Engineering Manager with 12 years building AI-native products at scale — across Fintech, HealthTech, SaaS, and Media Streaming. Hands-on coder + people coach. Currently Engineering Leader @slice. Previously Co-Founder & CTO at jumpingMinds AI.

Building engineering systems that compound: products, platforms, and the autonomous tooling that ships them. Focused on AI-native engineering operations — pipelines where agents do the routine work and humans intervene where it matters.

• ai-sdlc — Autonomous SDLC platform. Multi-agent pipeline with specialized reviewer fleet, three-layer blast-radius enforcement, and trust expansion based on measured defect data. Powers the rest of this portfolio. [Public soon]
• piyushgupta.dev — Portfolio + writing. Project teardowns, autonomous-SDLC patterns, AI-native engineering operations. [Coming soon]
• trip-research (private) — Local-first multi-platform hotel meta-search across 6 Indian booking platforms. Replaces a 6-tab spreadsheet workflow with one app.
• career-automation (private) — End-to-end job-search automation: sourcing, fit-check, tailoring, application, inbound, outreach — fully agent-driven.

Lead 3 squads (15+ engineers across backend, mobile, frontend) on slice's merchant payments platform.

• AI OPEX Reporter — AI-generated operational reports for merchant on-call. Cut on-call bandwidth by 50%.
• AI Manager Toolkit — Agentic bots (n8n + Azure OpenAI) for merchant on-call and onboarding. 71% query hit rate · 90s avg resolution (vs. 5–10 min baseline).
• Jira-to-PR Creator (AI SDLC) — Production autonomous SDLC pipeline for the Merchants pod. [In progress]
• Merchant payments infra — scaled to 500+ TPS, P99 latency 200s → 7.5s (15×); serving 6M+ monthly requests at 99.9% uptime.
• Loan origination platform — powered EDL business 16× growth (₹11.58 Cr → ₹186.17 Cr in 8 months); automated underwriting (1 → 3 assessments/day).
• CIB portal + Slice Business App — 110,000+ users, 4.5 stars, ₹60 Cr+ monthly transactions; eliminated 100+ weekly CX queries.
• Merchant network — 0 → 15+ Payment Aggregators (Razorpay, Cashfree, Juspay, Easebuzz); 10×+ volume growth in 12 months.
• Engineering excellence — instituted architecture reviews, PR standards, design doc requirements across 3 squads. 0% unwanted attrition.

Founded India's largest mental-health community from zero. Owned product strategy, engineering, and GTM.

• 0→1 to 1M+ users in 18 months globally; 10K users in 3 months (PMF).
• Agentic user-journey engine — LLM-integrated, sentiment-aware NLP. 30% better personalization · 30+ min avg session engagement · 50% better retention.
• Privacy-by-design AI/ML on AWS/GCP — 99.99% uptime, HIPAA/GDPR-aligned for sensitive health data.
• Hired and developed a remote-first team of 10 across engineering, design, and growth — coached across mobile, backend, ML.
• Cross-functional execution — drove Engineering × Business × Growth collaboration to 2× product execution efficiency.

• Real-time messaging infra (PubSub/MQTT) — 50M concurrent users with sub-second latency · 500M+ total users · drove $100K in ad revenue + 2× engagement.
• Co-founded the Architecture Council — weekly system-design reviews across 15+ teams; reduced cross-team design inconsistencies org-wide.
• Engineering lead within 2 years — owned execution for 5 backend engineers across Social, Gaming, Sports.
• SEA expansion — deployed configurable localization platform; eliminated 80% manual ops, cut country launches by 3 weeks.

• HyperTrack (Lead Engineer, Location AI SaaS, 2016–2017) — Published open-source SDKs featured on HackerNews and GitHub Explore; grew developer community to 1,000+ engineers.
• Shuttl (Senior SWE, Urban Mobility, 2015–2016) — Scaled Android apps across user/driver/ops; +30% stability, −30% bugs.
• Qualcomm (SWE, Embedded Systems, 2014–2015) — C/C++ modules + Jenkins CI/CD; −60% release bugs.

• AI Champion Award + Powerhouse Crew Award — slice · 2026
• Mental Health App of the Year — Economic Times · 2023
• Winner, Digital Health Innovation Challenge — Medix Global · 2023
• 40 Under 40 Tech Leaders — Business World · 2023
• CTO of the Year — Indian Achievers Forum · 2022
• Best Apps of 2021 — Google Play · 2021

TypeScript · Python · Go · Node.js · Java · Android (Java/Kotlin) · React · Next.js · Django AWS · GCP · Kubernetes · Kafka · Terraform · Docker · Postgres · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis GenAI / Agentic AI · LLM APIs · Azure OpenAI · n8n · Claude Agent SDK Microservices · GraphQL · REST · Distributed Systems · Real-time Processing · HIPAA / GDPR / PCI-DSS

B.Tech, IIT Roorkee · 2010–2014 · Exchange: Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Engineering judgment, autonomous SDLC patterns, AI-native team operations, the boring infrastructure that lets teams ship. → piyushgupta.dev (coming soon)

Personal Blog Portfolio · LinkedIn · piyushguptaece@gmail.com