JEETHAN MENEZES
Bangalore
Summary
Engineering Leadership & Scale: Over 15 years of experience building and scaling global engineering centers from scratch (up to 75 members) across Product, UI/UX, Dev, DevOps, and QA. Exceptional track record of mentoring individual contributors into leadership roles and maintaining zero attrition during key growth periods.
Business Transformation & P&L Impact: Strategic partner to the business, driving execution of global talent strategies including replacing a 20-member US vendor team to deliver $5 million in OPEX savings. Directed the rollout of omnichannel retail platforms that increased sales by 10%, basket size by 8%, and footfall by 12%.
Enterprise Architecture & AI Strategy: Drives technical vision specializing in Event-Driven Microservices, Data Lakehouses, and modern Agentic AI implementations. Deep expertise in rightsizing cloud infrastructure (15% cost reduction) and engineering multi-AZ high-availability systems (99.9% uptime).
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
7-ELEVEN GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTER
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2022 - Current
- Formulated and executed a global talent strategy, transitioning critical development from a 20-member US vendor to an in-house engineering center, delivering $4 million in annual OPEX savings.
- Cultivated a multi-tier engineering organization from scratch (scaling to 75 members across Product, UI/UX, Dev, DevOps, QA) by identifying and mentoring individual contributors into effective engineering leaders, establishing a self-sustaining management structure.
- Created a comprehensive 3- and 5-year growth plan for the group to ensure long-term, self-sustaining operations.
- Championed the strategy and pilot for an Agentic AI inventory management system, automating replenishment based on predictive lead times, Balance of Hand, and average daily demand.
- Directed the architectural rollout of omnichannel digital solutions (7REWARDS, 7NOW, Mobile Checkout) in Hawaii, directly correlating to a 10% sales increase, 8% larger basket size, and 12% higher footfall.
- Orchestrated the 'Retailer Initiative' (Store and Market Analytics Platform) for Australia and Vietnam, enabling item-level management and real-time inventory forecasting.
- Deployed advanced Store Analytics reports, reducing store wastage by 10% and Out-of-Stock incidents by 15%.
- Drove a 15% cloud cost reduction by rightsizing instances and migrating AWS Lambda functions to Containers.
- Architected multi-AZ, high-availability systems achieving 99.9% uptime.
- Accelerated market rollouts by reducing delivery timelines from 9 months to 3 months via modular API integration.
- Maintained exceptional quality standards, achieving <1% post-release defects, a 98% on-time delivery rate, and a 40% reduction in technical debt by eliminating hardcoded customizations.
- Built a Technical Hiring Framework across 7-Eleven by partnering with HackerEarth for comprehensive skills screening.
Engineering Manager
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
Bangalore, Karnataka
11.2011 - 12.2021
- Directed global engineering delivery across multiple product lifecycles, acting as the primary executive liaison for international device manufacturing partners to ensure technical alignment with business objectives.
- Spearheaded a large-scale organizational transformation by migrating legacy engineering units from Waterfall to Agile delivery models, fundamentally improving operational agility, cross-functional collaboration, and time-to-market.
- Pioneered the organization's foundational DevOps strategy, institutionalizing automated CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks (Jenkins) that drastically accelerated release cycles and reduced operational overhead.
- Drove the strategic technology roadmap by championing the migration from Native Android to modern cross-platform frameworks, maximizing engineering efficiency, resource allocation, and code reusability.
- Fostered a culture of engineering excellence by conceptualizing and deploying 50+ internal productivity tools and a custom Server Health Monitoring system, directly optimizing developer velocity and system reliability.
Solutions Architect
BSQUARE
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2006 - 11.2011
- Spearheaded the foundational setup of technical operations for TestQuest Inc. in India.
- Enabled enterprise customers across India, Europe, and Asia Pacific to successfully adopt and integrate TestQuest automation solutions into their core operations.
Education
Executive Program - Business Management
IIM Calcutta
Post Graduate Program - Data Science & Business Analytics
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
MIT Manipal
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Program Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Vendor Management
- Team Building
- Mentoring
- Agile
- Scrum
- Microservices
- Event-Driven Architecture
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Agentic AI
- Large Language Models
- RAG
- Multi-Agent Systems
- OpenAI SDK
- Databricks
- Apache Pinot
- Tableau
- Forecasting
- Java Spring Boot
- Nodejs
- Python
- React
- React Native
- Android
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka
Custom Section
Over 15 years of experience building and scaling global engineering centers from scratch (up to 75 members) across Product, UI/UX, Dev, DevOps, and QA. Exceptional track record of mentoring individual contributors into leadership roles and maintaining zero attrition during key growth periods., Strategic partner to the business, driving execution of global talent strategies including replacing a 20-member US vendor team to deliver $5 million in OPEX savings. Directed the rollout of omnichannel retail platforms that increased sales by 10%, basket size by 8%, and footfall by 12%., Drives technical vision specializing in Event-Driven Microservices, Data Lakehouses, and modern Agentic AI implementations. Deep expertise in rightsizing cloud infrastructure (15% cost reduction) and engineering multi-AZ high-availability systems (99.9% uptime).
Websites, Portfolios and Profiles
LinkedIn
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
7-ELEVEN GLOBAL SOLUTION CENTER
01.2022 - Current
Engineering Manager
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
11.2011 - 12.2021
Solutions Architect
BSQUARE
01.2006 - 11.2011
Executive Program - Business Management
IIM Calcutta
Post Graduate Program - Data Science & Business Analytics
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
MIT Manipal