Braj Kishore

About Braj Kishore

I am a Problem Solving Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience developing & scaling large scale engineering Systems and leading cross-functional teams across geographies. Proven track record in building engineering teams from the ground up.My philosophy is Think Big, Start Small & Scale Fast! Delivered $10M in annual revenue and 11% user growth by leading a 30+ member cross-functional Pods to design and scale high-impact payments systems, including Wallet, UPI, bank integrations and growth Achieved $5M/year cost savings and 5× system scalability by leading cross-team architectural revamps, optimizing ML models, reducing P0 incidents by 80%, and cutting AWS costs of my teams by 35%. Built and scaled tech orgs across 5 industries (FinTech, IoT, Cloud, Telecom, Healthcare), delivering large scale products for both B2C and B2B markets through hands-on architectural leadershipKey Impacts:* Engineering Manager-II at Deliveroo: Leading multi-pod teams to build ML-based systems for restaurant selection, routing, and delivery predictions. Drove initiatives that boosted scalability by 5x and cut infrastructure costs by 35%.* Chief Technology Officer at Innovatiview: Built a ground-up engineering team of 20+ and delivered IoT-based real-time tracking platforms and AI-enabled computer vision solutions. Drove $3.3M YoY GMV and secured 11+ government contracts.* Senior Engineering Manager at Mobikwik: Led the refactoring of the UPI stack, enabling $10M revenue growth, reducing latency by 5x, and decreasing infrastructure costs by 15%. Achieved 100%+ team expansion with near-zero attrition.* Tech Lead at DocASAP / Optum: Architected a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant outreach platform that increased patient rescheduling by 38%.* Technical Leader at Paytm: Mentored 12+ engineers and reduced UAT cycle time by 90% and cut bugs by ~70%.Core Strengths & Skills:Engineering Leadership: Org Building, Tech Hiring, OKRs, Coaching, Performance Reviews, DevEx Enablement, Cross-Functional Team LeadershipSystem Design & Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, ML Pipelines, AI/ML platform, GenAI Integration, High-Scale Platforms, FinTech & Health Compliance (PCI-DSS, GDPR, PII,PHI,HIPAA, SOC2)Cloud, Data & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Istio, Metaflow, ObservabilityProgramming & Frameworks: Java, Golang, Python, Spring Boot, React, Vue.js, Flutter

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Deliveroo

   Jul 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Delhi College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Skills

• C++
• Visualvm
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Spring
• Gradle
• Json
• Shell Scripting
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• Spring Framework
• C
• Servlets
• Android Development
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Restful Webservices
• Linux
• Hibernate
• Telecommunications
• Git
• Tomcat
• Web Applications
• Java Database Connectivity (Jdbc)
• J2ee
• Struts
• Mysql
• Jprofiler
• Maven
• Spring Boot
• Html5
• Xmpp
• Webrtc
• Core Java
• Jsp
• Javascript
• Java