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Swapnil Suradkar

Pune

Summary

Engineering Manager at Velsera | Leading teams to deliver high-quality solutions | Driving Agile execution and fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Velsera
07.2024 - Current

Leadership & Delivery Technical Oversight & System Design Business & Stakeholder Enablement

  • Led two PODs (around 8 engineers each) to deliver the product end-to-end with consistent quality and predictable timelines.
  • Acted as a bridge between Technology teams and ELT, aligning execution with business strategy.
  • Defined engineering roadmaps, streamlined processes, and implemented Agile/Scrum practices, improving productivity and reducing time-to-market.
  • Built and nurtured a high-performance culture through mentoring, career planning, and knowledge-sharing practices.
  • Owned hiring for critical roles, ensuring strong technical depth and continuity within the team.
  • Maintained 100% team productivity by proactively removing blockers, resolving escalations, and driving clarity in priorities.
  • Involved in solution designing, application security initiatives like vulnerability scanning and remediation with CrowdStrike.
  • Collaborated with DevOps to optimize infra costs: analyzing and setting up lifecycle policies for S3, ECR cleanup automation, choosing the right instances etc.
  • Partnered with Product Managers to translate business goals into measurable technical outcomes.
  • Submitted monthly business reports, defect analysis sheets, and release updates to leadership.
  • Created Jira dashboards and delivery metrics for stakeholder visibility and data-driven decisions.
  • Reduced risks by proactively evaluating requirements, managing dependencies, and ensuring compliance in design workflows.

Technical Lead

PierianDX / Velsera
08.2021 - 07.2024
  • Gained in-depth expertise in JavaScript core concepts and ES6+ features, modernizing legacy code by replacing callbacks with Promises and Async/Await to improve readability and maintainability.
  • Optimized web application performance through advanced techniques such as lazy loading, debouncing, async/defer scripts, CDNs, CSS media queries, and pagination, significantly reducing load times and enhancing user experience.
  • Conducted technical training sessions for developers on key web development concepts, including Critical Rendering Path, Execution Context, Event Loop, Closures, Prototyping, Deep vs. Shallow Clone, Memoization, Partials, and CSS Specificity, fostering continuous learning across the team.
  • Designed and deployed microservices architecture leveraging Spring Boot, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, and EventBridge, with fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket, achieving 100% hands-free deployments.
  • Led the end-to-end SDLC process from requirement gathering, UX design, and development to deployment and ongoing maintenance, ensuring delivery of scalable and resilient solutions.
  • Mentored and coached junior developers, providing hands-on guidance in engineering best practices and modern web development.

Senior Software Engineer

PierianDx
11.2018 - 07.2021
  • Authored analysis and design documents for new features and developed scalable solutions using JavaScript, Angular, and ReactJS aligned with business requirements.
  • Refactored and modularized CSS architecture to prevent cascading issues; applied Normalize.CSS/Reset.CSS for consistent cross-browser compatibility.
  • Led a major JavaScript codebase refactoring, including migration of a critical module from Vanilla JS to ReactJS, improving maintainability and performance.
  • Resolved locale-specific issues by engineering custom modal components, eliminating reliance on inconsistent browser-native pop-ups.
  • Developed and customized jQuery/jQueryUI plugins, gaining in-depth understanding of jQuery’s internal mechanisms.
  • Implemented the Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) design pattern in jQuery to enable seamless inter-module communication, improving modularity and scalability.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Pune, India
08-2013

Skills

  • Technical Leadership / Execution

  • Management & Strategy

  • Communication & Soft Skills

  • Frontend Technologies

  • AI/ML, Big Data & Analytics familiarity

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Velsera
07.2024 - Current

Technical Lead

PierianDX / Velsera
08.2021 - 07.2024

Senior Software Engineer

PierianDx
11.2018 - 07.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Swapnil Suradkar