Vinod L P
@vinodlp
Engineering Manager building GenAI, Kubernetes platforms, and reliable infrastructure—driving measurable cost savings and uptime.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m an Engineering Manager with 20+ years leading distributed and co-located teams (5–15 engineers) to build AI platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and enterprise systems with measurable P&L impact. I’ve helped generate £10M in savings, reduce infrastructure costs by $100K+/month, and deliver 99.99% uptime for systems processing $100M+/day.
I lead globally distributed teams across time zones with documentation-first, async-friendly execution—written roadmaps, decision records, and incident postmortems. I own incident management, roadmapping, resource forecasting, and SLA/observability standards, using DevOps practices and DORA metrics to raise reliability and delivery quality.
My strongest focus is GenAI/agentic AI delivery and Kubernetes-native infrastructure, with FinOps-style cost engineering at the core. I’m targeting remote-first Engineering Manager roles in platform, reliability, and AI infrastructure where I can combine technical depth, operational rigor, and cost-aware scaling.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led a cross-functional AI platform team, scaling an AI simulation platform to multiple models and enabling 1,000+ annual simulations. Owned incident management, roadmapping, and resource forecasting, including written postmortems and SLA/observability standards, and launched an agentic AI assistant that reduced support requests by 30%.
Led a globally distributed engineering effort for a high-throughput digital payments platform operating with 99.99% uptime for $100M+/day activity. Architected store-and-forward fault tolerance, coordinated distributed incident response, and enforced DevOps/GitOps and secure coding practices through documented engineering standards.
Managed the Mint platform transition (sunset Dec 2023) and led cross-stakeholder engineering for large-scale migration and platform reliability. Oversaw Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure and FinOps-style cost reductions, prototyped real-time risk analysis using OpenAI LLMs, and built a multi-cloud Spark ETL pipeline reducing cross-cloud data latency by 40%.
Tech Lead Manager
Bukuwarung
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 (9 months)
Led cross-border remote engineering for a 7M+ user fintech platform, building an AI-powered customer support tool that reduced resolution time from days to minutes. Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 20% using Terraform/IaC with rightsizing and auto-scaling, and owned a PaaS platform with Firebase authentication, notifications, and BigQuery analytics.
Delivered compliance-first fiscal reporting pipelines meeting statutory requirements across multiple jurisdictions. Automated the TLS certificate lifecycle using AWS and Venafi, saving one person-week per renewal cycle.
Modernized a legacy Java/J2EE platform into cloud-native AWS microservices and owned the full SDLC across a 10-engineer team. Reduced production bugs from 20/month to 5/month through test automation and pair programming.
Improved customer onboarding by integrating REST APIs with Oracle CX, reducing onboarding from 2–3 weeks to under 1 day and increasing conversion by 15%. Cut storage footprint by 60% and co-developed a new Oracle Fusion vertical that created net-new revenue.
Designed a full-stack web platform supporting 2M users for Belgium’s second-largest telecom and built a financial TCO module for SaaS fleet management serving 100K employees. Delivered solutions through distributed onshore/offshore collaboration.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
BITS Pilani
Master of Technology (M.Tech), Software Systems
Completed an M.Tech in Software Systems at BITS Pilani in 2020.
Great Lakes
Postgraduate Program in Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing
Completed a postgraduate program in Cloud Computing at Great Lakes in 2020.
University of Kerala
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Electronics & Communication
Earned a B.Tech in Electronics & Communication from the University of Kerala in 2004.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
IndiaAuthorized to work in
Portfolio
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