Headline

Senior Engineering Manager(SDET)at Akamai Technologies

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years in Quality Engineering, SDET leadership, and AI-driven DevOps transformation, currently driving AI adoption at Akamai through Agentic AI, RAG, and LLM frameworks. Proven track record of scaling automation to 99%, delivering 500+ flawless releases, and leading high-performing global teams to set new benchmarks in speed, quality, and reliability.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

deepseek

gemini

openai

githubcopilot

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager SDET at Akamai Technologies, Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Leader for QA strategy, automation, and DevTest governance across Akamai’s delivery products portfolio. Pioneered AI-powered QA frameworks, integrating Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, embeddings, and LLM validation. Developed LLM evaluation pipelines for regression analysis, automated code generation, and DevOps checklist validation. Built hallucination-reduction workflows and explainability dashboards for AI governance. Implemented fine-tuning pipelines for QA-specific LLM tasks. Delivered multi-million-dollar projects (Emergency Cert Rotation, CCM Commercial, CONUS, Defence Edge). Mentored Dev, DevTest, and DevOps engineers to transition to AI skills.

Senior Manager Quality Engineering at Akamai Technologies, Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos, Lead quality engineering, reliability, performance, automation and engineering-productivity programmes across globally distributed delivery, edge and certificate-management platforms.

Quality Assurance Architect at HARMAN INTERNATIONAL (SAMSUNG), Mar 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos, Led quality engineering and automation architecture for Harman Professional AV cloud platforms, spanning embedded systems, AV DSP, Linux and Microsoft Azure.

Principal Engineer ll at HARMAN International, Mar 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore

Technical System Analyst Staff at Juniper Networks, Sep 2010 - Mar 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore

Engineering System Engineer at Juniper Networks, Sep 2010 - Mar 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos, Designed scalable automation and release-validation platforms for networking, cloud-based software distribution and enterprise systems, including large-scale continuous-quality pipelines.

Senior Specialist -C2 at Dell International Services, Sep 2008 - Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo, COE Project Lead

Education

Master of Science, Business Analytics, University at Buffalo

EMBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham