Khalid Syed

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

18+ years in software engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable analytics products.
Strong track record in AI/ML and cloud-native architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Big Tech expert with a focus on analytics and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringAi/mlProduct DevelopmentCloud Computing

Other Skills

Director levelBusiness IntelligenceAzure DatabricksEngineering Data ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Data LakesSnowflakeSparkDBTAirflowShader DevelopmentDeveloper ToolingAWSData Export

About

Senior engineering leader focused on building end-to-end analytics products and AI-driven solutions that scale and teams that consistently deliver customer impact. I bring 18+ years in software engineering and 9+ years in people leadership, spanning fintech, media, enterprise SaaS, and Big Tech (Meta). My work centers on 0→1 analytics product builds, modernizing legacy systems, and turning data into decision-grade, revenue-impacting products through analytics, AI/ML, and cloud-native architectures. Built and scaled analytics organizations from scratch • Delivered large-scale analytics applications processing hundreds of GBs per hour, powering business-critical decisions • Led global teams across India, UK, and distributed geographies • Strong partner to Product, Business, and Executive leadership I enjoy solving ambiguous problems, mentoring leaders, and building systems that are robust, observable, and business-aligned. Currently focused on End-to-end Data & Analytics Applications, AI/ML, and Agentic Systems.

Experience

17 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Wex

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading Iceberg-based end-to-end analytics product covering ingestion, transformation, semantic modeling, BI, and AI/ML consumption enabling AI/ML, agentic workflows, BI, and reporting.
Building Data as a Service (DaaS) analytics product enabling self-service ingestion, governed transformations, semantic layers, and decision-ready BI across business teams.
Establishing and scaling the Bangalore analytics engineering organization, owning hiring, operating model, delivery health, and long-term ownership.
Business outcome: Enabled faster decision-making and standardized analytics adoption across teams, reducing ad-hoc reporting and duplicate pipelines.

Director levelData EngineeringAI/ML

Amagi corporation

Senior Software Development Manager - Data and Analytics

Dec 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Built analytics organization from scratch; owned end-to-end analytics products and AI/ML engineering portfolio with clear business ownership.
Delivered a complete Spark + DBT+ Airflow + Snowflake analytics application (pipelines, transformations, semantic models, and home-grown BI) processing ~300GB/hour using medallion architecture.
Defined roadmap for acquired analytics product integrating financial insights, unlocking a $15M incremental revenue opportunity.
Business outcome: Expanded addressable market and enabled monetizable insights for customers.

Azure DatabricksEngineering Data ManagementData EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Data Lakes+2

Citrix

Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2021 – Sep 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ADC as a Service: An AWS hosted service to facilitate efficient, faster and cheaper ways to get ADC service up and running in no time
ADM as Service: AWS and a multi-cloud hosted service to orchestrate and manage application delivery solutions

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Computing

Rsa security

2 roles

Manager Software Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Product: Archer : Smart Data Publication system for SaaS (AWS) : A feature to export data out of RSA Archer in a flat format to destination in On-Prem or clients AWS or cross cloud databases
Resulted in 15% account moved to SaaS
Project2: Migration from Silverlight to Building new Charting & Reporting engine with Export and print of table and charts
Project 3 : Series of UI/UX enhancement for next-gen UI experience
Continuous Engineering : Responsible to deliver tactical enhancement, minor releases & customer escalations
Build the team from scratch and run with the Kanban process
BHAG goal to reduce the initial customer backlog to 10% of support tickets
Reduced cycle time from 52 days to 22 days and increased NPS from 22 to 35

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Computing

Associate Principal Engineer

Aug 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs

Enhanced internationalization and localization
KT handover from the US and created an onboarding training plan for BLR
Hired 40+ engineers and took scrum initially

Emc

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Started to own agent's sdk and 5 Agents development within 6 months
Developed agents to do reporting and monitoring of Infrastructure devices and its components like AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux and Windows, CAS storage, IBM-DS and IBM-SVC storage arrays and Oracle db
Awarded Platinum and President's award for excellence and performance