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Engineering Manager @ McKinsey & Company | Agentic engineering | AI engineering

About

17+ years leading large-scale software engineering and AI transformation across McKinsey, ZS, HSBC, and Citi — including organizations of 50+ across globally distributed teams. Leads AI-powered transformation of how software is built and how guardrails is engineered, advancing the adoption of agentic AI workflows, tooling, and an AI-led SDLC with measurable gains in productivity, quality, delivery speed, and cost (~50% productivity improvement, $275K+ savings). Deep quality-engineering track record — release governance and guardrails automation that move products from unpredictable to predictable, high-quality delivery at scale. Proven track record of strategy and disciplined execution — roadmap planning, execution, governance, risk management, vendor engagement, and stakeholder management.

Location

India

AI stack

claude

cursor

mistral

opencode

claudecode

githubcopilot

Work experience

Technology Leader at Available, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Open to new adventures!

Engineering Manager at McKinsey & Company, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, • Defined and led the AI engineering transformation strategy — translating vision into execution by evolving the team from AI-assisted coding to agentic engineering excellence with guardrails, on an AI-led SDLC built on Spec-Driven Development (SDD). • Delivered ~50% gain in engineering productivity through Cursor adoption, agentic engineering workflows, and purpose-built teams. • Led a 50+ engineer organization delivering enterprise marketing and sales products for multiple global clients. • Delivered 2 enterprise client go-lives with full release governance — release readiness, progressive deployments, penetration and security testing. • Achieved $275K+ annual savings through environment rationalization, SDLC simplification, and FinOps cost governance (20% SDLC time reduction). • Partnered with senior stakeholders on hiring strategy and vendor-to-FTE transition, reshaping toward a leaner, FTE-centric agentic engineering team.

Engineering Manager at ZS, Dec 2021 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Product development (ZAIDYN Commercial). Role - Software Engineering and Technology Manager . Product : ZAIDYN Data Hub (ZDH) / ZAIDYN Data Analytics. Domain : Platform Engineering, Data Analytics. - Successfully delivered merger of 2 legacy products for organization’s platform offering with high quality (zero issues reported in beta and first client upgrade). - Delivered 40+ successful client onboarding and upgrades. - Streamlined critical engineering areas (estimation, code review, unit test, integration test, build breakups, impact analysis) resulting to predictable outcomes and stability. - Stabilized engineering work, defined metrics and delivered estimation accuracy, code quality, NFR based development and responded to dynamic business priorities. - Created release execution plan for Merger release and delivered on time with continuous governance. Worked with PM, QA, PSR, Security teams spread cross locations. - Mitigated release quality risks by effective tracking and fixing bugs at scale. Did effective engineering triaging and process improvements on bug lifecycle. - Responsible for people and talent management, goal creation, performance reviews for engineering team.

Senior Consultant Specialist at HSBC, Oct 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos, India, Equity derivative, Post trade. Developer, Data Architect, Manager. Product : Sophis - Received recognition from the group CEO for successfully delivering a critical and time-bound regulatory audit point to on-board Front Office supervisors on trade surveillance product. - Delivered Brexit program requirements for post trade function for trade, instrument and position reporting. - Successfully led and managed multiple process optimization & code tuning tasks across entire Sophis batch resulting in reduced daily compute time to deliver P2P feeds meeting SLA. - Enabled T-1 reporting (from T-2) for fraud detection and reconciliation downstream systems. - Successfully moved to DevOps model by making gradual progress to self-sufficient pods over 1.5 years. - Delivered CI/CD implementation of 150 processes using Jenkins for on demand automated deployments. - Identified process improvement opportunities & led efforts to meet organizational performance metrics of “Double(releases) Half(incidents)” of 850+ (a key OKR across GBM in 2020). - Managed team of 10+. Was part of core panel which prioritized BOW of 35 developers.

Technology Lead at Citi, Nov 2015 - Oct 2018 · 3 yrs, India, Risk technology. Developer, Lead. - Delivered migration of legacy MCA(RCSA) application to new tech stack (Java, Angular, Oracle). - Solved usability problem by providing search and advance filter functionality to provide exceptional data browsing capability to Senior Risk Managers (100+ independent data points and all possible combinations). - Successfully executed the design and development of in-house workflow solutions, Reference Data Management (RDM), and enterprise-level data integration. - Collaborated with designers on persona driven designs. Expanded this collaboration to use cases and integrated mockup designs across application. - Accountable for code quality, data governance and data quality for 2 applications. - Led and managed 3 successive deliveries with zero functional defects for an application built from scratch to support Second Line of Defence Risk Managers. - Designed & delivered a configurable utility for global search and advance filter functionality to narrow down data browsing for users. It was included in strategic guideline and standard for front end backend integration. - Saved 1.5 years of projected development efforts for a team of 6 developers, by putting a successful recommendation to not to go ahead with migration of MCA to a OFSAA.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya