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Engineering & Tech Leadership | Mentor

About

A very accomplished Senior Engineering Manager and Solutions Architect with good knowledge in architecting, designing, and implementing solutions that meet business and customer needs. Strong leadership and servant-leader skills in coaching, mentoring and building high-performing engineering teams to deliver engineering and technical excellence across the organisation. Product and Tech Strategy - Expertise in defining strategic plans to drive engineering and product mission and vision. Engineering Excellence - building high-performing teams, technical quality and innovation, creating an operating model to support organisational needs, contributing to product vision and fostering a learning environment Good experience in migrating on-prem web applications to Azure Cloud PaaS/IaaS and delivering products as a SaaS model to customers. Strong Solution Architect background in designing microservice architecture, distributed systems, and developing applications using C#, .Net Core, jQuery, REST API, GraphQL, React, HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS, XML, MS SQL Server, Entity Framework and Azure Cloud Commendable expertise in EdTech, Retail domains and a good knowledge of Finance products Always driven by the motto "Learning never stops"

Location

Swanscombe

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Deliveroo, Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos, London Area, United Kingdom

Stem Ambassador at STEM Learning UK, Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos, United Kingdom

Mentor at Plato, Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos, Mentoring and Nurturing engineering leaders https://www.platohq.com/mentors/saikrishna-desaraju-144694413

Engineering Manager at Deliveroo, Nov 2022 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos, London, England, United Kingdom

Senior Engineering Manager at Marks and Spencer, Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, London, England, United Kingdom, • Responsible for a product group of 6 cross-functional core product and platform squads with financial oversight of £7M, delivering iOS and Android retail apps to customers. • Driving Mobile Apps vision and strategy by collaborating with Product, Design and Technical stakeholders, writing strategy papers, creating roadmaps, North Star vision, and setting an outcome driven OKR process for the product teams. • A key advocate of community practices and introduced working groups and forums to solve engineering cross-cutting challenges • Striving for Engineering Excellence in the teams through building empowering and high performing teams, improving technical quality, creating an operating model support organisational needs and fostering a learning environment • Supporting coaching and mentoring needs of engineers (at all levels) and engineering managers. • Fostering a great engineering culture through learning and development, 360-degree feedback, transparency, appreciation and creating a psychologically safe environment for the team • Contribution to Operational excellence through automating processes, improving Ways of working, setting-up organisational metrics like DORA and team metrics for technical quality, Platform, Delivery, and automation. • Good stakeholder management experience working not only with Product, Design, Architecture, functional experts, Leadership team, and business, but also with different suppliers, vendors, and contractors in the business.

Software Development Manager at Bromcom Computers Plc, Sep 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs, Bromley, United Kingdom, Good experience of managing teams of 20+ inhouse team members and 3 offshore teams with a financial oversight of £3M budget. Coach and Mentor teams to unlock their true potential by applying GROW model and showing the path to a successful career and grow as an individual. AGILE Transformation - Played a key role in the company’s AGILE transformation and implemented Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Performance Management Framework - Introduced Professional Development Plans with SMART goals methodology and introduced OKRs. Digital Transformation - As part of company’s digital transformation, worked with offshore companies to develop iOS and Android mobile apps for 3 products UI Design System – Liaised with UX team to develop a design system to provide a consistent UI design across all the Bromcom products which reduced the number of UI consistency bugs by 35%. Developed Metrics to review sprint and project status, created KPIs to measure team and project success. Some of the KPIs created are Committed vs Delivered work, Defect Removal Efficiency, Defect Density, Team Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction and NPS. Very good knowledge and experience in SDLC processes and measuring the success using several metrics like Quality, Cost Per Sprint, and Delivered vs Committed work items Implemented Change management and Release management process to get approvals from the relevant stakeholders before releasing changes to production.

Technical Lead Manager at Bromcom Computers Plc, Oct 2016 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bromley, England, United Kingdom, Azure PaaS – Migrated a cloud web application from IaaS to PaaS by overcoming challenges with State management, REST APIs, Scheduling, Distributed Cache, and Azure SQL limitations. This allowed the company to scale the user base from 1000s to 100000s CI/CD – Implemented Continuous Integration and Delivery for agile teams by migrating source control from TFS to GIT, creating Azure DevOps pipelines and Releases that resulted in a reduction of operational costs by 30%. Good understanding of Azure Cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS architecture models, Azure Functions, Security, Storage and developing secure, resilient, and highly scalable enterprise applications Have vast experience working in a multi-tenant, distributed and micro services applications. Created product and release roadmaps and provided technical design to meet the requirements. Identify project constraints, research the latest technologies available and select the technology stack to be used for the project. Maintained Non-functional requirement specifications with respect to Security, Performance, Scalability and Reliability

Technical Lead at Bromcom Computers Plc, Jun 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bromley, England, United Kingdom, • Plan and design the product to the requirements of product owner. • Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure. • Oversee the development work, perform code reviews, and provide guidance to development teams. • Mentor teams through technical knowledge sharing sessions and address the technical concerns and suggestions. • Motivate teams to improve their technical skills and work towards their goals by creating Professional Development Plan. • Monitor application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and collaborate with developers on solution implementation. • Design, build and maintain re-usable .Net components, jquery widgets, framework for new projects and prepare technical design documents. • Research new technologies to make the product efficient and powerful for the end user.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, acharya nagarjuna university