Sawan Kuntala

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of engineering leadership experience
Proven track record in FinTech and AI solutions
Expert in building high-performing engineering teams

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Leader in Fintech and Cloud Computing with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingEngineering ManagementArtificial IntelligenceCustomer Experience ManagementBusiness DevelopmentFinancial ManagementEntrepreneurshipData AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

AIAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAngular JSApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkApplication ArchitectureBig DataCloud Native StorageCloud Native Storage SolutionsCustomer EngagementCustomer SatisfactionDistributed Systems

About

Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience in Startups and large global firms. 12 years of experience with managing people and 8 years of experience with building large (100+) teams. Led teams and drove solutions in the domains of FinTech, Payments, Food Delivery & Customer Engagement. Proven record of delivering solutions using Distributed Systems, ML & Artificial Intelligence. Takes pride in building world class engineering teams. 6+ years of experience with hiring Engineering Managers. Proven track record of creating an engineering culture that retains the best of the engineers and motivates them to deliver impactful projects. Successfully delivered Autonomous Solutions using ML/AI at Google, Uber & Infocrunch.

Experience

Google

2 roles

Engineering Leader, Google Distributed Cloud

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Building Cloud Native Storage Solutions for Google Distributed Cloud in customers data centers, at the edge, and in the cloud. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-distributed-cloud-edge-and-hosted

Distributed SystemsCloud Native Storage SolutionsCloud ComputingEngineering Management

Engineering Leader, Customer Engagement

Jun 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Empowering Google to intelligently engage with its customers at scale. Responsible for improving Customer Satisfaction and reducing Customer Attrition across ~5000 Support teams and ~40,000 Agents. Transformed the roadmap to build Intelligent solutions using AI, led the AI First thought process

AICustomer EngagementArtificial IntelligenceCustomer Experience Management

Uber

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager, Uber Delivery

Jun 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

Leading the Order Modality teams in Uber Delivery Org. Partnered with GM's globally to improve the Annual Revenue Rate from ~$1.3B to ~$4B, identified & onboarded ~60K new restaurants in US & UK.

Revenue GrowthOrder ModalityBusiness DevelopmentEngineering Management

Senior Engineering Manager, FinTech

Dec 2018 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · On-site

Led the Revenue Computation Charter for all Uber products globally & responsible for the Financial Accounting & Cash Reconciliation of ~$48B annually. Led the effort for Financial Compliance in support of Uber’s IPO, in collaboration with Accounting & Audit.

Financial ComplianceRevenue ComputationFinancial ManagementEngineering Management

Infocrunch

Co-Founder/CTO

Apr 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

www.infocrunch.in. Infocrunch is a market research company with operations in 6 States in India. Infocrunch’s unique value proposition is how it leverages ML & AI to bring insights from various data sources, Social Media platforms & Aggregators like Meltwaters to generate insights of value to the Customers.
Built a cross-functional team of ~120 consisting of Engineers, Product Managers, Account Managers, Data Analysts, Sales & hired the Chief Operating Officer. Led the company to reach an Annual Revenue of ~15 Crore INR in 2 years.

Machine LearningMarket ResearchEntrepreneurshipData Analysis

Citi

2 roles

Vice President

Mar 2013 – Mar 2017 · 4 yrs

Working on Citi applications, with primary focus on improving the architecture across application, estimating and executing the projects within the time frame. Working with the offshore and the onsite teams taking the overall responsibility of the application delivery.

Application ArchitectureProject ManagementSoftware Development

Assistant Vice President

Nov 2008 – Feb 2013 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Lead developer working on Flex, Hibernate, Spring, Weblogic, Oracle. Working on Citi Group projects. Make technical decisions on client side and server side of the project. Work with the support teams and the development team to get the work done.

FlexHibernateSoftware Development