Johnbabu Koppolu

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams to launch high-quality products on time.
  • Developed scalable platforms for education fee management.
  • Implemented best practices in engineering and product development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable product development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipTechnical LeadershipSolution ArchitectureProduct Development

Other Skills

AJAXAgile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Application DevelopmentBackbone.jsCSSCSS3Cloud InfrastructureContainerizationContinuous IntegrationDirector levelDjangoEmber.jsEngineering Management

About

Engineering Leader with extensive experience building products and teams from the ground up. Led teams to launch products with high quality on time. Experienced in system design and shaping product architecture at various startups. Adept at Agile practices, Requirements gathering, Estimation, Prioritization, Planning, and Execution, focusing on reducing complexity to deliver solutions incrementally. Committed to driving best practices like Continuous Integration, Single Click deployments, Code reviews, Clean code, TDD, Git flow, Observability, Autoscaling, and Monitoring. A hands-on developer inspired by products that "just work".

Experience

Lumos labs (lumosity)

Director of Engineering

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Engineering LeadershipDirector levelTechnical LeadershipProgrammingApplication DevelopmentTeam Building+1

Jodo

Head of Engineering

Dec 2020May 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • ∙ Developed Jodo’s Education Fee Management/Collection platform from the ground up
  • ∙ Built various education fee payment products to help Parents and educational institutes alike in a short time, scaled to a booking amount of INR 10 Cr on an average per day, a million students and 2000 active institutes
  • ∙ Setup and scaled the Engineering function of 50+ engineers
  • ∙ Drove the Product Road Map and Execution, working alongside the founders
  • ∙ Setup different lending and payments industry compliance standards/procedures (Certified ISO 27001, CICRA audits, etc.) to ensure platform security and robustness
Engineering LeadershipDirector levelSolution ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development+4

One championship

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • ∙ Engineering Head of ONE’s user-facing Mobile apps and Backend platform
  • ∙ Built and mentoring a team of 20+ cross-functional engineers
  • ∙ Brought in various Observability and Monitoring techniques/tools to bring the overall system uptime to 99.9%
  • ∙ Refactored legacy services to bring stability and drive down production incidents by 90%
  • ∙ Setup processes to increase release predictability
  • ∙ Owns design and evolution of the microservices-based backend platform
  • ∙ Collaborated with Product function to constitute and prioritize the roadmap to align with Engineering goals
  • ∙ Oversee media content flow and aggregation from disparate sources including internal tools to eliminate manual operational overhead
Engineering LeadershipDirector levelTechnical Leadership

Architect, Full stack

Oct 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Engineering LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Tablehero

Tech/Product Lead (Acquihired by ONE Championship)

Apr 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ∙ Lead and owned Product Development for Tablehero Sites and Tablehero Orders.
  • ∙ Bridged the gap between Product and Engineering teams - to channel requirements and prioritize.
  • ∙ Part of the core team that envisioned an Operating System for Restaurants
  • ∙ Coached and guided developers on best practices and delivering quality
Engineering LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Simplotel

Architect

Feb 2015Apr 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • ∙ Played a hands-on Architect role in developing Simplotel's SaaS platform and Booking Engine which help Hoteliers to focus on digital presence and direct relationship with customers.
  • ∙ Scaled Simplotel’s booking engine to 1000+ hotels
  • ∙ Helped in building the team from scratch.
  • ∙ Planning and lead the Engineering team in Tech execution
  • ∙ Hands-on with requirement analysis, prototyping, and the end to end development
Technical Leadership

Xactly corp

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • ∙ Lead the development effort for Xactly Objectives
  • ∙ Responsible for planning/execution as the Scrum Master for a Team of 8 developers
  • ∙ Brought in coding best practices and automatic quality checks to reduce the number of issues in production by 60%
  • ∙ Got certified in Agile software development

Inmobi

Senior Software Engineer

May 2013Dec 2013 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • ∙ Contributed to enhancing the user experience on InMobi's user facing portal.
  • ∙ Owned development and delivery of core modules on the portal
  • ∙ Contributed to the development of InMobi's internal administrative tools
  • ∙ Trained new hires and developers internally on different technologies

Online resources (acquired by aci worldwide)

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, India

  • ∙ Part of the team developing the SWIFT client configuration tool
  • ∙ Heavily involved in front end programming/ design as well as server-side programming
  • ∙ Completely owned the front end modules of the product
  • ∙ Refactored and modularised a large JavaScript codebase using RequireJS and Javascript Object orientation techniques

Oracle india - retail

Applications Engineer

Mar 2010Jan 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

Sungard higher education (now ellucian)

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2008Mar 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Accenture

Intern

Jul 2006Dec 2006 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B.E. (Hons) — Computer Science Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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