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Yash Asati

Bengaluru

Summary

Nearly a Decade of Leadership & Technical Excellence

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

MakeMyTrip
Bengaluru
01.2025 - Current

Managerial Responsibilities:

  • Led a 15-member cross-functional team, owning sprint planning, grooming, and estimations.
  • Delivered EPICs end-to-end (design → development → rollout) with zero blockers.
  • Conducted performance appraisals across two cycles; implemented growth plans that boosted productivity.
  • Acted as escalation point for P0 issues, ensuring timely resolution while maintaining delivery momentum.
  • Partnered with product, infra, and design stakeholders to align technical execution with business outcomes.

Individual Contributor (IC) Responsibilities:

  • Designed and delivered low-latency APIs (~300ms) at 8K+ QPS scale, improving search-to-booking conversion by 8.2%.
  • Optimized backend services, reducing container CPU usage by 40%, saving significant infra costs.
  • Architected scalable, fault-tolerant microservices, improving availability and system reliability.
  • Currently building LLM-powered Smart Content GenAI pipelines, enhancing hotel content coverage and automation at scale.

Tech Lead

MakeMyTrip
Bengaluru
02.2022 - 12.2024
  • Working as a Tech lead in MMT under Hotels and locus team.
  • Developed autosuggest functionality in MMT.
  • Handled Team of 15 members.
  • Did team members appraisals for 2 cycles.
  • Worked as an acting Engineering Manager for some time and have team handling experience as well.
  • Delivered Prod/Tech stories as an individual contributor.
  • Fixed issues on PROD/UAT environment.
  • Enhance product by reducing loggers, Code optimization, Process optimization.

Senior Consultant

Samsung RND
09.2019 - 02.2022
  • Worked as backend developer under Agile methodologies.
  • Developed tools as required by client to make process more efficient.
  • Fixed issues on PROD/UAT environment.
  • Developed and supported more than 10 customers for Samsung LSM product.
  • Visited client location (JIO Mumbai) for gathering requirement from Customer to develop LSM functionality.

Technical Consultant

Virtusa
11.2018 - 09.2019
  • Automation of project report generation using Java.
  • Backend developer under Agile methodologies.
  • Fixed pre and post live issues during production release.
  • Java Team lead.
  • Organized meeting with designers and client for code walkthrough and requirement gathering.

Staff Consultant

Oracle
Pune
08.2017 - 11.2018
  • Worked for Barclays Banking Project.
  • Developed ATM banking code.
  • Process enhancement and code optimization.

System Engineer

Infosys
06.2015 - 08.2017
  • Infosys Certified Java Programmer and developer.
  • Acquired skills in Spring, Database, Advance Java, Unix and Hibernate.
  • Fixed live issues.

Education

B.E. - Information Technology

SGSITS
04.2015

Skills

  • System Design & Distributed Systems – Scalable, fault-tolerant microservices; low-latency APIs (~300ms) at 8K QPS
  • Cloud Computing & DevOps – AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infra cost optimization
  • Real-time Data Pipelines – Kafka, event-driven architecture, high-throughput ingestion and streaming systems
  • Performance Engineering & Scalability – Latency reduction, caching, logging optimization, throughput scaling
  • Generative AI & Applied ML – Smart Content GenAI pipelines, LLM-powered text generation, supplier data tiebreakers
  • Programming & CS Fundamentals – Java (Core & Advanced), C, Data Structures & Algorithms, Dynamic Programming
  • Databases & Search – SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB), ElasticSearch for high-traffic search and retrieval use cases
  • Engineering Management – Leading 15-member teams, sprint planning, appraisals, hiring, end-to-end EPIC delivery
  • Cross-functional Collaboration – Partnering with product, design, infra, and business stakeholders to drive outcomes
  • Mentorship & Talent Development – Coaching engineers in DSA, system design, and production best practices

Timeline

Engineering Manager

MakeMyTrip
01.2025 - Current

Tech Lead

MakeMyTrip
02.2022 - 12.2024

Senior Consultant

Samsung RND
09.2019 - 02.2022

Technical Consultant

Virtusa
11.2018 - 09.2019

Staff Consultant

Oracle
08.2017 - 11.2018

System Engineer

Infosys
06.2015 - 08.2017

B.E. - Information Technology

SGSITS
Yash Asati