Manoj Thakur

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led Adobe Experience Platform to over $1B ARR.
  • Built high-performing engineering teams across multiple companies.
  • Expert in integrating AI and data intelligence into products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS leader with extensive experience in engineering management and product development.

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Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementProgram Management

Other Skills

AIArchitectureBig DataBig Data analyticsBusiness IntelligenceBusiness ProcessBusiness StrategyCEOsCRMCloud ComputingCross-functional Team LeadershipDSP engineeringDevelopmentEnterprise SoftwareHadoop

About

I am leading Experience Platform engineering team at Adobe. This platform aims to help customers realise their dream of providing a great experience to their customers and consumers through their disparate sources and types of data. The intelligence (GenAI) and experience will be offered at a massive scale. It would be great to see us impacting the world at large through Adobe experience platform. Specialties: Leadership, Business & Technology, Engineering and Technology Management, E-Commerce, Program/Product Management, Senior Management, CXOs, Business, Operating Systems, Virtualisation, GenAI, Data Networking, Big Data Analytics and Technologies, Telecom

Experience

Adobe

3 roles

Sr Director of Engineering, Digital Experience

Promoted

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Led Adobe Experience Platform from inception to a market-leading product, driving >US $1B ARR.
  • Defined and executed a multi-year roadmap for AEP, integrating innovations in AI, data intelligence (GenAI), and cloud infrastructure.
  • Directed the development of the Knowledge Base, the data foundation for GenAI Agents, enabling semantic search, governance, and real-time AI experiences.
  • Oversaw Site Reliability Engineering and global data center expansion, ensuring scale, high availability, and performance.
  • Served as Executive Sponsor for JPAC customers, strengthening partnerships and driving adoption.
AIdata intelligencecloud infrastructureSite Reliability EngineeringEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Head of the Adobe Advertising Cloud, India Engineering

Dec 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Transitioned/Owned the product & engineering of DSP engineering from US to India successfully
  • Helped increasing the profitability of the group
  • Led the engineering effort of Adobe’s Advertising Platform with complete charter of Engineering, SRE and App Support
DSP engineeringprofitabilityengineering effortEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Director Of Engineering, Adobe Experience Platform

Oct 2018Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Head of Experience Platform India Engineering Team
  • Built the experience platform with multi-year roadmap to enable best in class experience, Massive scale for data at very low latency with high reliability
  • Data Foundation, Data Science Workspace, Edge Store, Unified Profile Store, Streaming Services ownership in India; Expanding charter;
  • Responsible for Service Reliability Engineering team
  • Built a very high performant technology and leadership team in India
data foundationdata science workspaceservice reliability engineeringEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Play games24x7 private limited

VP Technology, Head of the Engineering

Feb 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Ultimate Games
  • Built the single platform for multiple gaming apps for online card casino freemium games for India region
  • Helped growing the business over 5 times w/o incurring the infra spend in proportion
  • Set up the team for consistent high performing culture through automation and new way of doing things
gaming appshigh performing cultureautomationEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Flipkart

Director of Engineering

Jul 2014Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Ekart Logistics (Mar’15 - Present)
  • Built the next generation intelligent fulfilment platform/products for Ekart e.g. Realtime fulfilment planner, End to end Orchestrator, Service Designer etc.
  • Instilled a culture of building the long term tech blueprint products from the scratch
  • Led Automation project for motherhubs for Ekart Assets
  • Led building IoT pilot solutions for Logistic tracker
  • Helped building and shaping the tech org to lead the company in logistic area
  • User Cluster (Jul’14 to Feb’15)
  • Led the engineering team in Bangalore for User cluster involving number of services e.g. user login, subscription service, wish lists etc.
  • Successfully scaled to 25x for Diwali
  • Helped increasing the user base and their conversion into customer
  • Enhanced the technology capabilities
intelligent fulfilment platformautomation projectIoT pilot solutionsEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Guavus inc

Director Engineering

May 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Head of Engineering, IP & Media BU
  • Led the engineering team in Gurgaon for IP& Media Business unit comprising of multiple product lines in the area of Big Data analytics for top tier telcos and enterprises. This included multiple v1 products' release in 2013. The products were based on number of latest technology stacks including Hadoop Map Reduce, Spark Framework, JVM Caching, Columnar databases etc. Played a key role in ensuring the technology as distinction over the competition for Guavus. Converted the team into very high performing well-oiled product engineering team competing with top start-ups in the world.
  • The responsibility included
  • technical and business leadership/decisions for the products
  • leading the team solving complex computer science problems
  • identifying right technology usage for the products
  • recruitment and management of very bright, experienced engineers and leaders
  • setting up right processes across the organisations
  • nurturing the leadership team
  • overall health of the products and organization in general
Big Data analyticsHadoopSparkEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Microsoft

Senior Program Manager

Mar 2008Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked in Windows group owning Windows sustaining engineering business for CoreOS and Server area. The responsibility included servicing existing Windows customers, setting up high performance team, business process innovation, contributing to future Windows releases.
Windows engineeringbusiness process innovationProgram Management

Hewlett-packard

Manager

Aug 2005Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Managed Open VMS engineering group of HP STSD Bangalore. Turned around the team into a very successful independent operating team with zero attrition in last one year. Led the team on patent, field engagement, business partner program and total customer experience.
Open VMS engineeringpatent managementEngineering Management

Narus

Head, CPE Group

Aug 2003Aug 2005 · 2 yrs

  • Headed current product engineering team. Component owner for High Speed Analyzer (HSA). The responsibility included team ramp up, operational and engineering process, track management, people management, delivery management, customer relationships, technical design discussion and guidance to the team.
High Speed Analyzerdelivery managementEngineering Management

Ibm india

Technical Manager

Nov 1996Aug 2000 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Involved in activities at all the levels i.e. Development, Maintenance, Support, Enhancement of the product, Co-ordination of the various activities. Effort estimation, Involvement in project discussion etc were activities.
DevelopmentMaintenanceSupport

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

BE — Electronics & Communication

Jan 1992Jan 1996

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

PGSM — Software Enterprise Management

Jul 2001Mar 2004

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