Headline

Engineering Leader · AI-first platforms · Building at the intersection of infrastructure and intelligent systems

About

I build systems that scale — and teams that can build them without me. Around a decade across fintech, mobility, edtech, and AI-first platforms, I've led engineering teams of 30–40 people, owned platforms processing $300M+ in annual revenue, and shipped infrastructure handling thousands of transactions per second. Today I lead the engineering org at TELUS Digital — an AI-powered global hiring platform with $300M in annual revenue. My focus is reducing time-to-hire, improving candidate quality at scale, and building systems that are fast, resilient, and observable. I write about engineering leadership, AI systems, and building things that actually matter. If that's the kind of conversation you're looking for — let's connect.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

elevenlabs

gemini

langchain

langfuse

Work experience

Engineering Manager at TELUS Digital, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 y 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading the engineering organisation behind a $300M AI-first global hiring platform. The platform is redefining talent acquisition at enterprise scale — moving hiring from a slow, manual process to an intelligent, data-driven experience for employers and candidates worldwide. The core challenge: matching the right talent to the right opportunity efficiently — at scale, with fairness, and without sacrificing candidate experience. Our systems use machine learning and automation at every stage of the talent lifecycle to solve this. * Owning core platform development, architecture decisions, and operational reliability for a globally distributed system serving enterprise clients. * Delivering scalable AI-enabled solutions that significantly reduce hiring turnaround times while maintaining quality and fairness in candidate evaluation. * Collaborating with cross-functional product, data science, and design teams to align engineering execution tightly with strategic business goals. * Strengthening system resilience, observability pipelines, and performance benchmarks to support enterprise-grade operations globally. * Championing a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement — building the kind of team that ships without being managed.

Engineering Manager at Springboard, Mar 2023 - Jan 2024 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Owned two high-stakes business domains — B2B acquisitions and Placements — on a platform serving 25M weekly requests. Responsible for both revenue delivery and engineering quality, with a 99.99% uptime SLA and a team of 10. * Drove product and engineering execution across B2B and Placements, contributing to $10M+ in annual revenue. * Maintained 99.99% platform uptime across systems handling 25M weekly requests — with just 1 downtime event in the tenure. * Reduced weekly database traffic by 5M queries through query optimisation and caching strategy — directly lowering infrastructure costs. * Built internal performance monitoring tooling that enabled the team to detect and resolve issues before they became incidents. * Led structured and unstructured learning sessions for the team — resulting in a 20% improvement in engineering productivity and faster time to market. * Introduced agile methodologies, regular 1:1s, structured feedback loops, and performance tracking — laying a foundation of engineering rigour the team still runs on.

Engineering Manager at Park+, Jan 2022 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, Gurgaon, Led a 14-person engineering team across six product areas — FasTag issuance and recharges, vehicle services, challans, CarTrade integration, social community, and CMS. Combined, these platforms managed $100M+ in annual revenue and over 1000 transactions per second. * Designed and built the core recharge platform from the ground up — complete with detailed monitoring, alerting, and auto-healing — processing 2 crore daily recharges and 10,000+ daily FasTag issuances. * Optimised platform infrastructure to support 1000+ TPS, reducing load times by 30% through targeted performance engineering. * Shipped a social media platform that acquired 1 million users in its first month, with daily active users growing by a minimum of 50,000 per day post-launch. * Independently built all OLAP data pipelines and warehouses from scratch, supporting over 1 million transactions daily for analytics and reporting. * Managed cross-functional delivery across a large, multi-workstream team while maintaining velocity and reliability simultaneously.

Lead Engineer at Bright Money, Dec 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Led credit bureau services development and built robust data pipelines processing 2M+ daily transactions. Improved developer productivity by 30% and reduced user funnel drop-off by 13% through state machine and onboarding improvements. Served as internal Django subject matter expert, training multiple teams across the org.

Computer Scientist at Belzabar Software Design India Private Limited, Nov 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos, New Delhi Area, India, Worked across three product verticals — Verifi (vehicle transfer platform, now the primary platform across multiple US states), European banking audit and invoicing tooling, and a proprietary no-code website builder that generated $1M+ in revenue.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Intermediate of Science, Computer Science, D.A.V. Public School