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Engineering Manager | Software Architect | Product Leadership | E-commerce • Healthcare • SaaS • MIS | Agentic Development | AI-Powered Strategist

About

Senior Engineering and technology leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing, distributed engineering organizations in SaaS, healthcare, and multi-tenant B2B2C platforms. Proven track record of organizational scaling, technical strategy, and delivery excellence, managing 40+ engineers across multiple teams, and owning end-to-end product delivery for business-critical platforms. Strong background in people leadership, stakeholder management, platform engineering, and operational excellence, with deep experience leading remote-first, cross-cultural teams for US, EU and In Indian markets. 🎯 Core Expertise: Built, scaled, and led a 45+ member engineering organization from an initial 2-person team through structured hiring, mentoring, and leadership development. Owned end-to-end delivery of multiple cloud-native, multi-tenant B2B2C SaaS platforms supporting 10M+ monthly users and millions of transactions. Led 3 external product teams and 2 internal platform teams across engineering, QA, DevOps, product management, and customer success in a remote-first model. Partnering with business and product stakeholders to deliver 7 core products contributing ~90% of company revenue, enabling 98% market share in Norway and 70% in Sweden. Drove year-over-year revenue growth of 20%, scaling business revenue, through platform modernization and feature innovation. Defined and executed engineering strategy, delivery metrics, and quality standards, reducing production defects by 75% and improving sprint velocity from 45P to 65P. Implemented cloud migration initiatives, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% through on-prem to Azure transition and CI/CD automation. Designed scalable observability and monitoring using NewRelic, supporting systems handling 50,000+ concurrent users. Built 100+ secure REST APIs using OAuth 2.0 and JWT, ensuring enterprise-grade security and performance. Established people development frameworks, conducting 200+ internal workshops, reducing skill gaps by 70%, and achieving an 80% internal promotion rate. Led GDPR and HIPAA compliance programs, implementing privacy-by-design, audit logging, encryption, and consent management for EU and Indian healthcare clients. Enabled remote async collaboration across Nordic and Indian teams, ensuring consistent delivery across time zones. 🌱 Leadership Approach: I nurture knowledge sharing and a strong learning culture, guiding colleagues to close skill gaps and think more strategically through metric‑driven skill gap analysis.

Location

Greater Hyderabad Area

Work experience

Engineering Lead at Foxfire Technologies (India) Limited, Jun 2018 - Present · 8 yrs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Built, scaled, and led a 45+ member engineering organization from an initial 2-person team through structured hiring, mentoring, and leadership development. Owned end-to-end delivery of multiple cloud-native, multi-tenant B2B2C SaaS platforms supporting 10M+ monthly users and millions of transactions. Designed and scaled a configurable multi‑tenant invoicing and payment platform with custom billing cycles (daily, monthly, quarterly, yearly), dynamic pricing tiers, and consolidated invoicing for hub‑and‑spoke to support 100+ diagnostic networks and 15K+ monthly invoices, Partnered with Payment gateway provider and automated payment through PhonePe payment gateway for instant unlocking of Lab reports which improved platform reliability (SLAs, error budgets) and achieved 99.9% availability for billing and payments flows. Partnering with business and product stakeholders to deliver 7 core products contributing ~90% of company revenue, enabling 98% market share in Norway and 70% in Sweden. Drove year-over-year revenue growth of 30%, scaling business revenue from $100K to $120M, through platform modernization and feature innovation. Implemented cloud migration initiatives, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% through on-prem to Azure transition and CI/CD automation. Designed scalable observability and monitoring using NewRelic, supporting systems handling 50,000+ concurrent users. Built 100+ secure REST APIs using OAuth 2.0 and JWT, ensuring enterprise-grade security and performance. Established people development frameworks, conducting 200+ internal workshops, reducing skill gaps by 70%, and achieving an 80% internal promotion rate. Led GDPR and HIPAA compliance programs, implementing privacy-by-design, audit logging, encryption, and consent management for EU and Indian healthcare clients. Enabled remote async collaboration across Nordic and Indian teams, ensuring consistent delivery across time zones.

Sr. PHP Developer at Foxfire Technologies (India) Limited, May 2011 - May 2018 · 7 yrs 1 mo, Hyderabad, Jubilee hills, I led the transformation of ideas into scalable applications for the funeral industry, achieving significant user growth. • Developed and scaled B2B and B2C applications, driving innovation from concept to MVP. • Managed a team of 10, fostering a culture of continuous improvement across key products. • Contributed to the success of applications that now serve over 10 million users monthly.

Associate Tech Lead at safal solutions pvt ltd, Mar 2007 - Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos, On-site, Led delivery of 10+ large-scale MIS platforms for NGOs across India in microfinance, HR, budgeting, and operations. Managed multi-location engineering and field teams, coordinating developers, support staff, and infrastructure teams. Designed and delivered end-to-end solutions using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Linux, and mobile technologies to support large-scale NGO operations. Trained and deployed 70+ underprivileged candidates into field and technical support roles, contributing to social impact and workforce development. Partnered closely with NGO stakeholders to ensure solutions aligned with operational goals and improved efficiency at scale.

Web designer at JK Infosys Pvt Ltd., Jan 2005 - Nov 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, - Designing of templates and logos using photoshop for static websites - Converts the template to html pages - Static web designing using Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Scaler

M.Tech CSIS, Information Security, International Institute of Information Technology, hyderabad