The Economist Group

Senior Engineering Manager

09/2021 – Present | Gurugram, NCR — Promoted from Engineering Manager in 2024

Expanded remit to lead engineering across The Economist Enterprise — Intelligence, Impact, Corporate Network, and Media Solutions products. Leading a 30-person cross-functional engineering organisation, including 13 direct reports and 16 skip-level team members across frontend, backend, QA, and engineering management.

• Represented The Economist Group engineering externally through APIDays Conference and led The Economist to India Digital Awards nomination for "Best Use of Cloud & Data Strategy in Architecture."
• Increased portfolio delivery throughput by 3x in six months by implementing an AI-augmented engineering operating model across four squads, improving sprint throughput from 20 to 42 points and moving release cadence from sprint-based delivery to continuous production deployment.
• Improved Viewpoint Platform uptime from 99.0% to 99.9% and achieved zero P1 incidents for six consecutive months by introducing runbooks, alerting policies, on-call schedules, and incident response practices across New Relic, AWS, GitHub, and Cloudflare.
• Led delivery of the Forecasting Data Platform, enabling 100+ analysts to build and publish economic forecasts through an Excel Add-in, Okta/GitHub SSO, .NET Core microservices, AWS, Python model-serving services, and a governed data lake.
• Onboarded 15+ hosted forecasting models and reduced manual analyst data preparation by 30+ hours per week through platform automation and governed model-serving workflows.
• Delivered Viewpoint Report Builder and Operational Risk modules, strengthening non-functional requirements, analytics instrumentation, and architecture review practices to support enterprise subscriber retention and upsell strategy.
• Institutionalised SPAR and FinOps practices across delivery teams, introducing incident response playbooks and cloud cost controls that reduced unplanned outages to near zero and brought infrastructure spend under active governance.
• Scaled engineering maturity across four squads by introducing structured onboarding, competency frameworks, RFC-based decision governance, and consistent engineering quality practices.
• Defined responsible AI adoption standards for engineering teams, including guardrails for AI-assisted code generation, review quality, security, accessibility, and architectural ownership.
• Led key business acquisitions and India business promotion strategies for The Economist group with over $1M client business acquisition.

Bajaj Finserv Group (Marketing Technology)

Technology Lead – MarTech

04/2021 – 09/2021 | Remote / Hybrid in Pune

• Architected and launched the marketing site and Bharat Bill Payment System migration from legacy stack to a CMS-based platform using React, Adobe Experience Manager, and Node.js middleware, contributing to an uplift in organic traffic and meeting weekly revenue payment targets.
• Introduced engineering SOPs, test-driven development practices, and a Progressive Web App strategy for a contractor-heavy team, improving code quality, delivery predictability, and onboarding speed during a compressed five-month tenure.

The Economist Group (Economist Intelligence)

Front End Engineering Manager

08/2017 – 03/2021 | Gurugram, NCR — Senior Web Developer to Front-end Engineering Manager - 2019

First technology hire for EIU Gurugram; helped build the engineering function from the ground up and scale it into a multi-squad organisation.

• Migrated 21 products over three years from legacy jQuery and vanilla JavaScript to a React SPA architecture with custom state management, supporting a 96% subscriber retention rate across the modernised platform.
• Architected a reusable data-visualisation framework using Highcharts, Google Charts, and third-party API integrations, reducing time-to-ship for new analytical modules and standardising visual quality across EIU Country and Industry Analysis products.
• Built and governed an analytics instrumentation framework using Google Analytics and Adobe Launch, establishing portfolio-level data governance and enabling evidence-based product decisions.
• Embedded WCAG accessibility reviews and QA coordination into standard delivery workflows, helping EIU Viewpoint pass external accessibility audits.
• Accelerated product feasibility and scope decisions by delivering rapid UX and design proof-of-concepts, enabling product leadership to prioritise roadmap investments using validated technical evidence.
• Won EIU Innovation Day 2019 for engineering a media asset management solution recognised as "Best Business and Ready to Live" solution.

Sapient Nitro

Associate Experience Technology L2

11/2014 – 08/2017 | Gurugram, NCR — Junior Associate → Interactive Developer L1 (2015) → L2 (2017)

• Engineered client-facing websites and internal portals for Australian Computer Society, Visa, Boston Consulting Group, and ASX using JavaScript, SASS, Handlebars, Backbone.js, reusable component libraries, and AEM Forms.
• Built interactive data visualisation solutions, including JSON-driven filtering and faceting engines, API-based map modules, and D3.js dashboards for data-rich client experiences.
• Recognised with the Out of the Box Thinking & Work Award and Annual Marketing & Content Platforms Service Line Reward for delivery innovation and client impact.