Santhosh kumar Sahukari

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years leading high-impact engineering teams.
  • Expertise in building scalable systems and launching products.
  • Passionate about AI-driven product innovation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Applications expert with a strong focus on team leadership and architectural innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ios DevelopmentTeam LeadershipMobile ApplicationsSoftware Development

Other Skills

AB testingAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalytics frameworkAndroid developmentCCocoaCocoa TouchCocoaPodsCode reviewsCollaborationCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDesign PatternsFeature development

About

šŸš€ Senior Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience leading high-impact engineering teams across mobile, web, and platform domainsā€”spanning both startups and global enterprises. šŸ”§ Proven expertise in building scalable systems, launching 0ā†’1 products, and driving architectural innovation with a strong focus on performance, modularity, and long-term maintainability. šŸ“± Deep experience in native iOS & Android development, web technologies, and platform architectureā€”alongside driving adoption of scalable UI frameworks like Config-Driven UI (CDUI). šŸ¤– Actively leading GenAI integration initiatives, including personalized search, chatbots, and recommendation signalsā€”applying LLMs and retrieval-based architectures to enhance user experiences and business outcomes. šŸŒ Skilled in managing distributed, cross-functional teams across India, Southeast Asia, and the U.S., while also optimizing hiring practices, mentoring emerging leaders, and scaling engineering organizations from scratch. šŸ“ˆ Proven track record of: Building and scaling cross-platform engineering teams with full-stack delivery ownership. Architecting robust and modular applications across mobile and web. Driving engineering excellence through automation, inner-sourcing, and reusable frameworks. Mentoring engineers, managing underperformance constructively, and fostering leadership growth. Collaborating deeply with product, UX, and business teams to deliver GenAI- and data-driven experiences at scale. šŸ’¬ Passionate about the intersection of technology, team building, and AI-driven product innovation. Always open to connecting on engineering leadership, mobile architecture, and applied GenAI.

Experience

Target

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2023 ā€“ Present Ā· 2 yrs 9 mos

Lead Engineer

May 2020 ā€“ May 2023 Ā· 3 yrs

  • Working on Flagship iOS Application.
  • Mentoring some of the Android Engineers who moved to iOS Application development.
  • Collaborated with several products and engineering teams to add support for post-purchase experiences like customer support chat, help, etc.
  • Working on login, Account related improvements.
iOS developmentMentoringCollaborationPost-purchase experiencesTeam Leadership

Traveloka

Mobile @Traveloka

Jun 2019 ā€“ May 2020 Ā· 11 mos Ā· Bengaluru Area, India

  • Helped in setting up and leading the India mobile team which included iOS and Android.
  • Took the initiative to convert Objective C codebase to Swift which reduced the crash rate
  • Coordinating India team with teams in Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • Traveloka is a host of multiple services including transport, lifestyle services like booking for spa, hotel, and other travel experiences, etc.
  • Lead team of 7 members across mobile including Android and iOS.
  • Mentoring the team, performing code reviews and design reviews.
  • Architecting the product from scratch and managed bi-weekly internal releases.
  • Contributing to all aspects of the product development lifecycle.
  • Did a turnaround for the product in analytics and data pipeline.
  • Both worked as an Individual contributor and also managed the team for mobile.
  • Dealt with product & business folks to drive strategy and product development.
  • Built features like listing restaurants, implemented oAuth at the network layer, Design system components etc.
iOS developmentAndroid developmentTeam LeadershipCode reviewsProduct architectureMobile Applications

Idrive software india pvt ltd

Module Lead

Dec 2016 ā€“ Jun 2019 Ā· 2 yrs 6 mos Ā· Bengaluru Area, India

  • iDrive is a backup application that has most of the similar features like Dropbox, Google Photos and Google Drive, etc.
  • Lead team of 5 members for iOS Application development.
  • Mentoring the team, performing code reviews and design reviews.
  • Architecting the product from scratch.
  • Contributing to all aspects of the product development lifecycle.
  • Rewritten existing Objective C application from scratch using the latest Swift.
  • Introduced latest design patterns like MVVM-C and technologies like RXSwift, Realm for local storage, etc.
  • Gave tech sessions about MVVM-C and Realm etc.
  • Both worked as Individual contributors and also managed the team for iOS.
  • Enhanced upload experience of files from 1x to 5x.
  • Moved some of the other applications like iBackup etc into a single codebase.
  • Introduced unit test cases.
  • Crash-free users increased from ~97% to 99.9%.
iOS developmentMentoringCode reviewsProduct architectureSwiftMVVM-C+2

Intuit india

Software Engineer 2

Sep 2015 ā€“ Dec 2016 Ā· 1 yr 3 mos Ā· Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked for TurboTax Application.
  • Developed Analytics framework which is responsible for capturing user events and send to the server for Mac and iOS.
  • Developed with rule engine within the framework which decides when to send the data to server from local storage.
  • Developed many features into TurboTax Application.
Analytics frameworkiOS developmentFeature developmentSoftware Development

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

2 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2015 ā€“ Aug 2015 Ā· 2 mos

  • Solely responsible for payment integration into Ola Cabs application which allows users to add money to wallet.
  • Integrated AB testing framework, designed and implemented some of the features as AB Testable.
  • Implemented Ola Cafe in very short time.
Payment integrationAB testingFeature implementationSoftware DevelopmentMobile Applications

Software Engineer

Dec 2014 ā€“ Jun 2015 Ā· 6 mos

Ivy comptech

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 ā€“ Dec 2014 Ā· 3 yrs 5 mos Ā· Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Developed PartyPoker Application from scratch for Mac and iOS using a single code base.

Education

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology( NIT - Bhopal)

Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2008 ā€“ Jan 2011

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