Headline

Senior Engineering Manager | 12+ years experience | AI Platforms | Cloud Infrastructure | DevOps Transformation | Platform Engineering | FinOps Optimization | Scalable Systems

About

With over 12 years of experience in data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems, I specialize in building scalable, production-grade, and cost-efficient architectures. As Senior Engineering Manager at TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions, I lead platform engineering and data infrastructure initiatives that support over $400M in ARR, with a focus on incident response, scalable architecture, and graph embeddings. My current work centers on architecting ETL pipelines, advancing MLOps platforms for LLM workloads, and optimizing multi-cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform. Through collaborative leadership, I have driven DevOps transformations, enhanced deployment efficiency, and contributed to significant cost reductions. Passionate about AI and distributed systems, I am dedicated to enabling innovative solutions that power real-world applications at scale.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

github copilot

hugging face

langchain

vLLM

Work experience

Director of Engineering at ZAVO, May 2026 - Present · 5 mo, Bengaluru

Senior Engineering Manager at TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Leading platform engineering and data infrastructure initiatives supporting $400M+ ARR. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 🏗️ Built data engineering team from 0→7 engineers, establishing function for first time - Architected ETL pipelines processing 500M+ daily records - Reduced data latency from 4 hours to 15 minutes - Tech: Apache Beam, Dataflow, BigQuery, Kafka 💰 Implemented FinOps framework reducing GCP spend 28% ($1.8M annually) - Automated cost attribution across 40+ projects - Built real-time chargeback reporting dashboards - Established culture of cost awareness 🚀 Led DevOps transformation across 150+ engineers - Increased deployment frequency: weekly → daily - Reduced MTTR by 65% - Achieved 99.9% SLA across critical services 🛠️ Built Internal Developer Platform (IDP) - Reduced service onboarding: 1 week → 2 days - Improved developer satisfaction 45% - Improved developer productivity 30% - Self-service infrastructure provisioning 📊 Presented quarterly roadmaps to C-suite - Secured $2M infrastructure investment - Aligned technical priorities with business goals - Developed 18-month platform engineering strategy 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Apache Beam, Dataflow, BigQuery, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog

Software Engineering Manager at TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Led AI/ML platform development and multi-cloud infrastructure for LLM-based products. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 🤖 Built MLOps platform supporting 50+ LLM models - Serving 2M+ daily inference requests - Achieved 99.95% uptime - Implemented model monitoring and governance ⚡ Optimized GPU infrastructure - Improved utilization: 45% → 82% - Reduced inference costs $180K quarterly - Implemented autoscaling and GPU time-slicing - Tech: EKS, Karpenter, NVIDIA GPUs ☁️ Engineered multi-account AWS architecture - Reduced provisioning time 60% (5 days → 2 days) - Achieved 32% cost savings ($2.4M annually) - Built automated resource tagging and governance - Tech: Terraform, AWS Organizations, Control Tower 📊 Built FinOps monitoring framework - Real-time visibility into $8M+ annual cloud spend - Automated chargeback reporting across 60+ services - Cost-per-service attribution 🔐 Architected secure multi-cloud data transfer - Migrated 800TB+ with zero downtime - Supported $10-15M ARR initiative - Maintained SOC2/GDPR compliance - Tech: AWS DataSync, VPC Peering 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: AWS, EKS, Terraform, Karpenter, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana

Staff Engineer at TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions, May 2023 - Dec 2023 · 8 mos, TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions specializes in innovative AI and data solutions

Lead Software Engineer in Test at Walmart Global Tech India, Feb 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Led quality engineering for ASDA UK's core e-commerce systems serving 15M+ customers. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 🛒 Maintained 99.9% availability for critical systems - Led team of 5 engineers - Catalogue and Inventory/Pricing systems - Real-time inventory accuracy improvements 📊 Built large-scale data pipelines - Kafka/Spark processing 10M+ product updates daily - Reduced processing time by 65% - Improved inventory accuracy by 30% 🧪 Created "Test Data as a Service" platform - Reduced QA setup: 8 hours → 20 minutes - Spring Boot microservice architecture - Self-service test data generation for 50+ teams ✅ Developed comprehensive API automation - 500+ endpoints, 85% code coverage - Integrated into CI/CD pipelines - Caught 70% of defects pre-production 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸: Kafka, Apache Spark, Spring Boot, REST Assured, Jenkins, PostgreSQL

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test at TELUS Digital AI Data Solutions (Former Playment), Dec 2017 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Playment provides high-quality human-curated training data for computer vision applications (primary focus on self-driving car companies). It also provides human-powered training for machines to be able to see, think and make decisions like humans.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Gaana, Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, Noida Area, India, Gaana is a commercial music streaming service company. Worked on various projects like Gaana Search, Recommendation system, and Gaana Social. Got hands-on experience in API automation.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Info Edge India Ltd, Apr 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Noida Area, India, 99Acres is an Indian real estate database website. Worked on many complex web-based projects and got hands-on experience in UI Automation (Selenium)

Education

Executive PG in Cloud Computing and DevOps, DevOps, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College