Status

Available

Role

Sr. Eng Manager

Experience

15+ years

Focus

Fintech / Scale

Anurag M

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

Fintech & Digital BankingTravel Technology & Airline SystemsCloud Infrastructure5G / TelecomEnterprise Security

// 02 — Trajectory

Career Timeline

Mar 2025 - Present

#07

Zapcom Group Inc

Senior Engineering Manager

Travel / Airline & GenAI3 product teams via 3 EMs + 2 leads + 1 Solutions Architect, $1.6M budget
  • 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

Fintech / Digital BankingCross-functional org, 7 digital banking products, 2M+ MAU
  • 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

Telecom / 5G Infrastructure8 engineers, 1.8M events/min throughput
  • 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

Cloud InfrastructureML-powered automation at scale
  • 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

Enterprise Security3 teams, 12 engineers mentored
  • 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

E-commerce
  • 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

E-commerce
  • 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.

[01]

Scale & Systems

  • 2M+ users served with 99.99% uptime

  • 1.8M events/minute logging service

  • 500K+ transactions/month on AirAsia Move cart/checkout

  • 50K+ fraud detection txns/day in real-time

[02]

Team & Org Building

  • 3 product teams run through 3 EMs + 2 senior leads

  • 95% retention; 11+ promotions

  • Mentored 8 Nokia engineers to senior-level roles

[03]

Business Impact

  • $2.3M+ deal acquisition via presales

  • INR 90Cr (~$11M) revenue from Swift GPI FX platform

  • $1.6M engineering site ops budget owned

  • 3 new business lines unlocked (Hotels, Rides, Flights)

[04]

Technical Excellence

  • 99.5% fraud detection accuracy; 60% fewer false positives

  • 40% velocity improvement; 45% fewer production incidents

  • 35–40% infrastructure cost reduction

  • Zero findings in RBI compliance audit

  • 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

01

Languages

JavaGolangPythonTypeScript.NET Core
02

Backend & APIs

Spring BootGinNode.jsReactRESTgRPC
03

Data & Messaging

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisKafkaOracle
04

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSAzureKubernetesDockerTerraform
05

AI / ML

TensorFlowLLMsConversational AIMLOpsGenAI Tooling
06

Observability & SRE

PrometheusGrafanaELK StackDatadogSLO/SLI

// 06 — Education

Education

[01]

2025 - Present

Executive MBA

VIT, Vellore

Focus → Operations & Supply Chain

[02]

Graduated 2012

B.Tech, Computer Science

VITS, Bhopal

// 07 — Connect

Let's Connect

Open to discussing engineering leadership opportunities, advisory roles, or strategic partnerships.

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Location

Bangalore, India

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