About
Engineering leader with over 18 years of experience building high-performing teams across the IoT, SaaS, and security domains. I specialize in driving end-to-end software delivery, from architecture and security threat modeling to high-scale performance engineering and CI/CD optimization. With a proven track record of scaling automation, reducing technical debt, and implementing AI-driven workflows, I excel at translating complex technical requirements into executable roadmaps that deliver significant business value and improved production quality.
Work experience
Senior Manager at SmartHub.ai, Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area
Engineering manager Platforms and Automation at Numentica LLC, May 2023 - Nov 2023 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Engineering manager Sdet at Wasoko, May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Manager Sdet at Newfold Digital, Sep 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Manager Performance and Scale at VMware, Sep 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Managing 5 members’ teams, responsible for delivering the product on SAAS and On-prem releases. Responsible for Delivering, Managing Quality releases for Pulse IOT Platform and Client which works on different hardware architectures. Responsibility includes: * Recruit, mentor and lead a team of high motivated QA and SDET engineers. * Benchmarking Microservices and map them to recommended infra workload to make sure no service degradation occurs with releases. * Goal setting, providing direction and coming up with effective metrics to ensure smoother ,timely delivery. * Overseeing technical scoping and design of projects to ensure that projects is timely delivered, reduces technical debt, generate values for customers and upstreaming quality with each deliverable. * Managing day-to-day management tasks not limited to performance reviews, managing time off, project tracking and financial appraisals. * Working closely with senior management to identify risks, solve problems, and course correct when deviations occur. * Providing senior management and business teams with weekly updates on testing progress, automation summaries, and release readiness. * evangelising the new testing approaches and continuously exploring avenues to counter upcoming Design challenges * Create quality strategy for business and ensuring QA roadmap for growth and improvement required in eco-systems.
Profile highlights
The best product I’ve worked on…: I have created vulnerability based package repos that r working products to provide a test data for vulnerability code scanner to analyse test results
what i've built with AI: Built a stock analyser based on a rule based algo with derivative data
I'm the person in every team who…: Was part of troubleshooting with sre team folks to get to rca and fix the issues on the fly
What's hard for others but easy for me…: Analyse system design bottle necka to scale the product to 10 x capacity for a customer using performance fixes in integration env
My hot take about working with AI is…: Pilot to production and model evals r key to success in ai metrics .
My biggest achievement in college was…: I got a8.9 cgpa working from a tier 2 college . Was part of the placement committee and organised lot of start up talks from founders .
