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Director of Engineering at Paytm

About

As a Director of Engineering, I lead cross-functional teams to build intelligent, scalable, and resilient products that power real-world impact. With a career rooted in solving complex engineering problems, I’ve led initiatives across payments, stock broking, onboarding, communication platforms, and data infrastructure—driving innovation and performance at scale. Currently, I’m deeply involved in Agentic AI and Machine Learning, steering the development of adaptive systems that enhance automation, personalization, and decision-making across our platforms. My focus is on blending strong engineering principles with emerging AI technologies to build next-generation products that are both robust and intelligent. I’m passionate about creating an engineering culture grounded in technical excellence, continuous learning, and product ownership. From designing high-performance distributed systems to optimizing data-driven architectures, I thrive at the intersection of strategy, systems, and people. --- ⚙️ Key Areas of Expertise Leadership & Strategy: Driving engineering vision, architecture evolution, and technical excellence across diverse domains. Scalable Systems: Proven track record of designing and deploying large-scale products, including payment processing, onboarding systems, stock broking platforms, and communication hubs. AI & ML: Building agentic AI systems and intelligent automation pipelines that enable adaptive product experiences. Platform & Data Engineering: Architecting platform services, APIs, and data ecosystems to support enterprise-grade scalability and reliability. Cloud & DevOps: Deep experience across AWS, Azure, Openshift, and containerized deployments for high-availability systems. Software Craftsmanship: Advocate for Test-Driven Development (TDD), SOLID principles, and continuous improvement. Cross-Domain Impact: Experience across Finance, Insurance, Retail, and Healthcare, with a focus on user-centric product delivery.

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Director of Engineering at Paytm Money, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer at Paytm, Apr 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Paytm, Feb 2022 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sr Tech lead at Paytm, Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Tech lead at Paytm Money, Feb 2020 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Solutions Architect at CGI, Sep 2019 - Feb 2020 · 6 mos, Bangalore

Lead Analyst at CGI, Nov 2017 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Producing design specifications as required from functional specifications, identifying all sub tasks, estimating their duration and feeding back to the Technical Architect and Project Manager. • Developing Cloud based web services based on the requirement & writing Unit Test Cases for the web services • Actively participating in Scrum calls. • Prioritize and categorize requirements with delivery Head or Business Analyst. • Investigating bug reports, implementing and testing all bug fixes and re-releasing the fixed software to System Test Engineers. • Writing, monitoring and revising all installation, configuration and support documentation and ensuring that this is up to date at all times. • Mentoring junior developers and collaborating with peers with a goal of continuous improvement. • Managed schedules and collaborated with different team working in the project

Sr.software developer at UST Global, Aug 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Producing design specifications as required from functional specifications, identifying all sub tasks, estimating their duration and feeding back to the Technical Architect and Project Manager. • Developing Cloud based web services based on the requirement & writing Unit Test Cases for the web services • Actively participating in Scrum calls. • Prioritize and categorize requirements with delivery Head or Business Analyst. • Investigating bug reports, implementing and testing all bug fixes and re-releasing the fixed software to System Test Engineers. • Writing, monitoring and revising all installation, configuration and support documentation and ensuring that this is up to date at all times. • Mentoring junior developers and collaborating with peers with a goal of continuous improvement. • Managed schedules and collaborated with different team working in the project

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Pondicherry University