Engineering leader for the rebuild-and-scale phase, looking for Director, Senior Director or Head of Engineering roles in India or UAE. 15+ years building data platforms, AI-enabled products and the engineering organizations behind them. Most recently Director of Engineering at Teikametrics through January 2026, owning the data platform behind $10B+ in marketplace GMV and $1B+ in annual ad spend across Amazon, Walmart and TikTok Shop.
The rebuild-and-scale phase is a specific problem: a platform that works but is creaking, an org that needs to grow two or three times, a data or AI mandate that needs production rigor instead of demos. Almost everything I have shipped has been a transformation of something already in production. Migrations that finished. Architectures replaced while the old one was still serving traffic. Teams that grew while the roadmap kept moving.
I partner with Product, Data Science and executive leadership on what gets built and in what order, own the architecture and cost decisions underneath it, and stay technical enough to break a tie when a design review stalls. I have led multi-team engineering organizations across marketplace commerce at Teikametrics, enterprise infrastructure and data governance at Nutanix and Druva, and regulated government healthcare at Optum, where correctness and uptime were not negotiable.
On AI: engineering leadership over systems that have to be right. Production LLM pipelines, evaluation and citation frameworks, agentic tooling in everyday engineering. Not model research.
Bengaluru, open to any India metro and UAE. Email:
hemant.rathore@gmail.com