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title: "Sankhadeep Bhattacharya - Engineering Leader - Business & Tech Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sankhadeep Bhattacharya, Engineering Leader | Platform Engineering | PeopleTech | ML Automation | Uber · Intuit · Amex · TCS (Lehman UK) | Exploring Director/Sr. Director roles based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
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# Sankhadeep Bhattacharya on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader \| Platform Engineering \| PeopleTech \| ML Automation \| Uber · Intuit · Amex · TCS \(Lehman UK\) \| Exploring Director/Sr\. Director roles

## About

$12M in annual savings\. 40\+ engineers across three continents\. 25\.5 years building technology that matters\. I am a senior engineering leader with a track record of delivering transformative outcomes in some of the world's most demanding technology environments — American Express, Uber, Intuit QuickBooks, IBM & TCS\. At Amex I created an intelligent automation platform using ML, NLP, and Netflix Conductor that now saves the business $12M every year\. At Uber I lead a global PeopleTech engineering organisation — 40\+ engineers and managers — building internal platforms , agentic AI lead transformation that define the employee and candidate experience for over 30,000 Uber employees worldwide\. At Intuit I drove engineering for QuickBooks across both desktop and online platforms\. At Lehman Brothers UK — delivered through TCS — I led mission\-critical technology through one of the most turbulent periods in modern financial history\. What connects these chapters is a consistent ability to operate at scale — technically, organisationally, and commercially\. I have led cloud\-native migrations, built ML\-powered automation systems, designed geo\-distributed team structures, and translated complex business strategy into executable engineering roadmaps\. My leadership philosophy is straightforward: clarity of direction, genuine investment in people, and relentless focus on outcomes that matter to the business\. I build organisations where strong engineers become strong leaders\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Engineering Leader \- Business & Tech Engineering at Uber, Aug 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Lead a global engineering organization of Software Engineers and Engineering Managers for Uber's People Tech charter from India, spanning the full employee lifecycle — from Candidate Experience \(Talent Acquisition tools & tech\) to Employee Growth Experience \(Performance, LMS — Degreed, Absorb\) — partnering closely with cross\-functional stakeholders across the US and India\. \* Led the successful multi\-year migration of Uber's HRIS from Workday to Oracle HCM, spanning data migration and transformation, system integration, security architecture, and reporting — delivered with a clean go\-live and first successful payroll run \* Set strategic direction for HR tools and technology, driving initiatives that improve both candidate and employee experience \* Building and scaling teams: hiring, coaching, and engineering practice development across a globally distributed organization \* Leading the agentic AI\-driven transformation of the HR tech stack across talent acquisition, performance & growth, and learning platforms \* Own the roadmap and execution across in\-house builds \(Golang, REST, Analytics\) driving developer experience and productivity improvements Digital Transformation · Engineering Leadership · \+3 skills

Director Of Engineering at American Express, Mar 2019 \- Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, Led the Business Process Automation platform at American Express, integrating orchestration engines \(Netflix Conductor\) with a microservices architecture to automate core operational workflows — delivering \~$12M in annual savings, sustained year over year\. \* Built and led a global engineering team spanning the US and India, hiring, mentoring, and scaling a high\-performing organization \* Architected the intelligent automation platform end\-to\-end: Java/Python microservices, OCR\-based document processing \(Microsoft Azure\), and ML\-driven classification and clustering \* Extended platform capability with automated email classification using NLP, leveraging Google's BERT model \* Earlier in tenure, designed and built the next\-generation Search platform for Amex's Customer Care organization — combining Elasticsearch, ML\-based personalization/ranking, and Kafka\-driven real\-time content updates — significantly reducing average call handling time \(CHT\) \* Owned strategic envisioning with VP/SVP stakeholders, along with budgeting, forecasting, and architecture decisions for the automation roadmap Engineering Leadership · Apache Kafka · \+2 skills

Senior Engineering Manager at Intuit, Jan 2015 \- Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Led the QuickBooks Offerings ecosystem, owning end\-to\-end product development of "Big Bet" features for Intuit's flagship desktop product, alongside QuickBooks Online delivery to enable migration and feature parity\. Managed a team of 14\+ engineers — from senior staff engineers to early\-career hires and consultants — with full people\-management ownership, achieving a 98% colleague engagement score, the highest in the group\. \* Led AWS migration and re\-engineering of key services from monolith to microservices architecture \* Delivered Intuit's first serverless deployment \(QuickBooks Invoice Status Tracking\), conceptualizing the "web beacon" design pattern on AWS Lambda and DynamoDB; contributed a Node\.js pattern for authorizer Lambda last\-mile authentication, and drove cold\-start performance improvements using Gatling and JMeter \* Championed design thinking \("Design for Delight"\) to elevate the desktop and online product experience, while embedding security compliance and performance improvements into the regular release cadence \* Mentored and upskilled the team across both desktop technologies and the online \(QBO\) stack — Node\.js, React\.js, Dojo \* Drove technology strategy to keep the desktop and online offerings competitive, and ran monthly business/development reviews to sustain a high\-performing, highly engaged organization Engineering Leadership · Software as a Service \(SaaS\) · \+3 skills

Development Manager \- UI Services at IBM India, Jun 2011 \- Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, \- Led a global team of 15\+ members including senior architects , to develop widget capabilities for Tivoli's products & solutions on desktops and mobiles\. Responsible tor devising the UI strategy around UI services in the organisation\. \- Provided expertise and content for Dashboard as a Service capabilities for IBM's SaaS offerings\.

Development Manager\- Energy Management Solutions at IBM India, Jun 2007 \- Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo, Served as techno\-functional leader for IBM's Energy Management products and solutions, contributing directly to IBM's Green Initiative\. Partnered with global teams and distinguished engineers to deliver solutions in the Green Data Center space, later extending into Intelligent Building Management\. Delivered projects for IBM Global Business Services clients in the Chemical and Petroleum domain, built on SOA technology and IBM's internal "Blue" stack

Senior Technical Staff at TCS, Nov 2003 \- Jun 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos, London, United Kingdom, Worked as an IT Consultant for Lehman Bros executing, managing IT projects /softwares as part of Lehmans Operations and IT group as a IT consultant from TCS\. Responsible for the end to end migration of Lehman's IBM Mainframe based SWIFT payment system to an open source TIBCO\-EMS based solution\. Setup the networking infrastructure ,architected the TIBCO EMS solution and adaptors across diverse messaging sources such as TIBCO,JMS,MQ and integrating with SUNGARD's MINT messaging solution as the gateway to SWIFT\. Delivered Struts,EJB based bespoke solutions for Broker Matching capabilities in Lehman Brothers

Software Engineer at TCS, Feb 2001 \- Nov 2003 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Software engineer in the BFSI domain working in solutioning in building end to end insurance solutions in Java,SWING and EJB based solutions\.

## Education

B\.Tech, Computer Engineering, Kalyani University

St\.Xavier's School

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