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title: "Kirthi T N - Director of Software Engineering in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Kirthi T N on Tal

## 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

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