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Director of Engineering, GoDaddy Commerce

About

Director of Engineering at GoDaddy, leading 50+ engineers across USA, LATAM, Europe, and India. Own the Commerce Growth Enablement Vertical — Sales Intelligence, AI Sales Agent, Merchant Onboarding, Risk, and GoDaddy Capital. Built the India team from scratch. Previously founding member of Microsoft Designer (millions of users) — scaled team 0→20, shipped AI features with DALL-E/OpenAI, delivered first-ever Google-Microsoft integration. At Adobe, architected Adobe Campaign ($1M+ revenue), drove 100-300% performance gains across Sign and Target. Hiring across all regions — let's connect.

Location

North Delhi

AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

elevenlabs

github copilot

langfuse

Work experience

Director of Engineering at GoDaddy, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid, Leading a globally distributed organisation of 40 engineers across USA, LATAM, Europe, and India, driving the Growth Vertical within GoDaddy Commerce. Key Responsibilities & Impact: - Expanded my scope to own : Sales Intelligence & Tooling, AI Sales Agent, Merchant Onboarding, Risk, and GoDaddy Capital - Drive cross-functional initiatives to help small business owners grow their commerce capabilities Scale global engineering operations across 4 time zones with a focus on delivery excellence We're hiring! Building distributed teams across all regions — reach out if you're passionate about empowering small businesses with cutting-edge commerce and AI solutions.

Senior Engineering Manager at GoDaddy, Aug 2023 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid, Key Responsibilities & Impact: - Spearheaded and built the India engineering team of 15 members from the ground up - Own multiple high-impact product lines: Merchant Onboarding, Risk, GoDaddy Capital & Reseller Portal

Senior Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid, Expanded my scope - Led engineers across geographies, including aspiring EMs, SDE3s, SDE2s, SDE1s, and QA - Owned end-to-end Video/Image editing capabilities, integrating AI features (Background Removal, Filters) leveraging DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and OpenAI - Drove hiring, performance management, and resource planning at scale - Championed diversity, inclusion, and mentorship across the team - Managed on-call rotations and service reliability — maintained 4 nines (99.99%) SLA - Led team bonding initiatives as part of Morale Squad; organized hackathons - Received "Growth Mindset" award from VP

Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Aug 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid, Founding engineer and leader for Microsoft Designer (designer.microsoft.com) — built from scratch. - Scaled the team from 0 to 20 engineers within 6 months - Architected core product infrastructure from the ground up - Led the Image Editing and Media Library teams - Delivered first-ever integration of Google products (Google Drive, Google Photos, Dropbox) with Microsoft Office ecosystem - Contributed to MS Office shared libraries for querying user assets from third-party providers - Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager in 9 months

Computer Scientist 2 at Adobe, Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, - Architected and designed Adobe Campaign from scratch — responsible for $1M+ in annual revenue - Led 2 teams of 5 engineers each; mentored and hired engineers across the board - Redesigned Email Creator for Adobe's Digital Marketing suite in a modern tech stack - Owned multiple microservices end-to-end — Operational Readiness, COGS optimization, and Azure infrastructure - Established GraphQL layer across services for unified API access

Computer Scientist at Adobe, Apr 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Noida Area, India, Adobe Sign: - Implemented Webhooks to scale API request throughput by 100% - Migrated frontend for MS Dynamics integration using TypeScript — improved page load time by 300% - Designed and developed Alexa Skill to deliver Document Cloud features on voice (hackathon project) Adobe Target - Optimized page load performance by 120% by introducing Redis as a second-level cache layer

Senior Software Engineer at GreyOrange Pte Ltd, Sep 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos, Gurgaon, India, Designed & developed Warehouse Management System architecture using Microservices from scratch Setup ELK stack for centralised logging and event tracking Designed & developed dashboard for monitoring real-time activities using Java & Elastic Designed & developed adaptor layer service to handle json transformations for integration with 3rd party using nodeJs Developed UI for operator screen using React and Redux

Software Development Engineer at nearbuy (formerly Groupon India), Jul 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Gurgaon, India, Optimised time to make deal live on website by 100%, by replacing SalesForce with inHouse tool using Java & Spring Designed the system for maximising the revenue of the merchant by using NodeJs Developed Chrome extension to fetch deals from legacy tool Implemented Offline access on website using Service workers

Education

Post Graduate Certification Program, Big Data Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

BTech, Computer Science, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University