Shrinath Hegde
Senior Engineering Manager, Ayla Networks
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven Senior Engineering Manager with over 17 years of experience in leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. Proven expertise in project management, cross-functional collaboration, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Adept at developing innovative strategies to enhance productivity and achieve organizational goals.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
Ayla Networks
8 2021 - Current
- IoT Command Center: Technology used: Spring boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Amazon S3
- Product responsible for managing the entire lifecycle of the large IoT device deployments
- Without any coding efforts, allows to large scale changes to devices and get the status on progress/completion
- Developed documentation and training materials for internal teams and external partners to facilitate the adoption and usage of update capabilities
- Intelligent Over-The-Air Service (Senior Technical Lead): Technology used: Spring boot, MySQL, Kafka, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including software developers, hardware engineers, and product managers, to define requirements and design specifications for OTA update feature
- IoT Device Search Engine: Technology used: Spring boot, MySQL
- A service exposing the APIs to the customers to search the IoT devices based on the many filter criteria
- The service is also used by other services to search and process a huge number of target devices based on the customer requirement
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
2008.04 - 2021.08
- IPS Governance system (Lead developer): Technology used: Oracle 12c DB, Oracle JET, Java/JEE, Spring with hibernate
- A metadata store for all the applications within Oracle
- Metadata like the product hierarchy, workflow information, product/application configurations are managed and allowed to be shared across systems
- Single Source of Truth (Lead developer): Technology used: Oracle 12c DB, Oracle JET, Java/JEE
- Analytical dashboard and aggregated service APIs gathered from different Oracle Systems like finance, budget, code coverage report and more
- This helps management (executives and product owners) to provide the overall/detailed picture of organization/product to company executives
- Translation Cloud Service (Lead developer): Technology used: Java/JEE, ADF, Apex, Jenkins, Artifactory
- Server Technology Translation System: evaluated, designed and developed Fusion Middleware translation process re-engineering
- Next-Gen for Oracle Cloud: Designed and implemented process for Oracle cloud products
- Worked on design and development of Oracle Developer Cloud Service platform micro services
- Implemented translation process plugin to Oracle Application express (Apex)
- Sun Instant Messaging: (I18n product Owner)
- Product feature Development and bug fixing of I18n features: On-the-fly translation of chat messages from any-to-any language
- Bug fixing and developed automation
- Sun Translate: Google like translation page for Sun using Internal translation memory
- Designed and implemented API for internal Sun translation memory
- DevOps Engineering: Technology used: Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Mesos, Marathon, Jenkins
- Develop infrastructure platform for continuous application delivery and deployment
- Build and maintain the private Cloud and System infrastructure
- Promote the best DevOps practices and provide hosted DevOps tools
- Product/process consultant: designing/reviewing the specs, I18n feature development
- Own the I18n ownership of Sun/Oracle products like Sun Delegated Administrator, Sun Messaging server, Sun Java Outlook connector
Education
Master of Science - Computer Applications
PES Institute of Technology
Bangalore 2004.06 - 2007.06
Skills
Java/J2EE, Springboot
Cloud providers (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
Front-end technologies
Security (ISO Audit, Oracle Java Policy Store (JPS) API, Oracle e-wallet, SonarQube)
Database (MySQL, Oracle 12c, PostgresQL, Cassandra)
IoT (Over-The-Air, Command Center)
Middleware Servers (WebLogic, Glassfish, IM and more)
CI/CD Technologies (Jenkins)
Professional Achievements
- Lead a team of 8+ engineers/leads across multiple functions (backend, frontend, and QA) to deliver a SaaS product used by 50K+ active users.
- Closely partnered with product management and security teams to align engineering priorities with business objectives, resulting in the product delivery velocity improvement.
- Fostered an engineering culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning through regular technical workshops, code reviews, and mentoring sessions.
- Established and optimized CI/CD pipelines, reducing production deployment errors.
- Managed and optimized team performance, overseeing hiring, training, and career development to ensure strong talent retention and growth.
- Directed agile processes and supervised sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint retrospectives.
- Reported regularly to executives on the project status, resource allocation, cost/budgeting and risk mitigation.
Proficiencies
- Leadership & Team Management
- Software Architecture & Design
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Product Roadmap Development
- Process Improvement & Optimization
- Performance Management & Mentorship
- Cloud Computing & Infrastructure
- Budgeting & Resource Allocation
- Stakeholder Communication
- Risk Management
Timeline
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Corporation
2008.04 - 2021.08
Master of Science - Computer Applications
PES Institute of Technology
2004.06 - 2007.06
Senior Engineering Manager
Ayla Networks
8 2021 - Current