Pooja Salot — VP of Engineering

I’m a Senior Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience leading and collaborating with engineering teams across India, Spain, and the US. At Eventbrite, I drive the Identity and Privacy organization, supporting 90M+ users by building secure, scalable, and reliable authentication systems on Auth0 and AWS. My focus lies at the intersection of engineering excellence and business impact — balancing reliability, cost optimization, and delivery speed. I’ve led large-scale initiatives such as migrating to Auth0, rolling out Step-up MFA, and leading resiliency programs that improved uptime to 99.99% while cutting incidents by 60%. As a people-first leader, I excel at building and scaling engineering teams, mentoring future leaders, and aligning technology with strategic business goals. I’m passionate about creating inclusive, high-performance cultures and delivering products that earn user trust at scale. Technology Leadership Building / Setting up Teams from Scratch in India Project & Change Management On-time Project Execution Strategic & Tactical Planning Risk, Quality Management Agile Scrum & Iterative Delivery Hiring & Retention of India-based teams Building Job Descriptions for open positions Defining KRAs, OKRs, Goals & Performance Management Defining & Following Processes & Engineering Best Practices B2C/SAAS/eCommerce/Marketplace products ensuring Reliability, Scalability & Availability on Large Scale and High Volume 24x7x365 systems GDPR, DSA, CCPA, SOX audits Digital Transformation and Digital Workflow implementations DevOps, SRE, Jenkins CI/CD Software Architecture, Design, Planning, Development & Delivery Engineering Leadership, Product Vision and Roadmapping Hands-on with NodeJS, Python3 and few AI Tools Building Distributed applications Event Driven SOA & Micro-services architecture Kafka/SQS based Asynchronous & Real Time ETL Data Transformation NPS / ROI focussed prioritization & planning Blend of Start-up, Small, Large & Global organization End-to-end Full stack application development & ownership Mobile App, Back end, InfraOps, DevOps, CI/CX, Operational Excellence CAPEX and OPEX Budget Planning People Cost Optimization with a Mix of In-house and Vendor teams Coach, Multiplier & Motivator Global stakeholders & global customer base Test Automation, Performance Testing & Reliability Engineering Metrics Android Kotlin and iOS Swift and a blend of React Native Mobile Apps Development Memcache, Redis, Elasticsearch, Opensearch, NOSQL, RDBMS Using 3rd party tools like Retool , Auth0 and integrations

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Manager with expertise in cloud infrastructure and team leadership.

Experience: 11 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Software Management
Agile Project Management
System Architecture
Microservices
Cloud Infrastructure
Team Leadership

Career Highlights

Led migration to Auth0, enhancing user security.
Improved uptime to 99.99%, reducing incidents by 60%.
Built and scaled engineering teams across multiple countries.

Work Experience

Eventbrite

Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 2 mos)

Engineering Manager - Centralised Infrastructure (2 yrs 5 mos)

Purplle.com

Engineering Manager (1 yr 4 mos)

Jio

Manager-Backend Engineer (8 mos)

Accionlabs

Senior Software Developer (2 yrs 6 mos)

Choice TechLab

Project Leader (2 yrs)

Exa India Pvt. Ltd.

Sr. Software Developer (6 mos)

Ambab Infotech Pvt Ltd

PHP Developer (1 yr 2 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology

Pooja Salot

VP of Engineering

India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led migration to Auth0, enhancing user security.
Improved uptime to 99.99%, reducing incidents by 60%.
Built and scaled engineering teams across multiple countries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Manager with expertise in cloud infrastructure and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ManagementAgile Project ManagementSystem ArchitectureMicroservicesCloud InfrastructureTeam Leadership

Other Skills

Agile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache NiFiApplication Programming InterfacesAwsBack-End Web DevelopmentC++CSSCommunicationConflict ResolutionCross-team CollaborationData LakesDatabases

About

Experience

11 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 8 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Eventbrite

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

Alongwith Identity team, I started leading other EMs and leading Privacy and Mobile apps platform team

Software ManagementAgile Project ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Back-End Web DevelopmentEvent Driven ProgrammingDatabases+10

Engineering Manager - Centralised Infrastructure

Nov 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

As one of the first EMs in India, was part of India Site leadership by playing a vital role in hiring and setting up all Engineering teams in newly developed dev center in India. Participated as a key player in all the interview drives and conducted more than 100+ interviews in a span of 1-1.5 year. Also, built processes required for building up engineering teams and growing India as a site
Played role of analysing and delivering complex workflows for customer support team to improve customer experience and also actively identifying opportunities to reduce the time to address the issues faced by our Customer Support agents. While the other roles were open, I was able to wear hats for multiple roles like Staff engineer, technical architect, Product lead, and similar in the absence of these candidates.
After successfully delivering critical components in Admin tooling team, was later moved to Identity domain(Tier-1 service) to improve the signin/signup experiences of our customers(creators and attendees both) and ensure secured access is provided by integrating our workflows with Auth0. While working on critical product features, was able to improve and optimise workflows around OPEX, Monitoring and Alerting. Actively participating in Incidents and incident action items identified

AwsCross-team CollaborationPeople ManagementPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)auth0+8

Purplle.com

Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Worked upon designing the new architecture for the product with improved infrastructure using Kubernetes and microservices based architecture.
Design and development of software components
Handling the entire technical process of Supply chain Process which includes entire warehouse operations, post order experience of our customers, Logistics and also finance module related to accounting and invoicing to customers and/or sellers
leading a team of 25 people and providing them periodic feedbacks to meet their goals
Training new joinees and Team leaders
Automating the manual processes to system driven with proper validations and checks in place.
Suggesting on how cost optimisations can be performed on technical specifications and/or processes
Senior Member of Learning and Development team which helps tech team to improve better
Working closely with Head of Engineering to discuss and develop

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Cross-team CollaborationPeople ManagementCloud InfrastructureTeam Leadership

Jio

Manager-Backend Engineer

Nov 2020 – Jul 2021 · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Worked upon designing the new architecture for the product with improved infrastructure using Kubernetes and microservices based architecture.
Working with team to migrate the code from nodejs to golang
Assigning tasks and managing the team, daily standup calls
Design and development of software components
Integration with client applications
Setting the timelines of development
Using Jira board for Agile development of the product and managing the tasks in team
Using Git for code review of the development tasks completed.

Cross-team CollaborationPeople Management

Accionlabs

Senior Software Developer

Apr 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Worked as a full stack developer to create reusable components and/or REST APIs.
Implementing event driven architecture using Kafka queuing mechanism.
Hands on experience on Confluent schema registry as well.
Worked on implementing web sockets, web push and mobile push notifications.
Involved in overall architecture designing and development features.
Worked on creating a data lake using tools like Apache Nifi.
Have basic knowledge of Hive,HDFS and hadoop. Experience in developing ETL data pipelines.
Experience with AWS cloud platform and services like Simple Email service,AWS MSK, etc.
Experience working on Kubernetes Infrastructure.
Proficient understanding of GIT, JIRA, Jenkins.
Experience working in Agile Methodologies like Scrum and managing Jira boards.
Worked collaboratively with teams in other countries and participating in video conference-based
meetings with customers and teams and giving demonstration of the product developed.
Strong analytical skills - strong problem-solving skills communicate in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve them.
Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
Strong experience with test driven development methodologies.
Strong oral & written communication skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms and business needs in technical specifications

Choice techlab

Project Leader

Mar 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Developed customised ecommerce product that provide services for Pandits which was built on Magento.
Created custom Listing portals developed on PHP frameworks like Codeigniter,Wordpress
Created end-to-end ERP system for Transport Management on MEAN stack technology.
Created a web appication and implemented REST API's on Node using Express.js ,developed html in jade and then migrated to Angular2 ,used Mongodb as the database to handle Non-relational and dynamic json structures
Interacting with clients to take requirements and also presenting the demonstrations to them as and when needed.