Jithesh Rajan Poduval

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led transformation of WealthTech platform to AI-enabled ecosystem.
Scaled engineering team from 10 to 25+ high-performing engineers.
Designed secure B2B applications with a strong focus on compliance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS technology leader with a strong focus on engineering and product strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipCloud ArchitectureAiProduct EngineeringCloud InfrastructureSecurity

Other Skills

Technical StandardsCoachingTechnical DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)MLOpsGenerative AISoftware as a Service (SaaS)Resource AllocationGrowth-OrientedContainerizationBuild Strong RelationshipsCommunicationJavaPL/SQL

About

I work at the intersection of engineering, product, and strategy — helping teams build platforms that scale reliably and evolve responsibly. Over the past decade, I’ve focused on modernizing financial and SaaS systems, designing architectures that balance innovation with regulatory and operational rigor. At Keenai Global, I’m leading the transformation of our WealthTech platform into a cloud-native, AI-enabled ecosystem. My work involves shaping our engineering practices, strengthening compliance and security frameworks, and creating a foundation where teams can experiment and build with confidence. Along the way, I’ve introduced AI-assisted development tools like Cursor and Windsurf, improving developer velocity while maintaining guardrails for responsible AI usage. Before this, I worked across J.P. Morgan Chase (AWM), Edelweiss (now Nuvama), and Oracle, contributing to large-scale systems spanning wealth transfers, trading infrastructure, and middleware platforms. Each role has reinforced my belief that good engineering leadership is about clarity — in architecture, process, and purpose. I enjoy working with teams that want to reimagine how financial technology is built — blending engineering excellence with thoughtful design and long-term scalability.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Keenai global

2 roles

Director

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · On-site

Scaling Platforms, Teams & AI Innovation at Keenai Global
At Keenai Global, I’ve played a pivotal role in evolving the company’s technology vision and execution — driving the architecture, delivery, and innovation across our core platforms. As we moved from a single B2B app to a suite of B2B2C and B2C products, I led the transformation both in terms of product depth and organizational scale.
Key highlights:
Defined and led the development of B2B2C and B2C platforms, architecting systems that support both enterprise-grade scale and end-user experience.
Scaled the engineering team from 10 to 25+ high-performing engineers across multiple product lines, fostering a strong ownership culture.
Integrated global market data providers and onboarded a major international broker-custodian platform into our infrastructure, expanding product capabilities and market reach.
Laid the groundwork for Keenai Wealth and Keenai Pulse, our flagship platforms for portfolio management and real-time portfolio consolidation.
Drove Keenai Pulse to the brink of launch, with a high-performance API infrastructure built to consistently deliver sub-50ms latency.
Currently guiding the next phase of Keenai Wealth, focused on architectural modernization and enhanced client experience.
Envisioned and am leading the development of DEX, our in-house AI platform designed to augment client interaction across products.
Brought AI into the enterprise stack — designing safe, scalable adoption patterns and embedding intelligent features across internal and client-facing tools.
Throughout this journey, I’ve continued to play the role of strategic tech leader — setting the direction, growing the team, and building systems that are not just functional, but forward-looking.

Technical StandardsCoachingEngineering LeadershipCloud Architecture

VP - Product Engineering

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

Laid the Technology & Product Foundation at Adroit Vantage (now Keenai Global)
Joined as the first engineer at Adroit Vantage (now Keenai Global) and took on end-to-end ownership of the company’s technology vision and execution — effectively serving as the founding technical leader. Over the first two years, I drove everything needed to get the platform off the ground: infrastructure, security, product architecture, and team building.
Key contributions:
Led the design and development of our core B2B application, built for secure on-prem deployments.
Implemented a custom login/authentication system and established comprehensive security policies from scratch.
Achieved an excellent VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing) score, validating our security-first approach.
Set up cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment processes to support scalable delivery.
Played the role of solution architect and de facto CTO — defining our tech stack, system design, and foundational engineering principles.
Built and mentored a high-performing engineering team, cultivating a strong builder mindset and startup agility.
This phase was hands-on, high-impact, and entrepreneurial — laying the tech, team, and product foundations that Keenai Global continues to scale upon.

Technical StandardsCoachingProduct EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Senior Associate

Jan 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Technical StandardsCoaching

Edelweiss financial services

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CoachingTechnical Design

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Application Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs

I was a part of Supply Chain management module of Oracle's Fusion applications.
I worked on enterprise asset management and manufacturing data management extensively in relation with product information management, planning, supply chain orchestration and other modules of SCM.
I was a leading a team of 3 in managing an area for providing Work Order information during its execution phase in a Manufacturing plant.

Applications Engineer (2)

Jun 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Developing Enterprise applications for most of the companies and developing the upcoming Oracle Fusion applications.
I was a part of Asset Lifecycle Management(ALM) module in the SCM module. I played a key role in the asset management area collecting information of the asset and all its related components and providing information to the subscribers about changes in an asset's life.
I worked extensively in ALM but on features that could be provided as an add on to the Asset over its definition phase in the Product Information management (PIM).
Working on automated processes for informing the subscribers about changes or events in the Assets life was one of the key areas I worked on.