Headline

Engineering Leader | Scaling 20+ Engineer Cross-Geo SaaS Orgs | Driving 2x Delivery via AI-First SDLC | Platform Modernization (.NET/React) | 2x Hackathon Winner

About

I lead a 24-engineer cross-geo engineering organization at BlackLine, owning end-to-end delivery for the Modernization program and the Annual Operating Plan and product roadmap for the platform. My current focus: migrating a legacy Invoice-to-Cash system to .NET Core and React at enterprise scale, with full developer-owned quality and no dedicated QA function. Over the past year, I've driven an AI-first SDLC transformation — team-wide Claude Code adoption — that cut engineering costs by ~$200K annually while lifting delivery efficiency ~50%, with a roadmap to 2x. In parallel, AI features I've shipped into the platform (intelligent automation across collections workflows) have generated $1M in incremental revenue. I've built AI-adoption metrics directly into how I evaluate and grow engineering talent, and I partner with senior leadership on release strategy, CI/CD automation, and build infrastructure as we scale the next phase of the platform. I bring a strong track record of applied innovation- two-time winner of internal Hackathon, including the inaugural edition sponsored by Google alongside proven success engaging global stakeholders from solution proposal through post-delivery support. I believe the next generation of engineering organizations will be defined by how deeply AI is embedded into the SDLC itself - not as a tool bolted on, but as a structural part of how teams plan, build, and ship. That's the org I'm building: one where AI-augmented engineering is the default, not the experiment.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

elevenlabs

mcp

openai

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at BlackLine, Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, India, Drive AI-first SDLC transformation through team-wide Claude Code adoption, achieving ~50% engineering efficiency gains and leading a roadmap toward 2x delivery speed; embedded AI-adoption metrics directly into engineering performance and evaluation frameworks. Own the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and product roadmap for the platform, translating yearly business strategy into executable engineering plans across release, capacity, and resourcing. Partner with senior leadership on release strategy, CI/CD automation, and build infrastructure - including delivering an automated test-failure remediation pipeline with auto-generated PRs - to strengthen platform reliability and developer velocity. Run structured, evidence-based performance calibration across 24 engineers, including framework-driven career progression assessments and stack-ranking exercises incorporating AI-adoption as a scoring dimension; two-time winner of internal Hackathon.

Engineering Manager at Epicor, Jan 2019 - Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Development Manager at Aptean, May 2018 - Jan 2019 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical Manager at Artefacts Systems, Jan 2015 - May 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Product Lead at Symphony Teleca, Aug 2011 - Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science/Studies, Siddaganga Institute of Technology