Visionary Director of Software Engineering with 9+ years of progressive experience in software development, team leadership, and organisational transformation. Leading a team of 10 developers at ETO GRUPPE TECHNOLOGIES GmbH. Proven ability to scale engineering teams, drive DevOps modernisation, and align engineering with business objectives. Expert in Rust, embedded Linux, cryptography (MPC/DID/PKI), and IoT systems. Open source builder — orca, ferrite-sdk, kitchenasty.
- Technical due diligence in mergers and acquisitions
- Recruitment, coaching, and developer on-boarding
- Budget planning for suppliers, freelancers, and infrastructure
- GDPR, MiCA, DORA, AML/KYC compliance implementation
- Patent filing, tracking, and coordination
- Mentor for bachelor, master theses and internships
- System architecture design at scale
- Sprint, roadmap, and capacity planning
- Documentation and standardisation through SOPs
- Grant project specification and delivery
- AWS, Azure, private K8s clusters (SysEleven)
- DevOps services with defined SKUs and SLAs
- On-call operations for production IoT applications
- Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Github, JFrog
- EVM-based validator and IOTA DLT node management
- MPC with SSS, Threshold Cryptography
- DID & VC, BIP/SLIP standards, hardware wallets
- PKI for IoT fleets (PKCS#11, NitroKey, cloud HSM)
- In-house expert for blockchain & decentralised identifiers
Leading a team of 10 developers across IoT, embedded, and web platforms. Technical due diligence for M&A, patent management, compliance (GDPR, MiCA, DORA, AML/KYC), and driving DevOps modernisation. Coordination between CxOs and technical teams for project approvals.
Managed cross-functional engineering teams with sprint planning, roadmaps, and capacity planning for grant projects. Led etopay-sdk — production Rust payment SDK with WASM, Swift, Kotlin, and JS FFI bindings.
Built embedded Linux services, gRPC microservices, and cryptographic tooling (MPC, SSS, Threshold Crypto, DID/VC). Managed IoT fleet PKI using PKCS#11 with NitroKey and cloud HSMs. Operations for ETOPay, caritag, farmunited.
Embedded firmware development for industrial and automotive-grade systems. Projects: Li-Ion battery management (AI3), lift and motion controllers (LiftCon, MOC), SmartConnect gateway, and series-production motor controllers. Developed a proprietary Single Wire Bus protocol, designed firmware architecture and OSAL concept, conducted circuit simulation and EMC measurements for motor control.
Embedded software development for industrial automation and control systems.
- Board games: Catan, Pandemic, 7 Wonders, Chess, Go
- Cryptocurrencies and heterogeneous parallel computing (HPC)
- Volleyball — Landesliga/Bezirksliga (Südbadische VV, TVL Ludwigshafen, TV Engen)
- Native speaker: English, German, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
- Indian national with permanent EU residence permit
- Driving Licence: B
- Twitter/X: @sharang33 · GitHub: mighty840