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Padmanabhan V
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Engineering Manager
India
English, Hindi, Tamil
About me
Engineering Manager with extensive experience leading enterprise technology initiatives across engineering management, enterprise platforms, and AI-enabled applications. Experience spans global team leadership, platform delivery, engineering execution, production reliability, and enterprise platform delivery. Recent work includes leading the delivery of a production-scale RAG-based AI application built by a lean engineering team within a fixed budget.
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Work experience
Engineering Manager
Not Found • Full-time
Dec 2020 - Sep 2025 • 4 yrs 9 mos
● Led two engineering teams of 9 engineers across India and Hungary, covering backend, React frontend, and QA. ● Managed end-to-end delivery of an AI-enabled support search platform through a dedicated team of 4 engineers. ● Delivered a RAG-based support platform on AWS within a $120K budget, reducing troubleshooting time to under 20 minutes and supporting a customer-facing portal with ~1,000 DAUs at launch. ● Improved production readiness through HA reviews, operational readiness, InfoSec compliance, and technical alignment, resulting in zero critical post-release defects. ● Delivered platform tooling initiatives across 8 consecutive quarters by managing backlog prioritization, release planning, and execution. ● Partnered with the Product Manager on roadmap refinement, milestone planning, and backlog prioritization, reducing the backlog by approximately 20%. ● Guided the India team through a private acquisition with zero attrition while supporting promotions for 4 engineers to Senior and Principal roles.
Development Manager
Norton • Full-time
Apr 2016 - Dec 2019 • 3 yrs 8 mos
● Led two mobile engineering teams of 10 engineers for the Norton Family application, owning quarterly release delivery. ● Delivered 2+ features per release cycle with zero-day OS compatibility, improving delivery predictability across evolving device environments. ● Modernized testing using WireMock and device-cloud validation, improving regression efficiency and expanding coverage across the top 10 device manufacturers. ● Reduced ANR and crash rates by approximately 10%, improving the Play Store rating by 0.5 over six quarters. ● Resolved production issues through structured RCA execution and follow-up tracking to prevent recurrence.
Technical Manager
Not Found • Full-time
Sep 2014 - Mar 2016 • 1 yr 6 mos
● Built and led an early-stage engineering team of 4 engineers, delivering a NIST-compliant, FIPS-ready enterprise access control platform. ● Developed a multithreaded Java/Spring automation framework, reducing validation across 16 NIST PIV-i cards from over an hour to nearly 15 minutes. ● Improved delivery predictability across three quarters through Agile planning and backlog governance. ● Established Agile practices, including design discussions, code reviews, estimation, sprint planning, and onboarding.
