Pooja Kurbetti profile photo 1 on Tal

Pooja Kurbetti

Engineering Productivity | Quality Engineering Leader | Automation | Distributed Systems

India

4+ years of work experience

Addepar
Dec 20259 mosPresent

Addepar
Dec 20259 mosPresent

Managed and mentored SDET team of 10, improving delivery predictability and strengthening quality ownership. Led data validation across large-scale financial pipelines, ensuring data integrity using Databricks. Established end-to-end validation controls and shift-left quality gates across distributed pipelines. Manage co-ordinations & communications across teams in UK, US and India. Derive KPIs to measure team and delivery efficiency. Defined OKRs and Key bets aligning to the org vision and deriving appropriate metrics.
Kotak811
Oct 20232 yrs 2 mosNov 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Kotak Mahindra Bank
Oct 20232 yrs 2 mosNov 2025

Led quality engineering for high-volume UPI payment systems handling millions of transactions daily, validating real-time processing and reconciliation flows. Defined and executed testing strategy for fraud detection systems and real-time transaction pipelines, ensuring accuracy and reliability in critical financial transaction flows.
Kristal.AI
Nov 20212 yrsOct 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Kristal is a wealth advisory and fund management group serving accredited investors and mass affluent clients globally. While we offer curated ETFs and AI-managed portfolios to retail investors, we specialize in serving emerging HNWIs with sophisticated and personalized investment ideas of Pre-IPO deals, PE funds, VC funds, Hedge Funds, structured notes etc. We are bringing private banking experience within the reach of many. 
Kristal AI
Nov 20212 yrsOct 2023

Owned quality engineering for a rapidly scaling wealth platform, supporting portfolio and recommendation workflows. Built and scaled automation across API and UI layers, increasing test coverage of critical investment workflows by ~35%. Validated financial recommendation systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency of portfolio calculations and recommendations
GitHub
@poojakurbetti
Medium
@pooja.kurbetti89

Pooja’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
codex
codex
opencode
opencode

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

20074 yrs2011

Join Pooja and 10k+ other professionals on

Tal Boss

Tal is the app where bosses meet engineers & builders directly, without middlemen

Download Tal Boss

Pooja Kurbetti on Tal

Headline

Engineering Productivity | Quality Engineering Leader | Automation | Distributed Systems

About

Engineering leader with 14+ years of experience improving engineering reliability, automation, and delivery effectiveness across fintech, banking, healthcare, travel, and platform environments. I currently lead Quality Engineering initiatives for large-scale distributed systems, driving automation, CI/CD enablement, shift-left practices, observability, and scalable validation across backend and data-intensive platforms. My experience spans engineering enablement, release confidence, automation architecture, and building high-performing teams that improve delivery speed while maintaining reliability. Previously, I helped scale quality and engineering practices across fast-growth environments, reducing release risk, increasing automation adoption, and enabling operational excellence across critical business systems. I enjoy operating at the intersection of engineering productivity, platform thinking, quality strategy, and developer enablement. Open to global opportunities and relocation.

Location

India

AI stack

antigravity

codex

opencode

Work experience

Software Engineering Manager at Addepar, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos

Quality Engineering Manager at Addepar, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Managed and mentored SDET team of 10, improving delivery predictability and strengthening quality ownership. Led data validation across large-scale financial pipelines, ensuring data integrity using Databricks. Established end-to-end validation controls and shift-left quality gates across distributed pipelines. Manage co-ordinations & communications across teams in UK, US and India. Derive KPIs to measure team and delivery efficiency. Defined OKRs and Key bets aligning to the org vision and deriving appropriate metrics.

Engineering Manager at Kotak811, Oct 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Quality Engineering Manager at Kotak Mahindra Bank, Oct 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Led quality engineering for high-volume UPI payment systems handling millions of transactions daily, validating real-time processing and reconciliation flows. Defined and executed testing strategy for fraud detection systems and real-time transaction pipelines, ensuring accuracy and reliability in critical financial transaction flows.

QA Manager at Kristal.AI, Nov 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Kristal is a wealth advisory and fund management group serving accredited investors and mass affluent clients globally. While we offer curated ETFs and AI-managed portfolios to retail investors, we specialize in serving emerging HNWIs with sophisticated and personalized investment ideas of Pre-IPO deals, PE funds, VC funds, Hedge Funds, structured notes etc. We are bringing private banking experience within the reach of many.

Quality Assurance Engineering Manager at Kristal AI, Nov 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs, Owned quality engineering for a rapidly scaling wealth platform, supporting portfolio and recommendation workflows. Built and scaled automation across API and UI layers, increasing test coverage of critical investment workflows by ~35%. Validated financial recommendation systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency of portfolio calculations and recommendations

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Public links

github: https://github.com/poojakurbetti

medium: https://medium.com/@pooja.kurbetti89