Siddharth Udeniya

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable, event-driven microservices.
Proven track record in leading high-performing engineering teams.
Strong background in fintech and AI product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI expert with strong architectural and engineering management skills.

Contact

s.udeniya23@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

ArchitectureProduct StrategyEngineering ManagementSystems Design

Other Skills

Agile Application DevelopmentAngularJSApache KafkaBack-End Web DevelopmentCC++CSSCSS3Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Coaching & MentoringCore JavaData StructuresDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGit

About

I'm an engineering leader, builder, and business enthusiast with almost 10 years of experience scaling products and teams across high-growth startups and global enterprises. Currently at SeekOut India as a Principal Engineering Manager, I’m building India’s engineering org and driving AI product development — including AI powered email sequences (generic as well as personalised) using LLMs (GPT). Previously at Niyo, I led engineering for Niyo Global and Niyo Money, driving core banking integrations, transaction services, PCI-compliant architecture, and fraud systems across multiple pods (onboarding, cards, compliance, reconciliation). I’ve architected and built scalable, event-driven microservices using Node.js, Golang, MongoDB, Kafka, AWS (Lambda, SQS), and led cloud-native teams across backend, frontend, and mobile. My work spans domains like fintech, AI/ML, wealth-tech, and developer productivity tools. I’m passionate about building and mentoring high-performing teams, designing resilient systems, and turning complex ideas into production-grade software. From hackathons at Airbus to launching multi-lingual Alexa skills at RedBus, I love shipping things that matter. Let’s connect if you’re building in fintech, AI/LLM, platform engineering, or just love clean architecture and product-thinking engineering.

Experience

9 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Seekout

Principal Engineering Manager

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Building engineering teams in India, laying out roadmaps, setting up processes.
Revamped entire Outreach module responsible for running email campaigns of the recruiters from scratch, thus building a more reliable, async event driven architecture using Azure Service Bus.

People ManagementDistributed SystemsHigh-Level DesignArchitectureProduct Strategy

Niyo solutions inc.

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Responsible for managing engineering teams for the SBM Bank backed Debit Card, Credit Card, Federal Bank backed Credit Card and Niyo Money teams.
Led the re-architecture of Niyo Money product.
Led cloud cost cutting efforts by improving AWS architecture, application code improvements, Kafka to AWS SQS+SNS migration.
Led 3 independent engineering teams for 3 different lines of business.

Distributed SystemsSystems DesignArchitectureGolangPeople ManagementCoaching & Mentoring+3

Engineering Manager

Apr 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Led SBM Bank Debit Card and Credit Card engineering teams.
Helped improve DevOps infrastructure by implementing logging using a combination of vector aggregation, Clickhouse and additional tools.
Started the practice of measuring engineering efforts using various metrics from JIRA, Bitbucket etc.
Tried building a Clevertap alternative in-house and got success to some extent.
Did various case studies, ran analysis on different frameworks, languages, architectures.
Mainly involved in setting up a high-level architecture for all our banking products.

Distributed SystemsLow-Level DesignTeam BuildingTeam ManagementProduct StrategyHigh-Level Design+2

Engineering Team Lead

Promoted

Jun 2021 – Mar 2022 · 9 mos

Led the engineering team for SBM Bank backed Debit Card.
Helped chart out the high level architecture for the super app architecture from the existing multi- apps (separate app for each bank) architecture.
Used firebase streams for implementing the real time updates in the app, for scenarios like balance update as soon as a transaction happens.
Built Add Money via UPI feature from scratch along with its tripartite reconciliation system between Razorpay, Niyo and the bank. Achieved a smooth experience QPS/TPS of 200 requests/second for this feature which involved multiple parties in this feature.

Distributed SystemsSystems DesignArchitectureLeadershipPeople ManagementProduct Strategy+1

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Built the backend for IDFC Bank backed Debit Card product.
Introduced NestJs framework for the backend development.
Introduced microservices pattern and event driven architecture.
Implemented the user onboarding and transactions for the IDFC Bank Debit Card product along with the bank connector layer.

Distributed Systems

Walmart labs

Software Engineer III

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Built search and filter related features for Walmart US.
Left due to actual vs interviewed role mismatch.

Distributed Systems

Airbus

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Sep 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked for the Core Electric Team in India, France and Germany.
Migrated legacy data to new systems. Built SAML auth system for internal platform.
Involved in database design and architecture.
Tech Stack involved Node.js PostgreSQL, ELK Stack, RabbitMQ

Distributed Systems

Redbus

Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Developed a Chat Bot using AWS Lex which can help end user book first, last,fastest,cheapest bus to a destination.
Revamped the Back End using Node.js and Golang for the SEO Tech Team and helped release SEO Pages (Operator,Route,City,BORoute etc) for India, SIngapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Colombia and Peru.
Worked with Data Engineering team to launch redBus app on Amazon Alexa.

Distributed Systems

Iqlabs.io

Web Applications Developer

Jun 2015 – Apr 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Was mainly involved in coming up with an architecture to help end user connect with electronic devices remotely using IoT technology.
Worked on developing the entire web stack for the product 'Sentient' which involves relaying and sending of messages as packets using MQTT Protocol.
Used 'Paho MQTT' client on front-end to set up the MQTT connection and used 'mosca' on the back-end.