Headline

Engineering Director , Verifone

About

Results-oriented Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience and a proven track record of building and leading successful teams (40+) and delivering impactful software solutions. Expert in agile methodologies, automation, and driving continuous improvement — resulting in significant gains in user adoption, system performance, and code quality. As Director, Engineering – EMEA at Verifone, I lead the teams and platform architecture that connect acquirers, banks, and merchants at scale across the region. My focus is turning fragmented gateway integrations into reusable, gateway-agnostic building blocks, so new markets and partners come online in weeks rather than quarters. Two decades across fintech, banking, and capital markets have taught me that great platforms are built by great teams. I care as much about the engineers I hire and mentor as the systems we ship. Lately I'm putting AI to work in the day-to-day — building agents and tooling with Claude to cut integration effort and free teams to focus on the hard problems. Skilled in C#, .NET, Java,Angular, ReactJS, Azure, AWS, and DevOps. AWS & Azure Certified Solutions Architect. Always happy to talk payments, platform engineering, and building high-performing distributed teams.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

langchain

langgraph

ChatGPT

Work experience

Director at Verifone, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I lead engineering for Verifone's payments platform across EMEA — the teams and architecture that connect acquirers, banks, and merchants at scale. My focus is turning fragmented gateway integrations into reusable, gateway-agnostic building blocks, so new markets and partners come online in weeks, not quarters. Two decades in fintech, banking, and capital markets have taught me that great platforms are built by great teams. I care as much about the engineers I hire and mentor as the systems we ship. Lately I'm putting AI to work in the day-to-day — building agents and tooling with Claude to cut integration effort and free teams to solve the hard problems. AWS & Azure Certified Solutions Architect. Always happy to talk payments, platform engineering, and building high-performing distributed teams.

Associate director at First American, 2024 - 2025 · 1 y, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Managed the team responsible for rebuilding the entire Document Management Platform, transitioning from a legacy ASP.NET monolith to a modern web application using ReactJS, .NET, and REST APIs, while actively contributing to technical and architectural design discussions.

Engineering Manager at Australian Retirement Trust, 2020 - 2024 · 4 yrs, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Led Azure cloud transformation for enterprise data platforms, leveraging Microsoft Purview, Synapse, and Azure Functions.

Engineering Manager at AMP Capital, 2017 - 2020 · 3 yrs, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Led AWS migration, Kafka-based microservices adoption, CI/CD implementation, and broader platform modernization.

Technology Lead at AMP Capital, 2013 - 2016 · 3 yrs, On-site, • Development Lead for a team of 6 members, responsible for building and supporting middle and back office IT systems. Provided technical leadership to developers. • Solution designer for new requirements and enhancements for various Data warehouse, ETL, and Web applications. • Worked collaboratively with project and release managers for successful project delivery. • Built strong relationship with customers by showing empathy on requirement clarification and advising on solutions. • Built credibility with business stakeholders by delivering efficient systems and providing on-time support. • Hands-on development using Microsoft .NET and Sql Server technologies like C#, ASP.NET,MVC and Angular Frameworks,jQueryTSql, Bootstrap,SSIS, WCF etc. • Built and support continuous build, test and integration using Teamcity and VisualBuildPro. • Developed and maintained automated unit tests using TDD and NUnit. • Defect triaging before assigning to team members.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computational Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University