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Engineering Manager II @ Groupon – Driving API Platforms & Ads Engineering | Scalable Architecture | Customer-Centric Solutions | Team Leadership | Ex-Walmart, Oracle

About

As an Engineering Manager II at Groupon, I lead teams building scalable API platforms and ad-tech systems that power customer engagement and business growth. With over 14 years of experience across Groupon, Walmart, and Oracle, I combine deep backend expertise with people-first leadership. My focus areas include distributed systems, performance optimization, and data-driven decision-making. I use analytics and clear KPIs to drive technical excellence while ensuring team alignment with business objectives. At Groupon, I partner cross-functionally to enhance system reliability, scalability, and developer experience — empowering engineers to deliver measurable impact. I’m passionate about engineering growth, AI-driven productivity, and building platforms that scale with simplicity, observability, and customer focus

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

openai

Work experience

Engineering Manager II at Groupon, Aug 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 y 2 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As an Engineering Manager at Groupon, I lead multiple backend engineering teams powering Groupon’s core customer and merchant experiences, spanning APIs, User Management, and Ad Management systems. I head the API Platform team, responsible for managing all external and internal consumer requests. The team handles request validation, payload construction, routing, and orchestration for critical customer flows like order creation, deal discovery, and redemption, ensuring high reliability, performance, and scalability across millions of daily API calls. I also lead the User Management team, which manages the complete customer lifecycle — from signup and authentication to consent and account actions. The team works closely with Security and Fraud functions to proactively detect, analyze, and prevent account breaches, protecting customer trust and data integrity. Additionally, I oversee Ad Management systems, driving Groupon’s Sponsored Listings platform that promotes merchants based on quality, personalization, and relevance. This charter directly influences merchant visibility, click-through rates, and revenue growth. Beyond delivery, I focus on architectural simplification, reliability, and scalability, while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement. I align engineers’ growth with business strategy, emphasizing autonomy, accountability, and measurable impact, and building an engineering culture that thrives on continuous learning, collaboration, and excellence.

SDE IV at Groupon, Apr 2022 - Jul 2022 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE III at Groupon, Jul 2019 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Software Engineer III - Development at @WalmartLabs India, Sep 2016 - May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, At Walmart I am working on next-gen Warehouse Management System, where leveraging technology makes the supply chain flow fast and accurate. I designed and implemented Damage Reporting solution which is one of the sub-domain for Inbound and inventory management where, accurate and quick reporting helps Walmart to save millions (of $) in revenue for multiple distribution centers across the world. Have worked on micro-services, identifying common problem domain and came up with the unified solution for warehouse/inbound damages. This process communicates with other micro-services using event based mechanism. Its adapters enables the product to support different version of WMS, and the cloud deployable helps the system serve multiple tenants.

Member Technical Staff at Oracle India, Aug 2014 - Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, At Oracle I worked on Request Management (OIM), development of health check tool, and ensuring that Oracle Unified Directory is compliant with TLS (as secure transport layer connection) standard

Sr. Engineer(Product Development) at Comviva Technologies Limited, Jun 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore, India, At comviva have worked on Campaign Management System(VAS), where lot of analytics is involved in segmenting the subscribers based on user defined criteria and applying the actions to benefit the subscribers at various levels, churn prediction and recommendation engine as a complete solution for various telecom operators across the world.

Engineer(Product Development) at Comviva Technologies Limited, Aug 2011 - May 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore, India, At comviva i am playing a role of product development engineer, for the various telecom software used by telecom operators are intended for the benefits of both subscribers and operators. I basically work on the front end for the development for very elegant and user friendly GUI using various updated Java technologies.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell