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Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations from early-stage to production-grade. Joined Techno Exponent in 2015 as a founding engineer and built the DevOps and SRE practice from scratch, one engineer, one pipeline, into a mature function supporting 150+ engineers and multiple simultaneous client deployments. Works best at the intersection of technical depth and team clarity, where architecture decisions and people decisions are part of the same conversation.
Passionate about building high-performing engineering teams
As an Engineering Manager with 13+ years of industry experience, I specialize in building DevOps and SRE practices from scratch, architecting cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, and leading engineering teams across concurrent client engagements. I thrive at the intersection of engineering excellence, team clarity, and delivery accountability.
Key Strengths
- Building DevOps and SRE practices from scratch and scaling them across production deployments
- Leading engineering teams across concurrent client engagements in LegalTech, InsuranceTech, and Research
- Hands-on expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, AWS ECS, and the full DevOps toolchain
- Supporting clients as infrastructure owner and delivery lead across US and European markets
Scaled engineering team from 14 to 150+ members as a founding tech leader
Client projects delivered over five years across four concurrent engagements
Led cross-functional teams across US, Europe, and India
Software engineering, DevOps, SRE, and technical leadership
Professional Journey
13+ years across individual contribution, technical leadership, and engineering management.
- Played a central role in scaling the company from 14 to 150+ engineers as a founding tech leader, shaping hiring standards, team structure, and technical practices across cloud, backend, DevOps, and SRE.
- Directly led teams of 4 to 8 engineers across four concurrent client engagements, delivering 21 client projects over five years while owning technical delivery, architecture decisions, and team culture.
- Built the DevOps and SRE practice from scratch, taking deployment frequency from one release per week to 3 to 6 releases daily in dev and 1 to 2 daily in production. P1 incidents reduced from several per month to near zero after SRE practices were fully established by 2022.
- Improved release quality by introducing automated test coverage (Jest, Cypress) and code quality gates (SonarCloud) across all active projects.
- Led AI integrations including RAG-based legal document search (Pinecone and OpenAI), Whisper AI transcription pipeline for video evidence, and LLM-assisted writing tools using AWS Bedrock.
- Joined as one of the founding engineers and laid the AWS infrastructure, backend architecture, and DevOps foundations the organization still builds on today.
- Designed and delivered multi-tenant systems on AWS (ECS with EC2 capacity providers, RDS, ECR, S3 with lifecycle policies), patterns that became the architectural baseline for all subsequent client deployments.
- Led backend architecture for VirtualTourEasy, a Laravel-based SaaS platform for 360-degree virtual tours, from MVP through global scale.
- Introduced the organization's first CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and GitHub Actions, and established automated testing and code quality practices that became org-wide standards.
- Selected as Industry Mentor for the Career Mentoring Program 2025, bridging academic CS and production-grade software engineering.
- Conducted technical sessions and career clarity conversations alongside mentors from IBM, Qualcomm, and IIT Guwahati.
- Selected as Industry Mentor to help final-year and graduating engineers bridge the gap between academic CS and production-grade software engineering.
- Ran technical mock interviews, architecture walkthroughs, and career clarity sessions alongside mentors from IBM, Qualcomm, and IIT Guwahati.
- Led on-site development of a custom ERP system for material and inventory management using VB.NET and MySQL.
- Integrated SAP Crystal Reports for financial analytics and introduced role-based access control with multi-level material approval workflows.
- Built ERP modules for sales, HR, logistics, and production tracking using VB.NET and MySQL.
- Implemented biometric attendance and HRM systems for a steel fabrication plant, working on-site to align system design with real operational workflows.
Key Engagements
Three of the engagements that shaped the DevOps and SRE practice.
Engaged from inception. Owned AWS ECS and ECR infrastructure with capacity providers for mixed instance types. Implemented a full compliance stack: EBS encryption, S3 lifecycle policies, AWS KMS, WAF, OpenVPN with private RDS, and Secrets Manager. Supported Whisper AI transcription pipeline and a FastAPI-based data migration service for legal office record import. Ensured every layer of a sensitive legal platform was secure and compliant before real client data touched it.
Three-year engagement. Owned the full AWS stack: EC2, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager, Route 53, ALB, ACM, and SES. Led zero-downtime migration of a 30GB production MySQL database to AWS RDS via DMS. Embedded in the delivery team through a full-stack rebuild from PHP to Node.js and Angular, owning all AWS deployments end to end. The hardest part was bringing clarity into ambiguity and keeping a cross-functional team aligned when the path forward was not obvious.
Mixed role reporting directly to the CTO on architecture and team decisions. Led a team of one full-stack developer, one designer, and one tester. Owned complete development and production environments on on-premise Linux servers behind a CISCO VPN. Led end-to-end modernization of CECAM's conference management platform from a legacy codebase to a modular, RESTful application in Laravel and Node.js.
Technical Proficiency
Built through 13+ years of hands-on delivery across cloud, DevOps, backend, and AI integrations.
Team scaling, hiring, mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, 1:1s, agile delivery, and concurrent engagement management.
AWS (ECS, ECR, EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, ALB, KMS, WAF, SES, Bedrock, CodePipeline), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, SonarCloud.
TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Laravel, FastAPI, Golang. AI: Claude (Bedrock), RAG (Pinecone, OpenAI), Whisper AI, LangGraph.
Let's collaborate and build something meaningful
After a decade of building engineering organizations and practices from scratch, and with active investment now in AI and cloud leadership, I am ready to bring all of that into a new challenge. If that is the kind of leader you are looking for, let us talk.