Kalyan Nelluri — Director of Engineering

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building mission-critical backend systems at scale. Currently leading the Merchant Earnings Experience team at Uber, I work at the intersection of real-time data platforms, financial reporting, and high-scale distributed systems. I thrive on solving complex problems with pragmatic tech and driving measurable business impact. My leadership philosophy blends strategic thinking with strong execution — enabling cross-functional alignment, high-trust engineering cultures, and innovation at scale. 🚀 What I Bring: Led multiple 0→1 initiatives across Uber, DE Shaw, and Amazon Deep expertise in real-time analytics (Apache Pinot, Flink, Kafka), financial systems, and data infrastructure Built and scaled platforms handling high QPS, multi-region reliability, and financial correctness Experience driving multi-year charters in Treasury, Payments, and Experimentation platforms 🛠️ Core Tech: Apache Pinot | Flink | Kafka | Golang | Java | MySQL | Distributed Systems | Microservices | Real-Time Data | Cloud Infrastructure 🎯 Focus Areas: Scalable system design Real-time and near-real-time data processing Fintech infra: payments, treasury, reconciliation Team building, mentoring, and org design Let’s connect if you're passionate about scalable tech, real-time data, or leadership in engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on real-time data and scalable systems.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 16 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Real-time Data
Distributed Systems
Financial Reporting
Financial Systems
Treasury
Experimentation
Project Management
Team Building
System Development
Software Development

Career Highlights

15+ years in backend systems engineering
Expert in real-time analytics and financial systems
Proven leader in scalable tech initiatives

Work Experience

Uber

Engineering Manager II (1 yr 2 mos)

Engineering Manager 2 (11 mos)

D. E. Shaw India Private Limited

Associate Director, Technology (1 yr 11 mos)

Arcesium

Engineering Manager (3 yrs 2 mos)

Technology Lead (2 yrs 11 mos)

EduPristine

Freelancing Associate Professor (1 yr 11 mos)

Amazon

Software Engineer (4 yrs)

GateForum

Professional Freelancer (1 yr)

Rediff.com

Product Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

International Institute of Information Technology,IIITH

Coding Mentor at IIIT Hyderabad (9 mos)

Education

Executive Education at Indian School of Business

M-Tech at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Bachelor's degree at JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad

XII at Sri Chaitanya College of Education

Xth at Board of Secondary Education, Telangana (BSET)

Kalyan Nelluri

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India16 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in backend systems engineering
Expert in real-time analytics and financial systems
Proven leader in scalable tech initiatives

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on real-time data and scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Real-time DataDistributed SystemsFinancial ReportingFinancial SystemsTreasuryExperimentationProject ManagementTeam BuildingSystem DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

AnalyticsMargin OptimizationLiquidity ManagementData IntelligenceMobile SDK DevelopmentTechnical DesignCareer DevelopmentTreasury SystemsFeature StabilizationBig Data TechnologiesTrainingBloggingImage ProcessingData ExtractionLog Processing

About

Experience

16 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Uber

2 roles

Engineering Manager II

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Leading the Merchant Earnings Experience platform within Uber’s Delivery business, enabling merchants with real-time insights, transparency, and actionable analytics to drive growth and operational efficiency.

Real-Time DataFinancial ReportingDistributed Systems

Engineering Manager 2

Mar 2022 – Feb 2023 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Led iOS and Android initiatives for Data Intelligence and Experimentation teams.
Built core SDKs and libraries to instrument mobile apps across Uber (Rider, Driver, Eats, Freight), enabling consistent data capture.
Scaled India-based team for Uber’s Experimentation Platform, used company-wide for A/B/N testing, causal inference, and multi-armed bandit-based experiments.

Data IntelligenceExperimentationMobile SDK DevelopmentReal-Time Data

D. e. shaw india private limited

Associate Director, Technology

Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · India · On-site

Spearheaded the firm's Treasury Charter, driving initiatives in margin optimization, collateral management, and liquidity visibility.
Worked closely with trading desks, risk, legal, and operations to streamline treasury workflows and improve capital efficiency.
Built governance and reporting frameworks aligned with evolving regulatory needs and internal compliance standards.

TreasuryMargin OptimizationLiquidity ManagementFinancial Systems

Arcesium

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2019 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

=> Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical designs and approaches for new product development.
=> Project management
=> Career management and development of direct reports

Technical DesignProject ManagementCareer DevelopmentTeam Building

Technology Lead

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

=> Joined Arcesium when it was pretty much an idea. Got an opportunity to build some of the systems in Treasury and stabilize several key features.

System DevelopmentTreasury SystemsFeature StabilizationTreasury

Edupristine

Freelancing Associate Professor

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

=> 500+ hours of training students online and in offline class room sessions.
=> Trained students in various topics related to big data technologies which include Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, HIVE, PIG, HBASE, SQOOP, OOZIE, Spark, Scala, Yarn, HUE, Zookeeper.
=> Blogged various topics related to big data technologies in the internal websites.

Big Data TechnologiesTrainingBlogging

Amazon

Software Engineer

Dec 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

1. Worked in Merchant Technologies team at Amazon. Was responsible for research and development of project Cairo which is a general purpose image processing and data extraction system.
2. Collaborated across various teams and developed a system called Quiddity. This is responsible for processing logs across various pages of SellerCentral, Collect intelligence about problems faced by sellers and develop solutions to address them. This system would prevent the Seller contacts in the first place.
3. Designed and developed platform for integrating various Seller related tools which will be required by our internal Associates to quickly solve seller problems and help reduce SLA for the contact.
4. Developed Chat for Chinese Sellers in US Marketplace and enabled the whole GACD routing mechanism for these chat queues.
5. Worked on many initiatives to reduce Seller pain points and help conduct their business in a smooth manner.

Image ProcessingData ExtractionLog ProcessingSoftware Development

Gateforum

Professional Freelancer

Jun 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr · India

Freelance instructor teaching various subjects for the GATE exam in computer science.

Rediff.com

Product Engineer

May 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

1. Developed a "Real-Time Search" tool for users to search Indian news articles as they are published.
2. Tackled various complex problems in information retrieval and data mining within the web domain.
3. Worked with distributed frameworks such as Hadoop and MapReduce.
4. Engaged in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) using REST/SOAP-based APIs.

Real-Time SearchInformation RetrievalData MiningSoftware Development