Current role
Leading automation engineering at Zepto
Focused on fulfillment systems, workflow orchestration, inventory correctness, reliability, and engineering execution across operationally critical platforms.
Backend leadership profile
Backend Engineering Leader
Backend engineering leader building systems that scale, stay reliable, and survive real operational complexity.
I build backend platforms, fulfillment systems, and mission-critical operational software for teams that need scale, reliability, and clear execution.
I have 8+ years of experience across distributed systems, event-driven architecture, workflow orchestration, platform reliability, performance optimization, technical roadmapping, and engineering leadership. I currently lead automation engineering work at Zepto, after previously owning backend and platform systems at Unacademy.
8+ years building backend platforms
Built automation engineering at Zepto from inception
~40% cloud cost reduction at Unacademy
Location
Bengaluru, India
Strong background in backend development, cloud systems, platform engineering, and cross-functional technical leadership.
8+
Years of engineering experience
Backend platforms, fulfillment systems, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and operational software.
12
Hub rollout scale at Zepto
Led automation engineering work across a multi-hub fulfillment rollout with reliability and operational ownership.
~40%
Cloud cost reduction
Drove infrastructure optimization at Unacademy while improving scalability and service operations.
~2K
CRM users supported
Led backend systems for internal CRM workflows used by a large sales organization at Unacademy.
About
Backend engineering with ownership, architecture, and operational depth.
I build and lead systems where reliability, product scale, and day-to-day execution all matter.
I work where backend architecture, product scale, and engineering ownership meet. My experience spans fulfillment systems, internal platforms, workflow orchestration, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and production reliability.
I have led engineering teams, owned critical services, partnered with operations and product teams, and built systems that support real business workflows under operational pressure.
I optimize for systems that remain understandable, observable, and maintainable as load, domain complexity, and team size increase.
Tech Leadership
- Lead sprint planning, prioritization, mentoring, technical reviews, technical roadmapping, and delivery ownership for backend teams.
- Partner with Product, Operations, Business, and external integration teams to turn warehouse and platform challenges into reliable systems.
- Own production reliability through on-call handovers, incident triage, monitoring, alerting, and first-line defense for critical workflows.
- Design service boundaries, API contracts, workflow orchestration, and platform capabilities used by multiple teams.
What I Care About
- Distributed systems need clear ownership and observable failure modes.
- Operational workflows should be designed with reconciliation and recovery in mind.
- Platform primitives create leverage when they are simple, reliable, and reusable.
- Cost, reliability, and developer velocity should be treated as product constraints.
- Leadership is strongest when technical quality and execution rhythm improve together.
Architecture & Systems
Distributed systemsEvent-driven architectureWorkflow orchestrationMicroservicesAPI design
Domain & Reliability
Fulfillment systemsWarehouse automationInventory reconciliationObservabilityMonitoringAlerting
Cloud & Platform
AWSGCPKubernetesDockerJenkinsCloudFormation
Languages
GoPythonBash
Data & Messaging
PostgreSQLMySQLRedisKafkaTemporalSQSPub/Sub
Leadership & Execution
Engineering leadershipCross-functional leadershipTechnical roadmappingVendor managementIncident managementTeam building
Selected Work
Case studies across fulfillment, platform, and realtime systems.
A closer look at the engineering problems, architecture choices, and production outcomes behind the work.
Zepto
Automation and Fulfillment Platforms
Automation Engineering Leadership
Backend and platform ownership for fulfillment automation, operational reliability, and workflow execution across a multi-hub rollout.
GoTemporalKafkaPostgreSQL
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Unacademy
CRM and Sales Platform Systems
Backend Platform Ownership
Backend systems for CRM workflows supporting roughly 2,000 internal sales users.
PythonDjangoMySQLAWS
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Unacademy
Authorization and Platform Services
Architecture & Reliability
Core platform services across authorization, notifications, logging, monitoring, infrastructure, and production reliability.
GoPythonDockerKubernetesAWSJenkins
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Kruzr
Real-Time Driving Behavior Platform
Realtime Systems
Backend models, microservices, and asynchronous stream processing for sensor-driven driving behavior analysis.
PythonFlaskKafkaDockerKubernetesGCPAWS
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Zepto
Fulfillment automation leadership
Built automation engineering work from inception across fulfillment integrations, workflow orchestration, reliability, and operational execution.
Unacademy
Infrastructure cost optimization
Drove cloud and platform optimization that reduced web services cloud spend by around 40%.
Unacademy
Kubernetes migration
Migrated core backend servers from EC2 to Kubernetes to improve scalability, availability, and infrastructure management.
Unacademy
Authorization architecture
Built centralized authorization capabilities for internal and external users across the wider Unacademy ecosystem.
Experience
Experience across backend leadership, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure.
Roles focused on engineering ownership, distributed systems, reliability, and production execution.
Nov 2024 - Present
Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE-3) / Automation Engineering Lead
Zepto • Bengaluru, India
- Built automation engineering work from inception, defining team charter, ownership boundaries, engineering processes, operational excellence practices, integration strategy, and technology roadmap.
- Lead a 6-engineer warehouse automation team across sprint planning, technical reviews, mentoring, onboarding, delivery management, on-call operations, SOPs, and stakeholder alignment.
- Partner with Product, Operations, Business, and external integration teams to identify warehouse bottlenecks, redesign fulfillment workflows, and design scalable automation solutions.
- Designed event-driven inventory synchronization, entity mapping, reconciliation, monitoring, alerting, and operational workflows to improve inventory correctness and failure recovery.
Oct 2019 - Oct 2024
Principal Engineer
Unacademy • Bengaluru, India
- Led CRM engineering for roughly 2,000 sales users, owning backend workflows and platform reliability.
- Drove infrastructure cost optimization for web services, reducing cloud spend by around 40%.
- Migrated core backend servers from EC2 to Kubernetes for scalability, availability, and infrastructure management.
- Owned notification and authorization platforms, observability, API and SQL performance, production availability, scaling, and security.
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Backend Engineer
Kruzr Smart Driving Assistant • Bengaluru, India
- Architected backend models for processing sensor data and personalizing driving behavior.
- Migrated monolithic services to microservices to reduce single points of failure and improve processing scalability.
- Implemented asynchronous stream processing for realtime sensor data and low-latency user notifications.
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Platform Engineer
Quantiphi Inc. • Mumbai, India
- Architected infrastructure for video recording ingestion, cloud uploads, and stream processing.
- Built CloudFormation deployment automation across AWS and GCP infrastructure while managing resource dependencies.
- Worked on secure multi-cloud media source selection without exposing source videos publicly.
Contact
Open to backend, platform, and systems conversations.
The fastest way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.
Let's talk about backend systems, fulfillment platforms, reliability, or infrastructure.
Reach out if you're hiring, collaborating, or just want to discuss scalable services, reliability, cloud architecture, or engineering systems.
sagaryadaviitk@gmail.com