Manoj Sebastian Kulatharayil — Co-Founder
As a seasoned engineering leader, I bring a proven track record of building and scaling high-performance engineering teams that align deeply with business outcomes. With over two decades of experience spanning software development, reliability engineering, platform operations, and customer success, I specialise in leading large-scale transformations that drive operational and engineering excellence—especially in digital platforms and SaaS businesses. I thrive at the intersection of technology, people, and process—enabling organizations to scale sustainably, improve developer productivity, and achieve tech readiness for peak business cycles and IPOs. After leading Reliability Engineering at Flipkart during a period of hyper-growth, I transitioned into advisory and consulting roles. Through Softnest Consulting, I now partner with organisations to modernise their DevOps, SRE, and AIOps capabilities—by not just introducing the right tools and automation, but by embedding the right thinking models into their engineering culture. I’m especially passionate about helping teams adopt AI-first practices, reduce toil, unlock observability insights, and improve decision-making through intelligent, context-aware internal platforms and agentic automation. Areas of Expertise 🛠️ Engineering Leadership & Team Building 📈 Strategic Tech Readiness 🧠 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 🚀 Developer Productivity & Platform Thinking 🤖 AI-Driven Ops & AIOps Enablement 🤝 Customer-Centric Engineering
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Services expert with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 26 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Human Capital Management
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Strategic Consulting
- Devops
Career Highlights
- Proven track record in building high-performance engineering teams.
- Expert in leading large-scale transformations in SaaS businesses.
- Passionate about AI-first practices and operational excellence.
Work Experience
klib Corporate Library Solutions
Co-Founder (5 mos)
Softnest Consulting LLP
Founder (1 yr 11 mos)
Career Break
Personal goal pursuit (11 mos)
Flipkart
Director - Reliability & Productivity Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)
Atlassian
Site Lead, SRE (1 yr 2 mos)
Intuit
Group Manager (2 yrs 3 mos)
Flipkart
Sr. Engineering Manager (2 yrs 5 mos)
Amazon
Manager 3 - Device Cloud & Support Engineering at Amazon (1 yr)
Yahoo!
Sr. Manager - Production Engineering (3 yrs 2 mos)
Decho Corporation
Director Technical Operaions, Support Tools & IT (4 yrs 8 mos)
Talisma
Manager -Software Testing and Business Support (1 yr 6 mos)
Manager Talisma Product Support (1 yr 9 mos)
Technical Analyst - Talisma Professional Services NA (1 yr 4 mos)
Software Test Lead (3 yrs 7 mos)
Education
GNIIT at NIIT
BSc at Calicut University
at NHS Chemperi