Amulya Bandikatla

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India12 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams to build technology at scale.
Passionate about coaching and career development.
Expert in project management and strategic planning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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People ManagementProject ManagementSoftware Engineering

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CC++CSSCSS3Career Development CoachingCloud ComputingCoachingHTMLHTML 5HTML5IntegrationJavaJavaScriptOraclePL/SQL

About

Passionate about growing people's careers and excited to lead teams that build technology at scale.

Experience

Indeed

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos

I lead the MyJobs and Auto Apply teams at Indeed, focused on delivering seamless, high-impact experiences that support JobSeekers throughout their journey — from tracking saved jobs to applying with a single click.
🔹 Auto Apply: We are redefining how JobSeekers apply to jobs by making the experience faster and more intelligent. From prefilled applications to real-time eligibility checks, we reduce friction and increase conversion.
🔹 MyJobs: We focus on helping JobSeekers stay engaged and organized—through saved jobs and application tracking. Our goal is to be a reliable companion throughout their job search journey.
As a leader, I focus on:
Empowering autonomy while offering clear direction and guardrails
Creating a culture of transparency, ownership, and experimentation
Enabling cross-team collaboration that is respectful, fast, and outcome-oriented
Balancing speed with long-term thinking, helping teams scale sustainably
Coaching engineers to grow not just in skills, but in impact and confidence
I work closely with Product, UX, and Data Science partners to ensure alignment, clarity, and value in everything we deliver.
At the heart of it, I care deeply about the people I lead and the purpose we serve.

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Engineering Manager

Oct 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

As an Engineering Manager at Indeed, I lead two pivotal teams that are essential to the JobSeeker experience. My work with the Apply Fraud and Risk team focuses on safeguarding the integrity of job applications by reducing fraudulent activity, ensuring that employers connect with genuine candidates. Simultaneously, I guide the MyJobs team in developing innovative features that transform Indeed.com into a trusted career companion, helping JobSeekers stay connected and thrive in their professional journey.
Passionate about creating secure and user-friendly platforms, I’m dedicated to driving technological advancements that empower millions of JobSeekers globally.
In the past, led the Apply Resilience team, and transformed Indeed Apply into a reliable platform handling millions of applications on any day.
Proved capability in helping people overcome challenges and grow in their careers.

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Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Tech Lead of Indeed Apply Fidelity team, driving the technical direction of the team and delivering results through a capable team in ensuring fidelity of the job applications.
Designed and developed a cloud based file storage system that powers Indeed Apply.

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2 roles

Senior Lead Developer

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos

Was Technical lead/Engineering manager for the Zeta Express. Was part of solutionizing, designing, and execution of various projects in Zeta Express. Lead a team of 12 engineers.

Software Engineer

May 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Part of Video Ads team at Media.net. Have developed Video Ads platform from the beginning.
Responsibilities involve :
Architecture design and development of the product and its features.
Ideate, design and implement several other internal products to ensure smooth functioning of the product.

Quikr

Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Worked on building tools and applications to improve the quality of the ads content on the website. Have designed and developed the standalone tool, Quality Dashboard, with complete ownership. This tool identifies duplicate, spam ads and ads with incorrect prices. It also offers a web interface for random quality checks of the ads.

@walmartlabs

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore, India

Worked on exposing various APIs of core supply chain management components like OMS and RMS as REST services.
Worked as part of ASDA team on payment gateway integration, offers feature involving the complete stack.
An active team player in an innovative idea proposition initiative, apart from the regular work. Improved the productivity of Support team through my pet project, which provides an interface to generate daily business reports though automation.

Iiit hyderabad

Teaching Assisstant

Jan 2013 – Apr 2013 · 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Teaching Assistant of Software Engineering course

Factset research systems

Intern

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Worked on Project Seamless, intended to establish communication among multiple real-time processes using the XML-RPC mechanism, using C++.
In an environment with over 2000 processes, I have built an efficient and robust system to present the statistics of a process from the past 30 seconds to a web client, with zero load on the server, using Ajax, HTML5, Javascript, WICKET framework and Java.

Deloitte

Business Technology Analyst

Jun 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

Worked as Application Developer on a project for the client PIMCO, which is one the most reputed Investment bank in the Financial Sector. This project helps the client in the conversion of their Applications from Sybase to Oracle.
Played the role of Team Coordinator for a team of size 5 and also as a developer in the proposal work for the project Michigan SACWIS. It is a web-based, technology-enabled software environment, custom-developed for the client, for the development of child welfare system.
Worked as a Project Trainee in the project Eli Lilly, which enables the client in revolutionizing collaborative pharmaceutical development. The application design is based on Services Oriented Architecture and built using Java; JSP/Struts; FAST4J (internal Deloitte Framework) running on Oracle AS 10g application server using Oracle 10g database.