Waqas Hamid — Engineering Manager

I am a results-driven Engineering Manager with extensive experience leading high-performing teams and driving engineering excellence across diverse domains. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a keen ability to take ownership of critical business areas, optimize engineering processes, and deliver impactful results. Currently, I serve as an Engineering Manager at Springboard in Bangalore, where I oversee the B2B and Placements Business Domains. In this role, I am responsible for driving significant revenue growth, with the B2B business generating over $5M in sales annually. I am deeply committed to engineering quality, consistently exceeding key performance indicators and driving improvements in platform stability and latency. Managing a team of 10 talented individuals, I ensure seamless operation and scalability as our platforms handle substantial traffic volumes. Prior to this, I held positions as an Engineering Manager at Park+ in Gurgaon, where I spearheaded critical projects related to FasTag issuances, recharges, and vehicle services. Here, I led a team of 14 professionals, successfully managing $100M in revenue annually and overseeing platform services handling over 1000 transactions per second. In earlier roles, including Lead Software Engineer at BrightMoney and Computer Scientist at Belzabar Software Design, I honed my expertise in backend engineering, data platforms, and system optimization. Notably, I played a pivotal role in developing end-to-end ETL pipelines, implementing best practices, and driving efficiency improvements. My journey in the technology industry began as a Senior Software Engineer at Buffalo Soldiers Sports, where I contributed to the design, development, and deployment of a hyper-local social media platform for sports fans worldwide. Driven by a passion for technology and a commitment to excellence, I possess a robust skill set encompassing Python, Java, Go, and a range of frameworks and tools essential for modern software development. Additionally, my background in system design, data engineering, and DevOps equips me to tackle complex challenges and deliver innovative solutions. I hold a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and have consistently demonstrated academic excellence throughout my educational journey. With a proven track record of success in engineering leadership and a passion for driving innovation, I am poised to make a significant impact in any organization I join. Connect with me to explore opportunities for collaboration and growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech engineering leader with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 7 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Engineering Management
Artificial Intelligence (ai)
System Architecture
Microservices
Data Engineering
Software Development

Career Highlights

Led engineering teams generating over $200M in annual revenue.
Developed AI-driven solutions reducing hiring turnaround times.
Achieved 99.99% uptime for high-traffic platforms.

Work Experience

TELUS Digital

Engineering Manager (1 yr 10 mos)

Springboard

Engineering Manager (10 mos)

Park+

Engineering Manager (1 yr 2 mos)

Bright Money

Lead Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)

Belzabar Software Design India Private Limited

Computer Scientist (1 yr 5 mos)

Crcl

Senior Software Development Engineer (10 mos)

Infineon Technologies

Project Trainee (5 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Intermediate of Science at D.A.V. Public School

Waqas Hamid

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led engineering teams generating over $200M in annual revenue.
Developed AI-driven solutions reducing hiring turnaround times.
Achieved 99.99% uptime for high-traffic platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech engineering leader with expertise in AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementArtificial Intelligence (ai)System ArchitectureMicroservicesData EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWS Elastic BeanstalkAWS GlueAgileAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android DevelopmentApache SparkApplication Programming InterfacesArchitectsBasic JavaCC++Coding ExperienceData Analytics

About

Experience

7 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Telus digital

Engineering Manager

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

As Engineering Manager, I lead the engineering organization responsible for a $200M annual revenue global hiring platform, driving product scalability, operational excellence, and technological innovation.
The modern hiring ecosystem faces a fundamental challenge — matching the right talent to the right opportunity efficiently and at scale. Traditional hiring processes are fragmented, slow, and heavily dependent on manual evaluation, resulting in high costs, inconsistent candidate experiences, and delayed business outcomes.
At TelusDigital we are addressing this challenge by building an AI-driven hiring platform designed to deliver speed, precision, and intelligence at every stage of the talent lifecycle. Our systems leverage machine learning and automation to evaluate candidates more effectively, reduce time-to-hire, and enhance decision quality for employers worldwide.
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
Leading a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform development, architecture, and operational reliability.
Delivering scalable, AI-enabled solutions that significantly reduce hiring turnaround times while maintaining quality and fairness.
Collaborating with cross-functional product, data, and design teams to align engineering execution with strategic business goals.
Strengthening system resilience, observability, and performance to support enterprise-grade global operations.
Championing a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.
We are redefining how companies discover and engage talent — transforming hiring from a manual, reactive process into an intelligent, data-driven experience that empowers both employers and candidates.

Engineering ManagementLeadershipPlatform ArchitectureSystem ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Amazon Web Services (AWS)+3

Springboard

Engineering Manager

Mar 2023 – Jan 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Orchestrated the development of cutting-edge product solutions for the B2B acquisitions and Placements Business Domains and platforms, resulting in an impressive annual revenue of over $10M.
Elevated Engineering Quality as a key organizational objective, spearheading the development of performance monitoring tools and leading a 10-person team in continuous enhancement efforts which helped detect issues and prevent outages
Owned the 99.99% uptime SLA of the platform that served 25M per week traffic on platforms with 1 annual downtime.
Effectively decreased weekly database (DB) traffic by 5 million queries, reducing service costs.
Led numerous structured and unstructured learning sessions for teams, resulting in a 20% boost in engineering productivity and accelerated time to market.
Introduced agile methodologies, improved SDLCs, regular 1:1s, effective feedback sessions and performance tracking.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Elasticsearch, MYSQL, Redis, ELK, GCP, K8s, NewRelic, Agile

LeadershipResearchManagementSystem ArchitecturePythonEngineering Management

Park+

Engineering Manager

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurgaon · On-site

Headed the engineering team of FasTag issuances, FasTag Recharges, Vehicles, Challans, CarTrade, Social Community, CMS and other related services comprising a team of 14 people.
Designed the core recharge platform with detailed monitoring, alerting with auto-healing capacity that managed 2 crore daily recharges and over 10,000 issuance, driving annual revenue exceeding $100M.
Oversaw and optimized platform services supporting over 1000 transactions per second reducing the load times by 30%.
Managed the development of a social media platform, rapidly acquiring 1 million new users within a month. Subsequently, the platform's daily active users (DAU) surged by a minimum of 50,000 day on day post-release.
Individually built data pipelines and warehouses for all OLAP use cases, supporting over 1 million transactions daily.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Pandas, AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Airflow, Big data file systems, Kafka, Elasticsearch, MYSQL, State Machines, GoLang, Gin

MicroservicesLeadershipDevOpsSystem ArchitectureMySQLPython+1

Bright money

Lead Engineer

Dec 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Led the development of a stack of credit bureau services that focused on providing clean credit report data of users.
Independently developed robust data pipelines from inception, facilitating over 2 million daily transactions, showcasing strong initiative and technical proficiency.
Served as the subject matter expert for Django, conducting training sessions for multiple teams, and equipping them with best practices in Python, Django, and Microservices; resulting in increased code quality and accelerated project delivery by 15%.
Implemented enhancements to user onboarding state machines and product funnels, resulting in a notable 30% increase in developer productivity and reduced user funnel drops by 13%.
Tech Stack: Python, Django, DRF, Airflow, Spark, AWS Glue, Postgres, DevOps, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS

PostgreSQLPythonDjangoApache SparkData EngineeringAWS Glue+1

Belzabar software design india private limited

Computer Scientist

Nov 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Worked on Verifi platform development, streamlining vehicle transfers in the United States. Later on it went on to become the primary platform for all vehicle transfers in different states.
Contributed to creation of audit tools and invoicing systems for European banking clients.
Assisted development of a proprietary no-code/low-code website creation platform which brought in over $1M in revenue.
Tech Stack: Django, DRF, Python, Pandas for Data Analytics, Relational Databases(MySQL mostly), ElasticSearch and ELK stack, Java, JavaScript, Redis, DevOps, AWS for deployment

DjangoSoftware DevelopmentJavaMySQLPythonData Engineering

Crcl

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jan 2018 – Nov 2018 · 10 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked on designing, building, deploying and maintaining the entire platform from scratch which consisted of the social media, a messaging system, a news aggregation platform and an engagement platform.
Implemented CI/CD and deployment infrastructure, reducing deployment time by 80%.
Tech Stack: System Design, Python, Falcon, Django, PostgreSQL, Django REST Framework, SQLAlchemy, DevOps

PythonDjangoAmazon Web Services (AWS)PostgreSQLAWS Elastic Beanstalk