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title: "Ayush Kumar - Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ayush Kumar, Engineering Leader | Backend Systems | Fintech & Payments | Building High-Performing Teams based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
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# Ayush Kumar on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| Backend Systems \| Fintech & Payments \| Building High\-Performing Teams

## About

I build engineering Organizations that scale — and products that last\. With 18\+ years across Fintech, Payments, Insurance, Media, and Telecom, I've worn many hats: hands\-on Java architect, technical lead, and now Engineering Manager leading Nielsen's India GCC with full P&L ownership\. What I'm known for: Building teams from scratch — scaled 0 → 20\+ engineers in 6 months Delivering at scale — systems handling billions of daily requests at 99\.9% uptime Driving business impact — $264K\+ annual savings, 40% faster deployments, 60% fewer incidents Bridging tech & business — working closely with Product, Finance, and Regulatory stakeholders My engineering philosophy: great systems are built by great teams\. I invest heavily in people — career frameworks, mentoring, and a high\-performance culture — because that's what makes everything else possible\. Currently leading Backend, FrontEnd teams at Nielsen India\. Always open to conversations about engineering leadership, distributed systems, and the future of AI in enterprise\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at Nielsen, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru

Vice President, Application Development at Singlife, May 2023 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Team Leader at Singlife, Jun 2020 \- Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Senior Software Developer at Newton Circus, Mar 2019 \- Jul 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Singapore, DEX empowers the data community with open source software, tools and services so secure marketplaces can be built on Ocean Protocol to drive the data economy\. DEX is the founding partner of Ocean Protocol Foundation with BigchainDB\.

Senior Software Engineer at Equinix, May 2016 \- Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Singapore, Regional lead for API & Payments Orchestration across Southeast Asia\. Designed AWS\-native platforms processing millions of transactions at sub\-second latency\. ▪ Delivered $264K annual OpEx savings via zero\-downtime payment gateway migration \(CyberSource → MPGS\) ▪ Built payment orchestration layer on API Gateway \+ Lambda with 99\.99% availability ▪ Led 12\+ backend engineers across multiple squads; drove sprint planning and delivery ▪ Ensured PCI\-DSS and MAS \(Singapore\) regulatory compliance across all payment systems ▪ Reduced environment provisioning from days to minutes via full IaC adoption \(CloudFormation\)

Technical Team Lead at Oracle, Aug 2015 \- Sep 2015 · 2 mos, NCR, Work with internal and external clients to define and capture user needs\. Work with development team to define and implement architecture direction\. Work within an agile development process to deliver quality solutions on a predictable schedule\. Serve a leadership role within the team and company\. Develop solutions within the corporate vision and fulfilling corporate tenets\.

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