Status
Available
Role
Sr. Eng Manager
Experience
15+ years
Focus
Fintech / Scale

Engineering Leadership
ANURAG M_
Senior Engineering Manager | Building Teams That Unlock New Revenue
Engineering leader running 3 product teams through 3 EMs and 2 senior leads — unlocked 3 business lines, drove $2.3M+ deal acquisition, and shipped to 2M+ users at 99.99% uptime.
15+
Years in Tech
3
Product Teams
2M+
Users at Scale
99.99%
System Uptime
// 01 — Capabilities
Core Competencies
Leadership & Business
- 01Engineering Org Design (manager-of-managers, 3 teams through 3 EMs)
- 02Technical Strategy, Roadmap & AI/ML Direction
- 03Cross-functional Leadership (Product, SRE, Compliance)
- 04Hiring, Mentoring & Career Development (95% retention, 11+ promotions)
- 05Engineering Site Ops ($1.6M budget, CTO reporting, weekly CEO syncs)
- 06Presales & Build vs Buy Decisions ($2.3M+ deal acquisition)
Technical Expertise
- 01Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Microservices
- 02High-Throughput Platforms (1.8M events/min, 2M+ MAU)
- 03System Design & Architecture Reviews
- 04Java/Spring Boot, Golang/Gin, Python, React
- 05AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB
- 06GenAI / LLM Tooling & MLOps (TensorFlow, Conversational AI)
Domains
// 02 — Trajectory
Career Timeline
Mar 2025 - Present
#07
Zapcom Group Inc
Senior Engineering Manager
- ›Lead 3 product engineering teams through 3 Engineering Managers, 2 senior leads, and an Associate Solutions Architect; reorganized team topology to align EMs with platform teams and leads with delivery squads
- ›Own engineering site operations ($1.6M annual budget) — headcount, tooling, vendor management; report to CTO with weekly CEO syncs
- ›Drove $2.3M+ deal acquisition through presales collaboration (SOW/MSA, RFP, client pitches)
- ›Architected cart & checkout platform for AirAsia Move (Golang, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB) — unlocked 3 new lines of business (Hotels, Rides, Flights), 500K+ transactions/month, 99.99% uptime
- ›Led post-acquisition consolidation for Sabre HotelBooker — migrated legacy .NET to unified Java/Spring Boot event-driven architecture, consolidating 5+ GDS integrations and 100K+ hotel properties, enabling ~3x faster feature delivery
- ›Built ZapForge, an LLM-powered code generation platform (natural-language → production feature code); started as internal DevEx tool, now commercialized as a client-facing product
- ›Shipped conversational AI booking interface for travel platform — natural-language search/compare/book for flights and hotels
- ›Championed org-wide GenAI tooling adoption — ran pilots, presented ROI, secured licensing budget; defined AI/ML roadmap for FY25–26
- ›Drove 40% velocity improvement via standardized CI/CD, code review practices, and DevEx tooling
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
#06
IDFC First Bank
Technical Manager
- ›Led large cross-functional engineering organization delivering 7 digital banking products; managed collaboration with compliance, product, and operations
- ›Launched Swift GPI Phase 2 FX platform — cross-border settlement from 2–3 days to under 30 minutes, end-to-end payment tracking, 10K+ FX transactions/month; became largest revenue driver at INR 90Cr (~$11M)
- ›Deprioritized lower-impact B2B initiative (Kredily HRIS) to fast-track Swift GPI Phase 2 — call validated by revenue outcome
- ›Built ML-powered fraud detection system (Python/TensorFlow) replacing manual review — 50K+ transactions/day real-time scoring, 99.5% accuracy, 60% fewer false positives, sub-second detection
- ›Architected microservices platform handling 2M+ MAU (Java/Spring Boot + React); led RBI Card Tokenization compliance with zero audit findings
- ›Achieved 95% retention and promoted 11+ engineers via structured career ladders and growth-oriented performance management
- ›Reduced production incidents by 45% through SRE practices — SLO/SLI frameworks, runbooks, incident response
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
#05
Nokia Networks
R&D Lead
- ›Led 8-member team building 5G network orchestration and cloud-native observability
- ›Architected high-throughput logging service processing 1.8M events/minute at 99.99% uptime (Golang)
- ›Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% through cloud-native transformation; mentored all 8 engineers to senior-level roles
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
#04
Tech Mahindra (IBM Cloud)
Senior Software Engineer
- ›Led ML-powered infrastructure automation for IBM Cloud — built monitoring system achieving 95% accuracy in failure prediction (Python/TensorFlow); delivered 35% infrastructure cost reduction
Dec 2012 - Mar 2018
#03
Paladion (Eviden Business)
Senior Software Engineer
- ›Led 3 cross-functional teams delivering enterprise security solutions; mentored 12 junior engineers and established engineering best practices
Jan 2012 - Jun 2012
#02
Cheapest Online Inc
Software Engineering Intern
- ›Built Java backend services for price-comparison workflows — product feed ingestion, normalization, and search indexing
- ›Wrote automated test coverage for order and pricing logic; contributed to deployment runbooks
Jun 2011 - Dec 2011
#01
GiftXoxo
Software Engineering Intern
- ›Developed Java/J2EE backend modules for a corporate gifting platform — product catalog, order processing, and checkout flows
- ›Collaborated with senior engineers on API integrations and database schema design (MySQL)
// 03 — Impact
Key Achievements
Quantified impact across scale, teams, and business outcomes.
Scale & Systems
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2M+ users served with 99.99% uptime
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1.8M events/minute logging service
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500K+ transactions/month on AirAsia Move cart/checkout
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50K+ fraud detection txns/day in real-time
Team & Org Building
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3 product teams run through 3 EMs + 2 senior leads
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95% retention; 11+ promotions
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Mentored 8 Nokia engineers to senior-level roles
Business Impact
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$2.3M+ deal acquisition via presales
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INR 90Cr (~$11M) revenue from Swift GPI FX platform
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$1.6M engineering site ops budget owned
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3 new business lines unlocked (Hotels, Rides, Flights)
Technical Excellence
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99.5% fraud detection accuracy; 60% fewer false positives
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40% velocity improvement; 45% fewer production incidents
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35–40% infrastructure cost reduction
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Zero findings in RBI compliance audit
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ZapForge LLM platform commercialized as client-facing product
// 04 — Deep Dives
Case Studies
Detailed examples of complex challenges and measurable outcomes.
// 05 — Stack
Technical Breadth
Languages
Backend & APIs
Data & Messaging
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI / ML
Observability & SRE
// 06 — Education
Education
2025 - Present
Executive MBA
VIT, Vellore
Focus → Operations & Supply Chain
Graduated 2012
B.Tech, Computer Science
VITS, Bhopal
// 07 — Connect
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