Summary
Atif Haider is a product-minded Director of Engineering based in Bengaluru with over 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and recruitment products across startups and large engineering organizations. He founded and scaled LaunchYard and AirCTO—AirCTO was acquired by Gojek—then led engineering teams at Gojek focusing on food pricing, checkout, and a hiring-platform product called Magneto. Currently leading engineering at Nagarro, he combines deep backend engineering (Python, AWS, systems design) with product ownership and team-building at scale. He has a track record of shipping infrastructure and recruitment tooling that directly impact hiring velocity and marketplace experiences. Known for a pragmatic, founder-first mindset ("Codito ergo sum") he still dives into architecture and code while running multi-team delivery. His background spans everything from Lisp-era search systems to modern cloud-native stacks, reflecting a rare mix of legacy-system know-how and contemporary platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Computer science and engineering, B.E Computer science and engineering at Shivaji University