Headline

Principal Engineering Manager at Seekout | ex Niyo | Agentic AI, Backend, Data and DevOps | Golang, NodeJS, Python, K8s

About

I'm an engineering leader, builder, and business enthusiast with almost 11 years of experience scaling products and teams across high-growth startups and global enterprises. Currently at SeekOut India as a Principal Engineering Manager, I’m building and heading the India’s engineering org. Previously at Niyo, I led engineering for Niyo Global and Niyo Money, driving core banking integrations, transaction services, PCI-compliant architecture, and fraud systems across multiple pods (onboarding, cards, compliance, reconciliation). I’ve architected and built scalable, event-driven microservices using Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS (Lambda, SQS), and led cloud-native teams across backend, frontend, and mobile. My work spans domains like fintech, AI/ML, wealth-tech, and developer productivity tools. I’m passionate about building and mentoring high-performing teams, designing resilient systems, and turning complex ideas into production-grade software. From hackathons at Airbus to launching multi-lingual Alexa skills at RedBus, I love shipping things that matter. Let’s connect if you’re building in fintech, AI/LLM, platform engineering, or just love clean architecture and product-thinking engineering.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

langchain

langsmith

openai

Work experience

Principal Engineering Manager at SeekOut, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading and setting up the engineering org in India, laying out roadmaps, setting up processes. Building the AI agents for the Hiring Manager and Recruiter personas as part of the first B2C product we are building. Leading the efforts for setting up the agents orchestrations and workflows using Microsoft Foundry/Agno. Setup evals and monitoring of the agents on Langfuse. Revamped entire Outreach module responsible for running email campaigns of the recruiters from scratch, thus building a more reliable, async event driven architecture using Azure Service Bus.

Senior Engineering Manager at Niyo Solutions Inc., Aug 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Responsible for managing engineering teams for the SBM Bank backed Debit Card, Credit Card, Federal Bank backed Credit Card and Niyo Money teams. Led the re-architecture of Niyo Money product. Led cloud cost cutting efforts by improving AWS architecture, application code improvements, Kafka to AWS SQS+SNS migration. Led 3 independent engineering teams for 3 different lines of business.

Engineering Manager at Niyo Solutions Inc., Apr 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Led SBM Bank Debit Card and Credit Card engineering teams. - Helped improve DevOps infrastructure by implementing logging using a combination of vector aggregation, Clickhouse and additional tools. - Started the practice of measuring engineering efforts using various metrics from JIRA, Bitbucket etc. - Tried building a Clevertap alternative in-house and got success to some extent. - Did various case studies, ran analysis on different frameworks, languages, architectures. - Mainly involved in setting up a high-level architecture for all our banking products.

Engineering Team Lead at Niyo Solutions Inc., Jun 2021 - Mar 2022 · 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Led the engineering team for SBM Bank backed Debit Card. - Helped chart out the high level architecture for the super app architecture from the existing multi- apps (separate app for each bank) architecture. - Used firebase streams for implementing the real time updates in the app, for scenarios like balance update as soon as a transaction happens. - Built Add Money via UPI feature from scratch along with its tripartite reconciliation system between Razorpay, Niyo and the bank. Achieved a smooth experience QPS/TPS of 200 requests/second for this feature which involved multiple parties in this feature.

Software Engineer III at Walmart Labs, Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 · 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Built search and filter related features for Walmart US. Left due to actual vs interviewed role mismatch.

Senior Software Engineer at Airbus, Nov 2018 - Sep 2019 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Worked for the Core Electric Team in India, France and Germany. - Migrated legacy data to new systems. Built SAML auth system for internal platform. - Involved in database design and architecture. - Tech Stack involved Node.js PostgreSQL, ELK Stack, RabbitMQ

Software Engineer at redBus, Jan 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -Developed a Chat Bot using AWS Lex which can help end user book first, last,fastest,cheapest bus to a destination. -Revamped the Back End using Node.js and Golang for the SEO Tech Team and helped release SEO Pages (Operator,Route,City,BORoute etc) for India, SIngapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Colombia and Peru. - Worked with Data Engineering team to launch redBus app on Amazon Alexa.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology