I'm a Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years in fintech, payments, and distributed systems, building high-impact teams and the platforms that enable product velocity at scale.
Experience
2026 — Now
2026 — Now
Leading the Growth / Revenue ML team.
2025 — 2026
2025 — 2026
Taking an intentional pause to deepen technical expertise and pursue creative exploration.
Technical Focus
• Building a multi-agent orchestration product from scratch, going hands-on using modern AI development tools
• Sharpening my 0→1 product instincts by owning the full lifecycle from architecture through MVP
Creative Exploration
• Developing an Art-Tech venture at the intersection of creativity and technology
Personal Priorities
• Investing in health, travel, and time with family
Exploring Senior Engineering Manager opportunities where I can apply renewed technical depth, strong people leadership, and strategic product thinking to mission-driven challenges at scale.
2021 — 2025
2021 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Led engineering teams across two critical domains: Growth Retention and Experimentation Platform.
Chapter 2: Scaling the Innovation Engine (Experimentation Platform)
• Recognizing that our product teams needed faster and more reliable feedback loops, I led the 0-to-1 build of Chime’s internal Experimentation Platform.
• Built and managed a cross-functional team of 12+ engineers (Full Stack & Data) to architect a self-serve system replacing manual workflows.
• Designed for high-volume scale: The system processed high-velocity impression streams with strict latency requirements (< 10ms), ensuring zero impact on critical banking flows (99.99% availability).
• Impact: Democratized A/B testing across the company, significantly accelerating feature velocity and decision-making confidence.
Chapter 1: Driving Business Revenue (Growth Retention)
• Led the Member Retention squads, focusing on increasing Customer LTV and reactivating churned users.
• Partnered with Product, Design, Analytics and Research to ship rapid experiments that drove measurable lift in user engagement.
• Navigated the complexity of "moving fast" in a regulated fintech environment, ensuring all growth tactics met strict compliance/risk standards.
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Originally joined as a Technical Lead, architecting core payment features. Promoted to Engineering Manager to lead the same team I helped build, bridging the gap between architectural strategy and people leadership.
• Owned the high-stakes vaulting, payment method storage, and network tokenization services that enabled global merchants to orchestrate payments with high reliability.
• Deep Fintech Infrastructure: Led the design and implementation of Network Tokenization and PCI-DSS compliant vaulting strategies. This infrastructure directly reduced transaction decline rates and enabled seamless recurring billing for enterprise customers.
• Strategic Integrations: Collaborated directly with major networks (Visa, Mastercard) to align our technical roadmap with emerging global payment standards.
• Hands-On Leadership: Operated as a "Player-Coach," balancing architectural contributions (Ruby on Rails) with hiring and mentorship. I successfully scaled the team's velocity while mentoring junior engineers into senior contributors.
2019 — 2020
Education
Portland State University
Masters in Science
University of Mumbai