Headline

Problem Solver

About

- 16+ years of building scalable and highly available customer-facing applications using any technology required to get the job done. - Specialized in building MVP with any technology to get the product out in the wild. - Flexible with the approach to development via TDD, BDD, or F5DD. - Experience with Safe-agile, waterfall, and extreme programming methodologies. - Proven experience in leading and managing engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. - Skilled in mentoring engineers at all levels, helping them grow in their careers through technical guidance and professional development. - Extensive experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals. - Adept at communicating complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout the development lifecycle. - Expertise in project management, balancing timelines, scope, and resources to meet business objectives while maintaining high-quality deliverables. - Contributing to open-source projects and participating in solving real problems the programmer faces on StackOverflow. Constantly looks forward to solving complex problems in day-to-day life. - Well-versed in all phases of the product development life cycle, including research, planning, scope creep management, implementation, QA and automation, documentation, CI-CD, and maintenance.

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

gemini

github copilot

mcp

opencode

Work experience

Engineering Manager at BrowserStack, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, India

Senior Lead at BrowserStack, Oct 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos, India, As a Senior Lead in the Engineering department, my primary focus is on driving technical excellence and empowering teams to reach their full potential. I lead by example, solving complex engineering challenges while mentoring and guiding engineers in developing their skills. My role encompasses: - Leading the design, development, and optimization of scalable, high-performance solutions. - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of projects on time and within scope. - Facilitating continuous learning and growth by providing technical guidance and career mentorship to engineers. - Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, ensuring smooth project execution and improved engineering efficiency. By balancing hands-on problem-solving with a deep commitment to team development, I aim to deliver impactful results that contribute to both the organization’s success and the individual growth of engineers.

Team Lead at BrowserStack, Apr 2020 - Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Solving engineering problems and contributing to the overall product quality.

Associate at MSCI Inc., Dec 2016 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos, Mumbai Area, India, Part of ESG technical team which involved in maintaining the core engine of the application which uses heavy Ruby metaprogramming concepts for generating data on the fly. - Involved in related buiseness and the application/technical decision of ESG IT and Research meetings. - Involved in updating rules/logic of heavy calculations which are used for generating the ESG ratings. - Building new features, identifying and fixing issues, and improving the overall quality of the application. - Decreasing the total load time of critical endpoints with a sophisticated networking approach. - Conducting product onboardings for new joiners in tech team. - Helping the team members with the technical stack from time to time. - Supporting internal users by implementing features or fixing issues related to the application.

Senior Software Consultant at Castlight Health, Mar 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Co-ordinating with US counterparts, gathering requirements, acting on necessary tasks and stories. - Following and participating actively with team at work using scaled agile framework. - Developing, architecting, designing applications with a large team. - Team building, deploying, helping team members, and participating in hack days. - Maintaining legacy application and customizing them as per customer's need.

Senior Development Engineer at Pramati Technologies, Jan 2014 - Dec 2016 · 3 yrs, Hyderabad Area, India, Working with Castlight, one of the partners based out of US in healthcare domain. Involved in help building, managing, and customizing a series of applications whenever needed.

Tech Lead at Styletag, Feb 2011 - Jan 2014 · 3 yrs, Bangalore, Worked with the founding team and being the first tech team member at Styletag. Responsibilities grew over time from software engineer to tech lead as the technical team grew. - Building and customizing (styletag)main application as per the vision layout by respective board members and marketing team. - Building applications to help merchandising team to manage products and sales on website. - Built job servers for uploading a large amount of products in a queue, which would talk to back and forth to AWS. - Making APIs to talk to backend and job servers which would eventually run and upload a large amount of products in a sale on qa, staging, and main application. - Being involved in architecting decisions with CTO to improve backend and front-end applications.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Shree Ram College of Engineering and Management

Higher Secondary, Mathematics, Miss Hill H.S. School, Gwalior

Public links

github: https://github.com/suryart