Career Profile

An engineering leader with a proven track record of empowering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. Experienced in setting strategic visions and driving technical excellence.

Experiences

Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2021 - Present
Kaluza, London

Kaluza is an intelligent retail energy platform powering the future of energy. I lead the infrastructure platform and the Quality Engineering teams (2 teams, comprised of a total of 8x engineers). We are building a centralised container deployment platform and setting up the tools necessary to perform end to end testing of the platform and ensure that it is highly available and reliable working closely with Site Reliability Engineering and Service and Operations Management.

  • Lead KMI Migration with Cybage, managing stakeholder expectations while finding creative ways to remove friction in the migration
  • Devised the plan for a structured training and onboarding program for Cybage engineers that helped streamline onboarding new engineers
  • Drove the evaluation of alternate managed Kafka service providers - Confluent, and Redpanda to identify a more reliable, cost efficient and feature rich partner than Aiven
  • Empowered Kafka platform team to devise an optimal transition of the management of Ovo’s Kafka Infrastructure, freeing the team’s capacity even further
  • Collaborated with Product Ops and championed the categorisation of work for teams to regularly review the dashboard and drive data oriented continuous improvements
  • Promptly prioritised and adjusted Infrastructure Platform roadmap temporarily to allow the team to support OEA test environment deployment
  • Improved confidence and signed up every Infrastructure SRE for OOH support by facilitating several interactive workshops on incident management in collaboration with the Reliability Operations Manager
  • Optimised the ways of working of the Infrastructure Platform team based on the developmental stage of the product
  • Established the Quality Engineering Team, set the teams vision, mission and technical strategy and setup collaborations across Kaluza

Engineering Manager / Software Developer / Scrum Master

May 2018 - Nov 2021

Joined CFC as it received investment to develop and scale software in-house. This was an opportunity to lead and grow an engineering function in a traditional non-technical organisation from scratch. Actively involved in hiring, restructuring teams to the right team topology, delivery management and occasionally getting hands-on. Established a mobile app development team in collaboration with an external vendor to deliver an award-winning mobile app for cyber insurance customers.

  • Delivered seamless integration of Claims and Finance departments at CFC and improved efficiency of the financial reconciliation by 7x
  • Led an initiative to provide audited self-service capabilities to perform repetitive data correction tasks and improved efficiency of IT operations by 4x
  • Created hiring and new-joinee onboarding processes by bringing structure to interviews and kanban style onboarding boards to help us scale from 20 to 60 member Tech Department over 3 years
  • Introduced career progression frameworks to enable performance conversations and goal-oriented career development
  • Championed adoption of Domain Driven Design while developing an internal knowledge-base and facilitated Event Storming sessions pushing the boundaries of technical excellence
  • Drove the adoption of Continuous Integration using trunk-based development and feature toggles, separating deployment from feature releases

Engineering Manager / Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2015 - Apr 2018

Workflow Manager is when I chose to explore engineering management, leading a team of 5 software engineers while also making individual contributions. It is FactSet’s workflow creation and scheduling web-app, used by the entire Content Integration department, comprising of engineers across the globe at FactSet to create and schedule jobs that primarily do extract, transform, and load.

  • Led the migration of source code and deployment pipeline migration for all teams of Content Management Tools from Perforce to Git, over vacation, with minimal issues post migration, having accounted for sufficient documentation and training
  • Collaborated with Teams globally - USA, Manila, India to plan releases and ensure 24/7 support for all aspects of our systems
  • Led several user experience improvements on the Content Integration Workflow Manager platform, focussing on the web application’s responsiveness, caching, usability and back-end performance

Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2013 - Sep 2015

Database Library is the backbone of FactSet’s database updates. It triggers data update dependencies and sends out delay notifications keeping clients and consultants informed of data availability. Refactoring the legacy application and data migration was the primary challenge of this role.

  • Re-architected the central content integration notification application to cope with newer logical data clusters
  • Learned front end development to modernise the web application’s user interface and provide a better user experience

Content Integration Engineer / Software Engineer

Jan 2011 - Nov 2013

FactSet Market Aggregates provides aggregate values of financial metrics at an index level that help analyse markets and portfolios.

  • Investigated and implemented the most optimal database sharding strategy to ensure sub 5ms data fetches from the proprietary column store database
  • Researched various database technologies to gradually replace the proprietary object oriented database system, called Vision
  • Migrated proprietary object oriented database and all related data update systems to HP’s distributed column store database, Vertica to improve daily data update speeds by 90%

Technical Associate

Jun 2007 - Jul 2009

Joined as a graduate in 2007 to the Billing and Rating team and become a key contributor in a short period.

  • Represented my team at a colocation facility in Pune for about 5 months, to coordinate end to end testing and bug fixes
  • The lead developer of modules catering to the needs of Contract Rental Customers, Revenue Assurance and Billing Post processor
  • Kicked off Test Driven Development in the project as part of BT’s initiative to get things Right First Time

Skills & Proficiency

Coaching

Project Management

Communication

Interpersonal