Abhinaya Gopalam

Director of Engineering

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates14 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering strategy for scalable fintech platforms.
Built high-performing teams fostering innovation.
Architected solutions processing billions in transactions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong leadership in engineering management and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementLeadershipSolution ArchitectureMicroservicesCloud InfrastructureSoftware Design Patterns

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipData StructuresAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformInfrastructureRESTful WebServicesMySQLNetwork SecurityJava Enterprise EditionJavaJavaScriptSQLHTMLAJAXADF

Experience

14 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

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3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

Spearhead the end-to-end engineering strategy and execution for the 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭, ensuring enterprise-grade scalability, security, and performance to support critical financial operations.
Architect and lead the development of the 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, driving innovation to deliver high-impact solutions that empower distributors with real-time insights and operational efficiencies.
Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and innovation.
Define and implement technology roadmaps, aligning engineering efforts with business priorities and ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
Collaborate with product, design, and business leadership to define a unified vision, translating complex requirements into actionable deliverables.
Optimize system performance and reliability, implementing advanced solutions to ensure seamless user experiences across diverse environments.

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Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Spearheaded and scaled multiple engineering teams and pods delivering mission-critical fintech products tailored for SMEs, ensuring 99.9% uptime and robust SLA compliance in a high-availability environment.
Owned the end-to-end product lifecycle from requirements gathering and technical architecture to deployment and proactive monitoring focused on reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency for SME clients.
Led a major cloud migration initiative, designing and implementing a scalable infrastructure layer that improved system resilience and optimized resource utilization.
Championed cost reduction strategies by optimizing cloud spend and infrastructure usage, resulting in significant operational savings without compromising performance.
Drove seamless cross-functional collaboration between product, design, and operations teams to deliver customer-centric solutions with rapid iteration cycles.
Championed best practices in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability, achieving an 80% reduction in incident resolution time and enhancing system resilience.
Mentored engineers to develop leadership capabilities, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning, which accelerated team velocity and delivery quality.

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Principal Engineer/Manager

Dec 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

Architect and lead the development for Financial Services Team (June 2020 - Jan 2021)
Head of Data Engineering team (Dec 2019- Feb 2020)
Head of Infrastructure Team (March 2020 - Jan 2021)
Tech stack : Airflow , Dataflow, CloudComposer, BigQuery , Spark , Google cloud platform ,Argo CD , kubernetes ,AWS

Recko, inc.

Manager & Senior Engineer

Jun 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built an automation platform that processes more than $1B+ worth of transactions per year.
Responsible for Architecture Design and Development of India’s only product which reconciles financial data real time.
Designed system which can process 10M+ transactional data in an hour.
Managing and training technical engineers at Recko.

Leadership

Reliance jio money

Manager / Research and Development Engineer

Mar 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

1. Jio Payments Bank
Major role in Product Design, development, and implementation of India’s largest upcoming all-digital bank. Jio Payments Bank has been conceived to be a one hundred percent digital financial institution with end-to-end banking services being provided on a smartphone.
Developed a reliable and scalable Unified Payments Interface solution, which enables user to perform digital transactions based on a unique identifier, which is similar to an email address.
Technology Stack: Java 8, ELK stack, Redis, Play Framework, Hikkari, ngnix, akka framework , Ebean, Oracle 12c, , RESTful Service, SOAP.
2. JioMoney Wallet
Made significant contributions to the design, development, and implementation of JioMoney Wallet. JioMoney Wallet is a digital wallet that offers comprehensive peer-to-peer, person-to-merchant and person-to-bank digital money transfer services with over 20 million download on the Google Play Store.
Developed a highly scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant asynchronous middleware to enable payments in JioMoney Wallet. Currently over 2 million transactions per day are made using this application.
Coded tools to smoothly integrate multiple third party systems with JioMoney wallet.
Managed, Trained and mentored new engineers in the JioMoney wallet backend team.
Technology Stack: Java 8, Play Framework, RESTful Service, SOAP, Ebean, Akka ,Scala ,HTML, java script, Redis,ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana.

Oracle

2 roles

Applications Developer

Jul 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · bangalore

1. Liquidity Management Solutions for Bank
Developed Architecture of next-gen product to handle Liquidity for Tier-One Banks.
Responsible for design paradigms which factor extensibility.
Conceptualized Data Models which can handle complex banking functionalities.
Designed and developed a new plugin-in for Oracle ADF that represents hierarchical relationship in data with click, drag and drop functionalities.
Managed and mentored team of five engineers in Product Strategy and Architecture team.
Technology Stack: Oracle ADF, Design Patterns, RESTful Services, EJB, JPA, AJAX, CSS, Java Script.
2. Enterprise Tablet Application for Bankers
Developed product architecture to facilitate retail banking features on tablets for Bankers.
Developed UI framework using ADF and web services using lightweight RESTful services.
Provided generic utility functions and base infrastructure common to all the modules.
Technology Stack: Oracle ADF Mobile, Design Patterns, RESTful Services, JSON, EJB, JPA, Pl SQL, JUnit.
3. Revamped Oracle Banking Desktop product
Revamped flagship product, Flexcube to perform efficiently using latest technologies.
Developed automation scripts for various core functionalities.
Technology Stack: Backbone.js, Require.js, Java Script, JQuery, HTML ,CSS.

Intern

Jul 2011 – Dec 2011 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Designed and developed UI screens using internal proprietary tools.
End to end Performance testing using various internal Testing tools.
Technology Stack: Java, PL/SQL ,Java Script , Rapid Application Development(RAD) Tool.