Results-driven Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience in Software Development and Quality Engineering within Cybersecurity. Expertise in leading teams to deliver Protection Technologies, including Anti-Ransomware and Web Security. Skilled in product delivery, architecture reviews, CI/CD transformation, and performance optimization, effectively managing cross-functional teams to create scalable and secure enterprise security solutions.
Overview
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Certifications
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager - Protection Technologies
Seqrite
Pune, Maharashtra
03.2021 - Current
Lead both Development and Quality Engineering functions for Protection Technologies, managing architecture discussions, feature delivery, release readiness, engineering execution, and product quality across multiple cybersecurity modules.
Own roadmap execution for ARW, NGAV, Web Security, Scan Engine, Device Control, and Driver-based security technologies.
Collaborate with Product Management, Architects, Threat Research, Customer Success, and Engineering teams to deliver enterprise-grade security solutions.
Lead engineering initiatives involving performance optimization, malware detection efficacy, cloud intelligence integration, automation, and infrastructure scalability.
Mentor developers, QA engineers, and technical leads while establishing engineering best practices and an ownership culture.
QA Test Lead - Scan Engine
Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
Pune, Maharashtra
03.2009 - 02.2021
Led quality assurance for core Scan Engine components, ensuring high detection efficacy, minimal false positives, and optimal scanning performance across Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms.
Designed and executed comprehensive test strategies for malware detection, file scanning, unpacking, emulator validation, and heuristic engines.
Developed automation frameworks to validate threat detection and engine updates, ensuring seamless integration with signature-based and behavior-based modules.
Collaborated with development, threat research, and product teams to triage issues and implement fixes, enhancing validation of performance under real-world threat scenarios.
Conducted non-functional testing to benchmark CPU/memory usage and scanning time, assessing system impact during real-time protection and on-demand scans.
Played a key role in regression validation for every engine update, ensured zero customer-impacting issues across multiple enterprise and retail releases.
Contributed to shift-left practices by integrating testing into CI pipelines, reducing bug turnaround time, and increasing early defect detection.
Mentored a team of QA engineers, fostering deep technical knowledge of malware behavior, scanning internals, and test coverage for new detection capabilities.
Education
BSC - Chemistry
Dr.B.R. Ambedkar University
Nashik, Maharashtra
06-2011
Diploma - undefined
HW/NW Engineering SEEDS
Nashik, Maharashtra
02-2009
Skills
Technical Leadership
Technical management
Product Engineering
Software lifecycle
Agile & Scrum
CI/CD & DevOps
Secure Software Development
Release Management
Architecture Reviews
Stakeholder Management
Team Building & Mentorship
Engineering metrics
Accomplishments
16+ Organization and Company Level Awards
HiPo Program Selection
Media Recognition (ABP Majha)
Published Author (Blogs & Whitepapers)
Certification
Cisco Certified Network Associate from CISCO
Timeline
Engineering Manager - Protection Technologies
Seqrite
03.2021 - Current
QA Test Lead - Scan Engine
Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
03.2009 - 02.2021
Diploma - undefined
HW/NW Engineering SEEDS
BSC - Chemistry
Dr.B.R. Ambedkar University
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Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
Sr. Program Manager / Leader Engineering Cloud and Engineering Operations at Veritas technologies, LLC/CohesitySr. Program Manager / Leader Engineering Cloud and Engineering Operations at Veritas technologies, LLC/Cohesity