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title: "Ashwani Kumar - Engineering Manager (Director Grade) in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Ashwani Kumar on Tal

## 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

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