I build the systems and the teams.
Engineering leader, fifteen years. I built an engineering department from five people to thirty-five, served as acting CTO for two SaaS products, and run an organisation that ships AI into production — for clients, and for ourselves.
Executive snapshot
- 35+
- Engineers led, across 4 cross-functional teams
- 5 → 35
- Department grown, over fifteen years
- 2
- SaaS products served as acting CTO
- 15 yrs
- One company, four promotions
- 10M+ / day
- Peak platform throughput under my ownership
- 3
- AI systems in production
- AWS
- Production workloads
- Azure
- Including full-architecture migrations
- Google Cloud
- Production workloads
- Linode · DigitalOcean
- And other providers
What my teams ship
Purchase orders reach my client from across India, every state in its own format. My team built a system where a vision model reads them and a language model normalises them — a task that took one person six to eight hours a day became a thirty-to-sixty-minute review. I set the architecture, chose the model strategy and owned the client relationship. Sample values below are illustrative.
Technology leadership
- Organisation design, hiring and career development across four teams
- Engineering standards, architecture governance and code quality
- Technical strategy and delivery roadmap across concurrent programmes
- AI strategy: evaluation, guardrails, rollout and adoption
- Cloud strategy across AWS, Azure and GCP, including full-architecture migrations
- Executive and client engagement across Europe, the USA and the Middle East
- Acting-CTO scope: product and technical direction for commercial SaaS
Selected work
Flagship · Leadership
Scaling an engineering organisation from five to thirty-five
Built an engineering department from five people to thirty-five across four teams, and kept most of them.
- 5 → 35
- Engineers, over fifteen years
- 4
- Cross-functional teams
- 4
- Promotions, one company
Engineering headcount grew from five in 2010 to thirty-five in 2026, and from one team to four. Four role changes are marked: PHP Developer in 2010, Team Lead in 2011, Technical Manager in 2012, and Head of Development in 2017. Intermediate years are indicative of the growth curve rather than exact records.
leadership
Rolling out AI-assisted development across thirty-five engineers
GenXAI Softgrid
Evaluated, piloted and rolled out GitHub Copilot and then Claude Code across four engineering squads.
35+ Engineers onboarded
executive
Acting CTO for a viral marketing SaaS at a million hits a day
Upviral
Acting CTO for five years for a viral marketing platform, scaling it past a million daily hits.
1M+ / day Requests at peak
scale
Ten million push notifications a day
Feedify
Browser push notification SaaS delivering over ten million notifications a day.
10M+ / day Notifications delivered
cloud
Multiple cloud migrations, up to a full platform architecture
Company products and client engagements
AWS to Azure and on-premises to Azure migrations, from single servers to a complete platform architecture.
AWS · Azure · GCP Major clouds in production
The other half of the job
Systems are the easy part. People are the work.
I've spent fifteen years at one company, which is unusual, and I think it's the most useful thing on my CV. I joined as a PHP developer in 2010 and built the engineering department from five people to thirty-five — hiring them, training them, promoting them, and keeping most of them.
That's the number I care about. Traffic figures are a function of good architecture. Retention is a function of whether people actually want to work for you.
I'd rather have a team that stays than a stack that impresses.
Experience
- Jun 2017 – Present
Head of Development GenXAI Softgrid (formerly SoftGrid Computers)
SoftGrid Computers merged with GenXAI and rebranded in December 2024.
- 2019 – 2024
Acting CTO Upviral
Engagement held alongside the role above.
- 2017 – 2020
Acting CTO Connectio
Engagement held alongside the role above.
- Aug 2012 – Jun 2017
Technical Manager SoftGrid Computers
- May 2011 – Aug 2012
Team Lead SoftGrid Computers
- Jul 2010 – May 2011
PHP Developer SoftGrid Computers
Contact
I'm open to Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering, VP of Engineering and CTO roles, including international relocation.
- Based
- Indore, India
- Relocation
- Open, international
- Notice
- 3 months, negotiable