Headline

Engineering Manager at PhonePe | Ex-Zalando, Great Learning | 12+ Years of Scaling Products & High-Performing Teams

About

​I am a Full-Stack Engineering Leader dedicated to building scalable software and the high-performing teams that power them. With over 12 years of experience, I specialize in navigating ambiguity to deliver technical roadmaps that align perfectly with business growth. ​Currently, at PhonePe, I lead the Web Engineering team, where I focus on: - ​Strategic Roadmap Execution: Translating complex business needs into scalable technical specifications and long-term staffing strategies. - ​Architectural Excellence: Driving product quality, security, and performance through robust system design and rigorous technical standards. - ​Organizational Design: Building sustainable, high-output teams through strategic hiring and a culture of continuous improvement. ​Career Highlights: - ​Great Learning: Scaled the GLA e-learning platform from 0 to 15M+ users, managing the full product lifecycle and roadmap execution. - ​Zalando: Engineered the social checkout experience (zLash) by designing high-concurrency RESTful APIs to enable impulse-buy features. - ​Yatra.com: Focused on UI/UX integration and API orchestration for the 'My Bookings' ecosystem. ​I thrive at the intersection of technical depth and people leadership. Let’s connect to talk about scaling web architectures, engineering culture, or the next big thing in FinTech.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

antigravity

gemini

langfuse

Work experience

Engineering Manager, Web at PhonePe, Dec 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager at Great Learning, Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Great Learning, Nov 2021 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Software Engineer at Great Learning, May 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 y 6 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Zalando SE, Sep 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Berlin Metropolitan Area

Senior Software Engineer UI at Yatra Online Private Ltd, Jan 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

UI Developer at Ignite world Pvt. Ltd, Apr 2016 - Jan 2017 · 10 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Front end Developer at Jaarwis, Jul 2014 - Apr 2016 · 1 y 9 mo, Gurgaon

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University