Associate Director of Engineering @ WeWork India | ex-Gojek, ex- Medibuddy, ex-Lenskart


Banglore

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Greater Bengaluru Area

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineer's Degree, Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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As a Senior Mobile Engineering Manager at WeWork India, I bring over a decade of expertise in iOS and Android development, having delivered 35+ apps across diverse industries. I've built and led mobile teams for top brands like Gojek, McDonald's, BBC, Paytm, and ICICI, transforming ideas into impactful, user-centric apps. At WeWork, I'm focused on driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge mobile solutions that enhance the workspace experience, all while mentoring talented engineers to reach their full potential.
Greater Bengaluru Area
Associate Director Engineering at WeWork India, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos
Senior Engineering Manager at WeWork India, May 2024 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Banglore
Engineering Manager at MediBuddy, Oct 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, □Successfully managed a team of 10 people I have actively contributed in hiring a skilled and efficient team, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance. □ Created a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for the iOS applications adding missing android features, motivated the team to achieve the same on time. □ Lead the design of iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components. □ Collaborated with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs. □ Prioritized to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects. □ Played the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment and helped the other developers with challenges, problem solving, achieving milestones as per the plan. □ Hands on with programming with 35%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.
Lead Mobility Engineer at apna, Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, □ Managing a software engineering team that builds, designs and implements highly scalable and performant systems and applications. □ Building iOS team for the company from ground to up. □ Building android team for employer app. □ Influencing and establish best engineering practices through strong design decisions, processes, and tools across the engineering teams. □ Contribution to the architecture of the system, take responsibility for the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues, among other things. □ Collaborating with Business and product teams to develop a long-term product roadmap, streamline and own product planning and release cycles. □ Hiring engineers as required and nurture high-performing teams.
Lead Product Engineer at GoTo Group, Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand, multi-service tech platform providing access to a wide range of services including transport, payments, food delivery, logistics, and many more, serving millions of users. Responsibilities: □ Designing and developing whole new product i.e. GoBox single handedly from scratch. □ Providing inputs to the Designers and product managers to enhance the user experience of gobox application. □ Regular interactions with Aloha team(i.e. GoJek’s UI/UX team) . □ Taking design and Architectural decisions and providing documentation □ Writing UI and Unit test cases to ensure good code quality. □ Handling Interviews for GoJek.
Senior Software Engineer at Lenskart.com, Sep 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lenskart is India’s leading eyewear online portal with the objective to offer disruptive and one of its kind service to consumers. Lenskart currently operates 700 stores in India. □ Revamping of Product description page, category screen, OTP verificationView, Coating screen, record power screen, User capture screen, □ Implementation of Continuous Integration using Xcode Server □ Implementation of grid layout, Dynamic Product Listing Page Achievements : □ Won developer of the quarter for Q1 2019 □ Won best feature award for Review and rating in Q1 2019
Engineer's Degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University