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Lead Software Engineer @ Tekion | NITK Surathkal

About

I’m a Lead Software Engineer at Tekion Corp, where I lead the design and delivery of backend platforms powering Deals and Desking within the Retail pillar of our Dealer Management System (DMS). My role goes beyond individual contribution — I take ownership of end-to-end execution, technical direction, and cross-team coordination for business-critical workflows. A graduate of NITK, Surathkal (Class of 2016), I bring nearly a decade of experience across backend engineering, technical leadership, and people management. I’ve worked extensively on distributed, event-driven systems at scale, focusing on building platforms that are reliable, secure, observable, and easy for teams to evolve over time. I operate at the intersection of hands-on technical leadership and execution management — shaping system designs, unblocking teams, improving delivery predictability, and mentoring engineers as they take on larger scopes and leadership responsibilities. I care deeply about clean abstractions, thoughtful architecture, and building teams that can deliver consistently at scale. I’m particularly motivated by problems where engineering execution, platform strategy, and business impact come together — whether that’s scaling core systems, enabling new markets, or laying foundations for future AI-driven workflows.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

langchain

langgraph

langsmith

ChatGPT

Langflow

Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Tekion Corp, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Team: Retails * Led a 12-member engineering team owning Pricing and Desking workflows, driving execution across Global–Local PODs for multi-region product delivery. * Owned delivery, sprint planning, and execution for GM 2.0 (Pricing & Desking), ensuring predictable releases and production readiness. * Partnered with Product, Business, and Platform teams to deliver API-first Open APIs, enabling extensibility, partner integrations, and future AI-driven workflows. * Drove AI platform strategy by architecting MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration, establishing secure and observable foundations for Retail-AI use cases. * Enabled UK (Hartwell) market expansion by leading POCs and MVPs, resolving cross-domain data consistency issues via Kafka-based event-driven architecture.

Engineering Manager at Osfin.ai, Oct 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Team: Core-Backend * Managed and mentored a team of 6 engineers, driving ownership, delivery discipline, and technical growth; enabled promotion of 3 engineers to SDE2. * Led architecture and delivery of a Unified Dispute Management Platform for UPI, IMPS, and AEPS transactions, reducing client action time from 2 hours to under 2 minutes. * Established state-driven workflows, maker–checker controls, and audit-ready pipelines to meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements. * Scaled ETL and data processing pipelines handling 250M+ records, achieving 3× throughput improvement through infrastructure and execution optimizations. * Owned platform security and availability, integrating enterprise SSO (SAML, LDAP) with zero-downtime configuration changes in production. * Acted as the primary technical decision-maker, balancing speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Member of Technical Staff at Kognitos, Apr 2023 - Oct 2023 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Team: Engineering * Led delivery of AI-powered automation agents for legal and finance workflows, reducing manual processing time by 40% and improving extraction accuracy by 25%. * Played a technical leadership role in re-architecting APIs using GraphQL (AWS AppSync + Lambda), sustaining 1k+ RPS with zero downtime. * Drove a cloud cost-optimization initiative, reducing AWS spend by 65% in 3 months without impacting performance or SLAs. * Collaborated closely with product and customers to translate business workflows into scalable AI solutions.

Senior Backend Developer at Vahak, Jan 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Team: Core-Backend * Delivered backend systems supporting high-traffic consumer workflows, improving search performance by 35% and reducing query latency by 80%. * Led critical initiatives including RBAC-based authentication and a WhatsApp chatbot that reduced response times from 3 hours to 2 minutes. * Acted as a go-to senior engineer, influencing design decisions and mentoring junior engineers.

Senior Software Engineer at Airbus, Aug 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Department: Simulations and Physical Systems (AIOEY) * Led a team of 4 engineers, enforcing engineering standards, code reviews, and delivery discipline. * Delivered optimization solutions reducing engineering analysis time by 3 hours per task, improving team productivity and turnaround time.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

PUC, Science, MES PU College of Arts, Commerce and Science

Public links

github: https://github.com/ranjitm2001

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/ranjitm2001

codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/ranjitm2001