Aug 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

• 🎯 Engineering Management:
• Built and led a fully remote, cross-functional engineering team (backend, infra, frontend, and UX) with a strong culture of ownership and execution. Defined and scaled engineering processes—sprint planning, on-call rotations, release management, documentation standards, customer support, and a robust testing setup.
• 🛠️ Product & Platform Development
• Drove product direction and technical strategy. Delivered key features like one click deployment, architecture modeling, observability, CI/CD, DevOps toolchain integrations, cost optimization tooling, and SOC2-readiness.
• Launched v1 and onboarded multiple paying customers
• Enabled zero-to-prod infra and deployment flows that reduced developer onboarding from days to hours
• Built opinionated abstractions over Terraform, Helm, and GitOps for minimal YAML and seamless CI/CD
• 🎨 Product Management & UX Design
• Led product discovery, roadmap planning, and UX design. Created Figma-based wireframes and design systems. Introduced opinionated defaults and progressive disclosure patterns to simplify complex infra workflows for developers.
• 📈 Customer Engagement & Adoption
• Set up product analytics to track usage and feature adoption. Collaborated with early design partners to iterate on workflows, onboarding, and platform stability. Used feedback loops to improve documentation and user experience.
• 🚀 GTM & Thought Leadership
• Led go-to-market efforts across SEO, Google Ads, content marketing, and website positioning. Conducted founder-led sales calls with engineering leaders at early-stage startups.
• Published blogs on DevOps and platform engineering to build credibility and drive organic reach. Represented Kapstan at conferences and community events — sharing insights on reliability, infrastructure, and developer productivity.

Feb 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Leading the Log Search Experience team at SumoLogic.
• Building intuitive & highly scalable solutions to cater to multi-faceted data analytics requirements for continuously growing data via our log analytics platform.
• Responsible for managing the Logs team.
• I believe in end to end & hence built the first full stack team at Sumo Logic.
• Now leading 3 teams of 22 reports with the help of 3 leads.
• Closely working with various functions like PM, UX, QE and field support teams to define the end to end experience for all new features & improvement of existing features.
• Actively participate in architecture reviews and collaborate with senior Engineers to solve technical challenges.
• High focus on customer support & influencing product roadmap based on customer needs.
• Making data driven decisions for feature enhancements & performance improvement.
• Constant effort in monitoring & reducing the infrastructure cost.
• Involved in regular performance reviews, compensation reviews, engineering & leadership hiring.
• Improved the on-call processes & hence improving system reliability & developer productivity.
• Initiated & implemented solutions for cross-geo initiatives to reduce knowledge gap and unblock local teams faster.
• Key Projects:
• Driving a company wide initiative to build the next gen competitive solution for our logs product.
• Helping expand the log search backend product to serve as a core platform for other products offered by Sumo.
• Led a team which designed & delivered scalable lookups - a service which could handle 50k reads/sec per customer & 5k writes/sec per customer
• Worked on dynamically parsing data at run time while keeping searches within SLO.
• Improved the search query language by introducing new analytical operators.

Dec 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Oct 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• UpGrad is India's fastest growing education platform providing industry relevant programs designed and delivered in collaboration with industry professionals and world-class faculty.
• Responsible for the design and architecture of the entire frontend product. Conceptualized and developed the content creation platform, learning platform and grading platform from scratch. Leading the frontend team. Responsible for maintaining the products - continuously driving the development of new features and evolving existing features.
• Tech - Backbone.js, Node.js, Bootstrap, Sass
• Worked extensively on Assessments and Grading on the backend side. Tech - Python, Django, Postgres
• Worked on dockerizing services and optimizing and scaling deployments using Amazon ECS.
• Built an internal tool for Resume - JD matching. Tech - React.js, Redux
• Responsible for driving the recruitment efforts for the entire frontend team. Also involved in hiring of backend engineers.

Nov 2015 – Oct 2016 · 11 mos

Jun 2015 – Oct 2015 · 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Drove the development efforts for the software tools required to enhance the productivity of various departments like analytics, sales, operations, on-boarding, customer support, marketing etc. Worked with various departments to understand the workflows followed by them and then suggested and developed powerful automated tools to reduce the turn around time.

Apr 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

• Worked on development of a finance supply chain management software. Handled the entire life cycle from the feature conceptualization to delivery. Have worked on feature investigations, feature development, testing, and delivery. Have also supported the customer contact centers with the product launch planning and information. Provided emphasis on new processes for agile software development that worked upon conceptualization, deployment, development, testing, feedback, and quality.
• Tech stack: Ruby, Ember.js, Postgres

May 2012 – Apr 2013 · 11 mos · Noida Area, India

Jul 2011 – Dec 2011 · 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India