Dr. Pradip Acharya

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Proven expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
  • Successfully scaled high-performance teams across multiple regions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in distributed systems and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology SolutionsJavaSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementPerformance ManagementCode Design

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon EC2Amazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsApache SparkB2CBusiness-to-Business (B2B)C#Cloud ComputingCloud WatchCoachingCommunicationComputer Science

About

A result driven engineering leader with total 20+ years of experience in analysis, design, development, delivery and operational excellence of large teams and large scale distributed system. I have 7+ years of engineering leadership experience span across planning, technical strategy, hiring, mentoring, people management, delivery management, stakeholder management, customer obsession for large scale executions, delivery and partner onboarding. Currently working as Senior Engineering Manager at Tekion Corp with responsibility of multiple teams goals and vision. Before tekion, I was an L6 SDM at Amazon with responsibility to set up india site as site leader for Alexa Connect Kit. I have setup multiple teams in bangalore including hiring senior positions and critical delivery goals. I was in Ola Cabs before Amazon. Proven expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and engineering best practices. A strategic thinker with a strong track record in hiring, coaching, and scaling high-performance teams. I have managed 40+ people including Architects, PE, SDE3, SDE2, SDE1 and managers. My leadership extends beyond technical skills as I have rapidly scaled teams, meeting full staffing goals within ambitious timelines and fostering a culture of innovation. The recent completion of our complex solution design and reviews process, which I co-led, is a testament to our collaborative spirit and architectural acumen. Entrepreneurial Experience: I have founded and sold a startup in 2006; launched another venture in 2019, gaining valuable insights into startup growth, funding, and day to day operations. Tech Skills: Java, J2ee, Kafka, Radis, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservice, Event Driven Architecture, NoSql, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Grafana, New relic, Elastic Search etc.

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Tekion corp

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

Amazon

Engineering leader

Jun 2022Jun 2025 · 3 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • Engineering Leadership: Built and scaled high-performing engineering teams in Bangalore for Amazon Private Brands and Alexa Connect Kit (ACK), completing hiring within two months and achieving full staffing for the ACK Cloud team by October 2024, while managing a two-pizza team
  • Deistributed Systems Design: Partnered with SDE3 & Principal Engineer during complex and ambegious solution design and reviews process. Also contributed into code reviews and root cause analysis report reviews.
  • Project Execution: Delivered seven critical platform initiatives across PBC and ACK with zero production defects, including Bulk Task Reassignment, Artwork Management, Batch File Upload, Endpoint Health, OTA Improvements, Dashboard & Metrics, and Automated Inactive Account Deletion
  • Strategic Planning & Operational Efficiency: Led OP1/OP2 planning for headcount and roadmaps while implementing standardized launch reporting, optimizing processes, and streamlining BLR13 device lab setup to enhance efficiency
  • People & Performance Management: Mentored engineers across US, UK, and India, handling six performance cycles, two low-performance cases, and six talent reviews, leading to two successful promotions.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Served as the primary liaison between US leadership and India HR, driving hiring and onboarding across multiple teams, ensuring smooth operations for firmware and cloud teams, and mitigating US attrition risks by developing local expertise
  • High-Impact Deliveries: Led and executed critical programs, including Energy Star Reporting, Mars Migration, and Cloud Auth Migration, ensuring successful delivery ahead of deadlines in the absence of the US manager
  • Technical Excellence: Established best practices for technical documentation, ensuring high-quality engineering processes, structured knowledge sharing, and process standardization across teams
Technology SolutionsDesign PatternsPerformance ManagementIntegrated SystemsCode DesignTechnical Requirements+36

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Engineering Manager

Aug 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Technical Leadership & Scalability: Led the engineering efforts for Ola Store (grocery commerce) and Ola Foods (cloud kitchen model), driving platform development, scaling operations, and ensuring high-performance architecture capable of handling 200K RPM UI traffic within six months
  • High-Growth Execution: Spearheaded the rapid scaling of Ola Store from launch to 200+ stores in three months, achieving an exponential increase from 5 orders on day one to 60K+ daily orders within six months
  • System Architecture & Optimization: Designed and optimized a resilient architecture to support high traffic (200 RPM) with controlled service throughput, enhancing backend efficiency, reliability, and fault tolerance
  • Logistics & Delivery Integration: Strengthened order fulfillment by integrating third-party logistics partners like ShadowFax alongside Ola’s in-house logistics, ensuring seamless coordination across driver apps, trip management, and delivery operations
  • Promotion & Discounting Mechanisms: Enhanced discounting systems to support dynamic weekday and weekly promotions, enabling targeted pricing strategies to drive engagement and sales
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with 5 PMTs and teams across DevOps, logistics, fleet management, and core platform services, aligning engineering objectives with business goals to drive seamless execution
Technology SolutionsPerformance ManagementDiverse GroupsIntegrated SystemsCode DesignTechnical Requirements+44

Molex

Engineering Manager - Industrial IoT

Mar 2019Feb 2020 · 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Performing role of both manager as well as architect. Build a big tech team, Hiring, mentoring and engaging with a high quality product development for analytics and IoT.
  • Build and mentored had 14 member strong product team and successfully delivered product to client with scalable architecture and quality code.
  • Managing and co-ordinating backend, front end engineers, Cloud Team and DevOps team with standard process and practice.
  • Designing and developing a high quality Industry 4.0 IIOT product. Developing highly available low latency distributed system which is scalable and secure.
  • Formulating requirement to a highly scalable low latency real time distributed system design. Creating and following standard practice for quality product development.
  • I was part of Molex under Koch. I helped Molex to setup IT team and design this large scale real time analytics product over pets bytes of streaming data.
Technology SolutionsPerformance ManagementIntegrated SystemsTechnical RequirementsCommunicationSupervisory Skills+27

Spanmylife

Founder

Nov 2017Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • It was a enterprise work life balance platform via automated workflows on daily needs.
Performance ManagementCode DesignTechnical RequirementsCommunicationSupervisory SkillsTechnical Engineering+28

Société générale

Tech Lead

May 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Lead a tech team of 8 people to design and deliver big data platform for risk reporting as per banking risk reporting. We have used Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Hive, Sqoop etc
Code DesignCommunicationTechnical DesignJavaSoftware DevelopmentRoot Cause+9

Oracle

Principal Engineer - Oracle Fusion

Aug 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working in Fusion Cloud Service product in CRM domain. Using technology like Java, J2ee, EJB, JPA, Rest & Soap Webservice, SOA, JMS, Email.
  • Working more on channel integration like social channel, email channel, phone channel, omni channel etc
Code DesignCommunicationTechnical DesignJavaSoftware DevelopmentProblem Solving+4

Jda software (i2 technology)

Technical Architect - E-commerce

Apr 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Working on design and development of WMS product on Retail and Ecommerce module using ExtJS, Java, J2ee, Spring, Hibernate.
  • Formulate technical strategy, assist in product/solution development, evaluate, review and approve design frameworks and methodologies.
  • Following Agile with Scrum methodology for User Story Analysis during Sprint Planning and Product Backlog refinement.
  • Responsible for helping the respective project lead/project manager for architecture and designing system, covering all requirements.
  • Develop, test, maintain, and document high-quality code reflecting engineering and security best practices.
Code DesignTechnical DesignJavaSoftware DevelopmentB2CScripting

Ness technologies

Member of Technical Staff @ PAYBACK

Jan 2013Apr 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Technical candidate with hands-on of writing complex codes and unit testing.
  • Following Agile with Scrum methodology for User Story Analysis during Sprint Planning and Product Backlog refinement.
  • Formulating the design which will meet the requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution. Designing the functionality of application using Enterprise architect (Class diagrams, Sequence diagrams etc).
JavaSoftware Development

Tata consultancy services

Asistant Consultant

Mar 2011Jan 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Kolkata Area, India

  •  A Technical Lead and an hard core designer & developer, having rich experience in software development. Involved in requirement gathering, estimation, design, development,unit testing and integration.
Software Development

Cognizant technology solution

Associate - Projects

Nov 2009Mar 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Kolkata Area, India

  • Sr. Java/J2ee Developer
Software DevelopmentComputer Science

Ibm global business services

System Engineer

Dec 2007Nov 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Java/J2ee Developer
Software DevelopmentComputer Science

Education

National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Master’s Degree

Jan 2002Jan 2005

University of Calcutta

BSc — Physics

Jan 1997Jan 2001

Rampurhat high school

HS — General Studies

Jan 1995Jan 1997

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