Headline

Engineering Manager (Director Grade) | FinTech Engineering | Distributed Systems & Architecture | Applied AI Managed 12+ Engineers · 1,400+ Cr AUM Platform · 3 Squads · 120+ Branch Rollout · 15+ Partners Integration

About

I'm a Director-grade engineering leader with 18+ years building and scaling FinTech platforms — most recently owning 0→1 engineering and architecture for a digital lending business that now manages ₹1,400+ Cr in AUM across 15+ external partners. My focus is distributed systems at scale, security and vulnerability management compliance, and building engineering teams that stay both high-performing and low-attrition (<3% annually across 12+ engineers). I've led secure platform rollouts across 120+ branches, driven zero critical/high-risk audit findings over 3 consecutive years, and partnered directly with Product and business leadership to turn roadmaps into predictable delivery. Recent focus areas: pragmatic AI adoption across the SDLC (AI-assisted code review, 10% reduction in manual review effort), cloud infrastructure on AWS, and vulnerability management compliance for customer-facing platforms. Background: Protium Finance → Thoughtworks → Infrrd → Collabera -> iGATE Solutions. B.E. Computer Science. Open to Director/Senior Engineering Manager roles in FinTech and regulated-industry platforms — reach out if you're building something at scale.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

codex

openai

opencode

perplexity

Cline

Work experience

Engineering Manager (Director Grade) at Protium, Jan 2022 - Aug 2026 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Owned 0→1 engineering and architecture for a fully digital unsecured business lending platform, scaling it to manage a ₹1,400+ Cr AUM portfolio across 15+ external lending partners with peak monthly disbursal of ₹70 Cr. • Led engineering and architecture for a pan-India secured lending rollout across 120+ branches, standardizing authentication and loan onboarding with zero service disruption. • Directed application security, VAPT, and vulnerability management compliance across 5+ customer-facing services — zero critical or high-risk audit findings over 3 years. • Built and retained a high-performing engineering organization: 12+ engineers across 3 squads, <3% annual attrition, through structured hiring pipelines and career development. • Deployed an AI-based algorithm to trace and validate "title deed chains" for secured lending, verifying 13 years of unbroken title history and replacing a manual legal-review process with an automated pipeline; also led AI-assisted code review adoption in the SDLC, accelerating turnaround and cutting manual review effort by 10%.

Senior Consultant at Thoughtworks, Nov 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore, Worked with engineering and product teams on complex financial technology initiatives spanning Open Banking, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and security. • Designed integration flows and interface architecture for an Open Banking module, enabling secure, low-latency interoperability with multiple Third-Party Providers (TPPs). • Implemented enterprise observability using Datadog, establishing real-time telemetry, dashboards, and automated alerting to improve operational visibility and reduce MTTR. • Led the transition toward a zero-trust network topology on AWS ECS, enforcing mutual TLS (mTLS) across downstream microservices to strengthen the platform's security posture. Focus areas: Open Banking | Distributed Systems | AWS | Observability | Zero Trust | mTLS | Microservices

Technical Architect at Infrrd, Nov 2012 - Oct 2020 · 8 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Provided technical leadership across enterprise data and integration platforms, working closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to translate complex commercial requirements into scalable technical solutions. • Designed and executed integration architectures for high-throughput, cross-platform data pipelines handling external data feeds from enterprise partners including Lyft, Uber, and Bank of America. • Partnered with business leadership to translate commercial requirements into technical roadmaps and clear execution plans. • Established technical training and mentorship programs to strengthen engineering capabilities and develop technical talent. • Served as a technical bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams, helping align architecture and execution with evolving business requirements.

Senior Software Engineer at Collabera, Aug 2011 - Nov 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos, India, Developed and optimized backend modules using Java/Hibernate and integrated data-access layers with modular Vaadin UI components.

Software Engineer at IGATE, Mar 2008 - Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos, India, Developed backend systems including asynchronous request-processing capabilities using messaging queues to handle high-traffic workloads reliably.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Alpha College Of Engineering