Jayant Narwani

Work History

Engineering Manager

Network 18

09.2023 - Current

Built and scaled a 25+ member engineering organization from the ground up, hiring across mobile & full stack. Currently lead a cross-functional team of 18, fostering a high-ownership and product-first culture.
Partnered closely with product and business teams, acting as a key advisor for feature design, user workflows, and long-term product strategy—translating abstract ideas into scalable, user-friendly solutions.
Demonstrated extreme ownership by leading complex projects end-to-end—ensuring delivery in optimal shape through meticulous planning, stakeholder communication, and proactive risk mitigation.
Architected the modernization of legacy platforms into cloud-native systems on Google Cloud, integrating observability tools (New Relic, Squadcast). Reduced infra costs by over 50% while enhancing scalability and performance visibility.
Led full-stack development and ongoing ownership of two enterprise-grade, multi-tenant platforms:
File18 – A reporter-facing content ingestion system rebuilt from legacy PHP to NestJS + React. Integrated advanced workflows (Temporal), modernized mobile stack with React Native, and enabled seamless content publishing across tenants.
Ops18 – A ground-up planning and asset management tool for editorial and field teams. Streamlines scheduling, resource allocation (cameras, vehicles, crews), and enables leadership visibility through a dynamic, real-time reporting system.
Introduced foundational systems like an organization-wide template based notification service, streamlining internal communications across business verticals.
Known for a strong product-engineering hybrid mindset, hands-on leadership, and an ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical and business vision.

Engineering Manager

Sayurbox

10.2021 - 09.2023

Led engineering for warehouse operations in a fast-growing D2C startup, delivering platforms for inventory, SKU availability, pricing, PO, and supply chain management.
Designed and delivered critical systems from scratch, including:
Auto Purchase Order Generator to automate restocking based on demand and thresholds.
Real-time SKU Availability Engine to sync customer view with live warehouse stock.
Location-based and auto cut-off logic to optimize order flow and delivery reliability.
Multi-tenant warehouse support, enabling parallel operations under a single facility.
Scheduling tools for advance discount campaigns and bulk updates.
Dynamic delayed messaging system using RabbitMQ and binary logic for time-based workflows.
Owned full project lifecycle — from requirement gathering and tech design to team collaboration and delivery.
As Engineering Manager, led multiple cross-functional teams, contributed to architecture decisions, OKR planning, and stakeholder alignment across business and product functions.

Lead Software Engineer

Airtel X Labs

09.2019 - 10.2021

At Airtel, I was part of the eCaf team which is responsible to build applications to support customer journeys at Airtel cafe through apps.
I got the opportunity to develop projects like:
Sim-Swap: Sim-swap is used to allocate a new sim card to our existing customer against their number in case of sim damage or lost.
EV portal: EV portal is used to verify the customer's documents digitally by an EV(Employee verification) officer. It has various roles and user management.
EKyc: A micro-service used to take care of aadhar based eKyc process of all the acquisitions in Airtel.
I was working here as a Lead engineer throughout, I got an opportunity to handle a small team here.

Senior Software Engineer

Hughes Systique (Client side: Adobe)

06.2017 - 09.2019

Company Overview: URL: https://studio.livefyre.com
At Adobe I was part of the adobe experience cloud team. here I work on developing Adobe Livefyre and Engage are part of Adobe marketing cloud, which collects all the publicly available data at various social networking sites in one place and allows our customers to put these contents at their sites using various apps available in Livefyre.
Here I got the opportunity to work on multiple modules like:
GDPR: we build a data pipeline for fetching data from social networks and filtering the content from blacklisted users.
Export API: Role: Export API was developed to export all the social media and user-related content for a customer. Earlier this was a manual process, I created scripts and UI and automated the export process in our system.
I was involved in regular new feature releases for our customers and bug fixes for the Livefyre product.

System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services

12.2014 - 06.2017

Worked as a software developer for a US-based pharma client, working on providing various solutions for the scientists performing clinical trials.
Excel Steward: Developed Java web service-based application, It downloads a .xlx or .xlsx file from a SharePoint site and verifies the data accuracy corresponding to mapping data available in some XML files. If all mapping is accurate then it converts the file into a password-encrypted CSV file.
Automated Follow-up tool: This is a service improvement project initiated and implemented by me, Goal of this tool is to track the training compliance of each employee and ensure every employee completes their assigned mandatory training before deadlines. To achieve this, Code uses to analyze current training reports and automatically follow-ups with the employees for whom training deadlines are near.
Online Knowledge Bank: Online knowledge bank is one central repository for all the solutions to day-to-day problems they solve while working.

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Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Lead Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

System Engineer

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B.tech - I.T

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