Manoj D.

About Manoj D.

I’m an AVP–Engineering who builds reliable, scalable products by aligning strategy, architecture, and delivery. I lead cross-functional teams across backend, web, mobile, QA, DevOps, Security & Compliance, and turn business goals into clear roadmaps and systems that ship predictably.I focus on platform reliability and speed, clean service boundaries and API contracts, CI/CD with feature flags and releases, strong observability (logs/metrics/traces), and SRE practices—SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, on-call, and postmortems. Security and cost discipline are built in.Recent wins include standardizing APIs and data lifecycle, strengthening incident response, lifting deploy frequency while reducing failure/MTTR, and optimizing AWS spend. I love mentoring engineers, simplifying complex work, and raising the quality bar.

Experience

1. Assistant Vice President Engineering (Current)

   Emoha

   Aug 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Role focused on security and cloud platform, with primary emphasis on engineering planning, architecture, delivery, and reliability for Emoha’s technology function- Engineering scope includes backend, web, mobile, QA, DevOps,Security and Compliance- Partner with Product on priorities, quarterly roadmaps, release plans, and technical epics- Define system design using modular services, clear boundaries, and shared libraries- Establish API and integration standards: REST, versioning, idempotency, pagination, authentication, and rate limits- Own data design and operations: schema design, migrations, retention, backups, and access controls- Maintain coding practices: secure coding, and reusable patterns- Drive test strategy: unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests, with coverage targets- Manage release practices: feature flags, canary, and blue-green deployments, with a release calendar- Improve performance and scale: profiling, caching, CDN tuning, query optimization, and capacity plans- Lead reliability: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, alerting, on-call, incident response, postmortems, and runbooks- Build observability: centralized logs, metrics, and traces- Run AWS platform: accounts, IAM, VPC networking, RDS/MySQL, S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, WAF, backups, and cost monitoring- Implement security and compliance: policies, access reviews, secrets management, dependency scanning, vulnerability management, vendor risk, data privacy, and audit support- Manage collaboration and platforms: MFA, DLP, and least-privilege access- Coordinate vendors and stakeholders: tool evaluation, contracts, status reporting, and risk trackingTech stack: Node.js, Express, React, Next.js, React Native, MySQL, AWS