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Sekar Setty Natarajan

Engineering Leader | Ex Niyo , Freo

Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

Self-Employed
Sep 20242 yrs 1 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Stealth Startup: AI powered video generation product for Virtual Film Productions (VP). Reducing production costs significantly. Customer Support Chatbot: Developed a customer support chatbot on the AWS Bedrock platform, leveraging the Claude Haiku model. The chatbot was integrated with the client’s business knowledgebase and APIs, enhancing customer interaction and reducing response time. Voicebot for Customer Onboarding: Implemented a voicebot solution using the OpenAI Whisper model for speech-to-text with multi-language support. This voicebot streamlined the onboarding journey for customers, enabling faster and more efficient completion of onboarding processes. Vernacular Translation for Mobile Apps: Delivered a vernacular translation solution for mobile app UI text, using a combination of AI-powered APIs. This solution improved accessibility and user experience by offering localized content in multiple languages. Video KYC Co-pilot Solution: Designed and implemented a video KYC solution powered by GPT-V and Tesseract. This co-pilot system assisted users through the KYC process, ensuring compliance and enhancing the customer experience.
Freo
May 20231 yr 5 mosSep 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built a Generative AI application, such as a customer support chatbot, on AWS Bedrock to enhance customer experience. Led multiple engineering teams, including Backend Development, DevOps, InfoSec, and Data Engineering to support product growth.
Niyo Solutions Inc.
Aug 20202 yrs 10 mosMay 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built products used by 5 million users from scratch like Niyo Benefits, Niyo Bharat and Niyo SME. Leading 30+ engineers and managers to keep the architecture, tools, code, etc simple, modern, clean and effective with high quality. Implemented bank integrations having traffic more than 100 transactions per second Implemented ISO 8583 compliant card payment solutions. Leading critical technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, product, customer, and other stakeholders
Niyo Solutions Inc.
Sep 20173 yrsAug 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built the first version of SME Banking product Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineers of team size 10. Implemented RBI, PCI DSS compliant solutions Code review for pull requests in Java and Node.js
Niyo Solutions Inc.
Apr 20161 yr 6 mosSep 2017

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

One of the early employees to join the founding team of Niyo. Worked on backend components with AWS Cloud, microservices and serverless architectures
SpotOut
Apr 20151 yrMar 2016

Architected the software infrastructure on AWS cloud. Hired and managed the founding team of engineers for SpotOut which is a social video streaming app for local events.
OpenText
May 20141 yrApr 2015

Greater Hyderabad Area

OpenText
Jan 20144 mosApr 2014

Greater Hyderabad Area

Sekar’s AI Stack

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Education

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology

Anna University Chennai

20074 yrs2011

Thiagarajar Mills Hr.Sec School

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Engineering Leader | Ex Niyo , Freo

About

Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience in software engineering and fintech. Now specializing in implementing cutting-edge AI solutions to transform customer engagement, operational efficiency, and developer productivity. I co-founded SpotOut as CTO and was a founding team member of Niyo, demonstrating my ability to drive successful ventures. Passionate about using AI to drive business growth and enhance customer experiences. KEY SKILLS Engineering Leadership • Software Architecture • AWS • Java • Spring Boot • SQL • Kafka • Redis • Flink • Python • FastAPI • AI Agents • LLMs • RAG • MCP • LangChain

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Engineering Leader at Self-Employed, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Stealth Startup: AI powered video generation product for Virtual Film Productions (VP). Reducing production costs significantly. Customer Support Chatbot: Developed a customer support chatbot on the AWS Bedrock platform, leveraging the Claude Haiku model. The chatbot was integrated with the client’s business knowledgebase and APIs, enhancing customer interaction and reducing response time. Voicebot for Customer Onboarding: Implemented a voicebot solution using the OpenAI Whisper model for speech-to-text with multi-language support. This voicebot streamlined the onboarding journey for customers, enabling faster and more efficient completion of onboarding processes. Vernacular Translation for Mobile Apps: Delivered a vernacular translation solution for mobile app UI text, using a combination of AI-powered APIs. This solution improved accessibility and user experience by offering localized content in multiple languages. Video KYC Co-pilot Solution: Designed and implemented a video KYC solution powered by GPT-V and Tesseract. This co-pilot system assisted users through the KYC process, ensuring compliance and enhancing the customer experience.

Senior Engineering Manager - Generative AI at Freo, May 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built a Generative AI application, such as a customer support chatbot, on AWS Bedrock to enhance customer experience. Led multiple engineering teams, including Backend Development, DevOps, InfoSec, and Data Engineering to support product growth.

Director Of Engineering at Niyo Solutions Inc., Aug 2020 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built products used by 5 million users from scratch like Niyo Benefits, Niyo Bharat and Niyo SME. Leading 30+ engineers and managers to keep the architecture, tools, code, etc simple, modern, clean and effective with high quality. Implemented bank integrations having traffic more than 100 transactions per second Implemented ISO 8583 compliant card payment solutions. Leading critical technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, product, customer, and other stakeholders

Engineering Manager at Niyo Solutions Inc., Sep 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Built the first version of SME Banking product Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineers of team size 10. Implemented RBI, PCI DSS compliant solutions Code review for pull requests in Java and Node.js

Principal Engineer at Niyo Solutions Inc., Apr 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, One of the early employees to join the founding team of Niyo. Worked on backend components with AWS Cloud, microservices and serverless architectures

Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder at SpotOut, Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr, Architected the software infrastructure on AWS cloud. Hired and managed the founding team of engineers for SpotOut which is a social video streaming app for local events.

Software Engineer at OpenText, May 2014 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr, Greater Hyderabad Area

Associate Software Engineer at OpenText, Jan 2014 - Apr 2014 · 4 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Anna University Chennai

Thiagarajar Mills Hr.Sec School