Headline

Engineering Leader | Applied AI, saas & consumer | Built & Scaled Teams 2→30 | AI-Native Engineering Practices (3x Delivery Velocity) | Ex-Byju’s, Ex-Zynga | Hiring, Process & Architecture at Scale

About

I build and drive engineering organizations — product, processes, and architecture — and I optimize relentlessly for delivery speed without sacrificing reliability. At Byju's, I scaled the Kids Learning App engineering org from 2 to 28+ engineers and EMs over two years, building the hiring frameworks, OKRs, and interview processes that made that growth sustainable — while also leading cross-border delivery for the U.S. market expansion. As Founder/CTO of Kriya Learning and Pingbox, I built and operated a multi-tenant B2B SaaS platform processing 1M+ messages per campaign at 99.9% reliability, cutting infrastructure costs 70% — proof that I can own systems end-to-end, not just organizations. From 2021–2024 I ran a deliberate fractional practice — 2–3 concurrent CTO/architecture engagements — alongside founding and winding down Kriya Learning. Most recently, I've focused on AI-native engineering practice: building agentic workflows into discovery, development, code review, QA, CI, and deployment — driving a consistent 3x improvement in delivery velocity for enterprise clients.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

gemini

kimi

langchain

langsmith

Work experience

Head of delivery at Superlinear Insights, May 2025 - Present · 1 y 3 mo, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, Own delivery and platform architecture for AI-native engineering engagements — agentic workflows and human-in-the-loop systems — working alongside Superlinear co-founder Swanand Pagnis. Built agentic practices spanning discovery through deployment for enterprise clients (a document-AI product and a legacy-to-AI-readiness data pipeline modernization), achieving a 3x improvement in delivery velocity. [Recommendation from Vamsi K (VP Engineering) provided in the recommendation section]

Consultant at Self Employed, Jun 2023 - Present · 3 y 2 mo, Remote, Provided independent product delivery consulting alongside leadership roles, partnering with early-stage startups and enterprise clients to define technology strategy, build engineering organizations, and deliver products from concept to market. Key engagements: ➤ Terrantic (US Agriculture & Transportation) – Led architecture, implementation, and end-to-end delivery of a mobile application suite for intelligent bin tracking and field operations. ➤ Healspan (Healthcare SaaS) – Partnered with the founding team of a seed-stage startup transforming cashless claims processing for Indian hospitals. Built the initial engineering team, established the product roadmap and delivery processes, and led development of the MVP with a strong focus on enabling scalable customer acquisition and commercial launch. Recommendation available from Sabarinath U., Founder & CEO, Healspan.

Architect at LeapRoad, Dec 2023 - Sep 2024 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Leaproad AI (Germany based client - via Lektik Consulting) Built and led the founding engineering team for an AI video/course-creation platform — architecture, hiring, and delivery process from day one. Shipped the video generation pipeline, content pipeline, and personalization engine; drove revenue to $100K MRR at peak within 6 months — a $1.2M ARR run-rate — through close engineering–GTM collaboration. Directly managed the 10 member team including engineers & business analysts to execute the roadmap with 2 different pods. 1. High velocity GTM engineering team, and 2. the long term product engineering pod.

Fractional CTO at Bigfatphoenix Interactive, Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr, Hired and stood up the initial engineering team for a seed-stage startup; owned technical architecture and doubled down on engineering process to raise content production cadence, plus led children's-data-protection compliance work across geographies.

CTO & Co-Founder at Kriya Learning®, Aug 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Built the engineering org and system architecture for a live-classroom ed-product (70% D7 retention in K12), then engineered the pivot of an internal tool into Pingbox, a B2B SaaS messaging platform handling 1M+ messages per campaign — designing for 99.9% reliability and a 70% infrastructure cost reduction. Ran parallel fractional engagements (below) to extend runway while building. Kriya Learning - product had industry best retention rate of, 70% D7 retention in k12 live classes segment. Beyond building a customer facing product, engineering driven content and process pipeline to continuously launch fresh light weight games everyday, was vital for education programs. A lean team pulled it off to release 1000s of mini-games in a short span of time, with a strong tech backbone. Kriya Learning wound down in April 2023 as I transitioned to full-time consulting. ✅ Strategy (Product & Engineering): Formulated and executed strategies, aligning technology with business needs and product objectives. ✅ Culture: Built and mentored a high-performing engineering team, with a focus on innovation, speed, and continuous learning. ✅ Architecture: Led designing scalable and resilient system architectures, ensuring a perfect experience for 100s of students in an online session, very high interactive multiplayer experience ✅ Operational Efficiency: Beyond customer facing products, led innovation in the content pipeline, to build internal game engines - which helped to launch 1000s of min-games. Pingbox handled 1M+ messages per campaign at 99.9% uptime over 6 months, and 70% reduction in compute achieved by moving from a nodejs based worker pool from django/python worker modules — cut infra spend by 70%.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Government Engineering College, Thrissur