status: heading engineering @ moneyHOP

Abhishek Agrawal

> Engineering Manager

I build the teams, platforms and pipelines that move money and data at scale — from founding Snowflake's India engineering team to heading engineering at India's first cross-border neobank.

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01 / whoami

Engineer by craft.
Leader by choice.

9+ years building highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native and data-centric platforms — and the teams that run them.

Today I head engineering at moneyHOP, owning hiring, people growth, roadmaps, AI strategy, delivery and regulatory compliance across QA, Backend, Frontend and DevOps.

Before that, I was one of the founding engineers of Snowflake's India Engineering team, and a core builder of Atlan 3.0 — the rebuild that turned Atlan from a SaaS product into a PaaS platform. It all started at Informatica by Salesforce, deep in data quality, catalogs and the Hadoop stack.

I still think in systems: HLDs, pipelines, failure modes. I just apply that thinking to people, processes and org design too.

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B.Tech, Computer Science — Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun2013 – 2017 · CGPA 8.7 · robotics · IoT · cricket · music
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02 / impact

Things that shipped.

A few outcomes I'm proud of — across a neobank, a data-catalog scale-up and a public cloud data company.

moneyHOP logomoneyHOP · funding

Strengthened engineering end-to-end — and presented it to investors.

Streamlined the entire engineering function and showcased it in investor conversations, helping moneyHOP raise multiple funding rounds.

moneyHOP logomoneyHOP · regulatory
AD-II

Led the engineering effort that operationalized moneyHOP's RBI AD-II licence.

moneyHOP logomoneyHOP · architecture

Refactored the entire architecture.

Led the effort to re-architect moneyHOP's engineering platform.

Atlan logoAtlan · platform
SaaS→PaaS

Rebuilt Atlan 3.0 from scratch, plus its security, testing and observability frameworks.

Snowflake · 0→1

Founding engineer, India Engineering.

Helped scale the team through hiring, roadmaps, release management and cloud-credit spend.

moneyHOP logomoneyHOP · data
~90%

Projected reduction in analyst effort from a data-platform modernization replacing 40–60 hrs/month of manual Excel workflows with an automated pipeline.

moneyHOP logomoneyHOP · privacy

DPDP Act 2023 compliance, built in.

Consent management, data-subject rights, encryption at rest and in transit, 72-hour breach notification and tokenized payment flows.

03 / the pipeline

Every stage adds value.

Nine years, four companies, one throughline: data-heavy systems that have to scale. Scroll to push the pipeline forward.

Apr 2026 — PresentNOWIndia · Remote

Engineering Manager (Head of Engineering)

moneyHOP logomoneyHOP — India's first cross-border neobank
  • Head the engineering function, hiring and developing a high-performing team across QA, Backend (Java), Frontend (React, React Native) and DevOps.
  • Led the effort to refactor moneyHOP's entire engineering architecture.
  • Streamlined and strengthened engineering end-to-end and presented it to investors, helping moneyHOP raise multiple funding rounds.
  • Operationalized moneyHOP's RBI AD-II licence by leading the engineering effort.
  • Drive a company-wide AI strategy to strengthen product offerings and operational efficiency.
  • Own product and engineering roadmaps from planning to execution; guide the team through technical challenges during sprints.
  • Introduced growth and visibility processes: a quarterly engineering report (velocity, quality, tech debt, roadmap) and an anonymous developer-experience survey covering 15 areas.
  • Implemented DPDP Act 2023 compliance systems: consent management, data-subject rights, encryption, 72-hour breach notification and tokenized payment flows.
  • Foster cross-team collaboration with Product and Business to align goals and build a positive engineering culture.
LeadershipHiringAI StrategyFintechDPDPJavaReact Native
Nov 2024 — Jan 2026Remote

Senior Software Engineer 2

Atlan logoAtlan
  • Led cross-team collaboration to design and implement security, testing and observability frameworks from scratch for Atlan's new PaaS platform.
  • Partnered with stakeholders to create processes and systems that increased overall team productivity.
  • Open-source contributor to the Atlan Application SDK.
Nov 2024 — Mar 2025

Senior Software Engineer

  • Built the next-generation Atlan 3.0 platform from scratch, re-architecting Atlan's core from a SaaS offering into a PaaS offering.
PlatformPaaSObservabilitySecurityPython
Jul 2020 — Nov 2024San Mateo, CA · Remote (India)

Application Engineer (Founding Engineer — India Engineering)

Snowflake
  • One of the founding engineers of Snowflake's India Engineering team; contributed to hiring, cloud-credit spend management, quarterly and sprint roadmaps, and release and communication management.
  • Project Owner for DDA-in-Streamlit; delivered Diagnostic Data Application, Data Foundation, Unified Search System, SnowDrive and Crash Manager Extender.
  • Built scalable, fault-tolerant Scala data pipelines, AWS Lambda functions and AWS-heavy Python applications.
ScalaAWS LambdaStreamlitSearchDevOps
Jun 2017 — Jul 2020Bengaluru, India

Software Engineer

Informatica logoInformatica by Salesforce
  • Built features for Informatica Services Platform, Enterprise Data Catalog, Automated Lineage Discrepancy Analyzer and Engineering Dashboard.
  • Implemented authentication (LDAP, JWT, Kerberos, Okta SSO) and authorization across microservices on the Hadoop stack.
  • Delivered data profiling, domain discovery, enrichment, Swagger-based REST APIs, push notifications and React.js dashboards.
Jun 2017 — Feb 2019

Associate Software Engineer

  • Built features for Data Quality, Dynamic Data Masking, Data Archive and PowerCenter.
  • Developed profiling, auditing, ingestion, ETL and data lifecycle management across Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Cassandra; implemented CLAIRE-based sensitive-data tagging and masking.
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04 / stack

A system in orbit.

Leadership at the core, architecture around it, tools on the outer ring. Hover to pause the universe.

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Leadership

Engineering & people management · hiring and team building · mentoring · roadmap planning · Agile/Scrum · stakeholder management · engineering metrics · AI strategy · SDLC · release management

Architecture

System design · microservices · distributed systems · cloud architecture · platform engineering · observability · application security · data privacy (DPDP)

Languages & frameworks

Python · FastAPI · Django · Flask · JavaScript · TypeScript · Node.js · Express · React.js · Next.js · Java · Scala

Cloud, data & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Step Functions, DynamoDB) · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Snowflake · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Cassandra · Kafka · RabbitMQ · Spark · Hadoop · Airflow · dbt · Temporal

05 / shell

Prefer the command line?

A tiny interactive shell. Type help to start — there may be an easter egg or two.

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06 / connect

Let's build
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