Rajesh Shenoy

As a seasoned Engineering Leader with a proven track record in leading high performing teams and driving innovative solutions, I am eager to bring my expertise in engineering management and strategic vision to your organisation. My passion for collaboration and delivering exceptional results aligns perfectly with your teams's goals. I am excited about the opportunity to contribute to your vision and help shape the future of engineering excellence within your company.

Senior Engineering Manager / Associate Director - CANDESCENT

(2023-01)

Engineered and directed an AI enabled marketing/promotional platform applying Google GeminiAI for a multi tenanted retail banking platform serving 500+ financial institutions with scale exceeding 3000TPS.

• Strategic Leadership: Lead and own multiple engineering teams - Marketing/Promotional platform and Financial wellness. Partner with different stakeholders and senior leadership to surface trade-offs early to make high-quality decisions.
• Execution and Delivery Excellence: Define/Improve technical direction within the owned domain so that most release / roadmap work can be delivered predictably with high quality and fewer cross-team drag.
• Digital Engineering Excellence: Ensure review of design for application of engineering principles of service boundaries, coupling etc for long term viability, reducing complexity, improved operational simplicity improved performance & scale.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance: Partner effectively with architects and principal engineers to make scalable, well-reasoned decisions on design, interfaces, and evolution of the stack.
• Operational Enablement: Build strong operational mechanisms around planning, dependency management, deployment, production health, observability, performance, scaling of systems.
• AI Enablement & Innovation: Enable pragmatic adoption of AI to improve productivity, promote usage across engineering programs. Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to identify scalable digital transformation opportunities.

Engineering Manager - WIBMO (PayU)

(2018-01 - 2023-12)

Lead product development, delivery and operationalising of a new micro services based authentication framework and admin platform for online payments domain. Platform facilitates mission critical online payments authentication transactions of debit/credit cards issued by banks across the world.

• Execution and Delivery Excellence
• Digital Engineering Excellence
• Operational Enablement
• AI Enablement & Innovation

Director/Consultant/Architect - WIPRO

(2003-01 - 2017-12)

Lead and Managed multiple engineering teams for global enterprises in the areas of document and data domains. Worked onshore for SHELL in the Netherlands for a decade.

Lead/Developer - MPhasis & Others

(1996-01 - 2002-12)

Developed multiple web systems for global clients.

BE - NITK, Karnataka (1996-01)