Mar 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

• Collaborated with potential customers to uncover pain points and identify product opportunities, transforming business goals into a clear product roadmap that aligned engineering efforts with company objectives.
• Led a team of 9 engineers, driving the design and development of backend systems, control planes, engines, and integrations, while creating actionable tasks and ensuring smooth, efficient execution.

Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Collaborated with clients to design and implement a GDPR compliance service, addressing data deletion and synchronization requirements while ensuring smooth pipeline operations. Supported clients in resolving day-to-day issues, enhancing trust and operational efficiency.
• Designed and implemented a GDPR compliance service to handle downstream data deletion for over 50 million users, maintaining system performance and reliability during boot while safeguarding user privacy.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to optimize real-time event delivery, implementing back-pressure mechanisms, improving data transformations, and supporting enhanced file formats for S3 destinations.
• Tackled high-availability challenges in distributed systems by ensuring atomic DB operations, maintaining thread safety, and preserving event ordering across multi-gateway setups to achieve consistent states in multi-writer environments.

Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

• Achieved a 66% reduction in Rudder server memory usage (from 8GB to under 3GB) by chunking large event sets into smaller units, enabling efficient asynchronous processing and resolving pipeline bottlenecks.
• Strengthened system resilience by implementing safeguards to prevent avoidable panics and designing a graceful shutdown mechanism, ensuring data integrity and recovery during abrupt crashes.
• Boosted team productivity by introducing actionable metrics for refining alert systems and debugging, and developing tools to identify flaky and slow tests, significantly improving CI/CD processes.

Mar 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Designed and built an ORM-like abstraction layer for MySQL and PostgreSQL, streamlining database interactions for apps on the underlying cloud platform, enhancing developer productivity.
• Developed a one-click application setup, streamlining deployment processes and enhancing overall efficiency for development teams.

Aug 2019 – Mar 2020 · 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Teaching Assistant of Algorithm Analysis & Design Course

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Remote

• Redesigned Cortex's architecture, a distributed monitoring system, under the guidance of an experienced architect, to improve Ingester handover during scaling operations.
• Enhanced the reliability and scalability of Cortex by streamlining the data replication process and ensuring seamless transitions during scaling up or down.
• Contributed to a widely used open-source project in the cloud-native ecosystem, strengthening its ability to handle dynamic workloads.

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Improved the Spelling Correction Component of the Apache Solr Search Engine used by Bloomreach to handle typographical and phonetic errors.
• Developed a Hidden-Markov Model leveraging past search logs to generate context-aware spelling suggestions, enhancing the accuracy and relevance of search results.
• Contributed to improving search engine functionality, directly impacting the user experience by reducing errors in search queries.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Teaching assistant of Principle Of Information Security Course

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos

• Worked with the core Tor-dev team to add Metadata Stripper feature in Tor Browser.
• This involved stripping exif, IPTC, XMP metadata from image/audio/video files before uploading.

Mar 2018 – Apr 2018 · 1 mo

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos

• Developed Data Visualization Tool for Bottlenecks Project for Log files.
• This involved data preprocessing, searching in NoSQL database and Visualization of Data.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Developed Hirecloud.pro website using Python3 and Flask Framework in back-end and React in Front-end.