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Director of Engineering @ Truecaller | Technical Strategy, Engineering Management

About

As a Director of Engineering at Truecaller, I lead the technology strategy and execution for the global ads business, enabling millions of users to discover relevant and engaging content on the platform. I have over 15 years of experience in software engineering, product development, and team transformation across various domains and industries, such as Ad Tech, e-commerce, etc. My core competencies include software architecture and design, sprint planning and project management, web application development, Java, C#, object-oriented programming, people skills, and process improvement. I am passionate about building scalable, reliable, and user-friendly products that solve real-world problems and create value for both the business and the customers. I am also committed to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence among my team members and peers.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

gemini

Work experience

Director of Engineering at Truecaller, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Director of Engineering at Truecaller, Jul 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager at Truecaller, Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building Ads solutions

Senior Engineering Manager at Niki, May 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Building Internet Economy 2.0 of India. Leading tech efforts for Commerce team of Niki. Taking care of Niki's Order fulfilment and Management, Payments, Refunds, Offers, Promotions, Referrals, Dashboard(for internal usage) and user communications. Managing scrums, hiring, people management for Both BE and FE teams. Led development of Grocery and Gift card processing from scratch. Technical Leadership and Team Management Software Architecture and Design Sprint Planning & Project Management Using Java, Sprint Boot, DI, SOLID Principles, AWS(Dynamo, SQS, RDS, SES, Elastic Cache, lambda)

Engineering Manager at Niki, Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 · 7 mos, Bangalore

Lead Software Development Engineer at Niki, May 2018 - Sep 2018 · 5 mos, Bangalore

Co-Founder at AchievedIn, Mar 2017 - Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

SDE II at Microsoft, Oct 2013 - May 2018 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, Delivered features like House Ads, Affiliate Ads, Ad performance Reporting, JS based Ad SDK, Billing etc for Microsoft's App Promotion. Worked with Azure Document DB, C# Task Parallel Library, Azure Data Factory, Cosmos, .NET Web API, SQL etc.

SDET II at Microsoft, May 2013 - Oct 2013 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sr. SDET at InMobi, Jan 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore, Was responsible for entire Test Automation and QA for all the features related to Monetization, Fraud Detection, Compliance scoring, Forecasting etc. on InMobi's platform.

SDET at InMobi, Jun 2011 - Dec 2011 · 7 mos, Bangalore, Worked on Testing and Automation of InMobi's Billing system on newly adopted SOA.

Education

Chief Technology Officer Programme, Technology Leadership, Indian School of Business

MCA, Computer Science, Pondicherry University