About
Over the past decade, I've grown from a software engineer into a technical leader building cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and AI-powered products. I lead cross-functional engineering teams across multiple countries, partnering with Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders to translate evolving business goals into scalable technical solutions. My work spans platform engineering, software architecture, AI, and technical leadership. I enjoy solving problems where scalability, correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability matter more than short-term implementation choices. Whether modernizing legacy platforms, defining service boundaries, architecting distributed systems, or guiding teams through complex technical decisions, my focus is building platforms that continue to evolve without accumulating unnecessary complexity. I've architected production platforms combining distributed data pipelines, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, APIs, workflow orchestration, and developer platforms into reliable, observable systems. My experience includes REST & GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Beyond technology, I enjoy creating leverage for engineering organizations by establishing architectural direction, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, improving developer productivity, strengthening operational excellence, and aligning engineering execution with business strategy. AI has become an integral part of my engineering workflow. I use AI-assisted development to accelerate architecture exploration, implementation, testing, documentation, and code reviews while maintaining human ownership of design decisions, correctness, security, and business-critical logic. My engineering foundation comes from building safety-critical systems in automotive and autonomous driving, where reliability and correctness are non-negotiable. Working across HD Maps, autonomous driving platforms, embedded systems, xIL Validation, functional safety, and large-scale data validation taught me disciplined engineering practices that transfer naturally to any domain where distributed systems operate at scale. Languages: English • German (C1) • Japanese (JLPT N3) • Tamil • Hindi
Work experience
Engineering Manager at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, May 2021 - Present · 5 y 3 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Consultant | Associate Product Manager - Connected Vehicles & Infotainment at MHP – A Porsche Company, May 2018 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Engine Developer and Tester at Visa Diesel, Feb 2015 - Sep 2015 · 8 mos, Greater Chennai Area
Marketing Intern at Sqore, Feb 2014 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo
