Senior Engineering Leader | 25+ Years | Bangalore, India
Accomplished engineering leader with 25+ years of experience building and scaling global teams across fintech, e-commerce, cloud, and enterprise software. Currently leading Commerce Platform engineering at Salesforce, responsible for $100M in revenue and 200+ organizations.
Equally comfortable shaping technical architecture with engineers and discussing business strategy with senior executives.
| Company | Role | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Salesforce | Senior Manager, Software Engineering | Dec 2023 – Present |
| PayPal | Senior Manager (M3), Software Engineering | Mar 2022 – Dec 2023 |
| EFI (Fiery) | Director, Software Engineering & DevOps | Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 |
| Bazaarvoice | Director, Software Engineering | Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 |
| Headspin (Google Ventures) | VP, Engineering & Customer Success | Sep 2016 – Oct 2020 |
| Oracle | Senior Manager, Product Development | Jul 2001 – Aug 2016 |
| Trigyn Technologies | Software Engineer | Sep 1999 – Jun 2001 |
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| Slack Bot for PMs/EMs | Project tool tracking bot for engineering managers |
| Flash Card Quiz App | Learning tool built with vibe coding |
| Web App for Q&A Hosting | ChatGPT-powered Q&A web application |
Cloud
AWS Google Cloud Oracle Cloud (OCI) Kubernetes Docker
Languages
Java Python R JavaScript Shell Scripting
Frontend
React Angular D3.js HTML CSS
Data & Databases
Oracle DB MySQL Grafana Tableau Google Data Studio Oracle APEX
DevOps & APIs
Jenkins CI/CD RESTful APIs Appium Microservices
- ☁️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- ☁️ AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- ☁️ Google Cloud Certified Digital Leader
- ☁️ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
- 🤖 IBM Data Science Professional (Coursera)
- 🤖 Machine Learning – Andrew Ng (Stanford / Coursera)
- 🤖 Claude 101 | Claude Code in Action | Claude Code MCP
B.E. Electronics & Telecom Engineering Mumbai University · 1995–1999
- lachwaninitin — Personal projects & learning
- parentcircle-web — Personal deployments & side projects