Nov 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the creation and scaling of a high-impact engineering team of 20+ senior engineers from the ground up, driving the development and enhancement of Atlassian’s cloud migration capabilities.
• Architected and delivered robust public-facing migration APIs and platforms that automated the transfer of millions of Atlassian customers from on-premises Jira and Confluence to cloud platforms, accelerating cloud adoption at scale.
• Key Achievements:
• Engineered a 200x increase in Jira Cloud Migration throughput, scaling export processing from 500K to 100 million issues per 24 hours, resulting in a 2x improvement in migration speed & significantly accelerating customer cloud adoption.
• Designed & developed an innovative app migration platform enabling Atlassian vendors to seamlessly migrate their app data alongside core Jira/Confluence data, boosting vendor migration reliability and success rates by 2x to 3x.
• Spearheaded the Early Access Program (EAP), Beta, and General Availability (GA) launches of migration APIs, working closely with partners and customers to drive adoption, while defining a long-term technical vision and roadmap with stakeholder buy-in.
• Conducted extensive partner and customer research to inform business strategy, enabling large enterprise customers to automate migration journeys using APIs, reducing migration time by 20%.
• Drove developer productivity and operational excellence through regular DSAT surveys and the adoption of best practices, with over 89% of developers reporting high productivity and satisfaction supported by optimal tools and management.
• Implemented feature flags and progressive code releases, achieving a 20% reduction in customer-reported issues.
• Championed cross-functional collaboration across product management, engineering, recruitment, and customer success teams to reduce onboarding time.
• Initiated developer productivity programs and innovation frameworks, significantly boosting team engagement and delivery velocity.

Jul 2018 – Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led and scaled an engineering organization of 50+ engineers and 4 engineering managers to deliver the next-generation AppDynamics Observability Platform, focused on performance, reliability, and enterprise-scale monitoring solutions. Drove strategy, execution, and operational excellence across multiple functions including engineering development, vendor engagement, hiring, and organizational transformation.
• Key Achievements:
• Organizational Leadership: Built and scaled the engineering organization from the ground up at the Bangalore site, successfully transitioning headcount from the US to India. Defined strategic direction and structured the team for high-performance execution.
• Vendor & Budget Management: Developed and signed a comprehensive Statement of Work (SOW) contract with Persistent Systems to fund and staff maintenance projects, enabling full-time engineers to focus on feature innovation and faster go-to-market delivery—significantly boosting customer satisfaction.
• Platform Engineering: Delivered the first microservices-based distributed observability platform in BETA, architected for scale and real-time telemetry analytics, enhancing AppDynamics' product differentiation and retention.
• DevOps & Quality Transformation: Implemented modern DevOps practices and established a near 100% automated test infrastructure, driving release reliability and reducing cycle times.
• OKR Framework Deployment: Researched, incepted, and institutionalized the OKR (Objectives & Key Results) model within the engineering organization. Defined SMART goals and supporting dashboards, improving execution visibility and aligning teams with business outcomes—accelerating go-to-market timelines by 25%.
• Diversity & Talent Acquisition: Conducted women-only hiring drives and multiple recruitment events to build a diverse, high-caliber engineering team, fostering an inclusive and innovation-driven culture.

Apr 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and led the System Monitoring Engineering team at Micro Focus from inception to a high-performing unit of 12–15 engineers. Championed the transformation of the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform by integrating modern Agile, security, and scalability practices.
• Key Achievements:
• SAFe Agile Transformation: Acquired SAFe Agilist certification and spearheaded the implementation of SAFe Agile practices across the engineering organization. Formed and led the SAFe System Team, aligning performance engineering with business agility goals.
• Scalable Monitoring Architecture: Designed and delivered scalable, distributed monitoring solutions that ensured high availability, low latency, and resilience under enterprise-scale workloads.
• Security Integration: Incepted and embedded security assessment and penetration (PEN) testing methodologies into the SDLC, enabling early detection of vulnerabilities and reducing risk exposure.
• Performance & Reliability Improvements: Contributed to the shift from monolithic to distributed architecture, significantly enhancing system reliability and scaling platform performance to meet growing demand.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Developed engineering dashboards and business metrics for performance and scalability, enabling faster, data-backed decision-making for product and operations teams.
• Talent Acquisition & Mentorship: Recruited top talent from Tier-1 and Tier-2 institutions via targeted campus drives. Mentored engineers in DevOps, quality engineering, and performance tuning best practices, boosting team productivity and incident resolution times.

Apr 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and led the System Monitoring Engineering team at Micro Focus from inception to a high-performing unit of 12–15 engineers. Championed the transformation of the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform by integrating modern Agile, security, and scalability practices.
• Key Achievements:
• SAFe Agile Transformation: Acquired SAFe Agilist certification and spearheaded the implementation of SAFe Agile practices across the engineering organization. Formed and led the SAFe System Team, aligning performance engineering with business agility goals.
• Scalable Monitoring Architecture: Designed and delivered scalable, distributed monitoring solutions that ensured high availability, low latency, and resilience under enterprise-scale workloads.
• Security Integration: Incepted and embedded security assessment and penetration (PEN) testing methodologies into the SDLC, enabling early detection of vulnerabilities and reducing risk exposure.
• Performance & Reliability Improvements: Contributed to the shift from monolithic to distributed architecture, significantly enhancing system reliability and scaling platform performance to meet growing demand.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Developed engineering dashboards and business metrics for performance and scalability, enabling faster, data-backed decision-making for product and operations teams.
• Talent Acquisition & Mentorship: Recruited top talent from Tier-1 and Tier-2 institutions via targeted campus drives. Mentored engineers in DevOps, quality engineering, and performance tuning best practices, boosting team productivity and incident resolution times.

Jun 2007 – Jun 2018 · 11 yrs · Bangalore

• Led the development, quality assurance, and release of critical Informatica cloud offerings, including the Salesforce Connector. Spearheaded engineering initiatives to enhance integration capabilities, automation, and delivery velocity, while driving high standards of quality and customer satisfaction.
• Key Achievements:
• Product Ownership & Delivery: Owned the end-to-end lifecycle of the Salesforce Connector, including architecture, development, testing, and production release—delivering high-impact features with precision and agility.
• Agile Transformation: Successfully implemented Agile Scrum practices across engineering teams, enabling iterative development, improved collaboration, and faster time to market.
• Quality & Automation Excellence: Instituted a rigorous quality culture with 95%+ code coverage and 100% test automation, significantly reducing regression issues and improving release confidence.
• Release Leadership: Acted as the release owner for Informatica Cloud, ensuring smooth delivery pipelines, zero-slippage release cycles, and continuous stakeholder alignment.
• Customer Collaboration & Feature Innovation: Worked closely with product managers, partners, and customers to understand evolving requirements, shaping product roadmaps, and ensuring high-value feature delivery.
• Recognition for Excellence: Repeatedly awarded Spot Awards for customer obsession, timely delivery, and consistently maintaining high product quality.
• Technical Modernization: Contributed to the transformation of legacy systems into modular, service-oriented architectures, enhancing maintainability and accelerating deployment cycles.
• DevOps Pipeline Development: Established robust QA and CI/CD pipelines from scratch, resulting in improved release quality and reduced defect leakage.

Dec 2004 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• Contributed to core product development and enhancement, gaining foundational experience in software engineering, testing, and client collaboration.
• ➤ Specialties: Engineering Leadership, Strategic Planning, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Team Building from Scratch, Agile & SAFe Agile for Enterprise, OKRs Implementation, Innovation Culture, Productivity Optimization, Vendor Management, Budget Management, Performance Engineering, Technical Program Management, Mentorship & Coaching, Customer-Centric Development, Enterprise Software, SaaS Product Development, Observability & Monitoring Solutions, Cloud Migration Tools, Performance Optimization, Application Monitoring, Product Development Lifecycle, Cloud Transformation, API Development & Management, Cloud Native Applications, Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes & Docker, SaaS Platforms, REST APIs & GraphQL, Java, Python, AWS, Azure, SQL, NoSQL Databases, System Design, Web Services, Observability Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Test Strategy & Planning, TDD, BDD, DevOps Transformation, Legacy System Modernization