Dilip G

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led engineering teams to achieve 50% faster time-to-market.
Reduced operational costs by 40% through optimization.
Successfully scaled platforms and teams in high-growth startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in scaling tech and teams in startup environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementAndroid DevelopmentTechnology MigrationProduct ManagementSoftware DevelopmentIntegration

Other Skills

AndroidAWSNode.jsBigDataRedshiftMetabaseMobile Application DevelopmentMongoDBHome NetworkingMiddlewareVideo On DemandSet Top BoxCHTML 5VOD

About

Head of Engineering | SaaS | Startups | Product-Led Growth | Scaling Tech & Teams With over 13 years of experience leading engineering teams and building platforms from zero to scale, I specialize in enabling fast-growing startups to move faster, deliver better, and scale with confidence. Currently leading engineering at Delightree, where we build operational tools for franchise brands, I've successfully: Cut time-to-market by 50% through agile processes and CI/CD implementation Reduced operational costs by 40% through process and infra optimization Built high-performing cross-functional teams and systems that scale with product demand Previously led engineering at FoodyBuddy and Fastfilmz (acquired for $5M), where I rebuilt entire platforms in-house, scaled Android and backend systems, and drove measurable business impact — from 35% faster delivery to 80% revenue growth. My sweet spot lies in: ✔ Building engineering teams and culture from scratch ✔ Driving execution in chaotic, ambiguous environments ✔ Balancing product velocity with technical debt and architecture ✔ Bridging tech, product, design, and growth

Experience

13 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Delightree

Head of Engineering

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

Foodybuddy

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Foody buddy is series A funded hyperlocal food-tech startup. - Joined Foody buddy as one of its founding engineers, when most of its tech was built by 3rd party vendors and minimal in-house tech expertise. Hired and built a high performing tech team from scratch to iteratively rebuild most of the tech in-house and to churn out new features with backward compatibility. - Worked on the re-work of the Android app from grounds up. Technologies worked on: Android, AWS, Node.js backend.

AndroidAWSNode.jsEngineering ManagementAndroid Development

Fastfilmz

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Feb 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Represented Fastfilmz at the Google Launchpad Accelerator (SFO), mentored in product management and technology by leaders such as Dr. Jacob Greenshpan & Peter Norvig.
Successfully incorporated all the valuable learnings from Launchpad Accelerator.
Actively Participated in Design sprints, User interviews with prototype validation.
Delivered a host of in-house technology migration efforts including BigData infrastructure using Redshift and Metabase, Content Management System, Amazon Pinpoint Engagement, Mobile Application Development.
Defined and comfortably achieved aggressive OKRs from the Engineering division.

BigDataRedshiftMetabaseMobile Application DevelopmentTechnology MigrationProduct Management

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2015 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technologies Worked On: Android, Nodejs, MongoDB, AWS
Integrated Android App with the Firebase ecosystem.
Integrated 3rd Party Video Player with the custom DRM solution and custom video Codec for E2E content security.
Architected User Engagement with Push Notifications and Deep linking and In-App Intelligence.
Architect and Integrate the various 3rd party Payments/Billing solutions with SMS (subscriber management system, Backend and Android)
Chromecast integration with the custom video player.
Integrated Exoplayer as part of the push for Open source components and reduce cost per user.
Developed and architected Peer to Peer sharing of DRM encrypted downloaded content using Wi-Fi Direct and/or Wi-Fi Hotspot on Android – Under Patent review.
Play store Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fastfilmz.android

AndroidNode.jsMongoDBAWSSoftware DevelopmentAndroid Development

Cisco video technologies india pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Feb 2012 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Integration of Home networking functionalities onto to the UPC STBs (Gateway and IP Client)
Robustness and Performance, analysis and fixing related issues.
Prove and showcase working model of Gateway and IP Client STBs setup over Wi-Fi connectivity,
Integration of DLNA QOS into the Middleware to satisfy acceptable User Experience over Wi-Fi connectivity, with bottleneck of multiple IP Clients and sparse Bandwidth availability.
Video On Demand integration into IP Clients. Multiple VOD session playback from the same Household (multiple IPCs) support integration.
Worked at UPC Labs, Amsterdam, Netherlands for End to End Integration as part of the onsite team. At on-site, my role was to help UPC team with setting-up Infrastructure and ensure all the Components works, so as to deliver a stable software stack for customer to deploy.

Home NetworkingMiddlewareVideo On DemandSoftware DevelopmentIntegration