Headline

Engineering Leader | Platform Modernization | Cloud-Native & CPaaS Platforms | AWS Transformation | Distributed Systems | Engineering Strategy | Applied AI

About

Engineering leadership, to me, is about creating the right balance between technology, people, and business strategy. I enjoy building high-performing engineering organizations, modernizing complex platforms, and delivering technology solutions that enable sustainable business growth. Over the years, I have led platform modernization, cloud transformation, and engineering initiatives across CPaaS and OTT environments, helping organizations evolve toward resilient, cloud-native architectures. My experience spans engineering strategy, distributed systems, platform reliability, AWS transformation, DevOps practices, and operational excellence. Quite fast in adapting to the newer technologies; ramping up on the AI Development & tools. I am passionate about building strong engineering cultures where innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement become part of everyday execution. Whether leading large-scale transformation programs, strengthening platform reliability, or mentoring engineering teams, my focus remains on delivering solutions that create lasting business value. I believe great engineering organizations are built on empowered people, thoughtful technical decisions, and disciplined execution. I enjoy collaborating with business and technology leaders to solve complex challenges, modernize platforms, and build systems that are scalable, resilient, and future-ready. I am always open to connecting with professionals who are passionate about engineering leadership, cloud technologies, platform modernization, and distributed systems.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

langchain

Milvus

Work experience

Director of Software Engineering at Kaleyra, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, · Leading global engineering teams responsible for modernizing cloud-native CPaaS platforms on AWS. · Driving platform transformation, engineering strategy, and organizational growth while aligning technology execution with business priorities. · Championing engineering excellence through platform reliability, cloud adoption, and modern software delivery practices.

Senior Manager, Engineering at Synamedia, Oct 2018 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, · Led the engineering transition of a global OTT platform, establishing India as the primary engineering ownership center for Data plane component. · Drove platform modernization, cloud transformation, and engineering process improvements across globally distributed teams. · Agile Transformation transformation Scope : Engineering Leadership | Video Technologies | VOD | Microservices | SAAS based Application | AWS | Distributed Systems | Cloud DVR | Object Storage | MemSQL | Golang

Engineering Manager at Cisco Systems, Apr 2013 - Oct 2018 · 5 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Led complex engineering programs across enterprise networking platforms, coordinating delivery across Product, Engineering, QA, and Customer Support. • Introduced engineering practices to strengthen release quality, deployment reliability, and cross-functional execution. • Built a reputation for delivering business-critical programs in complex, fast-paced environments

Technical Program Manager at Cisco Systems, Apr 2013 - May 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Customer engagement & Delivery with Norwegian customer – Being introduced in a challenging situation, brought in a process to deliver features and stabilize quality among third-party contract developers, Internal Architects, developers in Israel, and other stakeholders. This saved at least 20 person-months of effort • Effectively managed Scheduling, Estimation & Project Risks, and related challenges by implementing high-quality features & keen tracking methodologies, facilitating daily stand up meetings, and streamlining third-party dependencies • Created winning proposals by establishing pragmatic yet revenue generation approaches that resulted in a minimal gap between estimates and actuals in terms of time & efforts • Achieved better estimation of efforts by clearly identifying client & stakeholder requirements, defining milestone, and developing tracking processes well at the beginning

Integration Manager at NDS India Video Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (a part of Cisco System), Aug 2011 - Apr 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Built multiple technical teams of Integrators who could stabilize the end to end stack delivered to customers and resolve any field issues at customer location • Led E2E Integration & Validation teams, that integrates Middleware over third-party vendor hardware. • Increased Productivity of developers by bringing in engineering innovations Scope: E2E Integration | Middleware Development | Embedded Systems | Drivers | Technical Management | Integration Management | Customer Management | Presales & Planning | Dependency & Risk Management | C | Java | Linux

Solutions Integrator at NDS India Video Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (a part of Cisco System), Mar 2007 - Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Integrated Full Stack for Client devices over various flavors of Hardware • Developed Middleware and applications using C and Java, respectively • Technical leadership to enable other Integrators and QCs to achieve their goals

Specialist at Tata Elxsi, Jan 2000 - Feb 2007 · 7 yrs 2 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Developed device drivers for consumer electronic devices • Integrated third party middleware over the PCI • Developed Context Based Application Filtering features for Network devices Scope: Embedded Systems | Development for STB and Network Devices | Project Management | Technical Leadership | C | RTOS | Linux | VxWorks

Education

Post Graduation in Big Data Systems, Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Ramaiah Institute Of Technology