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title: "Monica Elaina K. - Leadership, Career & Life Coach/Mentor in Bangalore Urban | Tal"
description: "Meet Monica Elaina K., Engineering Leader | AI, Platform, Mobile, Product Engineering | Scaling High-Impact Teams | Driving Business Outcomes based in Bangalore Urban. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and lovable."
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# Monica Elaina K\. on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| AI, Platform, Mobile, Product Engineering \| Scaling High\-Impact Teams \| Driving Business Outcomes

## About

Engineering leader with 13\+ years of experience scaling AI\-driven, distributed full\-stack product platforms across global SaaS and high\-growth startup environments\. Led a multi\-layered organization of 40\+ engineers \(engineering managers and individual contributors\) across Generative & Agentic AI, Platform, and Mobile domains, translating business strategy into scalable systems while strengthening leadership depth and engineering rigor\.

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

lovable

mcp

obsidian

ollama

## Work experience

Leadership, Career & Life Coach/Mentor at Independent Practice, Jun 2026 \- Present · 4 mo, Remote

Fractional CTO at Independent Consultant, Jun 2026 \- Present · 4 mo, Remote, Engineering architecture, independent consulting and advisory

Travel & Professional Development at Career Break \- World Travel, Mar 2026 \- Jun 2026 · 3 mo, Global

Presiding Officer \(Chairperson\) POSH APAC at G\-P, Jan 2024 \- Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Senior Software Engineering Manager at G\-P/Globalization Partners, Feb 2023 \- Feb 2026 · 3 y, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, AI, Platform & Shared Services

Software Engineering Manager at ShareChat, Dec 2021 \- Feb 2023 · 1 y 2 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Full\-stack Product Engineering \- Backend & Mobile

Tech Lead Manager at BYJU'S, Jan 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 11 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Full\-stack Product Engineering

Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks, Apr 2020 \- Jan 2021 · 9 mo, Tamil Nadu, India, Backend & Mobile

Senior Software Engineer at Freshworks, Jun 2017 \- Apr 2020 · 2 y 10 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Mobile

Software Engineer at Freshworks, Jun 2016 \- May 2017 · 11 mo, Greater Chennai Area, Mobile

Senior Software Engineer at Qburst Technologies Pvt Ltd, Nov 2015 \- May 2016 · 6 mo, Chennai, Mobile Engineering

Software Engineer at Renault Nissan \(RNTBCI\) Chennai Area, India, Dec 2012 \- Dec 2015 · 3 y, Chennai, Mobile Engineering

## Education

MS, AI/ML, Scaler school of technology

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, St\. Joseph's College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer Science, Anna University Chennai

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