Atanu Mandal

About Atanu Mandal

Engineering leader evolving into AI-driven engineering leadership, building and scaling product, platform, and AI capabilities across a 50+ engineer organization.Embedded AI across the SDLC to improve throughput by 30%+ and reduce delivery cycle times by 25–40%. Bring a combination of platform thinking, execution rigor, and applied AI adoption, driving measurable improvements in engineering productivity, quality, and cost efficiency.Focus Areas: Engineering Leadership • AI & Platform Strategy • Product & Technology Roadmapping • Cloud & Distributed Systems • DevOps & SRE • Process Optimization • Technology Governance

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   PwC India

   Dec 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Lead a product and platform engineering organization with 10 direct reports and ~50 engineers, delivering multiple enterprise-grade applications used across regulated client environments.• Drive end-to-end ownership of engineering execution, spanning product delivery, platform reliability, security posture, and operational excellence.• Led competency-wide adoption of AI-assisted software development, embedding AI into IDEs, testing, and code review workflows; reduced PR cycle time by 25–40%, lowered repetitive development effort by 30%+, and improved overall delivery throughput.• Integrated AI-driven quality gates and automated reviews into CI/CD pipelines, contributing to ~20% reduction in post-release defects and improved defect density (DPMO).• Established modern CI/CD and release governance practices to improve deployment predictability, release confidence, and cross-team coordination in fast-moving delivery environments.• Partner closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to align engineering priorities with product outcomes, risk management, and cost efficiency.• Own budgeting, capacity planning, and lifecycle management for engineering compute and platform infrastructure, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.

Education

• Arambag High School

  High School, Science

  2000 — 2002

• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

  Associate Director Program

• Indian School of Business

  ISB Executive Education, New Directors Programme

• Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2002 — 2006

• DPU - Institute of Distance learning

  Master's degree, Marketing

Skills

• Quality Center
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Pl/Sql
• Client Relations
• Microsoft Azure
• .net Framework
• .net
• Linq
• Wcf
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Design Patterns
• Scsf
• Soa
• Performance Tuning
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Asp.net Mvc
• Wpf
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)