Results-driven engineering leader with experience leading global software organisations across various industries and domains. I bring experience in building and scaling engineering teams, and optimising engineering execution by investing in robust delivery systems that drive strategic business outcomes.
As a leader, I am passionate about solving complex business problems across technology, people, process, and culture, my playbook comes from real experience across different organisations and roles. I leverage my technical expertise, agile delivery, and coaching experience to empower people and teams.
“The best engineering organisations are not defined by the technology they build, they are defined by the clarity of purpose, the quality of decisions, and the people who choose to grow within them.”
Scaling & Delivery Excellence
- Scaled and led a 30-person distributed engineering organisation across UK and Mumbai at R3, with full accountability for delivery, quality, and performance
- Reduced PR cycle time to under 48 hours at Simply Business by putting engineering metrics to work for coaching, not just reporting
- Cut time-to-market by 50% at TUI through continuous delivery and shift-left initiatives across 8 partner scrum teams
- Led ISO 27001 certification across a greenfield engineering department, embedding SDLC best practice from day one
People, Culture & Commercial Impact
- Delivered new insurance products and distribution channels from scratch, including landmark partnerships with Barclays, Compare the Market, and MoneySupermarket
- Founded and led a 4 to 6 person Product Discovery & Innovation team, reducing wasted investment via lightweight, low-code demand validation
- Drove a DE&I hiring initiative reaching 20 to 25% representation of women and Black engineers, a sustained, structural outcome
- Owned the full people loop across growing distributed teams: hiring, onboarding, performance, and retention
Areas of Expertise
Engineering Strategy Execution | Organisational Scaling | Product Delivery Excellence | Agile & OKR Frameworks | Technical Governance | Team Topology Design | Team Mentorship & Career Development | Cross-Functional Leadership | Stakeholder Communication & Roadmap Alignment
Professional Experience
Head of Engineering / Director of Engineering, R3 Limited
Aug 2023 to Dec 2025
R3 delivers currency and financial technology solutions · Fintech · London
- Co-Led engineering for R3's CBDC platform, a greenfield distributed ledger system for tokenised central-bank money (retail & wholesale)
- Scaled and led a 30-person distributed engineering organisation across UK and Mumbai, with full accountability for delivery outcomes, engineering quality, and team performance
- Championed the adoption of AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and ChatGPT/GPT-4, through a structured programme of experimentation and pilots across testing, code review, and documentation generation
- Established team norms and agreed principles for responsible AI tool use, covering code ownership and review standards
- Co-Led ISO 27001 certification across the engineering department on a greenfield codebase, embedding SDLC best practice while laying foundations for a scalable AI development practice
- Introduced quarterly product increments with tangible client demos, improving delivery predictability and stakeholder confidence in a complex, regulated programme
- Partnered with C-suite and product leadership on AI adoption strategy, engineering org design, and process innovation, translating executive vision into executable engineering direction
Senior Engineering Manager (Transform Group), Simply Business
May 2019 to Jul 2023
InsurTech providing insurance for SME businesses in the UK/US · Insurance · London
- Led engineering teams to deliver new insurance product capabilities and distribution channels, including direct, embedded, and partnerships for Transform engineering group
- Introduced a team of engineers focussed on Product Discovery and Innovation for designing and testing new ideas in the insurance market, paving the way for new value streams, products, and features
- Managed and coached multiple product focussed teams with ~20 engineers whilst building and scaling high-performance teams
- Worked with senior engineering leaders, architecture owners, and product leaders to drive key design and architectural decisions that solve and break down complex business problems to tangible technical components for iterative value delivery
- Assisted senior management in team topologies, capacity planning, metrics, talent, and retention strategy
- Partnered with Talent team as Hiring Manager for hiring, interviews, and placement of engineers and new roles
- Partnered with product & engineering leaders and business stakeholders to understand objectives, budget targets, build roadmaps to develop and execute tech strategy
Sr. Technology Manager, TUI
Feb 2017 to May 2019
A leading global travel and leisure experience company · Travel · London
- Led delivery and deployment of new product features and projects to TUI web and retail sites as part of a £5m budget, responsible for 8 partner scrum development teams
- Enabled a continuous delivery pipeline and shift-left initiatives, including feature-driven development, Git branching strategy, and test automation, reducing time to market by 50% within 6 months
- Drove key solution decisions and approvals aligned with the strategic vision of the department, ensuring value-driven prioritisation for the technical backlog
- Standardised and maximised use of the agile toolkit to improve team collaboration and efficiency
Certifications
AI for Business Transformation: Generative AI, Agentic AI and Beyond
Imperial College Business School, Executive Education · 2026
Introduction to Generative AI for Software Development
DeepLearning.AI · 2026
Team Software Engineering with AI
DeepLearning.AI · 2026
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Early Career
TalkTalk Group PLC, Change Manager (Tech Transformation)
London · Apr 2016 to Feb 2017
Thomas Cook Group PLC, Technology Manager (Agile Delivery)
London · Sep 2012 to Mar 2016
Accenture, Technical Lead
UK · Dec 2007 to Sep 2012
Infosys, Software Engineer
India · Nov 2005 to Dec 2007
Education
Mumbai University
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Network Communications
Skills