Chirag Sharath

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led a 40-member engineering team in fintech.
Transformed legacy systems into efficient microservices.
Developed high-throughput backend solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS engineering leader with expertise in microservices and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Solution ArchitectureEngineering LeadershipSoftware Development

Other Skills

Android DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCC++CSSCustomer ServiceData ExtractionData IntegrationHTMLJavaLeadershipLinuxMentoringMicroservicesMicrosoft Excel

About

As an Engineering Manager at Rippling, contributing to the development of their Travel product by building and leading a 7-member engineering team. Spearheading technical architecture, roadmap planning, and sprint execution to ensure a seamless employee travel and expense experience. Collaboration with cross-functional teams has been pivotal in aligning product direction with business goals. With over a decade of experience in fintech, SaaS, and B2B domains, excel in modernizing legacy systems into efficient microservices and delivering high-throughput backend solutions. Passionate about empowering teams to navigate ambiguity and solve complex challenges using technology while fostering scalable and resilient engineering practices.

Experience

Rippling

Engineering Manager

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · On-site

Built a 7-member engineering team from scratch for Rippling's new Travel product initiative
Leading end-to-end delivery of the Travel product – from technical architecture, roadmap planning, and sprint execution to production rollout
Collaborated with Product, Design, and Business teams to shape product direction and deliver seamless employee travel and expense experiences

People ManagementSoftware Solution ArchitectureMicroservicesEngineering LeadershipProject ManagementEngineering Management+1

Mpokket

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

Lead a team of 40 engineers, overseeing the development, deployment, and maintenance of multiple high-quality software projects across various pods such as repayments, notifications and authentication.
Re developed the notification system that could handle around 3-4 million notifications per day.
Built a customer 360 platform in the company by reading close to 6 million events a day and providing a single view of the customer
Modernised the entire PHP based legacy repayment core application into microservices and improved the efficiency of the system that collected the highest repayment ever in a day.

Engineering ManagementMicroservicesProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipSoftware Architecture

Engineering Manager

Jun 2023 – Jan 2024 · 7 mos · On-site

Gurutu

CEO and Founder

Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos · Mysuru, Karnataka, India · On-site

91social

Technical Lead

Nov 2015 – Dec 2022 · 7 yrs 1 mo · HSR Layout · On-site

Lead a team of 10 engineers to Design and Develop multiple complex integrated projects across clients like CRED, Arcesium, Eko etc to build various backend systems for internal processing as well as internal applications.
Developed a backend system for a bot service that efficiently routed customer requests to various child nodes, reducing direct escalations to customer care by up to 85%.
Developed an engine with modules for configuration matching, data extraction, validation, transformation, and export to efficiently process financial statement PDFs, achieving 99.5% data extraction accuracy.

Software DevelopmentProject ManagementTeam LeadershipEngineering Leadership