Headline

Engineering Leader | AI Infrastructure & GenAI | Cloud Native Platforms | SaaS/PaaS | Kubernetes | Engineering Leadership

About

Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience, including 10+ years in engineering leadership, specialising in AI Infrastructure, Cloud Native Platforms, SaaS/PaaS and Distributed Systems. Engineering leader who builds teams from scratch, mentors high-performing Agile teams, and instills SDLC/CI-CD discipline to deliver high-quality products on time through weekly releases and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

deepseek

gemini

hugging face

Work experience

Director of Engineering at Rafay, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Senior Engineering Manager at Rafay, Sep 2021 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Founding Engineer & Principal Engineer at Rafay, Mar 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Advisory Consultant (Quality Engineering) at qamplify (Previously qaautomation.in), Jun 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Working as Non Profit QA and QA Automation advisor for StartUp's

Staff Software Engineer at Polycom, May 2017 - Mar 2018 · 11 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Responsible for building and automating Polycom Video Endpoints Solutions. Typical Solution includes Polycom Video Endpoints, ThirdParty MCU's, MicroSoft Teams etc... 2. Leverage Jenkins to Develop CI for continuous automation ( Upgrade Endpoint resources and run automated tests) 3. Enhance existing framework 4. Lead & Mentor solution automation team ( FW and test development)

Automation Architect at Qumu Corporation, Apr 2016 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, Hyderabad Area, India, Automation: 1. Design and Implementation of Automation Framework Using Robot Framework for Video CMS 2. Development of tools/libraries required for Video Content Validation 3. Proof Of Concept: Develop PoC for the Mobile Application automation using robot framework Appium Library 4. Mentor Automation Engineers on framework and define automation best practices.

Software Manager at Voxvalley Technologies, Sep 2014 - Apr 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, QA Leadership: 1. Implemented Internal Process for Quality Engineering Team which includes Test Case Design for Regression/Sanity and New Functional Testing. 2. Proposed QA Lab for Functional and Performance Testing of VoxValley Products. 3. Design and implemented Automation Framework. 4.Mentor QA Team about Process, Implementation & Execution. 5. Mentor Team on Required Technical training's, Test Strategies & Approach. Automation: 1. Design and Developed Automation Framework using Python2.7 and Selenium WebDriver for Backend Call Processing and GUI Automation. 2. Automation Framework development for Rating Engine, Call Processing Automation Using Python2.7, SIPp, PJSIP. 3. Developed Data Driven Framework using Java TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, and Maven for Automating VoxValley (GUI) Web Applications. 4. Product Benchmarking: Load and Performance Test design, Lab design and benchmarking 5. Drive VoxValley Solution Testing to Identify Integration issues and also perform Interoperability with third part Mobile Applications & tandem Soft Switch’s. 6. Identifying required tools for testing team.

Software Manager (Consultant ) at Voxvalley Technologies, May 2011 - Aug 2014 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Telangana, India, Responsible for Building QA team. Set a lean process (QA) to improve QA efficiency and Productivity. Enabled team members to follow best practices for QA and QA Automation. Mentoring QA team on VoIP Tech, Test Strategies, Plans, Use Cases and execution cycles.

Education

B.Tech, E&CE, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Software Engineering, Scaler