Muralidhar K

About Muralidhar K

As a Engineering Manager at DAZN, where I lead cross-functional teams to build scalable and reliable distributed systems for a global user base. My experience spans both backend technologies like Node.js and microservices, and frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, and AngularJS. This full-stack perspective helps me design products and architectures that are robust, efficient, and tailored for high concurrency and performance. Before moving into management, I served as a Technical Lead, focusing on mentoring engineers and driving technical improvements across platforms.Throughout my career, I have delivered large-scale solutions with a focus on optimizing performance, security, and reliability. I have helped scale systems to support over 300+ million users and reduced API response times from over 10 seconds to under a second. I prioritize building strong engineering cultures and aligning technology strategies with business goals to deliver impactful results. My teams and I have executed seamless user migrations, modernized legacy apps, and enhanced observability and platform resilience with modern tools and cloud services.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   DAZN

   Mar 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Engineering Manager passionate about architecting and scaling robust distributed systems for hundreds of millions of global users. Specialized in optimizing authentication, user management, Offers and content delivery to achieve sub-second response times—no matter how extreme the load. During high-impact scenarios like FIFA-scale events, I deliver reliability and speed.Performance Optimization: Cut critical API response times from 10+ seconds to under 1 second by leveraging intelligent caching, eliminating redundant database calls, and designing scalable microservice architectures.Massive Scalability: Engineered platforms to seamlessly support 300M+ users, providing reliability during the world’s largest sporting events.Security & Compliance: Migrated sensitive secrets from Vault to AWS Secrets Manager, ensuring secure API communication and boosting platform resilience.Platform Reliability: Built resilient queueing, caching, and fallback mechanisms (Redis, Kafka, AWS) to guarantee uptime, even when upstream services fail.Engineering Excellence: Delivered 100+ architectural solutions and 15+ custom tools for SOC and Operations, enabling real-time monitoring and actionable user insights.Seamless Migrations: Led multi-million user migrations with zero data loss, revamped legacy apps (e.g, React to Next.js) reducing startup time from 35s to under 5s.Observability: Managed migration of 150+ services from New Relic to Coralogix with complete visibility and effective alerting, ensuring uncompromised monitoring throughout.Leadership: Currently managing a 25+ member engineering team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and an environment focused on clean code and test-driven development.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2005 — 2011