India, Member-facing product end to end: iOS, Android, TV, and the chat and notification systems behind them. Multi-pod team across mobile and backend, with leads running each pod, alongside product, design and QA. Grew the app from under 10,000 downloads to 600,000 and from a few hundred daily actives to a peak of 150,000, at 99.9%+ crash-free sessions. No. 1 in Health and Fitness on the App Store, July 2026. Own the pod structure, the competency framework the company rates against, and the release and quality cadence the team runs at.

Co-Founder at Nidhiravyayah, Jun 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Independent software and ML consultancy. Production ML systems for real-time market analysis; consulting on ML integration and cloud-native architecture.

Engineering Manager at Gojek, Apr 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Led Gojek's mobile org of 12 engineers across iOS and Android, then moved in the final year to a mixed team of 10 (4 mobile, 6 backend) owning the user communications platform: campaign infrastructure, notifications and SMS for products serving 10M+ users. Platform and cost - Cut $10M in annual user communications delivery cost: defaulted verification to PIN, onboarded new SMS vendors and rebalanced traffic between them automatically on cost and performance, added risk-score blocking and a VoIP delivery path. - Led the migration from CleverTap to an in-house Campaign Manager across 10+ product and engineering teams, taking a separate $6M+ a year out of the cost base at 99.9% uptime on critical messaging. - Bootstrapped Gojek's bot platform: admin UI, custom code and NLU integration, analytics and scale, so non-engineering teams could run conversational flows without us. - Led migrations off self-managed Postgres onto Spanner and from VMs onto Kubernetes, and raised push delivery reliability for online users by moving the transport to MQTT QoS 1. People and delivery - Mentored 3 engineers to promotion; ran bi-weekly career cadences and 360-degree feedback cycles. - Reduced go-to-market time by 20% through sprint refinement and cycle-time tracking. - Drove cross-platform mobile architecture, cutting app launch time by 60% and iOS build times from 20 minutes to 4.

Software Engineer 4, Tech Lead at Gojek, Oct 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Architected an in-house chat system replacing a third-party vendor, saving $1M annually. Owned login and authentication for 10M+ users. Acted as de facto engineering manager: leadership forums, ADR process, performance reviews for 6 engineers.

Senior iOS Developer at Cyware, Nov 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

iOS Developer at Swiggy, Nov 2015 - Oct 2017 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University