Sandeep Kumar

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 14 years in Software Engineering and Product Development.
  • 7 years in people management roles.
  • Expertise in Engineering Management and Distributed Computing.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with extensive experience in Software Development and Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentStart-ups

Other Skills

AlgorithmsJavaPythonLinuxHadoopMySQLArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningData StructuresMongoDBSolrProgrammingCC++REST

About

Engineering leader with an innovative mindset and focus on solving customer problems. I have 14 years of experience in Software Engineering and Product Development, including 7 years in a people management role. Specialties: Engineering Management, Programming, Product Development, Distributed Computing, Research. HomePage http://sandeepk.in

Experience

14 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Stripe

Engineering Manager

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Verification and Identity Platform

Amazon

Software Development Manager

May 2025Jul 2025 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Set-up a new team for Alexa Smart Properties in India

Rokt

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2024Feb 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · On-site

  • Client Integrations - Partner Integration with Rokt.
Distributed SystemsEngineering Management

Meta

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore · On-site

  • Leading a team of Software Developers working on business critical Supply Chain Management Systems for all of Meta's Datacenters, Enterprise Operations, and Reality Labs.
Software DevelopmentEngineering Management

Grab

2 roles

Engineering Manager II

Promoted

Sep 2018Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • ★ GrabLinks ★
  • My team worked on Payment Processing, PSP integrations, Routing, Recon, Settlement for all Card Payments.
  • ★ Driver Experience Backend ★
  • My team developed and managed multiple critical systems at Grab, solving technology problems for our driver partners.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • ★Lead/Architect ★ Driver Experience Backend
  • First backend engineer in the Driver Experience Tech Family. Helped the team grow to a strength of 14 backend engineers.
  • ★ Software Developer/Architect ★ Grab API
  • Grab API team is responsible for engineering all public communication to our backend systems.

Verloop.io

Principal Software Engineer (Founding Team)

Aug 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Part of the founding team. Lead development of all core backend systems and services from scratch. Responsible for choosing the technology stack and all major design/architecture decisions. Helped to grow the engineering and product team to about 20 people.
  • Messaging infrastructure. (XMPP, AMQP)
  • Rest APIs (Python, Django, DRF)
  • Service oriented architecture (10+ services)
  • Machine learning, NLP, Chat bots/assistants.
  • DevOps (AWS)
  • Deployment automation (Ansible)
  • Opensource.
Start-ups

Paytm

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Was among the first hires in Bangalore Team. Interviewed more then 100 candidates to help grow to a 20+ member team. Was actively involved in the following projects.
  • Paytm Wallet App
  • Development and maintainance of server-side APIs for Paytm wallet
  • payments mobile app. Unit testing suite and integration with Jenkins.
  • Karosell (Market place for second hand goods)
  • Product description, design and feature specifications.
  • Overall technical ownership of all server components
  • Paytm Express (Groceries delivery)
  • Product description, design and feature specifications.
  • Complete technical ownership of all server components.
  • ELK set-up. All dev-ops on AWS.

Gupshup

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2013Feb 2014 · 8 mos · On-site

  • GupShup is a social messaging service that enables users to share their short messages,
  • privately with friends, or publicly with all. The service works on every mobile device
  • and can be accessed via SMS, web, or mobile apps.
  • Development/Maintenance of API's for mobile apps and website.
  • Support tools for backend management.
  • Autoblogger to post updates from RSS feeds.
  • TinyUrl service for shortening URL's.
  • Gupshup push notification service.

Software Engineer

Jul 2011Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

  • Automating generation of statistics reports. Providing custom data/analytics for new features/marketing campaings.
  • Implementation of recommendation system. Spam detecting service. Computing popular users using page rank. Trending topics.
  • Improvements to user search.

Monterey bay aquarium research institute (mbari)

Intern

Jun 2010Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Monterey, California, USA · On-site

  • Onboard Autonomy Group. Artificial Intelligence Planning and Learning

Indian institute of technology, madras

Research Assistant

Jul 2008Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

  • Research work on Artificial Intelligence.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jul 2008Jun 2011

Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science & Engineering

Aug 2004Jun 2008

Harvard Business School Online

Certificate — Management Essentials

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Amtuls Public School, Nainital

XII — CBSE

Jan 2002Jan 2004

St. Joseph's College, Nainital

X — ICSE

Jan 1994Jan 2002

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