Anil Ajith Panicker

Engineering Manager at Elmstead Group · React, experimentation

Elmstead Group

Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

Srishti Manipal Institute

English, Hindi, Malayalam

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Based in Kochi. I lead growth engineering at Elmstead Group. Led the migration of 71 services to React. Brought on-call pages for growth down from 12 a week to 3. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Node.jsexperimentationReactPostgreSQL

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Lead Full-Stack Engineer roles in payments - Kochi or remote

Target roles: Lead Full-Stack Engineer
Level: Senior
Industries: Fintech, E-commerce
Work mode: On-site
Available: 60 days notice
Work authorization: Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for: Scope to lead growth engineering work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in: Contract-only roles

13 years in growth engineering. Strongest at PostgreSQL and experimentation. Available from next month.

Kochi, Indianode.jsexperimentationreact

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Building out growth at Elmstead Group: backend engineers wanted in Kochi

Role: Backend engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: On-site
Compensation: ₹42-60 LPA
Team: Growth, 12 people
Start: Within two months
Must have: Production experience with experimentation Production experience with React Clear written communication
Process: Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹24-88 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Kochi, India · remote OKreactnode.jsexperimentation

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Experience

Engineering Manager
Jun 2025 - Present
Elmstead Group · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 6.
- Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Feb 2023 - Jun 2025
Philips · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Brought on-call pages for growth down from 24 a week to 3.
Full-Stack Engineer
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Moved 70% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Reduced cloud spend on growth by 29% in two quarters.
Full-Stack Engineer
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Swiggy · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Wrote the React service that now handles 28 million requests a day.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 2.
Full-Stack Engineer
Aug 2014 - Feb 2017
Myntra · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Brought on-call pages for growth down from 35 a week to 4.
- Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 521ms to 97ms.

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Srishti Manipal Institute
B.Des, Computer Science
2008 - 2012

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