Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 · 5 mos

• Taking a break to learn, relax and invest (in no particular order).

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Apr 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · India

• Head of Twitter India Engineering + Global engineering head for International growth: responsible for building out twitter's tech talent hub in India as well as product development for developing/emerging markets userbase growth.
• Formulated and executed on product tech strategy in areas of personalization and growth (top of funnel optimization). Leading engineering areas of localization, user growth and personalization.
• Reporting into GM (CEO+1) at Twitter and responsible for distributed sites strategy.
• Scaled Twitter's engineering by 150% in 2021 - biggest growth ever for across Twitter's distributed sites internationally.
• As India engineering lead, I put in place a site culture pillars strategy: Twitter India Tech has the lowest attrition globally (through mid 2022) and the highest engagement scores amongst employees.
• Grew Twitter India site with core teams focused on data platform, Site reliability, international growth (India/Africa) and Ads/Revenues. Mentor and Coach for senior leaders.

Jul 2016 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Founder/Site lead of Uber's India tech hub/site (Bangalore); bootstrapped it from 10s of engineers to 400+ technologists (engineers, PMs, designers, data scientists, researchers, ...) across 10+ product areas including rider, maps, marketplace, customer obsession, data platform, infrastructure, and Ad-tech.
• Dual role at CxO+1 level of India site lead and Rider growth engineering lead for India/Asia/LATAM.
• Strategic advisor and partner to Uber CTO office for scaling of Uber India tech hub including building out complete global teams for areas like Customer Support, Ad-tech, Maps, Marketplace and Rider growth.
• Hired the senior most leaders for the site for various product areas - official mentor and coach for site leadership and programs.
• In my functional role focused on rider global growth, my teams delivered on some of those most impactful, global initiatives Uber lite app, Uber bus, Rider Growth, Uber Rentals, Maps intelligence, Call2Ride, Ad-Tech data platform.
• Partnered with distributed site leadership globally to come up with best practices for distributed sites and remote engineering at Uber. Hosted Dara and CxO leadership in India and responsible for getting CEO’s sponsorship to grow India tech hub to 1000s of engineers.

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Jan 2015 – Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Oct 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Mar 2006 – Oct 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Mountain view, California & Hyderabad, India

• Started distributed engineering center in Hyderabad, India, and scaled it as a center of excellence for Google's enterprise and cloud computing division.
• Led engineering across 20+ projects building core products/platforms with a focus on winning over Enterprise customers for Google.
• Led engineering charters of Apps data migration, next generation Enterprise services such as email continuity, message security and e-discovery, Enterprise platform, reporting/analytics, and enterprise search.
• Conceived and led the delivery of key global products including Email Message Continuity, Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps Vault, Google SMS Channels, Enterprise Cloud Search, Message log search, Platform OAuth Support, Google Sports Onebox
• Engineering site leadership including championing recruiting, diversity and inclusion, facilities, PR, spokesperson for Google India...
• Prior to the India site leadership assignment, I joined Google in mountain view as a leader on Adwords frontend engineering:
• Led AdWords frontend engineering teams at Google with focus on reporting/analytics
• Led product delivery of AdWords features in areas of campaign management, Ads text search, Ads performance reporting, ...across 120+ people engineering teams located across 6 geographical locations
• Scaled and bolstered the production systems for AdWords in partnership with the SRE team.

Apr 2001 – Feb 2006 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Jose, California

• Led product development and architecture of eBay’s v1 and v2 search/browse technology stacks.
• Also led the area of high-performance computing applications across eBay global engineering.
• Responsible for scaling the search engine server infrastructure - from 28 million searches a day over 7 million items in 2001 to 400 million searches a day over 100 million items across 33 sites (in 2006).
• Eng leader who worked to rebuild eBay's search from the ground up.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs · Santa Clara, California