Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs

• As a part of the founding team and the CTO at Fanclash, my role has evolved from the early stages of building a user base to now owning a multi-product portfolio various B2B and B2C products. My focus is in leveraging technology to enhance user experiences, ensuring platform security, and maintaining efficient operational costs.
• Key Responsibilities
• Rapid Scaling and User Growth: Successfully scaled the platform from ground zero to about 1M MAU. Focusing on sustainable scalability in the competitive esports landscape from our pre-seed to growth phase.
• Team Expansion and Leadership: Expanded the engineering team from 5 to 40, managing diverse roles including frontend, backend, QA, automation, DevOps, and data science.
• Investment and Funding Expertise: Played a pivotal role in due diligence through investment rounds, contributing to Series A and B funding by major investors.
• Data-Driven Culture: Established robust data engineering pipelines, underpinning a data-driven culture essential for strategic decision-making and user engagement.
• Product Development and Strategy: Led product roadmaps, aligning technological developments with business priorities to enhance user experience and platform capabilities.
• Platform Security: Implemented and maintained rigorous security protocols to ensure the integrity and safety of our gaming platform, crucial in the realm of real-money transactions and user data protection.
• Financial Oversight and Infrastructure Cost Management: Responsible for overseeing the financial aspects of our technology infrastructure, ensuring cost-effective solutions without compromising performance and reliability.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2020 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Newsstand
• Part of Amazon's physical + digital subscription management solution.
• Designed a system for scheduled and event driven syncing of magazine subscriptions via real-time 3P API integration. Designed E2E subscription management lifecycles for 3P partners with/without real time APIs.
• Designed and implemented a marketplace agnostic E2E privacy solution for data access requests on magazine subscription information. Defined an incremental approach for a deprecating and newly architected stack for CCPA/GDPR compliance. Also laid the foundation for account closure and deletion compliance under the same law.
• Designed a custom management system for secure batched order data exchange with third party fulfillers. Extended existing public Amazon 3P marketplace order/report APIs for subscription use-cases to enable faster 3P partner self-service onboarding.
• Proposed a business remodel and redesigned Print + Kindle subscriptions for select titles in Amazon. Included developing a data driven approach for migration to other proposals and customer experience revision.
• Re-designed and implemented the subscription purchase, management and renewal flows for subscription offer listings of kindle subscriptions. (price + term) Included a phased migration from regular to subscription specific offers
• E2E automation of accounting of print magazine subscriptions. Built configuration stores for vendor remittances, amortization of digital subscription components and translating other business specific logic to independent configuration stores.
• Minors:
• Designed and implemented email experimentation via a minimal self-service solution
• Migration of subscription management persistence layer from Oracle RDBMS to RDS PostGre
• Designed E2E automation of monthly publisher payments of print magazine subscriptions. Reducing the risk of manual errors and operational overhead via complete automation

Jul 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Part of the Big data (data fabric) team responsible for setting up data ingestion workflows for a newly built data lake. Primarily worked on workflow creation + healthcare data validation layers using internal tools.
• Multiple POCs on different data formats' compatibility with the stack based on HDFS.