Headline

Leader @ Phonepe | Co-founder Piggyride | Ex-Moengage | Ex-TheHindu

About

ExEM@Moengage, Co-Founder and CTO@Piggyride, Ex-The Hindu having 12 years of experience in software development and 5+ years in leading team/organization. Hands-on experience to build scalable products from Scratch.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

github copilot

langchain

Work experience

Engineering Manager at PhonePe, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Leading Motor Insurance.

Engineering Manager at MoEngage, Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, - Led engineers across Frontend, Backend, and QA. - Owned two major pods: - Core POD: Delivered campaign management, personalisation, content management, and core platform services. - Inform POD: Scaled transactional messaging system handling express and high-priority communication across channels. - Improved reliability and message throughput across real-time systems. - Enabled structured performance reviews, roadmap planning, and on-call rotations.

Co-Founder at Piggy Ride, Mar 2019 - Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Piggyride is India’s leading Kids commute platform and raised from leading investors. Ride for Kids- Designed and developed India’s first kids commute platform with AI/ML based safety and security features. It includes Consumer APP- Ride management, Live Tracking and Video Surveillance, Payments etc. Admin Dashboard- Ride Management, Trip Management, Route Optimisation, Driver and Vendor Management, Live Tracking and Video monitoring tools, Payment/Refund Management etc. Partner Dashboard- SAAS transport solution for Institutions. PiggyDiscovery- Designed and developed India’s first Discovery Platform for courses, tutors and workshops etc. It includes Discovery- Courses, Academies, Tutors etc. Bookings- Dynamic batches of different timezones and currencies, tutors and slot booking with academies. Classroom Lifecycle management with different timezones. B2b platform for Academies & Tutors. Forum- Built RnR, QnA forum between users, tutors and academies.

Senior Software Engineering at RoofandFloor, Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Home Buying Intelligence Platform- Design and developed Incremental/Real time data pipeline for User and Listings to Implement User personalization and recommendations. Roofandfloor- Design and Developed Apis for home buying ecommerce platform.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Guru Ghasidas University