Ketan Kotnis

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in building distributed technology systems.
  • Expert in engineering leadership and product management.
  • Strong focus on operational excellence and team performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce leader with strong engineering and product management expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipProduct ManagementProject ManagementRisk ManagementBusiness Intelligence

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Career ManagementComputer ScienceCross-team CollaborationData AnalysisData AnalyticsDatabasesDesignDistributed SystemsDistributed Team ManagementExecutive ReportingFull-Stack DevelopmentGap AnalysisGoal SettingHigh-Level Design

About

Experienced Engg Leader with experience in software development, Technical Product & Program Management with a ‘CustomerFirst’ mindset who has demonstrated history of building Distributed technology systems, Owning Services & driving their adoption, Improving processes & optimizing the cost to serve, accelerating commercialization in E-commerce & Financial services Industries. Skilled in Technology Leadership, designing, developing and maintaining Products & Services, building & coaching high performing Engg teams, Leveraging ML/AI in building customer tailored products, Program & stakeholder mgmt, requirements gathering & devising business OKRs/Goals, Partnering with PMs for forging product Roadmap & launching MVPs, Talent Hiring & Retention, Maintaining high-bar on OE/EE standards, data analytics & Visualization. An enthusiastic & passionate co-worker who believes in producing technology solutions to enable business and takes pride in executing projects on-time ensuring high quality.

Experience

Razorpay

Associate Director of Engineering - Ads Tech

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Building Growth Marketing Suite of Products for Merchants and Advertisers in Razorpay Ecosystem. Spearhead the development of a zero-to-one Ads product in context of Payments. Lead a 30 member Engg Team. End-to-end ownership of 3 services: Offers Engine, Customer Data Platform (CDP), and Ads Tech, ensuring scalable architecture, cross-team collaboration, and strategic alignment with product vision and business goals.
Distributed Team ManagementLeadershipHigh-Level DesignFull-Stack DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Technical Leadership+9

Amazon

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager - Seller Growth - MENA Technology

Promoted

Jul 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

  • Led Seller Growth charter for MENA. Manage software solution development solving 3P Seller problems across Listings, Fees, Registration, Arabization & profitability portfolios.
Goal SettingOperational ExcellenceEngineering LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed SystemsPerformance Management+31

Amazon Advertising Tech - Budgeting

Dec 2020Aug 2021 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Buildout & Launch of platform features in Budgeting and Billing activities for Ads business.
  • 2. Power Amazon Products hosting Ads solution with customized budgeting features
  • 3. Contribute to product Vision and GTM activities
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Project ManagementSoftware DevelopmentRequirements AnalysisSprint Planning+7

Amazon payment services

Senior Engineering Manager - Payments & High Frequency Categories

Aug 2021Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • 1. Buildout & Launch of platforms for HFC use-cases such as Mobile Recharges, Bill Payments, Tickets Booking leveraging 3P aggregators and partners
  • 2. Build digital payment methods & Enable Amazon Business Expansion leveraging internal - Amazon payments services (APS) and/or external payment processors/gateways in MENA region
Goal SettingOperational ExcellenceEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsPerformance ManagementHigh-Level Design+28

Goldman sachs

7 roles

Vice President - Operational & Enterprise Risk Engineering

Feb 2020Dec 2020 · 10 mos

  • 1. Define Vision & scope for build-out of Operational Risk Metrics platform.
  • Analyzed Data sources, Interviewed Users to capture requirements & build personas
  • Interfaced with dev team as a Product Owner catalyzing product development
  • Contributed to High level Tech design and solution
  • 2. Secretary to the Risk Committee (Goldman Sachs India)
  • 3. Member of Core Working Group for Operational Risk Mgmt
Engineering LeadershipMachine LearningDatabasesRisk ManagementEngineering ManagementProduct Management+15

Vice President - Market & Liquidity Risk Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2018Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Led implementation of Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB) for Market Risk.
  • Automated Commentary for Liquidity Risk Metrics. CCAR Automation.
  • Software Dev Mgmt, Agile Project Management - Scrum, Project Prioritization and budgeting, Requirements & Workflow design, Executive Reporting & Presentations. Tableau Dashboard & SQL.
Engineering LeadershipRisk ManagementEngineering ManagementProject ManagementSoftware DesignMarket Risk+6

Operations Risk & Controls Engg

Jul 2017Jan 2018 · 6 mos

  • Roadmap, requirements & design for systems revamp. Support, development & enhancements of existing applications.
Engineering LeadershipRisk ManagementEngineering ManagementProject ManagementSoftware DesignMarket Risk+6

Associate - Cross Divisional Projects & Architecture

Jan 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Project Manager for Legal Entity Structuring & Simplification Program, Trading Book Migration for Asia Derivatives (EQ, IRP, FX) Business.
  • Business Analysis and Project Management for Investment banking cross Divisional projects. They usually involve teams ranging from front office to technology & ops. Nature of the projects are transformational, New initiatives or Regulatory.
Project ManagementRequirements AnalysisQlikViewCross-team CollaborationProject Delivery

Associate - Trading Market Data - Risk & Control / BI - Visualization / Exchange Reporting

Promoted

Oct 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Risk & Control - My role was to evaluate and assess risk around market data consumption of the trading applications in the firm. It involved understanding the architecture of the application, terms of market data usage, gathering evidence and educating application developers about the standards of market data usage. Conduct audits & certification of applications.
  • BI - Enterprise Dashboards developed in Qlikview and Tableau to track KPI and key metrics of functions under Market Data i.e Market Data Spend, Licences, Vendors, Data Quality etc
  • Reporting - Designed & developed various automated market data consumers reports for exchanges / data providers using SQL/SSRS.
Project ManagementRequirements AnalysisQlikViewCross-team CollaborationProject Delivery

Analyst - Technology Infrastructure - Business Analysis / Project Mgmt / Product Mgmt

Jan 2013Sep 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • I currently work in a team which specializes in Process Re-engineering, Business Analysis and Project Management of projects that are strategic for technology infrastructure division.
  • In my current role I have experience of managing projects that cut across divisions and product management. I have worked on IT Infrastructure projects, Data center migration & Technology business management project.
  • My skill set include Business Process mapping, design and re-engineering, writing BRDs, UAT, UI Design, Data Management, Creating Reports and dash boards using MS Appln suite and Qlikview.
  • I have also been part of project management office - creating project plans, tracking issues and risks. meeting minutes, Liaising with business users & stake holder management.
Business IntelligenceData AnalysisSoftware DesignQlikView

New Associate Business Analyst - Strategic Initiatives - BPR / PMO

Feb 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • I was recruited by Goldman Sachs from IIIT Bangalore for their training program for new college graduates. We had 10 week training program which included understanding Capital Markets, Trade Life Cycle, Various Technologies and Soft Skills.
  • I Interned & joined as business analyst in Business Process Re-Engineering team within Technology Infrastructure. We re-engineered & optimized various processes across technology services to achieve efficiency, optimized resource usage & better client experience. Our involvement was in process design, formulating KPIs, gap analysis, requirements gathering, UI Design& conducting UAT.
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Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

MTech — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Executive Programme in Data Driven Product Management — Product Management

Sep 2021Jun 2022

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Post Graduate Diploma — Data Science & Machine Learning

Jan 2019Jan 2020

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Master of Arts (M.A.) — Economics

Jan 2014Jan 2015

BLDEAs College of Engg. & Technology, BIJAPUR

BE — Electronics & Communication Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

NIIT, Bijapur

Graduate Diploma — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2008

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