Headline

Immediate joiner, Engineering Manager, Full-stack leader with Agentic Ai experience

About

Engineering Manager with 16+ years of experience across full-stack engineering, SaaS product delivery, AI/LLM integrations, and people leadership. Currently at PowerSchool, I lead a team of engineers working on Naviance product initiatives that support CCLR — College, Career, and Life Readiness for students in the US. My work spans Course Planner, Work-Based Learning, and PowerBuddy-related Naviance integrations. I am a hands-on engineering leader with strong experience in React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, CI/CD, Snowflake, OpenSearch, RAG pipeline design, AWS Bedrock, and OpenAI integration. I stay actively involved in architecture, coding, technical design, code reviews, production readiness, and delivery execution. For PowerBuddy, PowerSchool’s AI-powered student assistant, I led the Naviance data-side integration workstream and contributed hands-on to RAG pipeline design, AWS Bedrock-based embedding generation, OpenSearch vector indexing, semantic retrieval flows, prompt design, Node.js integration services, and React / Next.js integration support. My leadership focus includes managing engineers, mentoring, hiring, performance reviews, sprint planning, roadmap execution, stakeholder collaboration, and improving engineering delivery. I have helped increase team delivery velocity by 35%+ through CI/CD improvements, stronger sprint discipline, release planning, and better dependency management. Before PowerSchool, I worked as a Technical Lead at Transoft Solutions and held senior engineering roles at Capgemini, Mindtree, and Accenture. I enjoy combining hands-on engineering depth with people leadership to help teams deliver scalable, reliable, and customer-focused SaaS products.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

aistudio

cursor

gemini

github copilot

langchain

openai

Work experience

Engineering Manager, Software Engineering at PowerSchool, Apr 2026 - Aug 2026 · 5 mos, - Managed engineers across India and the US, leading multiple teams and parallel product initiatives within Naviance and CCLR. - Owned engineering delivery for Course Planner, Work-Based Learning, PowerBuddy integration, and other Naviance initiatives supporting College, Career, and Life Readiness for US students. - Driven sprint planning, roadmap execution, technical design reviews, architecture alignment, dependency management, release readiness, and production rollout. - Partnered with Product, QA, Architecture, Data, and Engineering teams to manage priorities, resolve delivery risks, and ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions. - Lead people management activities including 1-on-1s, mentoring, career development, performance reviews, feedback discussions, hiring interviews, and team capability building. - Remain hands-on in technical design across React / Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, APIs, CI/CD, and AI-enabled platform capabilities.

Associate Software Engineer at PowerSchool, Apr 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Managed and developed full-stack engineers across Naviance initiatives, owning delivery execution, technical direction, stakeholder alignment, and team capability growth. - Led engineering delivery for Work-Based learning, PowerBuddy integration, and other Naviance initiatives supporting College, Career, and Life Readiness use cases. - Drove sprint planning, roadmap execution, technical design reviews, dependency management, release readiness, and production rollout across cross-functional teams. - Architected and contributed hands-on to PowerBuddy, including RAG pipeline implementation, AWS Bedrock embeddings, OpenSearch vector indexing, semantic retrieval, prompt design, and LLM integration using AWS Bedrock and OpenAI. - Improved engineering delivery velocity by 35%+ through Agile execution, GitHub Actions CI/CD, standardized branching, release planning, and execution tracking.

Team Lead at PowerSchool, Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Led full-stack engineers of 6-8 delivering Naviance product initiatives supporting CCLR use cases for students and schools in the US. - Provided hands-on development across React.js, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, REST APIs, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and SaaS application workflows. - Reviewed technical designs, debugged complex issues, reviewed pull requests, and guided engineers on scalable, maintainable, and secure implementation practices. - Collaborated with Product, QA, Architecture, and Engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, refine scope, resolve risks, and support roadmap delivery.

Senior Software Engineer 2 at PowerSchool India Pvt Ltd, Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 y 5 mo, Bangalore

Technical Lead at Transoft Solutions Inc., Apr 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Currently working as a technical lead and a full stack developer, leading a team of 3-4 employees. • Designed, built and maintained web sites, using React.js, JavaScript, jQuery for front-end and Node.js, Express.js for back-end. • Performed code reviews to ensure code is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards. • Introduced Test Driven Development (TTD) in project. • Wrote Test's using Jest.js for the application. • Reduced the risk of deployment error by 60% creating automation testing. • Created Well Formatted Excel in Node.Js Application. • Developed Graphical UI using charts, to analyse various misuses of software • Handling a team of 3-4 developers, providing technical guidance to provide the best output from the team.

Senior Software Developer Team Lead at Transoft Solutions Inc., Aug 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Worked as a senior web developer leading a team of 3-4 people. Developed a software for Traffic impact studies. • Designed, built, and maintain OTISS web sites, using .Net MVC along with D3.js, Jquery, Javascript. Used Sql Server for the database. Created a node service to using Node.js to expose required data for traffic engineers. • Performed code reviews to ensure that it is valid, is properly structured, meets industry standards. • Introduced Test Driven Development (TTD) in my project. • Wrote Test's using NUnit for the application. • Provided technical guidance/support for the development team. • Handled a team of 1-2 developers, to provide the best output from the team.

Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini, Apr 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer at Mindtree, Sep 2013 - Mar 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos, Denmark, Bengaluru

Senior Programmer at Accenture services Pvt Ltd, Apr 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, • Designing ‘N’ tire application architecture including Presentation, Business and Data Access Layer. • Database Design. Proficient in implementing business logic using the T-SQL Stored Procedures/Functions/Triggers/Jobs. • Designing of Functional Document, Class Diagram, and Sequence Diagrams. • Developing web forms, web services and data access layer using ASP.NET with C#. • Perform unit testing of application, review of test cases. • Worked on TFS and VSS. • Maintaining time sheets and VSS maintenance and TFS maintenance. • Analysis of drawbacks and loop holes of the currently running Application. • Requirement gathering. • Preparing Action plan for the Development of the application. • Creation of Prototypes, Front End UI for the required changes from Client. • Coordinating and providing Knowledge about the application and requirements for the other developers. • Developing the required functionality as per Requirement gathering. • Providing technical/Functional help for the other developers during development. • Gathering Status of the development from other developers time to time and maintaining the Action plan up-to date.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University