Headline

Senior Engineering Manager | Building India’s In-House Maps at Scale | Routing, Places & AI @ Krutrim (Ola Maps)

About

Engineering Leader at Krutrim (Ola Maps) driving innovations in routing, search, and AI systems powering Ola’s ecosystem. From architecting low-latency routing and places search platforms (15 B+ monthly calls) to building AI-driven frameworks like MapGPT, I focus on scalable design, precision, and reliability. Passionate about blending AI, maps, and systems engineering to build platforms that move people and products efficiently — with measurable impact and elegant design.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

elevenlabs

hugging face

langgraph

Work experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Krutrim, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Own and lead Routing and Places — the two foundational pillars of Ola Maps powering Mobility, EV, and Platform products. Drive engineering strategy, system scalability, AI-driven innovation, and cross-functional delivery across Krutrim’s maps stack. Map Platform Ownership: Spearhead end-to-end roadmap and engineering execution for Routing & Places — enabling ~15B monthly API calls with p99 latency ≤ 25 ms. MapGPT Framework: Designed and built MapGPT, an agentic AI framework to interpret intents (navigation, nearby search, etc.) and autonomously trigger Maps APIs. MAPS MCP: Played a key role in developing Maps MCP, a Model Context Protocol framework that powers customers to swiftly integrate Ola Maps in their services. AI-Driven ETA & Search Models: Integrated ML-based ETA, DeepParse, and spaCy address models, improving accuracy and reducing failures. Infra & Cost Optimization: Achieved 45% infra cost reduction (~$12K/month) through compute tuning, sharding, and load balancing. Scalability & Reliability: Architected geospatially sharded routing infra scaling from 180K → 900K RPM while maintaining SLA reliability. Cross-Platform Collaboration: Partnered with SDK & EV teams to enable MoveOS 5 navigation, real-time traffic visualization, and multi-route UX. Leadership & Culture: Manage multi-team setup across Routing & Places; foster a research-driven, ownership-based engineering culture emphasizing delivery excellence and mentorship.

Software Engineering Manager at Krutrim, Nov 2024 - Mar 2025 · 5 mos, Led the evolution of Ola Maps from a routing-focused platform to a multi-service maps ecosystem, integrating Search (Places), Routing, and ETA systems under one architecture. System Consolidation: Unified routing, search, and ETA pipelines into a shared data & infra layer, improving reuse and consistency. Routing Accuracy: Delivered 80% route accuracy within 10% distance deviation versus Google Maps. ML ETA Evolution: Improved ETA precision through feature-driven ML enhancements and Spark-based near-real-time computation. Traffic & UX Enhancements: Delivered multi-route options, color-coded polylines, and bearing-aware navigation improving user experience. Infra Optimization: Reduced latency by 30% and monthly infra cost by 20% through architecture simplification and caching. Stakeholder Collaboration: Worked with Mobility, EV, and SDK teams to align roadmap priorities with business metrics.

Engineering Manager at Ola, May 2024 - Oct 2024 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Set the foundation for in-house Routing at Ola — transforming prototype services into production-grade systems that scaled across the company’s mobility ecosystem. Routing Service Rollout: Led the successful deployment of Ola Maps Routing across all Mobility and Pricing services, reducing external API dependency and cutting costs from ₹1.8 crore → ₹1.6 lakh/month. Core Infra Design: Architected Ola’s first geospatially sharded routing backend supporting 900K RPM with minimal latency. ETA Reliability: Enhanced Spark-based ETA models achieving parity with Google-level accuracy. Cross-Team Enablement: Collaborated with SDK, Pricing, and EV teams for integrated rollout and UX consistency. Team Formation: Established the Routing team, defined charters, set up sprint cadences, and introduced observability standards.

SDE 3 (Team Lead) at Ola, Mar 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the first major iteration of Ola’s in-house routing and ETA platform, transitioning the company off third-party APIs. Designed and developed the routing engine and real-time ETA pipeline using Spark, Go, and Scala. Built benchmarking and A/B rollout systems to measure performance vs third party vendors. Introduced observability dashboards for latency and path accuracy. Mentored new engineers and transitioned the team toward ownership-driven product engineering.

SDE 2 at Ola, Apr 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Founding engineer in Ola’s Maps initiative. Focused on building the real-time routing and search foundation for the platform. Developed Autocomplete API using Elasticsearch and Vert.x, powering customer app search. Implemented real-time ETA prediction improving booking conversion and reducing wait times. Built streaming jobs for driver hotspots (Flink + Redis), improving trip density. Delivered early routing prototypes that evolved into Ola Maps Routing.

SDE1 at Ola, Jun 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 y 9 mo, Bengaluru

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/inigma07