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title: "Narayanan Sugumar - Associate Director in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Narayanan Sugumar on Tal

## 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

claude code

codex

hugging face

langchain

ollama

openai

## 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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