Headline

Head of Engineering / Engineering Manager | Ex-Blinkit, Porter | Distributed Systems, High-Scale E-Commerce & FinTech Platforms | Scaling High-Performance Eng Teams 15→50+ | Golang, Java, Kotlin Multiplatform, Agentic AI

About

Hands-on Technology Executive & Engineering Leader | 12+ Years Engineering leaders who can scale a team 3.3× in 6 months while shipping production systems are rare. Leaders who also hold an MBA and read a P&L are rarer. I am both. Over 12 years across quick-commerce, fintech, and logistics — three sectors where a 500ms latency spike costs real revenue — I have developed a compulsion for making platforms faster, teams stay longer, and infrastructure cost less. Simultaneously. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 THE RESULTS : ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ SPEED • 47% faster dark-store setup times — city launches cut from 20 weeks → 10 weeks • 70% reduction in mobile release cycles via enterprise-wide KMP adoption (80%+ cross-platform code reuse across Android, iOS & Web) • Financial reporting latency compressed from T+1 days → under 60 seconds 💰 MONEY • ~$500K/month in recurring business impact across managed engineering portfolios • ~$300K/store opportunity cost savings through automated expansion platforms • $5,000/month in cloud infrastructure savings via open-source telemetry • LLM context payloads reduced >60% through Agentic RAG & AST Context Graphs 🏆 TALENT • 95%+ engineering retention while scaling 15 → 50+ in 6 months • Built hiring pipelines, technical bars, onboarding playbooks, and engineering culture — from zero — under live production load ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ WHAT I BUILD WITH: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Backend: Golang · Java Spring Boot · Kotlin · Python · Node.js Mobile: Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) · Jetpack Compose · SwiftUI Data: Apache Kafka · Apache Pinot · Cassandra · PostgreSQL · Trino AI: Agentic AI · RAG Pipelines · LLMOps · Vector Databases Cloud: AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · ArgoCD · Datadog Domains: Quick-Commerce · FinTech & Payments · Supply Chain · Logistics Prior: Y-Combinator (2014–16) · IDFC Bank Digital Payments Education: B.Tech CS (Amity) + MBA Business Development (NMIMS Mumbai) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Open to Executive Engineering Leadership roles — Director of Engineering · VP of Engineering · Head of Engineering · Senior EM 🌍 India · Dubai/UAE · Singapore · Europe · Global Remote 📧 ug290492@gmail.com | 📱 (+91) 9818450492 | 🌐 github.com/umesh0492

Location

Noida

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

hermes agent

langchain

langgraph

replit

Work experience

Head of Engineering at Urban Harvest, Jan 2026 - Jun 2026 · 6 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, • Executive Leadership & Hiring Pipeline Overhaul: Overhauled technical hiring bars and onboarding pipelines to accelerate talent acquisition, scaling the technology organization from 15 to 50+ personnel across Dev, QA, Data, Product, and Support without compromising quality. • Direct Cloud Infrastructure Cost Savings ($5,000/Month): Managed technology P&L and budget allocation, delivering $5,000/month ($60K annual) in cloud infrastructure cost savings by building a 100% open-source telemetry and observability platform (Trino, dbt, Prometheus, ArgoCD) across 50+ microservices. • Vendor Licensing Cost Elimination: Eliminated high-cost third-party SaaS vendors (Zoho, ElasticRun) by architecting a proprietary in-house Warehouse Management System (WMS) featuring an immutable Cassandra audit ledger for operational visibility and fraud control. • Data Governance & DPDP Act Compliance: Formulated company-wide data privacy policies aligned with India's DPDP (Digital Personal Data Protection) Act; built zero-trust security stacks (Wazuh SIEM, Presidio PII-redaction, Terraform) to safeguard customer and warehouse data. • Core Systems Modernization: Spearheaded the migration from legacy Node.js/C# monoliths to a resilient, high-throughput Golang microservices architecture on Kubernetes. • GenAI & RAG Innovation: Engineered a repository-level Context Graph (AST mapping) and agentic RAG data pipeline (Trino, dbt, Cassandra), reducing LLM context payloads by >60% and enabling autonomous log querying.

Engineering Manager at Blinkit, Nov 2022 - Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Team Leadership & High Retention: Built and scaled a 25+ member cross-functional team (Backend, Mobile, Web) across 6 mission-critical products, maintaining a 95%+ retention rate and increasing on-time engineering delivery from 55% to 80%. • Strategic Revenue & Ops Impact: Drove strategic technology decisions delivering ~$500K/month business value; eliminated spreadsheet operations across 1,000+ dark stores to boost data accuracy by 85%. • Expansion Platform Innovation: Ideated and architected the Locus expansion platform, cutting average store setup time from 160 to 85 days (47% speedup) and saving ~$300K/store in opportunity cost. • Enterprise KMP Migration: Spearheaded enterprise-wide Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose migration, achieving 80%+ shared code reuse across iOS/Android, shortening mobile release cycles by 70%, and cutting new app setup time by 90% via shared infrastructure kits (AuthKit, NetworkKit). • Backend Microservices Velocity: Designed scalable Golang microservices architecture with reusable service kit repositories, reducing new service launch times by 40% and accelerating developer onboarding by 30%. • Checkout & Payment Optimization: Optimized Cart & Payment engineering pipelines, boosting cart-to-payment conversion by +1.2% via No-CVV flows and reducing payment latency by 200–300ms.

Android Developer at Sandboxx, Nov 2021 - Aug 2022 · 10 mos, • Offshore Team Setup & Cross-Border Leadership: Built and mentored an 11-engineer development team in India while partnering directly with 10+ engineering leaders in the USA, unifying engineering standards and cross-border delivery across time zones. • Full-Stack Mobile & Backend Oversight: Led architecture across mobile platforms (Kotlin Multiplatform/Android) and backend microservices, establishing shared KMP networking, S3 media upload pipelines, and API integrations. • Delivery Velocity & Impact: Streamlined cross-border agile workflows and code review practices, slashing feature development lead time by 30% and eliminating technical silos between US leadership and India execution.

Team Lead Android at Porter.in, Mar 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Architectural Migration & KMP Transformation: Spearheaded the migration of Driver and Vehicle Owner apps to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) & RIBs architecture, building a modular code-sharing platform that accelerated feature deployment across logistics driver networks. • Driver Payments & Interim Product Leadership: Built in-house driver payment settlement infrastructure and an interactive driver training engine; served as interim Product Manager to align engineering delivery directly with driver retention OKRs. • Infrastructure Cost Reduction & Telemetry Reliability: Slashed analytics infrastructure overhead by 75% through intelligent event-filtering pipelines and re-engineered push notification systems to boost delivery rates from 80% to 95%. • Hiring Framework & Team Scaling: Established mobile engineering hiring standards, technical interview rubrics, and practical coding assessments to scale the engineering team.

Android Tech Lead at Novopay, Sep 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Directed engineering of micro-banking and AePS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment System) platforms processing 1,000,000+ daily financial transactions across 100,000+ retail merchant points • Slashed transaction failure rates by 45% and reduced payment processing latency by 300ms by re-architecting payment pipelines with RxJava and offline payload caching • Implemented RBI-compliant hardware keystore security, biometric authentication, and ISO 8583 message protocols to ensure zero fraud tolerance and enterprise-grade data protection • Accelerated UI development time from 15 days → 1 day by architecting a proprietary low-code UI framework for form-based screens • Led and mentored a 6-engineer team, instituting Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices and automated CI/CD deployment workflows

Cofounder at Frainz, Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 y 11 mo, New Delhi

Senior Android Engineer at RedCarpetUp.com, Nov 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 y 3 mo, Gurugram

Software Developer at Stringr, Sep 2013 - Jun 2014 · 9 mo, Gurugram

Web Developer at Preseed, Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 · 2 mo, New Delhi

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Amity University Gurugram

Public links

github: https://github.com/umesh0492

medium: https://medium.com/@umesh0492