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Rajesh Mahesh
Senior Engineering Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior Engineering Manager with 20+ years building scalable cloud solutions and high-performing teams. Proven track record accelerating delivery velocity, improving product quality, and driving customer satisfaction through modern architecture, DevOps practices, and strategic technical leadership across distributed organizations.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
04.2023 - Current
- Oversaw two engineering teams (Production Engineering and Core Services), delivering scalable cloud infrastructure for the Compute Ops Management platform. Led 20+ engineers, defined strategic roadmaps, orchestrated cross-functional collaboration, and drove engineering excellence through mentorship and process optimization.
- Scaled platform capacity 14x—from 35K to 500K devices per cluster—while reducing per-device operational costs and maintaining 99.5% uptime.
- Grew high-performing teams, scaled the organization from 2 to 20 members through strategic hiring, mentoring, and fostering a delivery-focused culture.
- Reduced infrastructure costs—cut AWS expenses by 45% through right-sizing cluster infrastructure while maintaining system reliability.
- Mentored engineering leaders — mentored managers and senior individual contributors, enabling two Tech Leads to transition into Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer roles.
Senior Engineering Manager
Informatica
03.2021 - 04.2023
- Led Cloud Mass Ingestion: Streaming platform development, managing real-time data pipelines, processing petabyte-scale datasets from Kafka, MQTT, and event logs. Oversaw cross-functional engineering, QA, and DevOps teams as the application owner for enterprise streaming solutions.
- Generated significant business growth, achieved a 25% increase in customer adoption, and a 15% improvement in customer satisfaction through strategic product development and feature delivery.
- Architected an enterprise-scale data platform, designed and deployed ETL pipelines, and real-time analytics workflows handling petabyte-scale datasets across multi-cloud environments.
- Elevated engineering excellence improved code quality by 20% through systematic code reviews, design standards, and technical documentation practices.
- Scaled mission-critical streaming platform, enhanced Cloud Mass Ingestion product capacity to 10M+ events/second, boosting enterprise customer adoption for complex analytical, and batch processing workloads.
Senior Manager
Epsilon
01.2020 - 03.2021
- Directed a custom development team for the Epsilon Messaging platform, delivering personalized email campaigns based on customer behavior analytics. Nurtured engineering talent, streamlined development processes, and established robust engineering practices, ensuring reliable delivery of marketing technology solutions.
- Accelerated customer conversion: optimized onboarding solution through modular, reusable architecture, resulting in a 20% increase in conversion rates.
- Improved delivery efficiency: streamlined change management processes, and eliminated 25% of project delays through engineering practices.
- Enhanced team productivity: mentored managers and engineers on best practices and methodologies, achieving a 20% increase in developer productivity.
- Founded the engineering excellence framework, which instituted robust practices, reducing time to production by 60%.
Vice President
JP Morgan Chase
06.2012 - 12.2019
- Managed three Agile teams (18 engineers) across distributed locations, delivering compliance applications and a product suite. Defined strategic roadmaps, built high-performing teams, drove architecture decisions, and coordinated cross-functional collaboration with product, UX, and SRE teams spanning India, Singapore, and the U.S.
- Transformed delivery velocity 4x: introduced CI/CD and TDD practices, reducing release cycles from 3 months to 3 weeks.
- Created a high-performing organization, launched a 16-member engineering team from scratch, achieving a 98% approval score in Employee Opinion Surveys.
- Modernized system architecture—decomposed monolithic applications into microservices, reducing deployment time by 30 minutes, and improving scalability.
- Delivered cross-organizational initiatives, coordinated distributed teams to successfully deliver eight major cross-functional projects, exceeding roadmap targets.
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions & Corelogic (Acquired by Cognizant)
04.2010 - 06.2012
- Drove architecture and design of custom business intelligence solutions, overseeing development team delivery of data analytics platforms for enterprise clients
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture Services
01.2005 - 04.2010
- Led technical development and architecture for high-performance team delivering enterprise solutions to outsourcing clients, combining hands-on development with technical leadership
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications
University of Kerala
Kerala, India03.2004
Skills
Business & Strategy
Product Management
Stakeholder Management
Cost Optimization
Customer Success
Process Improvement
Leadership & Management
Team Building & Scaling
Cross-functional Collaboration
Strategic Planning & Roadmapping
Performance Management
Mentoring & Coaching
Methodology & Practices
Agile/Scrum
DevOps & CI/CD
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Code Review Processes
Observability & Monitoring
Architecture & Design
Microservices Architecture
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
System Design
Data Pipeline Architecture
Scalability & Performance Optimization
Programming
Python
Java
C#
TypeScript
JavaScript
Cloud Platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
Containers & Messaging
Kubernetes
Docker
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Certification
Scrum Master Certified Scrum Alliance
Software
Java
C#
Kubernetes
Cloud Development
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
04.2023 - Current
Senior Engineering Manager
Informatica
03.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Manager
Epsilon
01.2020 - 03.2021
Vice President
JP Morgan Chase
06.2012 - 12.2019
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions & Corelogic (Acquired by Cognizant)
04.2010 - 06.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture Services
01.2005 - 04.2010
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications
University of Kerala