Braj Kishore — Engineering Manager
I am a Problem Solving Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience developing & scaling large scale engineering Systems and leading cross-functional teams across geographies. Proven track record in building engineering teams from the ground up. My philosophy is Think Big, Start Small & Scale Fast! ★ Delivered $10M in annual revenue and 11% user growth by leading a 30+ member cross-functional Pods to design and scale high-impact payments systems, including Wallet, UPI, bank integrations and growth ★ Achieved $5M/year cost savings and 5× system scalability by leading cross-team architectural revamps, optimizing ML models, reducing P0 incidents by 80%, and cutting AWS costs of my teams by 35%. ★ Built and scaled tech orgs across 5 industries (FinTech, IoT, Cloud, Telecom, Healthcare), delivering large scale products for both B2C and B2B markets through hands-on architectural leadership Key Impacts: * Engineering Manager-II at Deliveroo: Leading multi-pod teams to build ML-based systems for restaurant selection, routing, and delivery predictions. Drove initiatives that boosted scalability by 5x and cut infrastructure costs by 35%. * Chief Technology Officer at Innovatiview: Built a ground-up engineering team of 20+ and delivered IoT-based real-time tracking platforms and AI-enabled computer vision solutions. Drove $3.3M YoY GMV and secured 11+ government contracts. * Senior Engineering Manager at Mobikwik: Led the refactoring of the UPI stack, enabling $10M revenue growth, reducing latency by 5x, and decreasing infrastructure costs by 15%. Achieved 100%+ team expansion with near-zero attrition. * Tech Lead at DocASAP / Optum: Architected a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant outreach platform that increased patient rescheduling by 38%. * Technical Leader at Paytm: Mentored 12+ engineers and reduced UAT cycle time by 90% and cut bugs by ~70%. Core Strengths & Skills: Engineering Leadership: Org Building, Tech Hiring, OKRs, Coaching, Performance Reviews, DevEx Enablement, Cross-Functional Team Leadership System Design & Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, ML Pipelines, AI/ML platform, GenAI Integration, High-Scale Platforms, FinTech & Health Compliance (PCI-DSS, GDPR, PII,PHI,HIPAA, SOC2) Cloud, Data & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Istio, Metaflow, Observability Programming & Frameworks: Java, Golang, Python, Spring Boot, React, Vue.js, Flutter
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and IoT engineering leader with expertise in system architecture and team management.
Location: Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India
Experience: 14 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Engineering Leadership
- System Design & Architecture
- Payment Systems
- Cloud, Data & Devops
- Software Development
Career Highlights
- Delivered $10M in annual revenue growth.
- Achieved 5x system scalability and 80% incident reduction.
- Built engineering teams across five industries.
Work Experience
Deliveroo
Engineering Manager (1 yr 11 mos)
Innovatiview
Chief Technology Officer (1 yr 9 mos)
MobiKwik
Senior Software Engineering Manager (3 mos)
Engineering Manager (1 yr 11 mos)
Publicis Sapient
Senior Technical Associate 2 (1 yr 11 mos)
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
Senior Member of Technical Staff (1 yr 4 mos)
Paytm
Technical Lead (1 yr 8 mos)
Senior Software Developer (1 yr 11 mos)
Software Engineer (1 yr 9 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Delhi College of Engineering