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Uthra Manoj

Uthra Manoj

Director Of Engineering
Bengaluru

Summary

Results-driven leader with strong background in enterprise architecture, strategic leadership, strong communication and stakeholder management. Skilled in developing and implementing effective business strategies, problem solving and driving team performance. Known for delivering measurable outcomes in dynamic environments.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Director Engineering

SeedlingLabs
08.2025 - Current
  • Built a production-ready AI-native autonomous testing platform (Orchard) MVP from scratch in 2.5 months.
  • Led interns and early-career engineers to create a performance-driven culture
  • Set up AI-native SDLC process and tooling for my engineering org.
  • Architected core platform capabilities to solve for reliable testing platform.
  • Built the cloud foundation on AWS, set up CI/CD from scratch.
  • Established a roadmap for first customer onboarding, also drove POCs for the same.

Technology stack: AWS, React, Node, multi-agent architecture.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Diligent Corporation
01.2023 - 08.2025
  • Spearheaded the growth of the product for Policy Management from $0 to $2.8M ARR, which was a legacy acquired product.
  • Re-architected the policy portal to scale to 100K users and use semantic search.
  • Drove an organizational L&S strategy for this product, within committed timelines, and to meet the business goals of opening up to customers.
  • Built an engineering team of 12 to bridge vendor accountability and skill gaps.
  • Directed multiple strategic product tracks
  • Change Agent Award (2022-2023) – Recognized for driving engineering transformation and product innovation.
  • Women in Tech Mentor – Mentored emerging women leaders, and delivered a global session on career growth.
  • Industry Representation – Represented Diligent at NASSCOM’s Women in Tech (WIT) event in December 2024.
  • Technology stack: .NET, React, Node, and AWS.

Software Engineering Manager

Diligent Corporation (Galvanize acquired)
12.2019 - 12.2022
  • Converted a POC to a platform marketplace in 2 years, drove this roadmap planning and execution.
  • Upskilled a team of .NET, UI developers and manual testers into full-stack engineers
  • Built high-performance serverless microservices with sub-5 second response times
  • Championed engineering KPIs across microservices.
  • Designed a structured career progression framework for upskilling
  • A technology-first company focused on risk and compliance space.
  • Technology Stack: React, Node, AWS

Technical Lead

Diligent Corporation (Rsam Technologies acquired and re-branded)
03.2015 - 11.2019
  • Enabled critical customers retention saving 4M ARR by owning search engine performance optimization.
  • Created knowledge base for the whole search engine from multiple handovers.
  • Architected core platform features that enhanced scalability and multi-lingual support.
  • A risk management platform that fully configurable.
  • Technology Stack – .Net, JQuery, SQL Server, Docker
  • Achievements:
  • Performance Optimization Award – Recognized with company shares for exceptional performance improvements.

Senior Software Developer

Paladion Network
03.2012 - 03.2015
  • Architected a scalable training and awareness portal from scratch
  • Built RisqVu GRC from scratch for high maintainability and fast release iterations.
  • Introduced security best practices into the product.
  • Tech Stack – .Net, Entity Framework, SQL Server
  • Achievements:
  • MCP C# 5.0
  • Silver Star award for product architecture
  • Strong client recommendation for onboarding them to the product on time solving multiple challenges for the implementation team, at Astro Malaysia.

Senior Developer

Wipro Technologies
03.2011 - 02.2012
  • As an IC, reliably delivered on integrations for Target and Shell accounts for their data warehouses using SSIS and SSRS with 0 bugs and performance.

Senior Software Engineer

NTT Data
01.2008 - 02.2011
  • Built multiple automations to bring down human errors in ETL to near 0.
  • Brought up predictability to 100% in delivering incremental value through process adherence set up for team.
  • This was a service based company working for Honeywell account:

Education

Executive Leadership Programme - Building Resilient GCCs

IIM
Bengaluru
10.2025

Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science

IIIT
Bengaluru
05.2022

Master of Science - Software Systems

BITS Pilani
Rajasthan
05.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Anna University
Chennai
04.2007

Skills

AI-native product development

Certification

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (Microsoft - Nov 2015)

Timeline

Director Engineering

SeedlingLabs
08.2025 - Current

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Diligent Corporation
01.2023 - 08.2025

Software Engineering Manager

Diligent Corporation (Galvanize acquired)
12.2019 - 12.2022

Technical Lead

Diligent Corporation (Rsam Technologies acquired and re-branded)
03.2015 - 11.2019

Senior Software Developer

Paladion Network
03.2012 - 03.2015

Senior Developer

Wipro Technologies
03.2011 - 02.2012

Senior Software Engineer

NTT Data
01.2008 - 02.2011

Executive Leadership Programme - Building Resilient GCCs

IIM

Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science

IIIT

Master of Science - Software Systems

BITS Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Anna University
Uthra ManojDirector Of Engineering