Nikhil B. — Director of Engineering
I build calm, scalable engineering organizations that deliver consistently — without relying on heroics. Twenty years in, I've learned that engineering excellence is less about heroes and frameworks, and more about systems that hold up when no one is looking. The kind of org that ships predictably on a Tuesday, recovers gracefully from a Friday outage, and rolls out AI without setting fire to its review queue. Today I lead a 60+ engineer organization at Sequifi as Director of Product Engineering — spanning product engineering, platform engineering, and DevOps/SRE — supporting $50M+ in ARR through a period of rapid growth and AI-first transformation. What that's looked like in practice: * Reduced production incidents by 40% and improved delivery predictability by 35–40% through stronger execution governance and operational maturity. * Maintained 99.9%+ uptime across customer-facing platforms while scaling the org from 15 to 60+ engineers. * Introduced AI-assisted engineering workflows (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) across distributed teams — improving velocity ~25% — paired with governance, human-in-the-loop review, and architectural guardrails to keep adoption responsible. * Led DevOps and SRE transformation: modernised CI/CD, hardened release engineering, matured incident management, built end-to-end observability (Sentry, PostHog, SLOs). * Partner directly with the CEO, CTO, and CPO on engineering strategy, organisational design, and board-facing engineering updates. Before Sequifi, I led global delivery for Builder.ai's AI-powered product experiences, ran enterprise programs in Dubai and London (Apptology, Clifford Chance — £5M+ budgets, regulated environments), and held a COO role earlier in my career. I write about AI-native engineering execution, organisational scaling, platform reliability, and the unglamorous systems that let engineering orgs grow without breaking.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused engineering leader with extensive experience in organizational scaling and operational excellence.
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Experience: 22 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Engineering Leadership
- Ai-first Engineering
- Product Engineering
- Customer Delivery
- Engineering Operations
- Program Management
- Engineering Delivery
- Operations Leadership
- Organizational Scaling
- Project Management
- Enterprise Technology
- Operations Management
- Service Delivery
- Enterprise Software Development
Career Highlights
- Led a 60+ engineer organization at Sequifi.
- Reduced production incidents by 40% through improved governance.
- Drove AI-first transformation in engineering practices.
Work Experience
Sequifi
Director of Product Engineering (1 yr 2 mos)
Associate Director of Product Engineering (1 yr)
Builder.ai
Portfolio Manager Customer Success - Studio Store (2 yrs 6 mos)
Apptology
Program Manager (3 yrs 10 mos)
Lall & Sethi
Chief Operating Officer (4 yrs 2 mos)
Clifford Chance
Project Manager (4 yrs 3 mos)
NIIT SmartServe
Team Manager: Operations & Transitions (2 yrs 10 mos)
IBM
Tech Lead (3 yrs)
Education
Mastering Executive Presence at Indian School of Business
Bachelor of Information Technology at Indira Gandhi National Open University