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kuldeep sharma

@kdsiitd

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Engineering manager with 16 years scaling distributed fintech/data security teams and AI-assisted delivery.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead AI-enabled engineering teams building scalable distributed systems in fintech/data security—driving architecture, hiring, agile execution, production reliability, and cost optimization with strong stakeholder alignment.

I’m an engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams and distributed systems across fintech, data security, e-commerce, and SaaS. I drive technical strategy, optimize platform performance, and focus on measurable cost savings—backed by hands-on expertise in Java and distributed architectures.

In my recent roles, I’ve led cross-regional engineering organizations and set up agile operating models to align delivery with business goals. I’m also actively modernizing teams with AI-assisted development (Microsoft Copilot, Cursor AI, Claude Code) to improve code quality and developer productivity, while delivering end-to-end scalable systems at petabyte scale. From building engineering processes and incident management to architecture decisions and hiring/retention, I’m committed to engineering excellence, production reliability, and risk-reducing outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Engineering Manager

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Concentric AI

Sep 2025 - Present (10 months)

Leads the connectors team for structured and unstructured data at petabyte scale and manages end-to-end delivery of scalable systems. Introduced AI-assisted development with Microsoft Copilot and drives roadmap planning, architecture choices, and engineering excellence.

Engineering Leadership Technical Architecture Roadmapping Stakeholder Management Agile Scrum Distributed Systems Microservices Java Spring Boot Kafka Redis AI assisted Development Microsoft Copilot Data Security DSPM DLP Incident Management Cost Optimization

Engineering Manager

Moniepoint

Feb 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Leads the Monnify (payment gateway) engineering team owning end-to-end delivery of core payment and settlement systems. Drove architecture decisions and stakeholder alignment and introduced AI-assisted development with Cursor AI and Claude Code.

Engineering Leadership Stakeholder Management Agile Scrum Distributed Systems Microservices Java Spring Boot Kafka Redis AI assisted Development Cursor Claude Code FinTech: Payments Incident Management

Engineering Manager

Bluecore

Oct 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 4 months)

Leads the delivery team responsible for last-mile email/SMS campaign processing. Optimized service architecture and cloud resource utilization to save over $1M/year and built the team from scratch with on-call and incident management processes.

Engineering Leadership Delivery Ownership Agile Scrum Incident Management Cost Optimization Distributed Systems Microservices Java Spring Boot Kafka Redis

Senior Engineering Manager

Joveo

Mar 2021 - Oct 2021 (7 months)

Managed the core services department across multiple engineering teams and a technical support function for a high-throughput ad processing platform. Hired and trained engineering teams, streamlined Jira workflows, and made system redesign decisions to improve performance and ROI.

Engineering Leadership Distributed Systems High Throughput Systems Microservices Incident Management Agile Scrum Java Spring Boot Kafka Redis

Senior Manager - Engineering

Dhisco (RateGain)

Nov 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year)

Led the Hotel Content team building a content onboarding and inventory distribution platform for global supply partners. Streamlined data pipelines and integrated new supply partners to improve onboarding efficiency and distribution performance.

Engineering Leadership Data Pipelines System Integration Distributed Systems Microservices Java Spring Boot

Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer

Caastle Technologies

Mar 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 7 months)

Promoted to Engineering Manager leading a backend team working on microservices and internal tools for a Clothing-as-a-Service platform. As Principal Engineer, owned critical backend modules, drove system modernization, and established agile practices.

Engineering Leadership Microservices System Modernization Agile Scrum Distributed Systems High Level Design (HLD)Java Spring Boot

Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Times Internet Limited

Jan 2012 - Mar 2017 (5 years 2 months)

Led core engineering teams for Times Brandwire and the Times Points loyalty platform and managed multiple projects. Redesigned database schema to reduce data storage by 95%, launched responsive web portals and mobile apps, and introduced code reviews and modular build architectures to optimize production releases.

Engineering Leadership Team Management Database Design Performance Optimization Code Review Modular Architectures Java