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Atul Maheswari

Atul Maheswari

Engineering Manager
Chennai

Summary

Dynamic and impact-driven Engineering Manager with 9+ years of progressive experience in backend engineering and people management. Proven ability in leading squads to deliver high-scale features, implementing robust engineering processes, planning quarterly roadmaps, and driving team performance through structured feedback and mentoring. Strong technical foundation in Ruby on Rails, Java and observability stacks. Adept in stakeholder communication, cross-functional alignment, hiring, and hands-on incident management.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages

Work History

Engineering Manager

Apollo.io
11.2024 - Current
  • Led quarterly planning for FY25Q4–FY26Q2 by sequencing tasks, aligning resources, and collaborating across PM, QE, and Design.
  • Brought process innovation in On-call rotations through gamification and reducing load.
  • Closely tracked product metrics with PMs, flagged metric drops caused by other deployments.
  • Owned high-quality ERD/PR reviews, broke down releases in phases, and defined DRIs.
  • Held weekly 1:1s, provided actionable feedback, and enforced performance improvements.
  • Executed a PIP plan for a low performer and handled exit after lack of improvement.
  • Played active role in resource planning, hiring, and grooming team backlog.
  • Responded to customer incidents directly and organized an internal Incident Hackathon; emerged winner.

Tech Lead

Apollo.io
10.2023 - 10.2024
  • Delivered CRM Enrichment, Enrichment Dashboard, Contacts Deduplication, and Webhooks features.
  • Managed cross-team dependencies and coordinated with stakeholders to maintain delivery clarity.
  • Reviewed designs, mentored team, ensured alignment with quarterly OKRs.
  • Provided estimates for quarter planning and actively supported Engineering Manager in execution.

Senior Consultant – App Developer

Thoughtworks
05.2021 - 10.2023
  • Track lead for building Data Health Dashboard and Auto Enrichments using ReactJS and RoR.
  • Built 3 microservices in Micronaut + Java17; achieved sub-50ms data fetch latency.
  • Configured Kafka retries, JMeter tests, Grafana dashboards, and CI/CD via GoCD.
  • Delivered strict-deadline banking project for wallet migration adhering to RBI mandate.
  • Consultant Tech Lead at Apollo.io (Dec 2022 – Oct 2023), leading features like Job Change Revamp.

Senior Developer

Lumera Software Solutions
12.2019 - 04.2021
  • Set up Prometheus metrics collection for monolith and microservices.
  • Developed Hazmat feature, Kubernetes probes, PushGateway/Grafana dashboards.
  • Added API layers, retry logics, cron jobs, and performed system load testing.

Senior Software Engineer

Freshworks
01.2019 - 12.2019
  • Built scalable Freshdesk Ticket Field APIs, handled optimization for large-scale deployments.
  • Worked on microservices in Go, conducted load testing, resolved priority customer bugs.

Member of Technical Staff

Zoho
11.2015 - 12.2018
  • Developed Admin UI & key backend features for Transmail including DKIM/SPF verification, approval systems, and activity tracking.

Software Analyst

Athenahealth
04.2015 - 10.2015
  • Built Perl-based unit test automations; created test plans and executed test cases.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology (Anna University)
Chennai, India
04.2011 - 01.2015

Senior Secondary - CBSE

Maharishi Vidya Mandir
01.2009 - 01.2011

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Interests

Clean Coding
Ruby on Rails
Object-Oriented Design

Achievements Awards

  • GenAI Hackathon 2025 – Winner of Pathfinder Award among 36 teams.
  • GenAI Hackathon 2023 – Top Scoring Prize out of 25+ teams.
  • Key Team Player – Recognised by client for team collaboration (2021).
  • The WHY Awards – Excellence and integrity (2021).
  • Client Recognition – Feature toggle innovation (2020).
  • Customer Champion – High-priority bug fixes (2019).
  • Freshworks Appathon – Top 5 out of 50+ participants (2019).

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Apollo.io
11.2024 - Current

Tech Lead

Apollo.io
10.2023 - 10.2024

Senior Consultant – App Developer

Thoughtworks
05.2021 - 10.2023

Senior Developer

Lumera Software Solutions
12.2019 - 04.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Freshworks
01.2019 - 12.2019

Member of Technical Staff

Zoho
11.2015 - 12.2018

Software Analyst

Athenahealth
04.2015 - 10.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology (Anna University)
04.2011 - 01.2015

Senior Secondary - CBSE

Maharishi Vidya Mandir
01.2009 - 01.2011

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