Prakash Upadhyay — Director of Engineering

Engineering Manager with 13+ years of experience in Frontend Technologies, delivering high-performance solutions across Retail, Banking, EdTech, and Trading industries. Proven expertise in building, leading, and scaling frontend teams, with a strong focus on agile development, technical excellence, and business impact. Successfully contributed to projects for Tesco, Byju’s, EPIC, Kroger, Kotak Neo, Casual Dining Group, Credit Suisse, and NDTV. 🚀 Leadership & Team Management: ✔ Building & inspiring high-performing teams with a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. ✔ Agile & SCRUM-driven execution, balancing technical debt management and business feature delivery. ✔ Spearheaded a cross-functional initiative that reduced project delivery time by 25% through improved collaboration between engineering, product, and design teams. ✔ Customer-centric approach—enabled a 30% reduction in feature backlog by driving weekly syncs with stakeholders. ✔ Organize tech sessions & knowledge-sharing forums to keep teams updated on the latest tech stacks & best practices. 💡 Technical Leadership: ✔ Providing technical leadership to frontend teams, ensuring coding standards, best practices, and architectural decisions align with scalability & performance goals. ✔ Ensuring high code quality through code reviews, TDD, unit testing, E2E testing, accessibility checks, and performance optimizations. ✔ Hands-on experience with JavaScript, React.js, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, CI/CD, and modern frontend architectures. 📌 Project & Product Management: ✔ Result-driven project execution, delivering projects on time & within budget. ✔ Strong experience in Agile & SCRUM methodologies for streamlined development & release cycles. ✔ Active contributor to product roadmaps, requirement gathering, and release planning to ensure business alignment. 🛠 Technical Skills: JavaScript, React.js, AngularJS, React Native, HTML, CSS, Redux, Jest, TDD, Styled Components, Responsive Layouts, Web Performance Optimization, SEO, Web Accessibility, Core Web Vitals, CI/CD, XP Practices. 🎯 Product & Agile Skills: Product Roadmaps, Release Management, Requirements Gathering, Agile, SCRUM, Jira, Asana, Notion, Confluence. 👥 Leadership & People Skills: Hiring & Scaling Teams, Managing & Mentoring Engineers, Cross-team Collaboration, Code Review, Ownership & Decision Making.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Frontend Engineering Manager with expertise in EdTech and Retail sectors.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 13 yrs 5 mos