Som K

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

19+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Proven track record in mentoring global engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with extensive experience in distributed systems and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentSolution Architecture

Other Skills

Voice biometricsNatural language processing.NET WCFJava/J2EEApache CamelApache FelixService MixMuleRabbitMQActiveMQPostGresSpringJava Enterprise EditionRequirements AnalysisSoftware Project Management

About

Engineering leader with 19+ years of experience in building highly complex distributed, highly available, scalable systems. I've built and mentored globally distributed engineering teams from the ground up for start-ups and large enterprises.

Experience

23 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Vmware

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Hackerrank

Engineering Leader

May 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Medwell ventures pvt. ltd.

Head Of Engineering

Dec 2015 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nuance communications

2 roles

Software Development Manager

Jan 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Setup the Engineering team for India and the ASEAN region from ground-up in collaboration with global teams located across multiple geographies; handling multi-million dollar solution delivery
Worked on cutting edge voice biometrics and Natural language-based solutions for Indian and US/Australia market.
Led the design and development of high performance/low latency distributed event-driven Voice Authentication system processing 1+ Mn events/day based on .NET WCF framework.

Voice biometricsNatural language processing.NET WCFDistributed systemsDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Systems Architect

Jun 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

Headstrong

Sr. Consultant

Dec 2005 – Jul 2010 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked with leading investment banks on mission critical applications.
Lead architect for middle office trade processing system for listed derivatives that provides connectivity to clearing houses. Highly scalable message driven platform processing millions of records/day.
OSGi based distributed platform, supports runtime deployment of new components, dynamic routing using Apache Camel, failover and load balancing. Responsible for development of core platform modules.
Introduced development best practices (automated code reviews, unit test code coverage reporting)
Technologies - Java/J2EE, Apache Camel, Apache Felix, Service Mix, Mule, Sonar, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, PostGres, Spring

Java/J2EEApache CamelApache FelixService MixMuleRabbitMQ+5