Christin John

Senior Engineering Manager with 18+ years of engineering experience, deep frontend architecture expertise, hands-on React/TypeScript experience, leadership across SaaS platforms, and proven experience introducing AI-native development practices—including agentic workflows—into engineering teams. Additionally, I've worked on SaaS billing integrations using Stripe and Orb, giving me relevant exposure to payment workflows.

Senior Engineering Manager at Aviatrix (2024-12 – Present)

• Established and scaled the India UI Engineering organization supporting the CoPilot UI and backend platform, later leading teams across India and Taiwan.
• Improved release predictability by introducing clear ownership, structured delivery processes, and cross-team handoff criteria.
• Introduced API specification reviews, engineering dashboards, and frontend performance improvements through optimized state management and caching.
• Established AI-assisted quality workflows and engineering bugathons, improving defect detection and resolution while raising engineering ownership.
• Championed adoption of agentic AI engineering practices, including AI-powered code reviews, automated QA validation against test plans, AI-assisted bug fixing, onboarding documentation, and automated release notes.
• Enabled the team to deliver more customer-requested features by increasing engineering productivity through AI-assisted workflows.
• Mentored engineers resulting in promotions from MTS to SMTS and SMTS to Staff Engineer, while coaching a Staff Engineer to lead AI initiatives.

Engineering Manager / Technical Lead at Yugabyte (2021-08 – 2024-11)

• Transitioned from Technical Lead to Engineering Manager while leading distributed engineering teams across India, Canada, and the US.
• Led successful delivery of a 6-month cross-geo Demo Platform despite team attrition, partnering closely with Product Management and technical leaders.
• Built a live demo platform adopted by Solution Architects and integrated into the Free Trial experience to improve customer evaluation and product adoption.
• Implemented Product-Led Growth analytics using Segment and Amplitude to understand customer journeys, retire unused features, and improve engagement.
• Mentored an intern into a successful full-time engineering role and acted as the technical bridge across globally distributed teams.

Senior UI Engineer at VMware (2018-03 – 2021-07)

• Delivered enterprise-scale features for VMware Horizon View within a large distributed engineering organization.
• Built expertise in Angular, React, frontend architecture, and developer-owned quality practices.
• Contributed to automation initiatives that strengthened software quality and engineering ownership.

Lead UI Engineer (SMTS-II) at ScalArc (2013-06 – 2018-02)

• Led a small engineering team delivering customer-facing features end-to-end.
• Partnered with Product and Solution Engineering teams in the US to align delivery with customer requirements.
• Improved usability and reduced customer support tickets by approximately 10–15%.

Various Roles at WalmartLabs, Yahoo, QuinStreet, Komli Media, Webaroo (2007-09 – 2013-12)

Certificate in Management Essentials – Harvard Business School Online

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai