Yagna alla

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led multiple teams in backend and mobile technologies.
Expert in microservices architecture and mobile development.
Significant experience in fintech and engineering management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Engineering Leader with expertise in backend and mobile technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipMicroservices ArchitectureMobile DevelopmentDigital KycVideo KycOrder ManagementLogistics ManagementMam SolutionsMdm Solutions

Other Skills

Director levelMap-based Search APIAspectJAndroid DevelopmentCore JavaC++iOS developmentPHPMySQLRESTHTMLJavaScriptAndroidData StructuresC

About

Seasoned Engineering Leader with a career focused on leading and developing high-performance engineering teams. I am privileged to be part of 0-1 journeys of few startups and led multiple teams focusing on backend and mobile technologies. Key Strengths: Engineering Management, Strategic Thinking, Business Alignment, Building high performant teams Few Technologies that I worked: • Backend development using Spring Framework using JDBC, ORM, JMS, Spring Boot • Writing complex queries/procedure in Teradata, Postgres, MySQL. • Monitoring using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, • Apache Kafka, Amazon Aws, Redis, • Kubernetes, Docker, • Mobile Development - expert in Android and React Native development.

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Groww

Director of Engineering

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Engineering ManagementDirector levelTechnical Leadership

Airmeet

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Remote

Tala

Engineering Lead

Aug 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Tala is a fintech and data science company that provides financial services in emerging markets.
Rewrote the platform using a microservices architecture, taking ownership of various microservices including authentication, RBAC along with the front end mobile development. Adopted tech through different regulatory challenges - digital KYC, video KYC and played major role in the India operations launch and disbursal of micro-loans in India

Microservices ArchitectureMobile DevelopmentDigital KYCVideo KYC

Quikr/commonfloor

Lead Engineer

Apr 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Worked on order/logistics management system, payments and other services
Implemented map-based search API; scaled app to 1M+ downloads.
Developed map-based property search and payment systems for poor-network conditions.
Scaled apps to 1M+ downloads and pioneered mobile diagnostics with QuikrScanner.

Order ManagementLogistics ManagementMap-based Search API

Citrix

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed FIPS 140-2 compliant MAM and MDM solutions using AspectJ,
implementing advanced admin controls like geofencing, remote wipe,
and native API call hooking.

MAM SolutionsMDM SolutionsAspectJ

Samsung india software operations

Senior software engineer

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

Worked with multiple mobile network carriers across Asia to launch phones in their markets.
Collaborated across different geographies (Middle East, India and Thailand) solving their launch issues and traveled to on-sites to help them launch flagship phones.