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)
