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Bhuvanesh Babu

Engineering Leader | 11+ Years Scaling Products to Millions

Bengaluru
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Fullstack internship

Foodstories

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I'm hiring for Engineering. I am looking for a Fullstack internship to contribute to our gourmet retail commerce platform at Foodstories.

Bengaluru

₹10 LPA

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0–1 years

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About Bhuvanesh

Foodstories
Jul 20262 moPresent

HSR Layout

Complement 1
Apr 20242 yrs 6 mosPresent

Bangalore Urban

As the founding engineer and engineering leader, I established the entire engineering organization — from processes and culture to architecture and team execution. → Built engineering from zero: defined development workflows, code review standards, incident response protocols, and technical documentation frameworks that the team operates on today. → Architected and implemented a HIPAA-compliant platform — designing the system for security, scalability, and clinical data integrity from day one. → Led a cross-platform team spanning backend, iOS, and Android — driving end-to-end product delivery and ensuring consistent execution across all surfaces. → Spearheaded AI-powered healthcare features using OpenAI and RAG pipelines, improving patient outcomes by 40%. → Implemented backend services, security protocols, encryption standards, access controls, and audit frameworks to protect sensitive patient data.
ShopSe
Jul 20221 yr 9 mosMar 2024

Bengaluru

Led a cross-functional engineering team of 12 — spanning backend, frontend, and QA — responsible for product delivery, technical quality, and team growth. → Owned people management across the full team: performance reviews, career development, hiring, and team structure. → Improved deployment velocity by introducing CI/CD automation with Jenkins, reducing release cycle friction and enabling faster, safer deployments. → Built configurable feature systems that empowered the team to adapt rapidly to product and market changes, increasing delivery agility. → Led end-to-end integration of digital finance flows with major banks (HDFC, ICICI), expanding loan accessibility to New To Bank and New To Credit customers. → Recognized as a top performer for high logical thinking and team leadership.
WhiteHat Jr
Nov 20219 mosJul 2022

Bengaluru

As Associate Director of Engineering, I owned the technical strategy and architectural direction of a platform serving 5 million users — leading a 50-engineer org across multiple product squads. → Set engineering standards, architectural governance, code review frameworks, and documentation practices adopted company-wide. → Led adoption of micro-service and micro-frontend architecture, enabling independent team deployments and accelerating feature velocity across product streams. → Mentored and leveled up 50 engineers across squads — setting the engineering culture, technical bar, and promotion frameworks. → Directed platform performance initiatives that drove significant improvements across high-traffic surfaces.
WhiteHat Jr
Aug 20201 yr 4 mosNov 2021

WhiteHat Jr
Nov 201910 mosAug 2020

Freshworks
Mar 20181 yr 8 mosOct 2019

Greater Chennai Area

→ Architected and scaled the product infrastructure for Freshsales, building a maintainable, extensible foundation to support rapid growth and feature expansion. → Drove technical strategy across cross-functional teams (product, design, backend, QA) — ensuring high-quality, consistent feature delivery. → Mentored full-stack and junior engineers, establishing coding standards and development workflows that improved team productivity. → Led development of the marketplace integration platform, enabling third-party integrations and expanding the product ecosystem. → Championed engineering excellence through code quality standards, reusable component systems, and continuous improvement practices.
Zoho Corporation
Feb 20153 yrs 2 mosMar 2018

Greater Chennai Area

Early career role building and enhancing core product features across Zoho Expense, Zoho Books, and Zoho Invoice — contributing to product quality, performance, and developer onboarding. → Delivered feature enhancements and performance improvements across multiple product lines serving diverse business users. → Guided new developers through onboarding, contributing to team productivity and knowledge sharing.

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Education

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

Bachelor's degree (B.Tech), Computer Science

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

20114 yrs2015

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About

🏗️ Engineering Leader | 11+ Years Scaling Teams, Platforms & Engineering Culture Great products are built by great teams. I've spent 11+ years making both happen. Across edtech, fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce, I've grown engineering orgs from scratch to 50+ engineers, architected platforms that scale to millions, and driven the kind of performance and culture improvements that compound over time. My focus areas: high-scale platform architecture, Gen AI integration, and building engineering cultures with high ownership, high trust, and high output. 💡 If you're an engineer who wants to work on meaningful problems with a team that takes craft seriously — let's connect.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Director of Engineering at Foodstories, Jul 2026 - Present · 2 mo, HSR Layout

ENGINEERING LEADER & FOUNDING ENGINEER at Complement 1, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, As the founding engineer and engineering leader, I established the entire engineering organization — from processes and culture to architecture and team execution. → Built engineering from zero: defined development workflows, code review standards, incident response protocols, and technical documentation frameworks that the team operates on today. → Architected and implemented a HIPAA-compliant platform — designing the system for security, scalability, and clinical data integrity from day one. → Led a cross-platform team spanning backend, iOS, and Android — driving end-to-end product delivery and ensuring consistent execution across all surfaces. → Spearheaded AI-powered healthcare features using OpenAI and RAG pipelines, improving patient outcomes by 40%. → Implemented backend services, security protocols, encryption standards, access controls, and audit frameworks to protect sensitive patient data.

Engineering Manager at ShopSe, Jul 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Led a cross-functional engineering team of 12 — spanning backend, frontend, and QA — responsible for product delivery, technical quality, and team growth. → Owned people management across the full team: performance reviews, career development, hiring, and team structure. → Improved deployment velocity by introducing CI/CD automation with Jenkins, reducing release cycle friction and enabling faster, safer deployments. → Built configurable feature systems that empowered the team to adapt rapidly to product and market changes, increasing delivery agility. → Led end-to-end integration of digital finance flows with major banks (HDFC, ICICI), expanding loan accessibility to New To Bank and New To Credit customers. → Recognized as a top performer for high logical thinking and team leadership.

Senior Principal Software Engineer (Associate Director) at WhiteHat Jr, Nov 2021 - Jul 2022 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, As Associate Director of Engineering, I owned the technical strategy and architectural direction of a platform serving 5 million users — leading a 50-engineer org across multiple product squads. → Set engineering standards, architectural governance, code review frameworks, and documentation practices adopted company-wide. → Led adoption of micro-service and micro-frontend architecture, enabling independent team deployments and accelerating feature velocity across product streams. → Mentored and leveled up 50 engineers across squads — setting the engineering culture, technical bar, and promotion frameworks. → Directed platform performance initiatives that drove significant improvements across high-traffic surfaces.

Principal Software Engineer & Engineering Manager at WhiteHat Jr, Aug 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Senior Software Engineer at WhiteHat Jr, Nov 2019 - Aug 2020 · 10 mos

Senior Software Engineer at Freshworks, Mar 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Greater Chennai Area, → Architected and scaled the product infrastructure for Freshsales, building a maintainable, extensible foundation to support rapid growth and feature expansion. → Drove technical strategy across cross-functional teams (product, design, backend, QA) — ensuring high-quality, consistent feature delivery. → Mentored full-stack and junior engineers, establishing coding standards and development workflows that improved team productivity. → Led development of the marketplace integration platform, enabling third-party integrations and expanding the product ecosystem. → Championed engineering excellence through code quality standards, reusable component systems, and continuous improvement practices.

Software Engineer at Zoho Corporation, Feb 2015 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Early career role building and enhancing core product features across Zoho Expense, Zoho Books, and Zoho Invoice — contributing to product quality, performance, and developer onboarding. → Delivered feature enhancements and performance improvements across multiple product lines serving diverse business users. → Guided new developers through onboarding, contributing to team productivity and knowledge sharing.

Education

Bachelor's degree (B.Tech), Computer Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore