Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering enterprise software solutions. Experienced in software architecture, Agile delivery, and engineering leadership, with a strong focus on innovation, operational excellence, and continuous learning. A results-oriented professional passionate about leveraging emerging technologies, including AI-driven development practices, to enhance productivity and accelerate business outcomes.
Work History
Engineering Manager
1 Year 7 Months
NIQ India Pvt Ltd | 12.2024 - Current
Common UI Components & Chart Library
Managing a team of 13 engineers comprising full-time employees and vendor partners, driving delivery excellence, resource planning, and talent development.
Leading the Common UI Components and Chart Library team, delivering shared front-end platform capabilities for multiple NIQ products and engineering teams.
Architecting and overseeing the development of reusable UI components, visualization frameworks, and charting libraries to standardize user experiences across enterprise applications.
Driving the adoption and evolution of Micro Front End architecture, enabling independent development, deployment, and scalability across distributed product teams.
Utilizing SAFe Agile methodology to deliver strategic initiatives while ensuring alignment across product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
Participating in Program Increment (PI) Planning sessions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define objectives, identify dependencies, estimate capacity, and align delivery commitments.
Executing and facilitating Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and PI events to ensure predictable and efficient delivery.
Conducting regular performance reviews, feedback sessions, and career development discussions, fostering employee growth and building high-performing teams.
Mentoring engineers and technical leads through coaching, goal setting, and continuous learning initiatives.
Organizing and promoting team bonding and engagement activities to strengthen collaboration, team morale, and employee retention.
Establishing engineering best practices, code review standards, and governance processes to improve quality, maintainability, and delivery predictability.
Collaborating with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering Leadership to define platform roadmaps and align technical strategy with business objectives.
Driving the adoption of shared component ecosystems that reduce development duplication, accelerate feature delivery, and improve maintainability across products.
Leading the adoption of GitHub Copilot across the team, enabling AI-assisted development practices that improve developer productivity and code quality.
Evaluating and implementing Agentic AI frameworks and workflows to automate engineering processes, improve developer experience, and accelerate software delivery.
Partnering with global stakeholders to deliver scalable, accessible, and consistent user experiences across NIQ applications.
Supporting capacity planning, risk management, and dependency tracking to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives and product releases.
Senior Software Engineer
3 Years 7 Months
NIQ India Pvt. Ltd | 04.2021 - 11.2024
Omni Reporting Team
Worked as the Tech lead for the scrum team.
Involved in the HLA Discussion with the architecture team to align on the tech requirements
Led the low-level design and execution.
Involved in the EPIC grooming and requirements alignment with the product owners
Delivered close to 70+ custom reports which were developed based on the PL requirements
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliverables.
Implemented automated testing frameworks, increasing code reliability and deployment speed.
Developed technical documentation to support knowledge sharing across engineering teams.
Software Engineer
2 Years 5 Months
NIQ India Pvt Ltd | 10.2018 - 03.2021
BI Apps Reporting Team
Served as primary full stack developer on BiApps Reporting Team, driving development of key reporting features.
Report UIs are created using Angular Framework.
Create the APIs by using Spring boot that can be used by Front end (Angular) to show the data on the report for the external users.
Utilized Azure Snowflake to ensure data accuracy in reports. ensured the correctness of data shown on the reports.
Using selenium and protractor achieved automation of Report validations.
Integrated the SonarQube in build pipeline to ensure code quality metrics.
Migrated 60+ reports and 3 dashboards from V2 to V3, enhancing reporting capabilities for over 20 clients.
Software Engineer
2 Years 1 Month
Wipro (formerly Alight India Solutions) | 09.2016 - 10.2018
Worked in the Domain of “Human Resource Management System”.
People management Application Development, which runs on top of People Soft, for Hiring, managing and processing transactions for employees.
Analyzing and fixing production issues within the stipulated time.
Developed CRs based on the client's requirements.
Used Open source Tool JIRA for tracking the issues and resolutions provided.
System Engineer
2 Years 3 Months
Intellect Design Arena Ltd | 06.2014 - 09.2016
Worked in the domain of “Corporate Banking”
Involved in the implementation of the Cash Management System Application for Societe Generale Bank - India , Equity Bank - Kenya and Exim Bank - Tanzania.
SPOC during UAT phase at onsite for Societe Generale Bank at India and Exim Bank at Tanzania.
Conducted Knowledge Transfer (KT) session to the client's technical and functional team.
Helped Bank's L1 Support team in deploying the application.
Developed CRs and also provided solutions to production incidents within the agreed SLA time.
Recognized as the star performer of the Societe Generale Bank - India project and presented with the GEM Award.
Created reports based on the client's requirements using Jasper Ireport tool.
Used PL/SQL Procedures, Functions and triggers to manipulate the data stored in the oracle database.
Involved in developing UIs using JSP,CSS ,JavaScript and Jquery.
Maintained the versions of the code developed using SVN for future reference.
Education
B.E. - CSE
University College of Engineering Kanchipuram | Kanchipuram, India | 05-2014
Intellect Design Arena Limited - GEM Award, Aug. 2015, Won GEM (Gone Extra Mile) Award for being the star performer of the Socgen Project during its Implementation