Headline

Engineering Leader| Software Product Development, Generative AI

About

Most engineering leaders grow into management by stepping away from technology. I've spent 19 years doing the opposite, staying close to the craft while expanding the scope of what I can lead. My background spans enterprise application development, cloud-native architecture at global scale, and hands-on work in machine learning and AI, domains I engage with as a practitioner, not just an advocate. That technical depth is deliberate. It shapes how I hire, how I challenge my teams, and how I earn credibility in conversations that sit at the boundary of engineering and business strategy. At the organizational level, I think a lot about the conditions that allow great engineers to do their best work; how team design, psychological safety, technical standards, and incentive structures either enable or quietly undermine performance. Building those conditions, especially inside large and complex organizations, is some of the most intellectually satisfying work I do. AI and ML are where I'm most energized right now. Not because they're fashionable, but because they're genuinely hard; technically, organizationally, and ethically. Getting this right requires the kind of leadership that can hold technical rigor and strategic vision at the same time. I'm looking for a Senior Manager or Technical Director role at MNCs where that combination is valued. Happy to connect with leaders, peers, and builders thinking about the same problems..

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

github copilot

Stable Diffusion

Work experience

Engineering Manager at The Walt Disney Company, Aug 2026 - Present · 1 mo, Bangalore

Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech India, Oct 2021 - Jun 2026 · 4 y 8 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed cloud native PaaS for worker scheduling and led the customer experience team of the E-Commerce division - Walmart.com. impacting $150B in sales and 500M MAU. Hiring and managing performance of a highly talented team of developers. Creating product roadmap along with product management and business stakeholders. Operational monitoring and excellence at a global scale for annual sale events and engineering excellence in everyday development.

Technical Architect / Engineering Manager at TIBCO, Oct 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Hands-on developer of features along with my team, reviewing code, API specs and end user documentation. Performed major platform upgrade for core product. Hired, mentored and managed a distributed team of highly talented developers for an agile development team for TIBCO BusinessWorks 6. Led all phases of system development life cycle, from requirements analysis through system implementation. Worked closely with product management and executive management to plan, prioritize and implement new product features and critical fixes.

Technical Architect at KPIT, Apr 2018 - Oct 2018 · 7 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Architected UI for a vehicle diagnostics solution using Angular 6. Upgraded a UI application from Angular 5 to Angular 6 for production deployment. Hands on development using and SpringBoot.

Senior Member of Technical Staff at TIBCO Software Inc., Jul 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune Area, India, Working as developer and mentor for Tibco Activematrix Businessworks 6 product.

IT-Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, Jan 2014 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Worked as Java developer for a product in Oil and Gas domain. Designed conceptual GUI for next generation monitoring and control system for scientific equipment to replace traditional CLI based set of tools. Worked on customization and implementation PoC for a commercial off-the-shelf product based on Java and OSGi for IoT - Internet of Things platform.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Nirma University

Language Certification, German B1 Level, Goethe Institut

Public links

github: https://github.com/zsurka