Mayank Kush

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Led a team of 30 engineers across multiple domains.
Scaled engineering teams from 35 to 78 engineers.
Achieved a 99.95% crash-free rate in product performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in product management and team scaling.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementSolution ArchitectureQuality AssuranceTeam LeadershipSolutions ArchitectureMobile Application DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProduct Development

Other Skills

Analytics SDKAndroidAndroid DevelopmentClient-Based State MachinesCodebase TransitionCoding GuidelinesCommunity EngagementCost OptimizationCreative Problem SolvingCross Functional Team BuildingCross-functional Team LeadershipError MinimizationFirst Principle CalculationHiring Process DevelopmentJavaScript

About

Working as an Engineering Manager and have an extensive experience of 7 years in startup industry across RMG, e-commerce, lifestyle and fintech. I have been leading a team of 30 engineers across Frontend Backend, QA and Automation and have led the team both onsite and remote. I have helped startups grow their team and build products from scratch as well as scale their existing system. Working in close collaboration with Product and Design teams.

Experience

10 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

3 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Dream11

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Lead engineering strategy and execution across Platform, Quality, and Experience orgs. Scaled from 35→78 engineers, partnering with Product, Data Science, and Customer Success to drive reliability, engagement and delivery velocity.
Pulse - User Experience Observability Platform Built Pulse, a real-time observability system defining and forecasting user experience health using time-series forecasting (ARIMA).
Integrated Natural-Language Debugging (Vertex AI + BigQuery + VectorDB) for telemetry queries, reducing validation time from 24h → 2m.
Adopted by 140+ internal users, cutting downtime cost and uncovering UX blind spots.
Real-Time Nudge Platform - Contextual User Engagement Re-architected engagement using client-based state machines to process user events locally.
Reduced latency from 250ms+ → 4ms.
Served 16M+ concurrent users across 15+ use cases.
Improving abandon cart join rates by ~12%.
Quality & Stability Initiative - Engineering Excellence at Scale Institutionalized coding, testing, and performance standards across 200 engineers and 15 EMs.
Led the development of pre-production performance pipelines, and E2E infra executing 15K tests/hour for $200/run.
Achieved 99.95% crash-free rate, 0.3% ANR, 15% faster PRs, and <3-week onboarding.
Created Standardized coding guidelines, SDK integration benchmarks, Vulnerability assessment, and IPL readiness process for mobile apps.
DreamSportsLabs - Open Source & Engineering Brand Founded DreamSportsLabs to showcase engineering excellence via open-source projects.
Released 6 tools (Checkmate, Marco, Defrost, DOTA, Fast-Image) with 900+ GitHub stars and 80K+ weekly downloads.
Invited speaker at React Native Core Contributor Summit 2025, React Mumbai, and React Bengaluru.
Team Growth - Established a rigorous hiring process and created individual growth paths through SMART and SWOT
Increased platform team size from 35 to 78 engineers
Led a team of 20+ engineers and 2 Engineering Managers

Engineering ManagementTeam LeadershipProduct ManagementSolution ArchitectureQuality Assurance

Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Fanclash

Engineering Manager

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

RMG product for fantasy e-sports and cricket, first in industry real time score availability backed by inhouse data pipeline using computer vision, third party providers. Real time insights into potential winnings
Key Responsibilities - Product roadmap planning, sprint delivery, developer performance analysis, solutions architect
Leadership - Led 8 cross-functional teams and 30 developers (pods) including engineering, design and product and delivered 70+ projects using agile methodology within 12 months. Single point of contact for timely delivery and senior stakeholders
Solutions Architect - Introduced Clean Architecture, backend-for-frontend, redux optimizations, and app profiling. Reduced post deployment stability loop by 80%, increased conversion rate funnels up to 50%. Raised coding standards via PRs, introduced documentation like data-flow and sequence diagrams
Cost optimization - 50% in CDN by $3000 per month by apk size reduction, 15% in server costs by optimizing API calls, data compression and improving product workflows.
Scaling - Built for 10x scale, achieved using API call reduction, data compression, app data caching
Stability- Established a comprehensive logging and monitoring system using 5 dashboards- error and failures, crashes, p90 screen render latencies, HTTP errors codes, app metrics for tracking stability and regressions of the entire platform
Management - Mentored 30 engineers across all roles (backend, frontend, QA, automation) and was responsible for performance management
Third Party Integrations - Spearheaded FanClash rebranding - involving sourcing, cost negotiations and coordination with an external development agency, internal product and marketing team, integrated payment gateways, attribution platforms, KYC and verification platform. Analyzed their uptime, availability and concurrency.

Product Roadmap PlanningSprint DeliverySolutions ArchitectureCost OptimizationStability MonitoringProduct Management

Bulbul

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

B2C application based on android and react-native. A video e-commerce platform where users can purchase products watching influencer videos, actual user videos of products, interact with community and influencers to make better purchasing decisions.
Key Responsibilities - Product iteration, analysis and tech development.
Video streaming - Achieved scalable architecture based on Clean Architecture, flexibility and customisation to integrate any video player and video overlays
Analytics SDK - Designed and implemented a self hosted analytics SDK for cost effective, in house data analysis using protobuf
Error Minimization - Streamlined error detection and exception logging using middleware for better analysis and quick resolution of crashes and hidden errors
Multithreading - Created a single line higher order function to implement multithreading in an app using RxJava, providing an error free and easy implementation for the rest of the team
Host App - Built and refactored the existing host app in react native with new code base covering 80% functionality of the app
Mentoring - Introduced and streamlined knowledge transfer and learning among team members to improve team's performance and quality
Architecture and Scalability - Implemented observer pattern to separate UI logic from business logic, for scalable, flexible and dynamic business needs. Created a universal and generic wrapper to optimize the in-app image rendering based on device and viewport configuration

Product IterationVideo StreamingAnalytics SDKError MinimizationMultithreadingMobile Application Development+1

Wedmegood

Senior Software Development Engineer

Aug 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

B2C and B2B marketplace app for event management and wedding planning
Led the complete refactoring of WedMeGood 3.0 user app & delivered it within 7 months managing a team of 4 developers
Scaled the MAU by 8x within 2.5 years attaining massive business growth
Transitioned codebase from Java to Kotlin improving crash free rate from 95% to 99.98% thereby improving user experience
Mentored new employees, meeting and raising the coding and design standards
Acted as the talent scout to lead team expansion activities
Introduced MVVM architecture following SOLID principles introducing assembly line methodology resulting in faster iteration of product

RefactoringCodebase TransitionMentorshipMVVM ArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentProduct Development

Mtrakr

2 roles

Software Developer

May 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Achieved 50k+ downloads with a rating of 4.5 on Google Play Store
Attained 97% Crash Free Session Rate, making the app the best in performance amongst competitors
Earned 20% Monthly Retention Rate, 5X the category average by providing a smooth user experience

Android DevelopmentCross Functional Team Building