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Engineering Leader@Adyen | Ex-{DoorDash,Mastercard,Akamai,ZS}

About

Engineering leader with 11+ years of experience scaling consumer-technology, commerce, and platform products. Leading Cards team at Adyen. At Deliveroo, I led the 12-member Partner Engineering team in the New Verticals (Grocery) organisation, overseeing partner integrations, the picking platform, and catalogue services. Previously, at Ula, I steered 3 cross-functional teams and delivered 14 microservices that cut out-of-stock rates by 8%, lowered monthly cloud and tooling spend by $100K+, and raised customer retention by 14%. Earlier, at Mastercard, I modernised an analytics suite, halved page-load times, and drove a hiring program that added 40+ engineers. Skilled at turning broad product goals into clear engineering roadmaps, embedding rigorous cost and incident governance, and developing talent (Achieved <10% attrition across my leadership tenure)

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

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github copilot

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mcp

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Work experience

Engineering Leader at Adyen, Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading India Cards Team

Engineering Manager II at Deliveroo, Feb 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, New Verticals - Grocery Infrastructure & Platforms Engineering.

Engineering Manager at Ula, Jun 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead 3 global teams of 6 to 8 Software Engineers each focusing on Software Development and Delivery along with Application support for over 14 micro-services across multiple platform and technologies, primarily Platforms Team and SupplyChain Team. Translated product and business KPIs into goals using the OKR framework and SR framework resulting into 8% lesser out of stock problem, saving more than 100k USD per month cost on Infrastructure, Tools and Platforms, 14% increase in customer retention. Built features like Spam Detection and Prevention, Failover Management, WA Cloud API Integration and revamped Notifications Service handling upto 2 million RPD. Led end to end release and development of Activity Tracking Service, Feature Flag Management Service, AWS Resource Management Service and few more as an Engineering Manager. Revamped the Role Based Access Control Platform resulting into handling 1.8 million RPM and 100% adoption of RBAC in org within 2 months. Built an in-house Incident Management Platforms (Pheme) resulting in cost saving as well as 65% faster resolution of on-call's. Provided mentoring and performance management for team members, as well as facilitated recruitment processes and implemented continuous learning initiatives on an as-needed basis.

Technical Lead at Ula, Aug 2021 - May 2022 · 10 mos, Lead 1 global team of 9 Software Engineers focusing on Software Development and Delivery along with Application support for over 6 micro-services across multiple platform and technologies. Translated product and business KPIs into goals using the OKR framework and SR framework . Built features like Spam Detection and Prevention, Failover Management, WA Cloud API Integration and revamped Notifications Service handling upto 2 million RPD. Led end to end release and development of Activity Tracking Service, Feature Flag Management Service, AWS Resource Management Service and few more as an Engineering Manager. Revamped the Role Based Access Control Platform resulting into handling 1.8 million RPM and 100% adoption of RBAC in org within 2 months. Built an in-house Incident Management Platforms (Pheme) resulting in cost saving as well as 65% faster resolution of on-call's. Provided mentoring and performance management for team members, as well as facilitated recruitment processes and implemented continuous learning initiatives on an as-needed basis.

Senior Software Development Engineer at Mastercard, Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 · 6 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Lead a geographically distributed and culturally diverse team of 10 members working on Test & Learn Analytics tool. Engagement on requirements documents, tasking/design documents, code reviews, test plans and mentoring. Refactored 8000+ lines of legacy code to modernize the code as per MVC architecture and transitioning from YUI code to React code resulted in 50% faster loading times. Created a framework for nudging the users about new feature releases and user education around existing features in the product by showing notification walkthrough and Nudge-Popups which resulted in a 30% increased usage of pre-existing features and a 40% increase in the early adaption of new features. Designed and Implemented multiple graphite UI components using React which helped 3+ teams in the development of 5+ features resulted in faster feature delivery and reduced engineering efforts. Led recruitment for multiple IIT+NIT campuses for a total of 40+ positions.

Software Development Engineer II at Mastercard, Sep 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Pune Area, India, Tech Lead/Team Lead for a team of 10 members. Along with previous responsibilities, following are few additions: => Team process, roadmap, and allocation management for a total team of 9 people. => Led creation, monitoring and summarizing team happiness and satisfaction survey. => Regular touch-bases with T&L Stakeholders to coordinate any collaborations => Regular Catch-ups with team members as Team Lead and Mentor => Engagement on requirements, tasking pages, code reviews, test plans => Owning multiple team processes and managing sprint schedule. => Owned creation and execution of recruitment plan for multiple IIT+NIT campuses for total 40+ positions. => Owned Team OKR creation and check-ins. => Creation and implementation of Production Support Plan for Asia-Pacific. => Review design documents, core PR reviewer. => Providing effective feedbacks for team members for year end performance review document.

Engineer, Software Engineering at Mastercard, Jul 2019 - Sep 2019 · 3 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Was hired as an SE on a team , first lateral hire for a complete new team. Understood the business, culture, people and tech stack. Writing scalable and efficient code. Writing unit tests. Front-end using React+Redux+Typescript. Writing High Level and Low Level design documents for upcoming features. Started being a part of recruitment panel for more lateral hiring. Prepared onboarding guide for set of lateral hires and was buddy for them.

Software Engineer - Applications at ZS, Oct 2017 - May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, As a Software Engineer I am responsible for design, implementation, testing, and support of high quality products used by hundreds of companies and thousands of end users to make critical decisions and manage sales operations. The Software team at ZS is a casual, collaborative, and smart group located in Pune. My role involves: 1. Implementing major features using JavaScript, C#, .Net, MVC , SQL, HTML, CSS, AngularJS and any other necessary technology. 2. Pair programming, writing unit tests, filing code reviews, and collaborating with QA analysts to ensure the highest quality software.. 3. Working with product managers and technical leads to develop product architecture. 4. Gaining immediate responsibility for project deliverables 5. Understanding client business issues and actively participating in developing products and features that meet client needs.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, nagpur university