Senior Engineering Manager at Marriott Tech Accelerator (2025-03 – Present)
Leading and scaling a high-performing engineering organization of 18+ engineers, tech leads, QA engineers, and cross-functional contributors, delivering enterprise-scale digital commerce platforms.
- Owning end-to-end engineering execution for large-scale, customer-facing platforms within the Shop & Book experience under the User Experience Layer (UXL).
- Driving enterprise engineering strategy in partnership with global product, architecture, and business leadership teams to support platform scalability, modernization, and customer experience transformation.
- Spearheading platform modernization initiatives, leveraging microservices architecture, GraphQL federation, API-first engineering, cloud-native platforms, and event-driven distributed systems.
- Establishing engineering governance frameworks across Agile execution, release orchestration, operational excellence, engineering quality standards, and platform reliability.
- Collaborating across platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, QA, architecture, and product organizations to strengthen engineering scalability, resilience, and delivery efficiency.
- Driving organizational maturity through engineering leadership, mentoring, delivery optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives aligned with enterprise technology objectives.
- Enabling engineering productivity transformation through AI-assisted engineering adoption, intelligent developer workflows, and modern SDLC optimization practices using GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, and Claude AI.
- Successfully delivered multiple high-visibility enterprise initiatives, supporting large-scale global digital experiences.
- Led Agile transformation and engineering process improvements, enhancing execution efficiency and cross-team collaboration.
- Directed end-to-end delivery of scalable platform capabilities, from architecture and development to production rollout.
- Strengthened engineering governance, delivery predictability, and operational maturity across distributed enterprise teams.
Software Engineering Manager at Anthology Inc (2023-03 – 2024-11)
Led and managed 21+ engineers across Development, QA, Architecture, Feature Delivery, Maintenance, Platform Engineering, and SaaS operations functions, driving enterprise-scale software delivery.
- Managed end-to-end software delivery and release management lifecycle for SaaS-based enterprise applications through strategic planning, deployment governance, cross-functional coordination, and stakeholder communication.
- Partnered with product managers, engineering leadership, and business stakeholders to align engineering execution with product strategy, customer requirements, and organizational goals.
- Drove engineering excellence through scalable software architecture, cloud-native engineering practices, code quality standards, testing strategies, and modern SDLC methodologies.
- Contributed to infrastructure modernization, deployment engineering, CI/CD enablement, platform scalability, reliability engineering, and operational efficiency initiatives across SaaS ecosystems.
- Collaborated with DevOps, infrastructure, QA, support, and operations teams to strengthen deployment stability, release predictability, production reliability, and engineering scalability.
- Fostered a culture of innovation by driving automation, AI-assisted engineering adoption, developer productivity improvements, and modern engineering practices.
- Mentored engineering teams and leaders, strengthening technical ownership, engineering maturity, delivery excellence, and cross-functional collaboration across distributed teams.
- Successfully led three enterprise engineering teams across Architecture, Feature Development, Platform Engineering, and Maintenance functions within SaaS-based enterprise platforms.
- Delivered scalable and high-quality software solutions, supporting platform modernization, operational scalability, customer satisfaction, and business growth.
- Strengthened release governance, deployment efficiency, and engineering operational maturity through modernization and platform optimization initiatives.
- Improved engineering productivity and developer efficiency through automation, AI-assisted engineering practices, and modern engineering workflow enablement.
Staff Engineer at Foodhub Software Solutions India Private Limited (2019-01 – 2023-03)
Led and managed over 15 engineers across Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Platform Modernization initiatives, supporting enterprise-scale digital platforms.
- Directed large-scale legacy API modernization and Node.js migration programs for high-volume enterprise applications.
- Partnered with engineering leadership, product stakeholders, and business teams to align platform engineering initiatives with organizational and customer experience goals.
- Drove adoption of scalable microservices, distributed systems, multi-cloud architecture, and cloud-native engineering practices to improve platform scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Contributed to platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, CI/CD enablement, deployment optimization, and engineering operational improvements across enterprise ecosystems.
- Collaborated with DevOps, infrastructure, and engineering teams to strengthen platform reliability, observability, deployment efficiency, and production stability.
- Mentored engineering teams and established best practices across architecture design, performance engineering, code quality, scalability, and engineering governance.
- Fostered a culture of innovation by driving automation, AI-assisted engineering adoption, developer productivity improvements, and modern engineering practices.
- Mentored engineering teams and leaders, strengthening technical ownership, engineering maturity, delivery excellence, and cross-functional collaboration across distributed teams.
- Led two architecture and platform engineering teams, driving enterprise API modernization and Node.js transformation initiatives.
- Designed and scaled a multi-cloud microservices platform processing over 10 million requests per day across distributed enterprise systems.
- Improved API response performance by 40% through caching strategies, performance tuning, and scalability optimization initiatives.
- Contributed to cloud infrastructure modernization and platform engineering transformation, supporting scalable and resilient enterprise platforms.
- Strengthened engineering scalability, platform reliability, and deployment efficiency through modernization and engineering optimization initiatives.
- Supported engineering modernization initiatives involving Python-based automation, AI/ML engineering exposure, and intelligent platform solutions.
Senior Software Engineer at Object Frontier Software (2015-10 – 2018-12)
- Collaborated with project managers, developers, QA teams, and customers to resolve technical challenges, and ensure stable enterprise application delivery.
- Designed and developed scalable, web-based enterprise solutions aligned with business requirements, functionality, performance, and usability expectations.
- Contributed to full-stack application development across backend engineering, frontend development, database integration, UI/UX implementation, and testing activities.
- Supported release coordination, deployment activities, production issue resolution, and engineering support processes across multiple enterprise projects.
- Worked closely with cross-functional engineering and QA teams to strengthen application quality, scalability, maintainability, and delivery efficiency.
- Participated in technology modernization initiatives, framework upgrades, engineering optimization, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Mentored junior engineers and promoted engineering best practices across development, testing, collaboration, and delivery workflows.
- Led a development POD comprising 5 engineers, supporting enterprise application development and modernization initiatives.
- Successfully managed feature delivery, technology upgrade programs, and release coordination activities across multiple projects.
- Strengthened cross-functional collaboration between development, QA, and delivery teams, improving execution efficiency and delivery quality.
Associate Software Engineer at Ahsan Technologies (2013-05 – 2015-10)
- Analyzed system configurations, application logs, and production issues to identify root causes, and support stable enterprise application delivery.
- Collaborated with business analysts, product owners, and engineering teams to deliver high-availability and business-aligned solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Contributed to full-stack web application development involving backend engineering, frontend development, database integration, testing, and production support activities.
- Worked closely with cross-functional teams to strengthen application stability, scalability, usability, and delivery efficiency across enterprise environments.
- Recognized as a Star Performer for successfully delivering POC initiatives and payment gateway implementation projects.
- Supported production issue resolution, application reliability improvements, and engineering delivery activities across multiple projects.
Trainee Programmer at Affluenz Technologies (2012-08 – 2013-05)
- Supported application development and maintenance activities across web-based enterprise applications.
- Collaborated with team members to deliver project milestones, and improve development efficiency.
- Participated in debugging, testing, and issue resolution to ensure application stability and quality.
- Successfully completed multiple project deliverables within timelines.
