Headline

Principal Engineer | Solution Architect | AI Transformation Lead | Product Management | Connected Mobility & Automotive Software Architect | GenAI, LLMs, RAG | Engineering Leadership | 1.5M+ MAU Platforms

About

Technology leader with 14+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale digital platforms across Connected Mobility, Automotive Software, Cloud Platforms, Mobile Applications, and AI-driven products. Throughout my career, I have evolved from a hands-on software engineer into a Principal Engineer, Solution Architect, and Engineering Leader, driving large-scale platform modernization, architecture governance, product innovation, and global engineering execution. At Mercedes-Benz R&D, I have led the architecture and delivery of connected vehicle platforms, infotainment systems, voice assistant solutions, and digital mobility services used by customers across 42+ countries. My work includes ownership of large-scale platforms serving 1.5M+ monthly active users, Android Automotive OS initiatives, cloud-native architectures, API ecosystems, and AI-enabled customer experiences. My current focus is helping organizations leverage Generative AI and Large Language Models to create intelligent products and improve engineering productivity. I am actively involved in AI transformation initiatives spanning GPT, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI, and enterprise AI adoption strategies. Areas of expertise include: • Solution Architecture & Enterprise Architecture • Principal Engineering & Technical Leadership • Distributed Systems & Microservices • Connected Mobility & Automotive Software • Android Automotive OS (AAOS) • Generative AI, LLMs, RAG & Agentic AI • Platform Engineering & API Ecosystems • Cloud & DevOps Transformation • Engineering Management & Team Leadership • Product Strategy & Stakeholder Management Key Highlights: ✔ 14+ years of software engineering and architecture experience ✔ Platforms supporting 1.5M+ Monthly Active Users ✔ Solutions deployed across 42+ countries ✔ Led and mentored teams of up to 22 engineers ✔ Conducted 30+ senior technical interviews ✔ Driving AI transformation initiatives across global engineering organizations I enjoy solving complex technology challenges, mentoring engineers, defining long-term architecture strategies, and building products that operate reliably at global scale.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

cursor

opencode

Work experience

Senior Technical Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Oct 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, --> Directed architecture, development, and deployment of six mobile and backend applications, leading a 12-member Agile/Scrum team through full product lifecycles. --> Spearheaded Swift migration and adopted MVVM & Clean Architecture, reducing technical debt and improving code maintainability. --> Managed sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder alignment, achieving on-time delivery for 15+ major milestones. --> Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and Azure DevOps, cutting deployment time by 30% and manual overhead by 40%. --> Partnered with UX teams to deliver accessible, inclusive UIs, boosting customer satisfaction scores by 20%

Senior Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Jul 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mobility Consultant at Capgemini, Dec 2014 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bangalore, --> Owned end-to-end delivery of social login features (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) via Graph APIs, increasing user engagement by 25%. --> Implemented Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket workflows to streamline full-stack project management and collaboration. --> Architected resilient networking pipelines using Alamofire and Apple’s Network framework, ensuring 99.9% uptime for background tasks. --> Optimised adaptive UI with Auto Layout and Size Classes; integrated APNS push notifications, improving retention by 15%.

Software Engineer at Infostretch, Aug 2013 - Nov 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune, iOS application developer

iOS Developer at Infostretch Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., Aug 2013 - Nov 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos, Designed offline-sync and local-caching modules for enterprise survey apps, reducing data-sync errors by 40%.

iOS Software Developer at Paradigm Creatives, Aug 2011 - Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Software Developer

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Jntu kakinada