Chethana HB

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of engineering leadership experience
  • Awarded Grand Prize at PayPal’s Global Product Hackathon
  • Driving AI-first engineering practices
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech engineering leader with a focus on AI integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipStrategic ThinkingData Quality

Other Skills

Distributed ComputingData GovernanceAnalyticsStakeholder ManagementStakeholder EngagementData AnalyticsAgile MethodologiesPaymentsProject ManagementSoftware DesignCore JavaUnixXMLRepresentational State Transfer (REST)Team Building

About

Engineering leader with 16+ years of experience building and scaling high performing teams and distributed, cloud native platforms across enterprise and fintech domains. Proven track record of leading multi-team engineering organizations, driving end-to-end ownership from architecture to delivery, and aligning technology strategy with business outcomes. Currently driving adoption of AI-first engineering practices, with hands on experience in applying Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and emerging agentic AI systems to improve developer productivity, automate workflows, and enable intelligent product capabilities. Focused on integrating AI into engineering systems from copilots and internal tools to scalable AI-driven product features. Experienced in scaling systems and teams to support growth, improving engineering efficiency, and optimizing cost and performance at scale. Strong focus on organizational design, hiring, and developing engineering leaders, while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. Recognized for driving cross-functional alignment across product, business, and engineering to deliver measurable impact accelerating delivery cycles, enhancing system reliability, and enabling strategic flexibility in fast-paced environments. Awarded the Grand Prize at PayPal’s Global Product Hackathon and an active contributor to the engineering community through leadership roles in initiatives such as GHCI and Women Who Code. Passionate about building resilient organizations, mentoring future leaders, and leveraging AI and emerging technologies to create scalable, future-ready platforms.

Experience

16 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Walmart global tech india

Sr.Engineering Manager

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Sr.Engineering Manager at Walmart
Strategic ThinkingData QualityLeadershipDistributed ComputingData Governance

Khoros

3 roles

Technical Manager

Oct 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Strategic ThinkingData QualityLeadershipDistributed ComputingData GovernanceAnalytics

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Strategic ThinkingData QualityLeadershipDistributed ComputingData GovernanceAnalytics

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2017Jul 2018 · 10 mos

  • Lead, manage and collaborate with cross-functional teams, business partners and stakeholder management for Community platform.
  • Managing and leading technically for different development teams, Site reliability engineering team, worked with Data Analytics/Pipeline team to manage existing, all new features, product developments/Release deployments.
  • Responsible for qualitative delivery of features, code reviews, technical road map and other initiatives.
  • Ownership of technical product road map for complex and cross platform solutions.
  • Worked very closely with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and are designing best in class solutions for our end users and partners.
  • Collaborating with quality assurance on improving automation and reducing test cycle duration.Design develop and review highly scalable, available Big Data Systems,
  • distributed data collection and storage pipelines for reporting and alerting.
  • Provide technical expertise to augment efficiency of Big Data Systems by
  • applying different strategies across load balancing, replication, consistency.
  • Plan & facilitate development efforts among cross functional teams. (across
  • different Business Units).
  • Lead, Mentor, hire new team members by providing training and subject matter expertise.
Strategic ThinkingData QualityLeadershipDistributed ComputingData GovernanceAnalytics

Vmware

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Responsibilities:
  • Developed tech-debt projects Building Feature Combination workflows : End to End Module - Increase in the productivity and customer experience, covered various flows like update from 6.0à6.5, Upgrade tiny-->small-->medium-->large mapping customer flows.
  • Developed project to convert file system from Ext 3 to Btrfs/Ntfs
  • Enhanced and developed support for certain vc-support, hogging and other areas.
  • Responsible for running HPTC and LPTC runs of particular cycles; sprint tasks by executing the developed scripts, monitoring vim cat and validating RTM, beta builds
Strategic ThinkingData Quality

Paypal

Software Engineer II

May 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore, India

  • Implemented Dependency Extractor for Test reliability Engine Tool.
  • Contributed towards the enhancement of automation frameworks based on the requirements. Enhanced the existing framework for Sonar Violations and resolved major, critical and minor bugs.
  • Developed Re-try Listener in TestNG for re-executing tests that have failed once. This will help in getting higher pass rate and reduces the manual effort.
  • Enhanced the existing framework for Sonar Violations and resolved major, critical and minor bugs.
  • Implemented Tools for PayPay that would contribute successive results for Continuous Integration.
Data Quality

Aol

Software Engineer

Nov 2009Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Projects :
  • 1. “Statistical Spam Filter algorithm” using Clustering Algorithm
  • Involved in development and implementation of algorithm for control of Spam e-mails. Implemented
  • prototype model using “K-means Clustering Algorithm” to improve the processing time of detecting Spam.
  • 2. AOL Web Mail development and Automation
  • Framework development, enhancement and test automation activities like design, coding, and implementation.
  • Enhancing the framework as and when required to provide upcoming browser support and to provide common support across different platforms browsers for 20+ OS-browser combinations.
  • Developing, Reviewing, Executing, and Maintaining automation test scripts
  • Enhancing the framework as and when required to provide upcoming browser support and to
  • provide common support across different platforms-browsers.
  • Ramping up newly joined global peers on java framework and Selenium.
Data Quality

National aerospace laboratories, bangalore

Intern

Dec 2008Jul 2009 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Advanced Strategic Management — Strategic Management

Jul 2021Jul 2022

BMS Institute of Technology and Management

Master of Computer Applications - MCA — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2009

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