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Engineering @Zype | IIIT-Hyd

About

Experienced software professional with a demonstrated history of building Mobile apps, Enterprise SaaS products, and AI Solutions besides managing cross-product teams. Offer the ability to understand and balance business and technology tradeoffs, delving into the details of a product while maintaining a big-picture perspective.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Chief Technology Officer at Zype, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area

Sr. Director of Engineering & CIO at slice, May 2023 - Oct 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As Senior Director of Engineering, I led engineering across key verticals — onboarding, discovery, retention, CX, and UPI — during a period of rapid growth and regulatory pivoting. Directly managed a cross-functional team of 90+ (40+ backend, 50+ mobile) engineers and drove platform-wide transformation. Highlights: - Oversaw several cross-team projects as we transitioned from card to digital borrow product to align with RBI’s Digital Lending Guidelines. - Led the development of UPI Lite, AEPS, UPI International, UPI S2S, UPI rewards — improving onboarding and transaction success rates. - Architected the system to break down the monolith into 23 polyglot microservices using BFF, circuit breaker, and CQRS design patterns. - Created and coached a leadership layer: 1 Director of Engineering, 2 EMs, 1 AD Mobile, 1 AD Compliance, 2 Architects. - Set up SLAs for performance (p95 <100ms, p99<200ms), uptime (99.99%), coverage (~60%), operational efficiency (MTTA < 5min, MTTR < 30 min), AWS cost (50 paise/transaction, 15 Rupees/onboarding etc), and security across environments. As CIO of an RBI-regulated, Systemically Important NBFC, I led 10 person cross-functional GRC and security teams ensuring regulatory compliance and cyber resilience. Highlights: - Spearheaded RBI compliance programs besides managing ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ITGC, VRM, BCP/DR, and DPDP readiness. - Set up an in-house Security Operations Center (SOC), defined SLAs for alert response, and created actionable run books. - Regularly presented audit updates, regulatory risks, and IT strategy to the Board of Directors as a member of the IT Strategy Committee.

Director Of Technology & CIO at slice, Jun 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, As the Director of Technology, I handled the experience, repayments, and fraud teams. Highlights: - Led delivery of several key projects as the GTV was growing 35% MoM. - Prepared a 28 point checklist and program managed it across all the teams to make sure that we built resilient systems that could handle 10-15x of regular traffic during IPL ads or Flash sales. - Built the Fraud Control Unit in-house (identity, transaction, brand, and referral fraud). - Set up SLAs for performance (p95 <100ms, p99 <200ms), uptime (99.99%), operational efficiency (MTTA < 5min, MTTR < 30 min), and security across environments. - Led hiring (50 → 300 engineers), campus hiring programs, engineering OKRs, playbooks, and L&D. As the first CIO of slice, I formulated the cybersecurity strategy and led the execution of the same under strict budgets. Highlights: - Built a team from scratch comprising 6 engineers covering application, cloud, perimeter, and enterprise security domains while also leading a team of 4 handling GRC initiatives. - Implemented ISO 27001, PCI DSS, VRM, BCP/DR. - Conducted internal & external audits, phishing simulations, CTFs; led training on secure coding and OWASP top 10; managed the bug bounty program.

Senior Engineering Manager at Goodera, Dec 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, As the Senior Engineering Manager at Goodera, I led the Engineering org for three B2B SaaS platforms impacting CSR governance, sustainability reporting, and NGO project management. Highlights: - Managed a 17-member team including architects, full stack engineers, and QA (13 devs from IITs/BITS). - Delivered 20+ features across 6 product initiatives while maintaining release quality and compliance. - Introduced SonarQube, respectful code reviews, instrumentation and enforced unit, integration, e2e, load, and security testing to reduce the bugs and increase the platform uptime to 99.995%. - Drove mobile optimization and WCAG 2.1 accessibility improvements, increasing NPS from +18 → +49. - Ensured full compliance with ISO 27001:2013 by conducting regular VAPTs (both internal and external), Threat Modeling using STRIDE, and set the right SLA expectations around security/privacy with clients. - Evaluated competitor features using strategy canvas and ERRC grid to formulate the GTM strategy for US markets.

Lead Platform Engineer at Paysafe Group, Nov 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, - Led a team of 4 to build Golo’s in-house analytics platform on top of a data lake that would provide capabilities to analyze delivery times, forecast demand, and measure the effectiveness of sales. - Automated account statements of Golo’s 300+ merchants, reducing the effort from 7 days to 5 mins. - Developed a microservice to integrate multiple POS aggregators into the platform that scaled the number of Golo merchants by 300%.

CTO & Co-Founder at BitDrills Technology LTD, 2018 - 2018 · Less than a year, Bengaluru, As the Co-founder of BitDrills, I created a bot that manoeuvred conversations to create a seamless chatting experience to help answer queries of Well Engineers using DialogFlow.

Education

2009 B-Tech, Computer Science Engineering, IIIT Hyderabad

SSC, Kakatiya High School, Nizamabad