Bhakti Foram Pawar

Senior Engineering Manager at Intuit · Go, Kubernetes

Intuit

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

BITS Pilani

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

I lead cloud infrastructure at Intuit in Mumbai. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Postman and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Most at home with Kubernetes and Go. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Need an operations co-founder: vendor onboarding in the UK

The idea: Need an operations co-founder: vendor onboarding in the UK
Stage: Early revenue
I bring: 12 years in cloud infrastructure
Looking for: Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Mumbai or remote

I bring 17 years of cloud infrastructure (currently Intuit). Ideally you've led a design team. Have a working prototype and design partners.

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Sep 2025 - Present
Intuit · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Led the migration of 51 services to Kubernetes.
- Moved 65% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 32 engineers.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Mar 2022 - Sep 2025
Postman · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 643ms to 122ms.
- Shipped 17 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
Site Reliability Engineer
Dec 2019 - Jan 2022
Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 720ms to 123ms.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Grew the infrastructure team from 6 to 22 engineers.
- Moved 89% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Site Reliability Engineer
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Shipped 14 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 15 a week to 4.

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Education

BITS Pilani
B.E., Computer Engineering
2004 - 2008

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