Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 · 10 mos

May 2021 – Mar 2022 · 10 mos

• ● Building engineering teams, bringing in processes to increase developer productivity
• ● Setting up infra monitoring and alerting systems
• ● Improved existing infra setup, making it more robust and scalable

Dec 2020 – Apr 2021 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● OMI is a heavily managed marketplace of wellness experts. First engineer in the company, conceptualized and built v1 of both partner and consumer apps from scratch.
• ● Hired & mentored engineering teams.
• ● Created and deployed microservices architecture using AWS services

Aug 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Learning to scale for billion requests. Experienced in creating systems with 200k RPS scale.
• ● Offloading compute at the edge, using Cloudflare workers and workers KV.
• ● Building tech infra for digital publishers that can support thousands of high scale websites keeping the infra costs minimum. Using Docker orchestration tools with automated scaling to handle millions of requests per hour.
• ● Building proprietary CMS for digital content creators, providing ease of content creation and distribution with powerful monetization capabilities.
• ● Designed Media Inventory Management System, using Google Vision to find the context and create an archive of all the media used, allowing for the most advanced search.
• ● Conceptualized and built an automated article(text format) to image format creator.
• ● Built CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Jenkins to build and deploy apps on Elastic Container Services. With the pipeline automation, reduced manual deployment and maintenance time by 90%.
• ● Built framework to support designs for multiple websites in a single code repo. Modularising every component, reuse of code and defined build processes enables to maintain multiple assets without compromising on flexibility.
• ● Built Access Control features enabling admins to grant permissions as per the requirement.

Mar 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Built and managed a team of Software Development Engineers, Software Architects and Quality Assurance Engineers responsible for developing and enhancing the product. Currently, leading team of 10+ highly proficient engineers.
• ● Planned and built monetization wrapper for programmatic ads which would dynamically place ads on the website depending on the content(word count, media to text ratio, paragraph length) automatically.
• ● Worked on product and introduced new offerings in the systems which helped with user acquisition and retention.
• ● Planned and built the internal payments web app, which took care of all partner invoicing and payment related documentation and processing.
• ● Built tech to automatically map articles with popular keywords(tags), and launch exclusive tag pages on the website to enhance on-page SEO.
• ● Introduced new agile processes for the team which lead to higher productivity overall.

Feb 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Architected and developed a new product, Articles(https://meaww.com), for the organization. Was responsible for end to end development, code reviews, deployments, and hiring. Used AWS to host and manage the infra(EC2, ELB, S3, Redshift, Aurora, Code Deploy, Autoscaling, Kineses & Firehose, SES, VPC) and Cloudflare for CDN & DNS.
• As of December 2018, this website gets 30 million+ pageviews per month.
• ● Single-handedly developed CMS for writers and editors from scratch. Implemented multiple stage workflows to ease and optimize the processes at the desk. Took care of backend and frontend development, with databases schema planning, deployment cycles, etc.
• ● Implemented autoscaling to support the viral nature of content on social media platforms.
• ● Built pipelines for collecting, enriching and storing the data.
• ● Part of the hiring process for building the tech team. Hired and mentored new engineers in the team.

Dec 2016 – Feb 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ● Developed a framework for personalized videos for the Facebook platform, similar to facebook's year-end videos, reading milestones from user's profile's data. Animations and sound effects were handled by javascript. This framework was successfully used to create videos which reached millions of users.
• ● Developed a video player to support javascript animations which were presented like videos to users. This gave the flexibility to generate millions of personalized videos on the run time.
• ● Worked on database optimizations to increase efficiency.
• ● Conducted interviews for technical hiring.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2016 · 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• ● Developed a user bucketing system from scratch to understand a user better and then use that information for the recommendation.
• ● Achieved 60% reduction in page load time, by setting up CDN for static files hosting and code optimization.
• ● Built a system to automate the uploading of new videos in the system to Youtube with all metadata, backlinks and custom thumbnail.
• ● Implemented contextual search, significantly increasing navigation ease on the website.
• ● Sanitized and optimized the entire CSS and JS of the website, improving google page speed insights score for 60 to 95.

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · IIT Kharagpur

• ● As an Asst. trainee conducted classes for web development under the mentorship of Dr. Swapan Purkait.
• ● Conducted practical sessions and helped students with setting up Linux web and email servers from scratch and general security.