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title: "Nagarjuna Y. - Senior Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Nagarjuna Y., Engineering Leader | Product & Platform Engineering | Medibuddy | Ex-Yulu | NITK based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude."
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# Nagarjuna Y\. on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| Product & Platform Engineering \| Medibuddy \| Ex\-Yulu \| NITK

## About

I run a horizontal product and platform engineering organization of 18 engineers at Medibuddy, India's largest digital health platform, covering Android, iOS, and Web across every major business vertical\. I own hiring, OKRs, product roadmaps, and delivery end\-to\-end, working closely with product and business stakeholders across each vertical\. The biggest thing I have built here started with a one\-line brief from the CTO\. Feature parity across platforms was breaking delivery commitments to insurance and corporate clients\. I had no web engineers, no framework, no precedent inside the company\. I built the proof of concept myself, ran a company\-wide hackathon to find the right engineers, trained interns, and assembled the team from scratch, all while continuing to own Mobile\. The result is Web LEGO, a suite of composable SDK modules that powers my team's entire product delivery and lets other engineering teams build independently without depending on us\. It's live today across six major product surfaces, with two more currently migrating\. Before Medibuddy, I spent three and a half years at Yulu as one of its earliest engineers directly reporting to the CTO\. I fully owned the ops platform, and worked closely with the COO and city managers to shape it around ground operations\. I also built software that ran on the Bajaj Auto assembly line, managed the external agency that launched the Miracle brand, and founded the Center of Excellence team before I left\. Throughout, I partnered directly with the founders on company\-wide initiatives\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

notebooklm

notion

## Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at MediBuddy, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Engineering Manager at MediBuddy, Apr 2022 \- Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical Architect at Yulu, Oct 2020 \- Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Extended ownership into backend architecture alongside mobile\. Architected the platform behind Yulu's scale\-up from 600 bicycles to 10,000\+ IoT scooters, a 20x increase in daily rides\. Led a team of 10 with 99% retention\. \- Designed and owned 3 apps end\-to\-end: Yuzen, Yulu Partner, Assembly Line\. \- Founded Yulu's Center of Excellence, its first member\. Worked directly with founders to validate and scale initiatives across teams\. Built composable SDKs for IoT, analytics, and payments, achieving 99% payment success\. Owned CRM and Events platforms, reducing rework across teams\. \- Led an ML\-driven fleet relocation model, replacing trucks with customer\-incentivized relocation\. Improved efficiency by 70%, saving Rs\. 3\.65 Cr \($440K\) a year\.

Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Yulu, Nov 2018 \- Sep 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore, \- Early engineer at Yulu\. Hired and mentored a 6\-member team\. \- Product owner for Yuzen, the platform covering the bike's full lifecycle: assembly, transport, hub operations, deployment, cleaning, repair, and recovery, plus charging infrastructure across stations and hubs\. Built Yuzen from scratch through field visits with the COO and city managers\. \- Built platform\-level BLE optimizations across a fragmented mobile device landscape, improving connectivity reliability across the IoT ecosystem, bikes and charging stations alike\. \- Sourced and managed the design agency for Yulu's brand refresh and the Miracle e\-scooter launch\. Worked directly with founders and the agency to launch the new website\.

Founding Android Engineer at e9ine, Mar 2017 \- Nov 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore, Joined as the first Android hire and built the practice from the ground up, taking each app from an empty repo through to release\. For Cab9 \(https://cab9\.app\), a B2B suite for cab operators, architected a whitelabelled Android core that powers two apps off one shared codebase: 1\. Passenger App \(https://cab9\.app/products/passenger\-app/\) \- booking & payments, plus live trip tracking over a battery\-efficient socket connection\. 2\. Driver App \(https://cab9\.app/products/driver\-app/\) \- live location tracking wired into the dispatch engine, booking management, earnings history, in\-app chat\. Separately, built the field app for O2Wifi \(https://www\.o2wifi\.co\.uk\), giving field engineers direct control to manage infrastructure \- eliminating the call\-center staff who previously updated those details in the system\. Everything \- architecture, tooling, engineering standards \- built from scratch\.

Software Development Engineer at ZenParent, May 2016 \- Jan 2017 · 9 mos, On\-site, \- Owned end\-to\-end development and maintenance of the Ad & Campaign Management module \- the core system driving revenue from advertisers\. \- Built a CMS for the baby names directory from the ground up, including SEO work that grew organic traffic to the section\. \- Built internal communication tooling \(E\-mail, SMS, Push Notifications\) giving marketing and content teams self\-serve tools to reach users directly\. \- Improved and refactored the parenting module for expecting mothers \- feature work plus cleanup of legacy code\.

Co\-Founder \(Technical\) at Festival Time, Mar 2015 \- May 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Co\-founded Festivaltime in college and worked to scale it in Hyderabad, starting with an experiences\-based model \- cakes, festival gifting, and celebration\-related offerings\. 1\. Built and ran the platform on OpenCart, extending the open\-source base with custom features as business needs evolved\. 2\. Built the Merchant Android app for order and delivery address management, giving merchants a simple way to fulfill orders on the go\. 3\. Experimented with growth channels and customer outreach, hands\-on and iterative, alongside the technical build\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Android Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering, Udacity

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