Engineering Manager
SpotDraft
Leading Custom Integrations, Strategic Integrations, and Platform Engineering at SpotDraft, with work spanning architecture, delivery design, hiring, roadmap planning, and regular coaching.
Work Profile
A professional profile of what I lead and how I work.
I build software teams and operating systems that help product and engineering move faster without sacrificing quality. Over the last six years, I’ve grown from building large-scale internal fulfillment systems at Amazon to leading multiple teams at SpotDraft across product systems, integrations, and platform engineering.
It brings together my progression from Amazon to SpotDraft, the scope I lead today, and selected public work that reflects how I approach engineering, systems, and team building.
Custom Integrations, Strategic Integrations, and Platform Engineering
Delivery design, specs, technical direction, and execution shaping
Hiring, coaching, delegation, and ownership design
Calmer execution systems with stronger technical leverage
Resume Summary
Open resume PDF Selected experience and credentials
What stands out
Still close to code while leading multiple teams and broader execution systems.
Strong orientation toward integrations, platform thinking, and reusable delivery foundations.
Mentoring style built around ownership, stretch, judgment, and growth through real work.
Experience snapshot
Engineering Manager
Oct 2024 - Present SpotDraft
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024 SpotDraft
Software Engineer
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023 SpotDraft
Software Development Engineer
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021 Amazon Luxembourg
GSoC and open-source systems work
May 2019 - Aug 2019 Chapel ecosystem
Career Chapters
How the work evolved
The progression matters: questionnaire foundations first, then workflow systems, then integrations and Legal Intake, and now broader leadership across integrations, platform work, and people development.
01 
Oct 2024 - Present
Engineering Manager, SpotDraft
Leads three teams across Custom Integrations, Strategic Integrations, and Platform Engineering. Current work spans delivery design, people growth, integration strategy, and the platform systems now being built.
02
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Senior Software Engineer, SpotDraft
Moved from core product systems into integrations, helped shape automation-oriented design for CRM surfaces, and later drove Legal Intake from internal hackathon concept toward a shipped product direction.
03
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
Software Engineer, SpotDraft
Built the self-serve questionnaire experience for template workflows, extended the same foundation to third-party paper without destructive rewrites, and then helped build the current Workflow Manager on top of that broader workflow foundation.
04 
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Luxembourg
Worked on internal fulfillment systems in Amazon's European Fulfillment Network, spanning requirements engineering, feature design, data pipelines, marketplace-launch automation, and high-scale inventory systems.
05
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Engineering student and systems-focused builder
Built practical systems across IoT, full-stack product work, systems programming, and applied computing, including an IoT plant irrigation project and other open-source experiments.
06 
May 2019 - Aug 2019
GSoC and Chapel ecosystem work
Worked with Chapel Language as part of Google Summer of Code 2019 on the Unit Testing Framework for Chapel, which deepened my grounding in systems programming, testing infrastructure, and developer tooling.
Team Scope
What I lead today
15+ developers across SDE 1, SDE 2, SDE 3, Junior IE, and IE levels.
22+ people across engineering, QA, product management, and TPM functions.
Integrations, platform projects, delivery design, and people growth.
Operating Style
Principles that shape my work
Clarity over heroics
Strong teams should not need last-minute heroics to produce good outcomes. Clear goals, clean interfaces, and better operating rhythm scale further.
Cadence is part of architecture
Planning, review, delegation, and communication shape execution quality just as much as technical design does.
Process should remove uncertainty
I prefer systems that reduce ambiguity and unblock decision-making over ritual that only creates more coordination overhead.
Technical quality and delivery quality move together
When architecture is brittle, delivery suffers. When delivery is chaotic, technical quality erodes. I try to improve both at the same time.
Choose leverage when it compounds
I am willing to invest in the more durable design when the future surface area is real and the reuse payoff is meaningful.
PPP: people and product over process
People and product take priority based on the need of the moment. Process matters only when it serves those two; it should never overtake them.
Representative Work
Impact areas
SpotDraft Excellence Award (Q2 2025)
Recognized with SpotDraft's Excellence Award for going above and beyond as an engineering manager, with specific recognition for relentless drive and impact in leveling up the PED function and the product.
Execution systems that reduce coordination noise
Focused on delivery systems, planning quality, and operating cadence so teams can execute with more predictability and less dependence on heroics.
Product systems that keep scaling without rewrites
Built reusable foundations early, from self-serve questionnaire flows to workflow systems, so later product surfaces could expand without destructive rework.
Platform-minded integration strategy
Preferred reusable integration primitives, cleaner configuration surfaces, and declarative design over one-off partner implementations that become expensive to maintain.
Hands-on technical leadership at management scope
Continued contributing materially across frontend, backend, services, and operational engineering while managing multiple teams and broader planning responsibilities.
People growth through ownership design
Used project assignments, tailored 1:1s, and intentional delegation to help engineers build ownership, improve communication, and grow toward larger problem spaces.
Systems and tooling range beyond application code
Open-source tooling work, internal platform engineering, and operational software have shaped how I think about abstractions, tooling quality, and long-term technical leverage.
Selected Projects
Systems and product surfaces I helped shape
The highest-signal product arc is visible here: questionnaire foundations, workflow systems, integrations, hackathon ideas that shipped, and the platform direction now underway.
Core product systems Shipped
Self-Serve Questionnaire and Workflow Manager
A product-systems arc that started with self-serve questionnaire setup for template workflows, was extended to third-party paper on the same foundation, and then evolved into the current Workflow Manager.
Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer
The questionnaire foundation kept compounding. It supported additional workflow types, fed into the current Workflow Manager, and continued to remain useful rather than being thrown away after the first launch.
Strategic integrations Shipped
Salesforce Reverse Sync
A configurable reverse-sync system for pushing contract and workflow data back into Salesforce, shaped to be extensible across triggers, conditions, object mappings, and future automation use cases.
Engineering Manager / technical lead
The result was a stronger integration foundation that could support richer CRM workflows and became a better base for future automations than a one-off reverse-sync implementation.
Hackathon to product Hackathon concept that later shipped
Legal Intake
An internal 2024 hackathon project focused on structured legal-request intake, built with Sanket Mishra and Punit Batra, awarded third prize, and later shaped into a shipped product surface led by me.
Hackathon lead and product-driving engineer
The concept turned into a real Legal Intake surface inside SpotDraft, giving teams a more standardized and scalable way to collect and manage inbound legal requests.
Platform and integration architecture Shipped
HubSpot, Coupa, Slack, and native integration work
Native integration and platform work spanning CRM, collaboration, and adjacent systems, with emphasis on reusable primitives, metadata-aware design, and integration surfaces that stay coherent as the catalog expands.
Senior Software Engineer / Engineering Manager
The resulting surface was more modular and easier to extend across systems like Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and other adjacent integrations without rebuilding core ideas from scratch.
Hackathon concept Hackathon concept later built by another team
Clickthrough
An internal 2023 hackathon concept built with Sanket Mishra and Punit Batra, awarded third prize, and later taken forward into a shipped product by another team.
Hackathon contributor
The project won third prize internally and validated the product direction. A different team later built the production version.
Scale and operational rigor Shipped
Amazon European Fulfillment Network systems
An Amazon EFN chapter focused on internal fulfillment systems, requirements engineering, data pipelines, marketplace-launch automation, and high-scale inventory services where correctness and latency both mattered.
Software Development Engineer
That work covered systems handling more than 300K requests per second at roughly 6ms p90 latency, widened inventory choices across EU countries, reduced prices through broader supply availability, and saved business users about 200 hours of manual work in the first month of one launch.
GSoC and open source Google Summer of Code 2019
Unit Testing Framework for Chapel
My Google Summer of Code 2019 project with Chapel Language focused on the Unit Testing Framework for Chapel, which gave me an early grounding in systems-level tooling and test infrastructure.
Google Summer of Code 2019 contributor
That GSoC chapter sharpened my systems instincts and gave me a stronger appreciation for testing infrastructure, language tooling, and the kinds of abstractions that make developer workflows more reliable.