Headline

VP of Engineering at Data Sutram | 1X Founder | Ex: slice

About

I’m an engineering leader with over 12+ years of experience driving both product-led engineering and large-scale platform initiatives across fintech, edtech, and SaaS. I enjoy operating at the intersection of product velocity, platform strategy, and operational excellence—building engineering organisations that ship reliably, scale sustainably, and stay deeply aligned with business outcomes. My career spans hands-on 0→1 product development, multi-team leadership, and the architecture of systems that balance strong user impact with long-term structural integrity. At slice Small Finance Bank, I built the Platform organisation from the ground up, leading Infrastructure, Developer Experience, Core Platform, and Risk/Fraud Platform teams. I led the design of our multi-region, compliant AWS foundation, drove the migration of all business units into this new environment, improved our compliance posture to 90%+, and delivered more than $200K/month in cost savings. Before that, I led Risk, Data Integrations, and Fraud Engineering, where I built Valyria—a real-time credit risk engine that reduced policy rollout time by 90% and significantly improved underwriting and onboarding flows. Earlier in my career, I led multiple product engineering teams at Relevel by Unacademy, where I scaled the Jobs platform 20×, helped the business achieve PMF in under five months, and shipped several 0→1 platforms in startup timelines. Before that, I founded a consulting firm and built ATS, CMS, analytics, collaboration, and booking systems across diverse domains. Across every role, I focus on building strong teams, mentoring leaders, and creating platforms and products that meaningfully improve developer experience, system reliability, and business impact.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Vice President of Engineering at Data Sutram, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering (Infra, DevEx, Core Platform & FRM Platform) at slice, Oct 2024 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos, - I own Platform charter at slice small finance bank building the Infrastructure, Developer Experience, Core Platform and FRM Platform teams - I built the platform charter from scratch to a team of around 25+ people including an EM during this tenure - I led the complete redesign of AWS accounts in line with the AWS well architected framework that is multi-region available and complies with the highest compliance standards in the India which currently hosts the entire infrastructure of the slice small finance bank - I led the migration of existing business units from existing AWS accounts into the newly design AWS accounts for the banking infrastructure. This led to a Cost saving of $200K/month, Security and Compliance posture improved to 90%+ - I have led and delivered multiple DR drill activities ensuring business continuity across multiple regions on AWS and actively participated in multiple audits (Internal, External, RBI, NPCI) demonstrating the highest compliance standards - Working on building the Developer Experience charter that drives efficiency and improves experience among the engineers - Leading the core platform efforts with an EM to build platform products that reduces the redundancies in building same capabilities(like authz, authn, data sync, communications) across multiple product lines

Engineering Manager - Fraud and Risk Management Engineering at slice, Dec 2022 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, - I started out as Engineering Manager for Risk Engineering, Data Integrations and Fraud Engineering at slice powering all the critical business units like UPI and Lending - I managed a team of 12 engineers, where we were responsible for building platform products that powered the critical BU functionalities - I built a Business Rule Engine Platform(Valyria) which reduced designing and taking live the credit risk policy by 90% and reducing the dependency on the engineering team significantly. - Unlike traditional backoffice execution, these policies are embedded during the user onboarding and delivers accurate credit worthiness of a user in under 500ms providing a seamless experience to the customers. - I have taken ownership of multiple pods during this tenure and ensured superior operational excellency and executional excellency while maintaining high standards of SDLC processes

Senior Engineering Manager - Courses Platform at Relevel by Unacademy, Mar 2022 - Nov 2022 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - I moved on to the Courses Platform and currently handle a 21-member team (13 direct reportees including an EM and an 8-member team reporting through dotted lines to me) - I set up the engineering process by working closely with the Head of Engineering like defining Technical SOPs, Technical Troubleshooting Processes, On-call incident management, and Instrumentations to measure the performance of the Team and Product - I designed the Sales CRM integration which concurrently worked with multiple platforms enabling smooth sales operations - I designed the private video content library which is accessible for candidates with select privileges

Senior Engineering Manager - Runway Team at Relevel by Unacademy, Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - I built the Runway team, primarily responsible for working with all the business units to help solve their operations inefficiencies using technology products - Worked with the Growth team and built a CRM to automate the influencer onboarding, management and payment processing systems and improved their operational efficiency - Worked with the Operations team to set up the technical support vertical and defined the processes and SOPs to troubleshoot the potential issues faced by the customers - Worked with the Support Operations to migrate their systems from Verloop to Intercom to improve the operational efficiency and helped set up the entire system in under 2 days

Senior Engineering Manager - Jobs Platform at Relevel by Unacademy, Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - When Relevel acquired RheoTV, I was promoted to Senior Engineering Manager and given the responsibility of handling the entire backend system of the product and scaled the Jobs platform to 20x - We hit Product Market Fit within 5 months from the date of launch of the product - I am responsible for interacting with the Product Managers, Designers, Engineers and QA team to deliver the projects - I am responsible for setting Career paths and goals for the team and guiding them to grow in their career to the next levels - I was responsible for conducting weekly 1-on-1s for my direct reportees and biweekly 1-on-1s for my skip-level reportees to discuss their progress in career path and goals setup - I am coaching and training an EM to effectively manage the team, set up goals and career paths and deliver a high-quality output of work - I managed a team of 10 members in the Jobs platform with 3 million users and 7k+ concurrent users: - We migrated the whole of the frontend application from Angular to ReactJS in a short period of time while handling 2k+ daily concurrent test takers seamlessly - We built our own proctoring platform which scaled to 7000+ concurrent candidates taking exams being proctored by 200+ live proctors - I worked on automating the operations of the product working closely with multiple stakeholders from different business units and automated 100% of operations in under 2 weeks

Senior Product Engineer at TapChief, Nov 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - I built ATS, an applicant tracking system for curating freelancers and hiring them onboard for projects by the companies from the TapChief marketplace - ATS had a calendar, timeline and Gantt chart view of the progress of the applicant's progress in the funnel - ATS had a multi-functionality chat app that acted as a base point for all the actions around the interaction with applicants such as Text, Media, Links, Payments, etc. - I built Workspace, a Slack-like application to help customers communicate with freelancers with help of text, media, and links in a centralised place within the TapChief website - Workspace was designed to be a one-stop solution to solve collaboration, communication and completion under TapChief’s roof - Workspace had an integrated payment and invoicing system aiding unified and contextual transaction information along with the work and progress - I built TapChief Unlimited, subscription-based e-commerce for standardized services - We built a CMS to manage all the standard services that we offered and to be able to buy directly from the portal - We catalogued all the standard service providing freelancers and created a package of services under a subscription model - I was part of building the TapChief Web application backend, which offered a cohesive platform to discover and schedule calls with experts to get advice across domains - I was part of building Video class white labelling solutions which were used by popular brands like Upgrad, Capstone, etc

Chief Executive Officer at Intrick Consulting, Oct 2015 - Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology

G.Ramaswamy Naidu Matric Higher Secondary School