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Tariq Iqbal
Senior Engineering Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced and dedicated Engineering Leader with a demonstrated history of cultivating and guiding high-performing teams, while fostering innovation in the fields of distributed systems, cloud computing, and data pipelines across diverse industries such as SaaS, ETL, Finance, and Energy Production. Combining adept leadership with strong technical proficiency, I am eager to harness my extensive background to steer technical teams and spearhead impactful initiatives that drive organizational transformation.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
Atlassian
07.2024 - Current
- Set up a new engineering org from scratch to build the centralized data platform and data infrastructure for Atlassian's ITSM market.
- Hired and groomed a team of data and backend engineers to solve real business needs at internet scale by applying data and software engineering best practices.
- Partnered with Product, Data Science, ML and AI teams ensuring consistent delivery against milestones.
- Managed technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap.
- Lead and participated in technical, product, and design discussions to set the long term strategy for the data engineering org.
- Mentored and grew leaders within the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities.
- Partnered with the leadership on planning, prioritization and staffing.
Senior Engineering Manager
HevoData
5 2022 - 02.2024
- Heading the Connectors team at Hevo Data, comprising 4 PODs and 45+ engineers within the engineering org at the company.
- Built a framework to provide ready-to-use, point-and-click connectors for a wide variety of sources, including enterprise applications (like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint), databases (e.g., SQL Server), cloud storage, message queues, and local files as a SaaS offering.
- Managing a team of 2 architects and 4 frontline engineering managers.
- Worked with engineering leadership and developed a Performance Management System to assess and help developers improve their performance.
- Worked with product management team and lead the development of a new SaaS offering, a no code reverse ETL solution.
- Acting as customer experience advocate at the company and leading several initiatives towards improving customer experience. This has lead to an improvement in customer NPS score from 6 to 8.
- Proposed and designed Heimdall (Hevo Data's internal Observability Platform) to catch data issues in customer pipelines pro actively thereby reducing reported issues by 38% and improving customer experience
Engineering Manager
HevoData
05.2021 - 04.2022
- Joined as an engineering manager and helped the company take its flagship product, a no code SaaS ETL solution, from 0-1 stage to 1-10 stage.
- Hired world class engineers and scaled the team from 6 members to 25 members in order to meet the growing product needs.
- Designed and implemented several technical and operational excellence related initiatives in order to improve developer productivity and efficiency.
- Worked with the team in setting up tools and processes in place and brought down the release cycle time from 4 weeks to 1 week. This has allowed us to ship faster and with better quality.
- Worked with engineering and product leadership towards building tech and product roadmap.
- Helped the team with design and architecture improvements in order to meet the growing customer needs.
- Worked with the team and revamped the QA strategy, thereby reducing the test suite execution time from 2 days to 4 hours.
Engineering Manager
Corestrat Labs
06.2019 - 04.2021
- Joined the company as their first hire, recruited and setup the engineering team in India and lead the product development from scratch.
- Worked directly with the CTO and the CEO towards building strategies and tech charter.
- Collaborated with customers and partners in order to gather requirements and built the product roadmap.
- Acted as the architect of the system, developed the MVPs and helped the team take them to market.
- Handled three different product lines.
Co-Founder
Qurious Labs
9 2017 - 6 2019
- Co-founded Qurious Labs as a private limited company.
- Created the vision, goals and growth plan along with the other co-founder.
- Single-handedly designed, architected and developed the MVPs
- Screened, hired and set up a team of 4 members as the scope grew.
- Collaborated with third party vendors and negotiated their services and products that were needed for the products (Aylien.com, Branch.io. etc).
- Prepared and presented the idea at Y-Combinator accelerator program (Didn’t get selected).
Data Engineer/Senior Data Engineer
Intuit
08.2013 - 08.2017
- Owned and delivered multiple projects as an individual contributor.
- Worked as part of the Intuit Data Engineering & Analytics team and developed Intuit’s centralized data platform (IAC).
- Continuously interacted with customers to gather feedback on the products and improve them.
- Guided and onboarded new customers to the platform.
- Collaborated with other business units, gathered requirements and continuously delivered enhancements on top of the existing system.
- Worked very closely with the operations team and made sure that the pipelines are always up and running.
Hadoop Developer
PointCross Life Science
08.2011 - 07.2013
- Worked as the founding member of company’s BigData team.
- Planned, initiated and led company’s BigData journey.
- Single-handedly setup and fine-tuned company's first Hadoop cluster.
- Developed and maintained ETL pipelines running on Hadoop clusters.
- Trained and mentored other team members on Hadoop and other related tools.
- Performed R&D involving domain research, gathered customer requirements by talking to them and built the product roadmap along with subject matter experts.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Karnataka 08.2007 - 07.2011
Skills
- Leadership and Team Management
Large scale system design and architecture
Technical strategy and roadmapping
Cross-functional collaboration
Building and nurturing world-class talent
Agile methodologies
Driving clarity from single-line requirements and providing direction in ambiguous environments
Customer engagements and experience improvement
Strong organization and communication skills
Accomplishments
- Achieved several significant accomplishments across multiple organizations that contributed to the overall success and growth, including, but not limited to, scaling teams and products from 0-1 stage to 1-10 stage, initiating new product lines, setting up new technical and operational excellence charters, proving technical leadership.
- Bootstrapped and ran a startup in Singapore for 2 years.
- Top user on Stackoverflow for open source distributed platforms like Apache Haddop, Apache HBase etc
- Managed and authored a successful blog with 350,000+ hits
Interests
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
Atlassian
07.2024 - Current
Engineering Manager
HevoData
05.2021 - 04.2022
Engineering Manager
Corestrat Labs
06.2019 - 04.2021
Data Engineer/Senior Data Engineer
Intuit
08.2013 - 08.2017
Hadoop Developer
PointCross Life Science
08.2011 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
08.2007 - 07.2011
Senior Engineering Manager
HevoData
5 2022 - 02.2024
Co-Founder
Qurious Labs
9 2017 - 6 2019