Manu Gopalakrishnan

About Manu Gopalakrishnan

Engineering Leader with over two decades of experience delivering complex managed services and strategic initiatives within the Payments and Fintech sectors. I am a \"hands-on\" leader who blends technical expertise in Java, Python, and React with a proven track record of managing global engineering teams and vendors across the EU, Americas, and APAC. My focus is on driving operational excellence through automation, re-architecting legacy systems for cloud-native scalability, and ensuring rigorous regulatory compliance in high-stakes environments.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Amazon

   Apr 2022 — Present

   Technical Leadership & Modernization: Lead high-performing engineering teams in the delivery of strategic payment platforms and data engineering solutions, driving business impact through technical innovation and automation. • Architecture Revitalization: Spearheaded the successful re-architecture of critical financial plugins, migrating legacy services to modern, scalable cloud architectures while significantly reducing technical debt and long-term maintenance overhead. • Operational Excellence: Engineered a centralized organizational health dashboard using a modern tech stack (AWS CDK, Redshift), eliminating massive manual data-gathering efforts and enabling data-driven decision-making for senior leadership. • Process Automation: Delivered end-to-end automation for complex partner reporting workflows, achieving a substantial reduction in manual operational effort and reallocating resources to higher-value engineering tasks. • Global Scale & Reliability: Ensure 24/7 reliability for high-volume payment systems, maintaining near-perfect uptime for platforms processing billions in transaction volume. • Cross-Functional Strategy: Orchestrate multi-market expansions for international financial products, coordinating technical roadmaps across Product, Data Science, and global engineering teams. • Security & Compliance: Championed rigorous security standards (including RED certification) and implemented sophisticated error handling and rate-limiting to ensure global regulatory data compliance.

Education

• M.S.M College (Kerala University)

  PreDegree, Mathematics

  1998 — 2000

• Aptech

  Higher Diploma in S/W Engineering, Computer Software Engineering

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Borland Delphi
• Wcf
• Pl/Sql
• Xml
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• C#
• .net
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Sql Server
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• C++
• Business Analysis
• Web Services
• Software Development
• Databases
• Requirements Gathering
• Test Driven Development
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Uml
• C
• Sql
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Software Project Management
• Asp.net
• Itil
• Sdlc
• Windows