Farhad T.

Director of Engineering

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India24 yrs experience

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in product development and design.
Led multiple high-impact engineering teams across various domains.
Expertise in building scalable and secure enterprise solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Identity And Access Management (iam)Technical LeadershipEngineering LeadershipSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Data Platform DevelopmentFintechApi DevelopmentProblem Solving

Other Skills

ActiveMQAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheApplication Programming Interfaces (API)CChange ManagementCommunicationComputer ScienceComputer SecurityData PrivacyDistributed DevelopmentE-commerceElectronic PaymentsGit

About

Product developer and designer with 20 years experience in building enterprise, world-class products. Extensive experience in e-commerce, business intelligence, analytics and information security domains. At BrowserStack, helped build the centralised data pipeline, pricing, accounting and CRM (salesforce) integrations. Worked at TranServ, rolling out the next-gen digital payments platform. Worked with Quikr as an Engineering Manager spearheading new initiatives at the newly-launched Bengaluru office. Worked with the Small Business group on Yahoo's Merchant Solutions E-commerce platform for the 6.5 years. Merchant Solutions has been rated the number one e-commerce platform by a reputed magazine. Have worked on the whole shebang of technologies, both front-end and back-end. Specialties: C, C++, PHP, Java, Unix shell scripting, Perl, HTML/Javascript/CSS Product security, performance tuning, caching

Experience

24 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

R3

Engineering Manager

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Leadership and Team Building
Spearheaded the formation and growth of a high-performing engineering team in Mumbai, establishing foundational processes and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration .
Platform Architecture and Security
Led the design and development of Authentication and Authorization systems for the CBDC platform, ensuring robust security and compliance with regulatory standards .
Centralized all application routes, both inbound and outbound, to strengthen platform security and streamline access control .
Solution Delivery and Standardization
Oversaw end-to-end solution delivery of the platform for on-prem deployment at CBUAE, ensuring seamless integration and operational readiness .
Standardized authorization policies across all services and applications, minimizing risks of unauthorized access and enhancing overall platform integrity .

KeycloakOPAOpen Policy AgentHasuraIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)+2

Multiplier

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote, Mumbai · Remote

Led Payroll & Invoicing Tribes to build config-driven salary calculators for 120+ countries, enabling customers to estimate hiring costs.
Automated 3,000+ invoice generations, reducing manual effort by 2+ weeks.
Championed a problem-first, platform-centric approach to software development.
Spearheaded the launch of Multiplier’s HRIS offering, collaborating across three tribes.
Managing a team of 24 engineers, driving innovation and scalability.

Long-term VisionEngineering LeadershipProblem SolvingProcess ImprovementTechnical LeadershipSystem Performance+17

Github

Staff Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Led the Data Team at GitHub India, driving data platform development and strategy.
Built a scalable data platform using Apache Airflow DAGs to aggregate data from all GitHub products into a centralized data warehouse.
Developed and launched an ML-driven propensity model for GitHub Actions, predicting the likelihood of free users converting to paid customers with 85% confidence.

Long-term VisionEngineering LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipChange ManagementLeadership+14

Amazon

SDM

Oct 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area · On-site

Managing three product lines within the Last Mile tech team, enabling Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) to operate efficiently.
Built a Fleet Management System to manage Amazon's fleet of ~1 million delivery vehicles and Prime vans.
Driving product roadmaps and long-term technical strategy to enhance operational efficiency.
Grooming and coaching talent, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
Establishing mechanisms and best practices to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Long-term VisionFinTechEngineering LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipSystem Performance+17

Browserstack

Engineering Manager

Jun 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · On-site

Led the Ordering & Checkout team at BrowserStack, optimizing purchase flows and driving a 6% increase in checkout conversion.
Built data pipelines using Google Pub/Sub, modeled on Spotify's BI architecture, to aggregate ~4 million daily events from four product streams.
Designed a centralized data warehouse to enable upstream analytics and insights.

Engineering LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipChange ManagementGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Leadership+13

Transerv pvt. ltd

SVP Engineering

Nov 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Worked on three product lines in the digital payments/fintech space for cash digitization, payment gateway and backend operations automation. Was in charge of product and technical strategy, data analytics and bubbling product metrics to the founders and the CEO.

FinTechEngineering LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipSystem PerformanceChange Management+15

Quikr

Engineering Manager

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Led a driven engineering team to build APIs for Quikr's five verticals. Also worked with security engineering team to open up the APIs to 3P developers to enable external apps to leverage Quikr's listings data and create an ecosystem. Scaled up the Bangalore operations from 6 to 200 engineers in a year by attracting and recruiting top talent.

Engineering LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipSystem PerformanceChange ManagementLeadership+13

Yahoo!

Technical Lead/Paranoid

Apr 2008 – Aug 2014 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designer and product developer for the Yahoo Small Business - Merchant Solutions property. Led the design and development for features like the Floating Cart, Saved Payments and more recently, the Promotions Center.

Engineering LeadershipProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipSystem PerformanceChange ManagementLeadership+13

Vistaar technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2007 – Apr 2008 · 7 mos

Worked on a product in the OLAP domain. Technology worked on was VC++ on windows platform with algorithms and heavy-duty multi-threading.

Problem SolvingSystem PerformanceCommunicationMentoringComputer ScienceSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)+1

Firstrain software centre private limited

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Worked in the Business Intelligence domain. Improved heuristics for a crawler that crawls difficult-to-index sites. Algorithm work was done in C++ and involved use of advanced regular expressions.

Problem SolvingCommunicationApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Computer ScienceSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)API Development+1

Merrill lynch

Associate Consultant

Nov 2005 – Feb 2006 · 3 mos

Computer Science

Arcot r&d software

Software Engineer II

Aug 2005 – Nov 2005 · 3 mos · Bangalore

Worked in the Security domain in the professional services team. Work involved ASP, LDAP APIs and TransFort internal API.

Problem SolvingSystem PerformanceCommunicationApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Computer ScienceSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)+2

Tata infotech limited

Lead Technical Engineer

Jul 2002 – Aug 2005 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai · On-site

Developed the Fortiora suite of security products, focusing on encryption and cryptographic solutions.
Built an in-house cryptographic library in C on Unix for secure data processing.
Developed a Windows desktop encryption client using device driver development in VC++ on Windows.
Worked on a X509 PKI Certificate Server and Registration Agent infrastructure using Java/C++ on Unix.
Led customer acceptance testing and deployment across 150+ locations in India

Problem SolvingSystem PerformanceCommunicationApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Computer ScienceSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)+3