Soumya Ranjan Mohanty — Director of Engineering

Accomplished Director of Engineering with over 14 years of experience leading global teams in FinTech and E-commerce.Proven track record in driving business growth through innovative software solutions, and process optimization. Skilled in transforming legacy systems to scalable architectures, resulting in significant eﬃciency improvements. Passionate about mentoring engineering professionals and ensuring that technical strategies are tightly aligned with overarching business goals to deliver measurable impact.Key initiatives include: - Engineering Modernization: Introduced a modern system architecture and engineering best practices, including HLD/LLD/PR reviews and technical design forums. - Strategic Alignment: Collaborated with product management to align technical investments with business goals, enhancing strategic planning. - People Leadership: Mentored team members, conducted performance evaluations, and implemented structured appraisal and growth processes. - Operational Excellence: Led initiatives to proactively reduce defects, streamline delivery, and lower operational costs.I provide strategic leadership by setting clear goals, driving project execution, and actively collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. I am deeply involved in strategic planning and program management to ensure alignment with business objectives. My mission is to enable and empower teams and engineers to grow, innovate, and consistently deliver high-quality, impactful products.Previously at Amazon, I led the Data Services team for Amazon Distribution & Fulfillment Solutions (ADFS), delivering centralized infrastructure for data ingestion, validation, unification, and analysis. I also spearheaded the Counter program within the Amazon Access Point team, improving customer delivery, pickup, and return experiences through partnerships with thousands of retail locations. These efforts significantly enhanced operational efficiency and customer satisfaction

Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and E-commerce engineering leader with a strong focus on system architecture and team management.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 14 yrs 10 mos

Skills

System Architecture
Team Management
Project Management
Data Analysis

Career Highlights

Led engineering modernization initiatives reducing defects by 95%.
Built and managed teams delivering impactful software solutions.
Aligned technical investments with strategic business goals.

Work Experience

mPokket

Director of Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)

Engineering Manager (10 mos)

Amazon

Software Development Manager - Distribution Center Tech (1 yr 7 mos)

Software Development Manager - Amazon Access Point (2 yrs 7 mos)

Software Development Engineer In Test (3 yrs 3 mos)

ZipDial Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd. ( Acquired by Twitter )

Lead Software Engg in Test (1 yr 5 mos)

HP

System Engineer (3 yrs 1 mo)

Education

Bachelor's degree at Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology (VSSUT,Formerly UCE), Burla

at Nigamananda High School, Gop, Puri,Odisha

Soumya Ranjan Mohanty

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering modernization initiatives reducing defects by 95%.
Built and managed teams delivering impactful software solutions.
Aligned technical investments with strategic business goals.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and E-commerce engineering leader with a strong focus on system architecture and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureTeam ManagementProject ManagementData Analysis

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Architectural DesignCore JavaJavaLeadershipLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLOraclePeople DevelopmentRequirements AnalysisRequirements GatheringSDLC

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Experience

Mpokket

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Leading a team of 40+ engineers, managing end-to-end software lifecycle from requirements to deployment and maintenance.
Led initiatives that boosted daily new user registrations and increased daily user approvals, driving significant growth and efficiency in the onboarding process.
Built and led the backend Java team from scratch, driving the adoption of a modernized architecture for the organization. Implemented modernized architecture, transforming a legacy system into a scalable, distributed model for increased eﬃciency.
Streamlined engineering processes through regular HLD, LLD, and PR reviews, while promoting structured technical design and architecture discussions, which helped to reduce post-production bugs by 95% and
system stability issues by 99%.
Collaborated with product management to align technical investments with business goals, enhancing strategic planning.
Actively managed vendor relationships to automate multiple workflows, overseeing the entire process—from feature discussions and pricing negotiations to post-production support.
Mentored team members, and facilitated career growth through structured appraisal processes.

Architectural DesignJavaSystem ArchitectureTeam ManagementAgile Methodologies

Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024 · 10 mos

Amazon

3 roles

Software Development Manager - Distribution Center Tech

Aug 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

As the Software Development Manager for the Data Service team at Amazon Distribution & Fulfillment Solutions (ADFS), I have led my team in providing a centralized infrastructure to ingest, validate, store, and vend data to consumers for real-time analysis and generating business insights.
I am proud to have hired and built a team of 10+ engineers from scratch and delivered an End to End Data platform with Ingestion, Transformation, and Consumption capability for both offline and real-time use cases.
In just 1.5 years, I onboarded 25+ data events to our data platform and developed 30+ APIs to provide real-time data insights. I have also worked closely with Product Managers to define the year-to-year roadmap, long-term and short-term investments, and execution plan to achieve our organization's business goals. I have actively reviewed and provided guidance in tech design and architecture discussions, and created the tech 3YP for the team to ensure our tech goals aligned with the organization's goals.

Data AnalysisAPI DevelopmentTeam Management

Software Development Manager - Amazon Access Point

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

In this role, I built and managed a portfolio of services and apps that Amazon provides to third-party stores for handling customer packages for pickup, returns, and last-mile delivery. These services handle 100M+ packages annually, serving close to 75M+ customers, and run in 50K+ locations in 15 countries. I have also put a high focus on Operational Excellence and Engineering Excellence to proactively eliminate defects at the early stages and reduce costs for running the tech systems.