Ashok Kumar

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of cross-industry engineering leadership experience.
Expertise in building enterprise and SaaS products.
Strong focus on team development and retention.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in product development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware As A Service (saas)

Other Skills

.NET Core.NET FrameworkASP.NET CoreASP.NET MVCAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApex ProgrammingApex TriggersBootstrapC#Cloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipDockerExpress.js

About

A seasoned engineering leader with 20 Years of cross-industry experience in building enterprise and SaaS products in the B2B and B2C global market. • With over 8 years of technical leadership in managing and mentoring engineering teams, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and high-performing work environment. • Forward-focused engineering leader with expertise in end-to-end strategic planning and execution, and excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions. • Deep understanding and great experience with software development methodologies, agile practices, project management, and engineering principles. • Experience with cloud technologies, scalable architectures, and modern software development practices. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with project goals and requirements. • Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving priorities and requirements. • Key People Leader, who recruits, hires, and retains top engineering talent. Build a cohesive and high-performing team by motivating the team towards growth and success in the organization; create a clear & compelling view of the future through coaching and execution. • Customer-centric professional; efficient in interacting with clients to follow up on unresolved issues; ensuring high-quality customer experience, enriching customer satisfaction while adhering to the work processes & SLAs.

Experience

Sharefile

Engineering Manager

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led multiple product engineering teams delivering enterprise SaaS capabilities used by large customers
Built and scaled extensible platform components enabling faster solution development and reuse
Reduced delivery risk and improved predictability through structured planning and execution governance
Modernized legacy architecture to improve performance, reliability, and developer productivity
Developed strong engineering leaders, resulting in improved retention and internal promotions
Acted as a key engineering partner to Product and Business leadership, influencing roadmap and priorities
Oversee relationships with external vendors and contractors, ensuring quality and timely delivery of services
Identified areas of improvement in existing systems, providing recommendations that resulted in significant cost savings over time.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Product EngineeringNode.jsPython (Programming Language)+8

Leadsquared

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Led the core platform engineering with multiple pods to drive the business growth of $20mn.
Efficiently handled multiple engineering pods and was responsible for delegating work to the team members, and monitoring team performance through timely feedback, thereby, ensuring overall team productivity and quality.
Was responsible for designing, building, and delivering the core platform to support millions of transactions.
Was responsible for working with the DevOps & SRE team to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of all platform services.
Drove the new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
Was responsible for defining the platform team roadmap from conceptualization to delivery of current and next-generation features.
Was responsible for building and mentoring the high-performing engineering team.
Led the platform transformation from monolithic design to micro-service architecture.
Led the cost-saving project to reduce the cost of cloud services significantly.

Nagarro

Principal Engineer

Apr 2014 – Apr 2021 · 7 yrs · Gurgaon, India

Involved in full stack development of products with Zero-based designing and the latest cutting-edge technologies.
Technical ownership of the current project that involves defining the design and architecture of complex pieces.
Worked with CXO executives from the client to identify the business needs and helped them in defining optimum business & technical solutions to fulfil the business needs.
Created and enforced technical standards. Work closely with other individuals in the execution of
technology proof of concepts, deployment, best practices, and adaption.
Helped in building the frameworks on various technology landscapes and defined best practices to achieve the envisioned solutions.
Helped the TA team, tap on the right talent for the organization regularly by taking onsite/offsite interviews.
Mentored and coached software engineers by providing technical workshops, tech talks and 1:1 coaching.

Rits bv

Sr. Technical Consultant

Oct 2013 – Mar 2014 · 5 mos · Netherlands

Created architectural spikes for the new business requirements. Involved in the successful implementations of the Ziggo BAPP application to be used by fixed-line customers.
Understanding infrastructure and test data requirements, identifying potential bottlenecks around data availability and solution complexities, and identifying strategies to address these on the project.
Define the workflows for easy integration with existing applications.
Finding the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems.
Collaborated with the project management team, and solution architects to cover the risks of product misalignment with stakeholder requirements and ensure that the solution fits the defined purpose.

Epay systems

Technical Architect

Oct 2007 – Oct 2013 · 6 yrs · Noida Area, India

Analyzing and understanding user requirements and providing technical and functional solutions to business requirements.
Recommends the development methodologies and frameworks for the project.
Define the project milestone and ensure the deliveries.
Provide full lifecycle support to clients from initial client interaction and requirements analysis.
through design, coding, testing, debugging, implementation, and integration.
Coordinating the various product teams and departments for product launches.
Provides the overall design and structure of the application.
Efficiently handling a team and responsible for delegating work to the team members, monitoring
Team performance through timely feedback, thereby, ensuring overall team productivity and
quality.
Enhancing the application for performance by system design and optimization.