I'm Kartik Manimuthu. I take legacy institutions on-prem to AI-native.

Senior Director of Engineering — AI & Data · SMC Group · Mumbai

I lead engineering for SMC Group's trading platform — cloud, data, and now applied AI — across a rebuild that took a 30-year-old broking house from on-premise servers to a hybrid-cloud system trading at national-exchange scale.

Before this, I optimized cloud spend at BYJU'S through its highest-traffic year, and ran a 42-person engineering org at Scrut Automation. I like systems that have to be right the first time — market-data feeds, reconciliation engines, anything where "probably correct" isn't good enough.