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Divyesh Parekh

@divyeshparekh

Engineering Manager and backend leader growing high-performing teams and delivering reliability-critical insurance systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for Engineering Manager roles where team growth and engineering quality are first-class expectations—owning roadmap-to-delivery, building reliable systems, and leading performance-driven hiring, mentorship, and execution.

I’m an engineering leader with 11 years of backend engineering experience, including 2+ years managing a 5-member team at Acko across high-stakes insurance systems. I drive full delivery lifecycle ownership—from roadmap planning with Product to sprint execution, stakeholder communication, and technical hiring.

I combine deep system design expertise with hands-on people leadership. At Acko, I led structured performance management and growth plans, driving 3 direct promotions and running recurring 1:1s and annual appraisal cycles to keep delivery unblocked and accountability clear.

I’m passionate about engineering quality and operational excellence. I established monitoring guidelines across Auto teams (alert matrices, PagerDuty integration, and Zero Throughput alarms) and improved reliability outcomes—reducing weekly support tickets by 50% and improving CX ticket ratios.

I also focus on measurable business impact through engineering execution. From revenue-generating features (including ~INR 10 lakhs/month) to large-scale data correction initiatives (including ~INR 4.5 crore corrections) and accuracy improvements (85% to 98.9%, up to 99.5% fidelity), I aim to build systems that scale and teams that thrive.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Software Engineer

Current

Acko

Apr 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Led a 5-member team end-to-end (sprint planning, performance appraisals, technical hiring, stakeholder reporting) delivering revenue-critical insurance systems. Drove 3 engineer promotions and reduced weekly support tickets by 50% (120 to 60) while improving CX ticket ratio from 17.5 to 12.9 per issued policy.

Engineering Management Performance Management Technical Hiring Microservices Event Driven Architecture Distributed Systems Sprint Planning PagerDuty SQS

Senior Software Engineer

Acko

May 2021 - Apr 2024 (2 years 11 months)

Revamped Policy Management Service, cutting policy update effort by 40%, and implemented a config-driven state machine adopted in 80% of endorsement flows. Stabilized Auto Insurance Policy Service by converting OCR reads to async, reducing operational overload for Endorsement 2.0.

Microservices Architecture REST APIs State Machine Flow Java Spring Boot MySQL

Software Engineer II

BlackBuck

Dec 2018 - Apr 2021 (2 years 4 months)

Designed and built a profitability application using AWS Glue and Athena. Developed a custom invoice generation system with configurable, client-specific specifications.

AWS Glue Amazon Athena Data Modeling SQL Data Pipelines Configuration Management Java

Software Designer

Aruba Networks

Mar 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 9 months)

Implemented Web Workers for an enterprise network management UI, improving initial page load efficiency by 80%. Contributed to delivering responsive, performance-focused web experiences for network management workflows.

JavaScript Network Management Frontend Architecture Asynchronous Browser Computing

Intern to Tech Associate

HashedIn Technologies

Jan 2015 - Feb 2017 (2 years 1 month)

Built Nexus VP, a secure enterprise document management system, owning end-to-end delivery from design to AWS deployment and saving hundreds of manual hours. Developed HipChat integrations across Facebook, Google Drive, Hangouts, Twitter, Trello, and Asana.

Document Management System Design Facebook Integrations Google Hangouts Trello