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Narayanan Sugumar

Associate Director - Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering | SRE | Cloud | Reliability | Engineering Leadership

Bengaluru

9+ years of work experience

Groww
May 20264 mosPresent

Groww
Sep 20258 mosApr 2026

Kognitos
Oct 20232 yrsSep 2025

PayPay Corporation
Jan 202310 mosOct 2023

Hybrid

PayPay Corporation
Nov 20211 yr 3 mosJan 2023

Unbxd Inc
Sep 20183 yrs 2 mosOct 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Paytm
Jun 20171 yr 5 mosOct 2018

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Education

Anna university

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

Anna university

20123 yrs2015

Diploma, Electronics and Communications Engineering

VSVN Polytechnic College, Virudhunagar

20093 yrs2012

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Headline

Associate Director - Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering | SRE | Cloud | Reliability | Engineering Leadership

About

Infrastructure engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling cloud platforms for fintech and AI companies. Currently leading Infrastructure Engineering at Groww across SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Databases, Networking, Security, Observability and CloudOps. Experienced in building high-performing engineering teams, driving platform strategy, improving reliability, reducing infrastructure costs and enabling engineering organizations to operate at scale.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Associate Director at Groww, May 2026 - Present · 4 mos

Senior Manager - SRE | DBRE | Infra-Data | Observability at Groww, Sep 2025 - Apr 2026 · 8 mos

Member of Technical Staff at Kognitos, Oct 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs

Cloud Infrastructure - Lead at PayPay Corporation, Jan 2023 - Oct 2023 · 10 mos, Hybrid

Platform Engineer at PayPay Corporation, Nov 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Lead DevOps Engineer at Unbxd Inc, Sep 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DevOps Engineer at Paytm, Jun 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Anna university

Diploma, Electronics and Communications Engineering, VSVN Polytechnic College, Virudhunagar

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